News — VirtualReality

After The Fall will also be released on the PSVR system, according to a new PlayStation Blog announcement from Vertigo Games. As veterans of VR shooter Arizona Sunshine, their next game adds more zombies, enemy types and weapons in a frantic co-op experience. Like their previous game, After the Fall is set in an alternate post-apocalyptic 80’s ravaged by a new ice age and hordes of frozen undead called snowbreed. Humanity has taken shelter underground while its horrifying 1:1 scale enemies roam the wastelands. This gives a squad of four unique characters plenty of ground to cover as they scavenge...

s Despite their artistic and commercial successes, Sony and Microsoft don’t have the stranglehold on gamers they once did. The companies’ respective home video-gaming consoles, the PlayStation and Xbox, are miraculous pieces of user-friendly technology that have nonetheless failed to stop mobile games, virtual reality, resurgent arcades and vintage-gaming emulators from carving out chunks of their markets. That’s good news for all of us stuck at home in 2020. More of us play video games now than ever before, according to a report from DFC Intelligence, with more than 3 billion gamers worldwide and roughly 214 million in America. We’re playing mostly-mobile...