All Xbox Series X games will release on Xbox One for at least a year
Xbox Game Studio has confirmed that all of Microsoft's games on Xbox Series X will also release for Xbox One for at least one or two years. The console launches this holiday.
The most anticipated games of 2020
Get ready for brand new entries in long-running franchises, plus completely original games from major studios.
The sheer fun of Halo: Reach is a stark reminder of Destiny’s failures
Halo: Reach was Bungie's last effort in the franchise it created, and it went out on a high note. Playing it today magnifies the flaws Bungie's new franchise, Destiny, never fixed.
One of the best Halo games ever, Halo: Reach, is now available on PC
Halo: Reach has finally arrived on PC as part of an update to The Master Chief Collection. The game is also available on Xbox One, having previously only releasing for Xbox 360 in 2010.
These Xbox gifts are the perfect choice for gamers this holiday season
The holidays are upon us, and as you are shopping for friends and family, you may want to purchase Xbox products. Using our Xbox gift guide, find the best systems, accessories, and games to buy this year.
Microsoft needs to bring these games to the Xbox Series X
From sequels to reboots, here are all the games we hope to see on Microsoft's new Xbox Series X at some point.
10 video games that should be turned into TV shows
Netflix is adapting StudioMDHR's Cuphead into an animated TV show. The recent run of video game TV shows got us thinking about which video games we'd like to see developed for television.
Become a Spartan in Halo Training Grounds’ Free-Roaming VR Multiplayer Starting This Weekend
This sees the start of several events dedicated to the massively popular Halo franchise on Xbox. Called Halo: Outpost Discovery, the travelling live event experience will be heading to various US cities and as part of it VRstudios has created a free-roaming virtual reality (VR) multiplayer called Training Grounds.
Halo Training Grounds is an arena style competitive experience where two teams of three fight it out as Spartan drones. Using VRstudios’ untethered backpack VR system which utilises HTC Vive Pro headsets, the gameplay has been “engineered to challenge various disciplines such as squad-integrated coordination strategies, spatial awareness in the battlefield, and real-time weapon tactics improvisation,” states the studio. Essentially a VR version of laser tag, which Halo: Outpost Discovery does also feature in Combat Deck (not VR).
“It was our aim to enable players to get that “awe” experience as soon they put on their VR headsets and actually feel what’s it like to be immersed in the Halo universe and then battle it out against their friends in a fast-paced and action-packed competitive combat experience,” said Chanel Summers, VRstudios’ Vice President of Creative Development. “Casual and hardcore fans alike will immediately recognize some of the most iconic elements in the Halo universe, including Spartan characters, Covenant Plasma Pistols, and the classic Halo environment, Valhalla. The result is an immersive, high-energy VR experience that puts players and fans inside of the Halo universe like never before.”
While it’s not the full Halo VR videogame VRFocus would love to see, Halo Training Grounds certainly looks a lot better than 2017s rather dismal Halo: Recruit for Windows Mixed Reality headsets.
Halo: Outpost Discovery also features plenty of other stuff for Halo fans to enjoy, such as the Hall of History with UNSC weapons, life-sized sculptures, an iconic to-scale Warthog vehicle and more. Or how about the Pelican Training simulation, or Covenant Escape, an escape-room-style experience.
The event will be heading to the following cities over the next couple of months:
- July 5-7 – Orlando, Florida
- July 19-21 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- August 2-4 – Chicago, Illinois
- August 16-18 – Houston, Texas
- August 30-September 1 – Anaheim, California
Further information including ticket purchases can be found on the official website. For any further updates, keep reading VRFocus.
343 Industries threatens to ban illegal testers of Halo: Reach beta on PC
The first flight for the beta of Halo: Reach on PC finally launched to a limited number of Halo Insiders. However, some fans have resorted to illegal distribution of the test, prompting 343 Industries to threaten the banhammer.
‘Halo’ VR Multiplayer Shooter Coming to Location-based Halo Event
Halo: Outpost Discovery is a weekend-long event coming to a few cities across the US this summer; it aims to bring fans closer to the world of Halo, while undoubtedly distancing them from the money in their back pockets. As a traveling Halo theme park, it just so happens to have a Halo-themed multiplayer VR attraction too.
Dubbed the ‘Outpost Discovery Training Grounds’, event-goers can team up in the 3v3 multiplayer shooter, giving you a free-roaming, wireless VR environment to run around while you shoot your plasma pistol and heal via the series’ shield generator.
The attraction was built in partnership with VRstudios, the studio known for their work on several of the games available at Dave & Buster’s VR arcades nation-wide including Star Trek: Dark Remnant and the large-scale LBE attraction Barking Irons Gunslinger.
In fact, the Halo VR Training Grounds appears to be similar to the Barking Irons Gunslinger attraction, which VRstudios describes as a mix between lasertag and dodgeball.
Although this is clearly an attraction intended for a limited run, it’s hard to get excited about what essentially makes for a small-scale lasertag match. We’ve seen worse implementations, but we’ve also seen better ones too.
Granted, this isn’t the first licensed Halo VR experience though, and at least looks more fun than the Halo: Recruit experience used to hype Windows VR headsets back in October 2017. That app (read our full hands-on here) was decidedly better polished in terms of graphical realism, giving you a more 1:1 understanding of the scale of Jackals, Elites, and other baddies from the Halo universe, although you shoot at an admittedly puny 2D lightgun-style waveshooter.
If you’re looking to get your head into the first officially licensed multiplayer Halo VR shooter, Halo: Outpost Discovery will be touring the following cities:
- July 5-7 – Orlando, Florida
- July 19-21 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- August 2-4 – Chicago, Illinois
- August 16-18 – Houston, Texas
- August 30-September 1 – Anaheim, California
The post ‘Halo’ VR Multiplayer Shooter Coming to Location-based Halo Event appeared first on Road to VR.