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Billed as a massive VR sci-fi action game inspired by Starship Troopers, the title called Hivefall is available in early access through the director on Patreon of Memoreum.Access is granted via our Patreon page and Memoreum Director Wim Buytaert’s SideQuest. Hivefall is the director’s latest work focusing on the concept of base defense. Each mission allows players to prepare before a massive attack of alien bugs destroys walls and culminates in a massive final wave featuring a big boss.This early build was created specifically with the Quest 3 in mind, and the downloadable file will be sent to paid Google…
Palmer Lackey believes Meta closing its VR game studio is “good for the long-term health of the industry” and believes talk of Meta “abandoning” VR is “patently false”.In case you somehow missed it: Last week, Meta closed three of the studios it acquired: Twisted Pixel Games (Deadpool VR), Sanzaru Games (Asgard’s Wrath), and Armature Studio (Resident Evil 4 VR), and implemented significant layoffs at its fourth studio, Camouflaj (Batman: Arkham Shadow).The closures are part of Meta’s broader strategy to, in Meta’s own words, “move some of its investments away from the Metaverse and into AI glasses and wearables,” and the…
Gisele’s coup d’état on her Aspen trip forces Angel into a corner, creating more misery than entertainment. Photo: Bravo Currently, my favorite non-reality TV series is “Industry” on HBO. I love it for the same reasons as everyone else, but even more than that, I’m obsessed with the show’s premise, which we’ve known from day one about a woman determined to better her life at the expense of the world, trying to rise to the top by tricks and tricks with a caravan of Machiavellian schemers she calls colleagues and mentors. Without a doubt, Harper Stern is my favorite evil…
Cobra Grim Viper is a new character introduced to Hasbro’s GI Joe Classifieds series. Once the Range Viper proves himself adept at surviving outdoors, the Grim Viper is given this promotion in the Cobra ranks. Thank you to BigBadToyStore for sending me the Hasbro GI Joe Classified Series 6-inch Grim Viper figure for review. BigBadToyStore offers flat rate $4 shipping to the US and the Loot Pile feature shipped at a later date. Use this link to start shopping. Launch: December 2025 Grim-Viper comes in a window box with logos and artwork on all sides, an image of the Grim…
Supernatural continues to rank at or near number one on the Meta Quest charts following Meta’s decision to pause content updates and lay off much of the team responsible for one of VR’s most effective fitness apps.Many in the VR fitness community are considering that option. Supernatural has always been positioned as a premium experience. At the time of this writing, access is by subscription only, with users paying $9.99 per month or $99 per year. This recurring revenue, coupled with strong engagement and brand awareness, made Supernatural feel like a rare success story in consumer VR fitness.Mehta said the…
The latest Game of Thrones spin-off follows the lovable loser as he introduces us to a different side of Westeros. Photo: B) Stephen Hill 2024 When we first meet the tall Lord Duncan (Peter Claffey) at the beginning of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, he is busy burying his childhood squire, Sir Erlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb). “Dunk” claims to be a knight and has been knighted by Sir Arlan. True, there were no witnesses. Indeed, few in Westeros remember Ser Arlan, including his former employers. Dunk himself also comes across as an incredibly naive person, trapped in a…
The heartwarming return of Tricky Wu, the true star of the series. Photo: PBS Someone told me last week that Tricky Woo is fine after this four year time jump, so I’m excited to report that Tricky Woo is alive and well and relatively well. And it’s his birthday. Tricky Woo, if we could send Barbra Streisand dog cloning technology back in time, Mrs. Pumphrey would definitely use it, and even though your soul leaves us, your exact DNA will remain. Tricki Woo: The true star of the All Creatures series. This week we have a high-stakes affair with an…
Finn Wolfhard traded the Upside Down for 30 Rock to echo the post-Bowen Yang era. Photo: Esther Kuhn/NBC Please zoom in on Finn Wolfhard’s chin hair. It’s barely there, but it’s there. The Stranger Things actor is ready to reintroduce himself as an adult now that the show is over. “I have to say, I think it’s amazing that 400 million people got to watch my adolescence,” he says in his monologue. So it makes sense that his first stint hosting Saturday Night Live was a way to establish himself beyond being Mike Wheeler. And when it comes to first-time…
In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg acquired Oculus VR for billions of dollars on the premise that virtual reality would become the foundation of personal computing.In 2026, virtual reality is really starting to take root on these foundations with OpenXR and Flatpaks. Operating systems based on VR headsets with eye tracking as a key feature are currently receiving updates from Google, Valve, and Apple.New walled gardens are rapidly being built while old walled gardens are falling down. Valve is coming for gaming, Google is relying on Android APKs, and Apple is building new kinds of live sports and TV experiences, all using…
The RDR Live script is so bad that it’s impossible to tell how the queens will actually perform in the challenge. It’s cruel to watch. Photo: MTV There was a time when I too defended RDR Live as a concept. “As a general rule, I’m against comedy challenges where girls don’t write their own material, but RDR Live was a lot of fun,” I wrote in 2023, when the challenge first appeared. At the time, I had no idea what level of unpleasantness this show would reach. Typically, the show has a pretty rough script, and one of the challenges…