Browsing: Metaverse & Virtual Worlds

U.S. Senators Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, and Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, have opened an investigation into child safety on Roblox, citing reports of sexual exploitation, grooming and other crimes involving children who met through the online gaming platform.

Epic Games ran a Discord-based alternate reality game in the 48 hours before this article’s publication, seeding Fortnite’s upcoming Chapter 7 Season 4 with coded transmissions that the community decoded one franchise at a time — and the reveal that generated the most reaction was not the iconic hedgehog or the Tokyo Phantom Thief. It…

Atlus dropped an official Persona 5 teaser trailer for Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 on Wednesday, confirming Joker’s Fortnite skin and completing the most stacked daily reveal sequence in Fortnite’s live-service history. The confirmation arrives seven days before Override launches on August 20, 2026 — and it seals a lineup that includes two collabs nobody…

Mixed reality has a credibility problem, and it is mostly the fault of the demos. Punch a cartoon hole in your wall, watch some robots pour out, take the headset off after eleven minutes. Plenty of Quest 3 games technically support passthrough while treating your living room as wallpaper. The eight below do not. In…

The August VR Games Showcase ran this morning at 11 AM PT, and it was the biggest one the show has put on. Twenty-three games in the main event, six more in the pre-show. Plenty of it was the usual healthy churn of release dates and gameplay trailers. Then Flat2VR Studios closed out with System…

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – An investigation into child sexual abuse on Roblox has been launched.

Flat2VR Studios and Squanch Games have announced a port of High On Life is coming to PC VR, PSVR2, and Meta Quest in 2027.

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 10: U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks during a hearing on “Arctic Frost Accountability: Oversight of Telecommunications Carriers’ Responses to Jack Smith’s Witch Hunt” in the Hart Senate Office Building on February 10, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee brought in current and former telecommunications executives…

Total Chaos VR is coming soon to SteamVR, and will be free for those who already own Total Chaos on Steam.

No Brakes Games, the maker of Human Fall Flat, has announced Tiny Flock, a made-for-VR physics-based puzzle game coming to Steam and Meta Quest.