virtual reality
Fox creates virtual and augmented reality games studio
Emerging from the efforts of Fox Innovation Lab, a new games studio called FoxNext has arisen.
Fox announced the new studio this week, saying that...
Palmer Luckey took the stand in the ZeniMax/Oculus lawsuit
The lawsuit between Oculus and ZeniMax Studios is a complex one, but you knew that the person behind the genesis of Oculus and the...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will testify in ZeniMax VR trial today
The stakes are high -- $2 billion dollars high -- for the outcome of the ongoing ZeniMax vs. Facebook trial, in which the former...
Snail Games explains the origins of Ark Park
Saying that the team is "completely obsessed" with virtual reality, Snail Games wrote a short manifesto explaining the origin and purpose of Ark Park.
This spin-off...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs coming in 2017
This past year, we couldn't seem to go a week without bumping into news of some new mobile MMO or a tablet spin-off of...
The $2B ZeniMax Oculus Rift trial begins
Virtual reality headsets may be but babies on the gaming scene, but already one of them has landed in hot legal water. This week,...
The New York Times declares it’s ‘time for a reality check for virtual reality’
It's been a pile-on kind of season. First Superdata called VR the "biggest loser" of the Christmas holiday buying rush, and now The New York Times...
Recapping MMORPG science in 2016
You guys may not have consciously noticed it, but we've been working harder and harder on our science-related articles in the past couple of...
Digital game sales took off in 2016
Don't look now, but we're putting the cap on "the biggest year in digital games and playable media ever," according to SuperData Research.
Thanks to...
EVE Valkyrie guides you through flying a support class fighter
Why would you ever want to fly a ship in EVE Valkyrie that wasn't the strongest, toughest, or most hard-hitting? The devs make a...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016. Last year, we called the Star Citizen melodrama the biggest...
New research suggests head-mounted VR sets are unintentionally sexist
A new research study conducted by University of Minnesota researchers Justin Munafo, Meg Diedrick, and Thomas A. Stoffregen says that head-mounted virtual reality is unintentionally...
CCP has launched EVE-franchise Gunjack 2: End of Shift on the Daydream
Announced just two months ago, CCP Games' Gunjack 2: End of Shift has officially launched today for the Google Daydream, on which platform it...
Dean Hall says that there’s ‘no money’ in making games for VR
After all of the talk about how this was to be the year of virtual reality, the actual reality does not seem to be...
Mech_Con 2016: MWO skill trees, game modes, and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
As one might hope for from a convention, Mech_Con 2016 was a time to not only hang out with other fans and meet the...
Snail Games explains the Jurassic Park – ARK Park connection
Studio WildCard is no stranger to pushing out new ARK: Survival Evolved projects before finishing the base game, but this time it has a...
Anybody wanna ‘Gatecrash’ EVE Valkyrie this Wednesday?
EVE Valkyrie is getting its third major update this week: Gatecrash.
"Gatecrash inaugurates new gameplay possibilities, a pilot personalization system and the Gateway multiplayer map,"...
VR was the ‘biggest loser’ of the holiday gaming sales season, says SuperData
SuperData has deemed virtual reality the "biggest loser" of the holiday gaming sales season, according to a new report on GamesIndustry.biz this week.
VR companies...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMORPG bookworm
Hey you! Yeah, the player who actually reads quest text and lore entries when all of the other hooting madmen are furiously clicking past...
CCP opens EVE Fanfest 2017 ticket sales
With EVE Vegas barely over, CCP Games has already announced that it's opened ticket sales for EVE Fanfest 2017 in Reykjavik, which is set for...