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Oculus Creep Into Their Store’s Crypt, Return With Gear VR And Oculus Rift Horror Sale (Updated)

The temperature is getting colder, the nights are getting darker, and there’s more than a few unsavoury noises coming from beyond the foggy darkness. It’s the witching hour draws near and Halloween is just a short while away.

Throughout the few couple of weeks we’ve been keeping you up to date constantly on all the latest Halloween related updates, be they related to new content as we’ve seen today with Luden.io’s pumpkin-filled update for city destruction sandbox videogame VRobot. Limited time bundle deals, as we’ve seen from HTC Vive adding Star Trek: Bridge Crew into the sales deal for a short time. New releases such as OBSCURA, The Exorcist: Legion VR and Stifled. Even augmented reality (AR) videogames are getting in on the act with Scooby-Doo Go, another dog – this time a ghostly one – in the form of Bydo’s Return and of course the inevitable update from Niantic Labs for Pokémon GO.

For Oculus themselves they have several items in the offing; including Echo Arena‘s 2017 Halloween Bash, with the VR multiplayer title receiving a makeover with mysterious sights, new costume options to customise your avatar and a number of spooky and peculiar holiday-themed toys for you to play around with – if they don’t decide to play with you, that is. There’s been a small focus on re-advertising some fright filled experiences as well, with the likes of ABR VR receiving a new trailer upload on Oculus’ YouTube Channel.

ABE VR screenshotThe best news for Oculus Rift owners though must surely though be the newly announced Halloween sale which has, for the second year in a row, now gone live on the Oculus Store. Seventeen Oculus Rift along with sixteen Samsung Gear VR videogames and experiences have been reduced in price for a limited time.  The full list is below.

Oculus Rift:

Gear VR:

There will no doubt be more Halloween related updates coming soon, be sure to stay informed by checking back regularly with VRFocus.
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Bad Dream Stalks Onto Google Cardboard

Some would say that virtual reality (VR) gives you experiences you could never dream of having. Then again, there are such things as bad dreams. A new title called just that, Bad Dream, has been released for Google Cardboard and other Android-based headsets by Cannes based developers Creanet 3D.

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You play not with a controller but by moving your body to get your character to walk, crawl or climb via pantomiming the movement. The twenty minute long experience promises much in the way of scares, with spooky goings on behind every corner. From mysterious shadows, to howling, clawing grotesques and chainsaw wielding maniacs chasing you down the corridor.

All the fun of the fair then.

And all because you wanted to go on holiday to Paradise Beach; unfortunately it’s when you wake up that the nightmare truly begins. The game is available to buy now for £0.79 (GBP) or your regional equivalent and can be found on the Google Play store. A trailer for the title can be found below.  For more news about Google Cardboard games, and related projects click the link in the VRFocus top bar.