This week Star Trek: Bridge Crew got a big expansion called The Next Generation DLC. As a diehard TNG fan, I love it. The base game did a good job simulating the duties associated with serving on a starship in the Trek universe, and The Next Generation DLC adds a few improvements.
As of April 2, the starter PlayStation VR PlayStation Camera Bundle will be $419.95, which is $129.05 less than the original $549 retail price.
Autumn is here, the perfect time to get indoors and play some new video games. Here are the biggest ones coming out this season.
Moss is a PlayStation VR game that takes you on a journey through a whimsical fairytale world in which you control Quill, an adorable mouse. She's equipped with a sword and shield, but she needs the player, who acts as a hooded guide called a "reader," to help her unravel the mysteries of a mysterious glowing glass shard.
Action RPGs such as Fallout 4 and Skyrim have gotten VR versions, as has Doom, but The Last Guardian demo offers a completely different sandbox in which to test the technology. No guns or dragons, just some kid playing in some ruins with some really funky looking bird-dog-cat. It's also free. If you have a PS VR headset and any ounce of you is human and still has a heart, go try The Last Guardian VR demo right now.
Yesterday, PSVR game Fate/Grand Order VR feat. Mashu Kyrielight was released in Japan. It already has a VR porn parody, and the side-by-side comparisons are unexpectedly accurate. Well, save for the sex parts. Those aren't in the PlayStation VR game.
Atop a single bed in his barracks dorm room, Justin Ng was daydreaming again. He'd been conscripted to the Armed Forces - a statutory requirement of all Singaporean citizens. At night he'd borrow comics books, whittle the hours away drawing over and over.
Justin Ng didn't want to be a soldier. No.
Justin Ng wanted to make video games.
When I think about fishing, I think about relaxation: Chilling out somewhere beautiful in the sun, watching the shimmering water, waiting for fish to bite. Admittedly all of my real-life fishing experiences took place in the rain-drenched Highlands of Scotland and were absolutely horrendous, but video games are about escapism. I hadn't read much about Monster of the Deep, the Final Fantasy 15-themed VR fishing game, before playing it, so I assumed that would be the vibe.
Skyrim was released Friday on PlayStation VR. The VR version manages to capture the game's scale and beauty in astounding new ways, but you might need to equip a barf bag alongside your ancient Nordic axe.
If you'd like to pull your own horrific face at Skyrim PSVR, there's a bundle available from Big W that's pretty good.
In a move that surprises no one, curvy ninja spin-off game Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash now has PlayStation VR support thanks to today's patch.
Starting today, Andrew House is no longer the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Interactive Entertainment. He is being replaced by Deputy President John Kodera.
The newly updated PlayStation VR headset features a revamped design with some welcomed changes such as integrated stereo headphone cables and an updated processor.
In the upcoming VR game Moss, tiny hero Quill uses squeaks and various non-verbal cues to communicate with the player. On August 3, Polyarc animator Rick Lico tweeted a test clip of the mouse issuing a greeting using American Sign Language (ASL). The response was overwhelming.
The two biggest names in gaming are gearing up for a heated head-to-head battle in the lead-up to Christmas.
In one corner is Microsoft with the 4K-enabled Xbox One X. That goes up against Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro which launched last year, and while Sony has undoubtedly come out on top in terms of number of consoles sold so far this hardware generation, Microsoft will soon have the most powerful machine.
Announced during the PlayStation press conference at E3 2017, Moss is a virtual reality action-adventure puzzle game starring a brave mouse named Quill. The player acts as the game's camera, but they're also a character in the world. A character with an adorable little rodent friend.
One of the games shown in Sony's PlayStation VR montage at E3 this year was 'The Inpatient', a a VR horror game by the studio behind the 2015 horror hit Until Dawn. Eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice that a building featured prominently in one scene was actually one of the main locations from Until Dawn: The Blackwood Pines Sanatorium. Supermassive later confirmed that yes, this game is in fact a prequel to the earlier teen horror.
Tekken 7's PlayStation VR component isn't so much a game mode as it is interactive theatre. It's got no health bars, simplified controls and a high probability of making your stomach churn.
What makes a good virtual reality first-person shooter? Give me a analogue stick to move my feet and a giant plastic PlayStation Aim gun to steer me by. The hordes of alien spiders are optional. Seriously, stop it with the spiders, Farpoint.
So 2017 has been a pretty big year already, and E3 is shaping up to be good fun as well. There's always plenty of fun stuff announced, but this year has some extra spice - Nintendo has to flesh out the library for the Switch, Microsoft will be unveiling more about Project Scorpio, and then there's the question of what happens to the PS4 Pro and PSVR.
