Another one of these cute and clever sokoban likes from Thinky Direct. This one works with UUVR which puts it high on my wish list!

Another demo from the Thinky Direct I really enjoyed. The premise is ingenious, the presentation sophisticated. Simple to understand rules, hard to solve tasks. Well, not the first 6 ones that ease you in, but for the last one that had the second difficulty indicator I needed the hint provided.

I tried the demo and it's really well made. Nice mechanics that put a new spin on sokoban style box moving and cute graphics and setting that give some concrete grounding to the puzzles, so it doesn't feel overly abstract. Difficulty is just right, good sense of progress but no push over either.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of Dragon Quest, the game series that popularized the RPG genre in Japan. There's a Japanese only two hour stream (before a shorter 10 minute global one, which is expected to contain news on the 12th DQ installment). www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CiT... /1

One of the best puzzle platformers I played, ever. And near perfect utilization of 8bit pixel graphics. It's short but every mechanic used is genius.

Time Traveller, the 4th movie adaptation of the classic Japanese youth novel "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is free to stream until May 7th on the Japanese Foundation's video portal. jff.jpf.go.jp/movie/the-gi... Requires account registration (and might be IP locked where you live). 1/

Researchers Induce Smells With Ultrasound, No Chemical Cartridges Required www.uploadvr.com/researchers-... #VirtualReality #VR

I tuned into the triple-i initiative showcase for the new game by Sunset Visitor, which of course opened the stream, revealed to be called Prove You're Human, and it looks amazing. But the game of the showcase for me was Neverway. Loving the demo and it's my most looked forward game of 2026 now.

Played the People of Note demo, in VR thanks to UEVR. Plays and looks great and just works in VR without the need to adjust configurations. Very good performance thanks to optimization for Steam Deck. 1/2

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

That's awful. Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel made many of my favorite VR games; the Asgard's Wrath games in particular filled the shoes of The Legend of Zelda for me after becoming a VR centric gamer.

The demo for Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined released a few days ago and it is just gorgeous in UEVR. I made some screenshots for how to configure the mod for best results: 1. Tick show advanced options. 2. In the Unreal tab, set world scale to 10 and enable native stereo fix. 1/5

Marvel's Deadpool VR's kinetic combat and genuinely funny dialogue adds to a growing roster of great licensed superhero games that help prove VR games can be more than shallow tie-ins. Our review: bit.ly/4pnukUl

While there is useful information to be found here, the data is also misleading in its lack of differentiation. Not all VR causes motion sickness, and the ones that do vary by extent. MR (which is what Cook is selling) generally doesn't, at all. 1/2

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026: Steam Controller Steam Machine Steam Frame.  Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

Mocked-up images of a new Steam Controller appear, as speculation rises around Valve revealing new gaming hardware this week www.eurogamer.net/mocked-up-im...

🚨 VRGS RETURNS NOVEMBER 13! 🚨 5+ new reveals | 20+ titles | 30 Minutes New looks at Star Trek: Infection, Deadly Delivery, Syberia VR, Penguin Festival, Bootstrap Island, Glassbreakers, & more! November 13, 9am PT. Tune in early for pre-show: buff.ly/w3dMOil

This app is neat, it has activity tracking, including our old Wii U and 3DS data.

🚨 VR GAMES SHOWCASE RETURNS TOMORROW 🚨 🤯 Glassbreakers, Forefront, Reach, Aces of Thunder 🙀 New Quest, PC & PS VR2 titles 😍 Flat2VR, Fast Travel Games, Soul Assembly 👀 MANY SURPRISES Pre-Show starts 8:40am PT | VRGS 9am PT | Subscribe: buff.ly/j0NlZBV

Only 5 days left until Öoo releases! 🎉 The full version is easier to get lost than the demo but if a Warp Worm eats you, you’ll see the map and can warp to any one you’ve found!

The genius of Nama Takahashi strikes again! Taking a cue from Metroid, Öooo reinvents jumping for clever puzzle solving effect. Same as ElecHead, design is on point aesthetically as well as mechanically. The levels feel like a collection of Haiku - concise retro 2D goodness.

RT @OutOfSightVR: We sat down with the Creative Lead of Flat2VR Studios, Emily! She explained what makes Out of Sight VR so intense and so hard to walk away from. Early Access launches tomorrow on Steam - wishlist now! https://t.co/0yEV1J26Oj

I'm not buying a Switch 2 but that is kind of cool. You can even close its mouth to obstruct the camera. I guess it should work as a regular USB webcam with other hardware as well?

Second-person horror puzzler Out of Sight VR launches this May simultaneously with the flatscreen version on Steam. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/out-of-sight...

Not a bad thing in my book. Minimaps are like subtitles, if they're there I can't not look at them. And a minimap turns a 3d game into a 2d game. Defeats the trouble of crafting a detailed 3d environment. There still is a map when you need it, just not during active movement.

My favorites were Ghost Town and Out of Sight. Also Memoreum but that might be leaning too much on the horror side for me.

Edge of Nowhere is just 20 bucks... Amazing game, especially at that price.

I cannot recommend Edge of Nowhere enough. It's an Uncharted-like (well I never played Uncharted so to me it's more of a "Tomb Raider 2013"-like) and if you appreciate 3rd person games in VR, it's among the best native such titles. Get it now that it's back.

Sid Meier's Civilization 7 is officially heading to VR this spring on Quest 3 and 3S:

Games evolve as you develop them and at some point I thought, what if the eyes on the dice were hidden until selected? Since I use a fancy shader that renders my dice on simple cube meshes (12 tris), it was a matter of making the radius of the eyes a variable which I just fade in to unhide the eyes.

I used a viper mesh and material by Protofactor for this "year of the snake" logo. assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/...

Meta's AR/VR division achieved its highest ever quarterly revenue in Q4 2024, $1.083 billion, following the launch of Quest 3S:

Glad to see it doing well on Steam. Might end up the only game ever made with such a scope.

Xbox Developer Direct was fire. I'm especially looking forward to Clair Obscur. Great to see so many UE games, which I will hopefully be playing in VR with praydog's UEVR mod.

Real time 3d graphics changed games forever. They didn't just enable dynamic camera perspectives and plenty of smooth animation, they also served as inspiration for 2d games. Mario's triple jump or Link's roll were added because large environments necessitated fun traversal methods. 1/4 #gamedev

Looking forward to the new S****man movie releasing in the year of the snake!

Meta Quest 3S was the top selling games console on Amazon US in 2024, despite only releasing in October:

Real time 3d graphics changed games forever. They didn't just enable dynamic camera perspectives and plenty of smooth animation, they also served as inspiration for 2d games. Mario's triple jump or Link's roll were added because large environments necessitated fun traversal methods. 1/4 #gamedev

I so liked the bendy line pointer in this that I put a similar styled one in the game I'm currently working on. Just one of many little things that add up to the most charming rhythm game I've played.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.