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March 18, 2018

Something For The Weekend: Take a Trip to The Oculus Store

Time for another round of virtual reality (VR) deals this weekend as we take a look around the Oculus Rift and Gear VR store to find you the best offers. Maybe you fancy a spot of table tennis this weekend or maybe living the life of a superhero is more for you. Whatever you are looking for this weekend you are sure to find something from the selection of deals we have put together.

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Puzzle 360

Compatibility: Oculus Rift

If you are looking for a puzzle title that will keep you on your toes then Puzzle 360 is for you. Fill the horizontal voids by firing balls into the gaps, rotating the stage as you go to find the openings. In a VR experience that takes Tetris to a whole new level, Puzzle 360 is a fast paced, quick thinking videogame that will challenge you.

Puzzle 360 is currently available for low price of £0.79 (GBP) down from £1.49.

Compatibility: Oculus Rift

“The pioneering VR game ‘Viral‘ is back in the form of ‘Viral EX‘! Fully revamped for Oculus Rift, it now features Touch support for EX-tra physics-based blasting fun. The supercomputer E.V.E. has had a facelift but is still teeming with infection. So enter this strange world as Ragnarok the Anti-Virus, newly armed with the shiny and deadly dual-wield Blaster and Deflector Shield combo, and get virus-stomping!”

Viral EX is currently on sale for £3.99 (GBP) down from £7.99.

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Crystal Rift

Compatibility: Oculus Rift

If living out your own grid-based dungeon-crawler fantasy is what you are looking for then Crystal Rift can give you just that. Inspired by classic games such as Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, players enter an experiential horror challenge and must explore and fight through 26 levels. Do you have what it takes to explore the whole dungeon and uncover the truth?

Crystal Rift is currently on sale for £3.99 (GBP) down from £7.99.

Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR

Compatibility: Gear VR

If table tennis is your cup of tea then look no further than Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR. This title will immersive you into the sport, now with robots, and put you up against challenge foes that have realistic artificial intelligence and animations. With plenty of stages to play through and physics that make the table tennis experience as real as possible, Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR is ideal for those looking to show off their skills.

Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR is currently on sale for £6.99 (GBP) down from £7.99.

Mervils: A VR Adventure

Compatibility: Oculus Rift

“Mervils: A VR Adventure is an enjoyable and interesting RPG adventure with a good few ideas as to how to overcome the problems of bring traditional videogame genres to a new medium. It’s a lengthy experience, too, which is not all too common amongst the early wave of Oculus Rift videogame titles.” – Read VRFocus’ Editor Kevin Joyce’s preview of Mervils: A VR Adventure here.

Mervils: A VR Adventure is currently available for £8.24 (GBP) down from £14.99.

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Justice League VR: The Complete Experience

Compatibility: Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch required

“Warner Bros. invites you to join the Justice League in a thrilling Cinematic Virtual Reality experience that allows you to step into the shoes and master the powers of the iconic DC Super Heroes: Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg.”

Justice League VR: The Complete Experience is available now for £3.99 (GBP) down from the usual £7.99.

Stunt Kite Masters

Compatibility: Gear VR

“Enjoy a beautiful day at the sunny beach, savor a majestic view on a mountain peak or feel the thrilling height of a skyscraper at night. Harness the wind and launch your stunt kite! Practice exciting maneuvers as your kite dances in the sky or leave gravity behind and draw figures in the blue with a smoke trail.”

Stunt Kite Masters is currently £1.49 (GBP) down from £3.99.

Duck Season

Compatibility: Oculus Rift

“Duck Season really is a mixed bag of ideas, trying to build out a core experience that’s reasonably solid, it just didn’t have enough variety to be a sole title in its own right. Stress Level Zero’s additions are really just padding, stretching out the replay factor with seven different endings may only encourage a small number of users to keep going back. Duck Season does have a charm all of its own though, making for a perfectly enjoyable experience.” – Read VRFocus’ Senior Staff Writer Peter Graham’s review of Duck Season here.

Duck Season is avaiable now for £10.99 (GBP) on sale from it’s usual price of £14.99.

A-Tech Cybernetic

Compatibility: Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch required

“A-Tech Cybernetic is a first-person shooter built from the ground up for VR. It features two separate game modes: a classic swarm mode to put your shooting and survival skills to the test and a story mode that takes you to a futuristic biomedical company overrun by mutants. Control everything with real-life movements, interact with your surroundings as if they were actually there, experience a new kind of gameplay that’s more immersive than ever before, thanks to VR. Be the badass guy you always wanted to be.”

A-Tech Cybernetic is available now for £10.99 (GBP) down from £18.99.

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality

Compatibility: Oculus Rift

“…you’ll appreciate Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality even if you’ve not seen the cartoon, there’s even sections catering to first-person shooter (FPS) fans. Really though this is a video game for those that love Rick and Morty, and quite frankly that’s no bad thing. Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality is a madcap, fun filled adventure from start to finish, perfectly suiting VR’s qualities, it should not be missed.” – Read VRFocus’ Senior Staff Writer Peter Graham’s review of Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality here.

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality is currently on sale for £17.24 (GBP) down from £22.99.

That is all for this week but remember that VRFocus collates all the best sales and cheap deals every weekend, so check back next weekend at the same time to discover more.

June 28, 2017

Viral EX Is Coming to Steam and HTC Vive

Developer Fierce Kaiju brought their first-person shooter title Viral EX to Oculus Rift with Touch late last year, after it has been originally launched for the Samsung Gear VR. The improved and remastered version of Viral EX is now moving on to Steam so HTC Vive owners can also enjoy what Viral EX has to offer.

Taking story and aesthetic elements from classic film TRON, Viral EX puts the player in the role of a heroic anti-virus program called Ragnarok, working for a sentient A.I. called E.V.E. and trying to fight against viral forces trying to damage the system. Players can dual-wield a shield and blaster combination or double up on guns to shoot through 50+ stages of viral enemies.

The remastered version of Viral EX uses the expanded features of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive along with the increased power available to a PC-based virtual reality (VR) system. As such, the PC version of Viral Ex features reworked and enhanced graphics and gameplay.

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“We always wanted to get our games onto Steam” says Paul Colls, Creative director of Fierce Kaiju. “We’re excited that more VR gamers will have access to a game we’re tremendously proud of, on top of this we feel that the Steam community makes for a great fit for a game like Viral EX, it also happens to work particularly well with the Vive technology. Expect to see more from us on the platform.”

Viral EX will launch on Steam for HTC Vive on 10^th July, 2017.

VRFocus will bring you further information about Viral EX as it becomes available.

November 23, 2016

Fierce Kaiju Release Oculus Touch Launch Trailer for Viral EX

In less than two weeks Oculus releases its Touch motion controllers, and the Rift begins a new era of interactivity. Plenty of titles have been confirmed for the launch window release of Oculus Touch including Fierce Kaiju’s first-person shooter (FPS), Viral EX. The developer announced the remastered version of the Samsung Gear VR original last month and today its launched a brand new trailer for the experience.

The video showcases how Viral EX can be used with both Oculus Touch or with the standard Xbox One controller, so Rift owners won’t need the £190 GBP controllers to enjoy the title.

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Just as the original, players take control of Ragnarok the Anti-Virus who does the bidding of the sentient AI known as E.V.E. Taking advantage of the extra power afforded the Oculus Rift, Fierce Kaiju has created a glossier looking videogame with all the taught, frantic gameplay still in place. Players will be able to wage war across 50 stages filled enemies, traps and puzzles. Those that own Oculus Touch will have access to a new dual-wield blaster and deflector shield combo.

Fierce Kaiju is continuing its support of Gear VR with a sequel to Viral with Viral: Quarantine due to be released on the mobile virtual reality (VR) platform this year. This time Ragnarok finds itself in quarantine – a place viruses are kept before deletion – and continues its normal work. Viral: Quarantine adds some new options including several new pieces of weaponry, such the Lure which attracts viruses in for an easier kill, and the Manipulator, allowing enemies to be picked up and smashed into the floor.

Checkout the video below to see what’s in store for Oculus Rift, and keep reading VRFocus for all the latest news from Fierce Kaiju.

October 10, 2016

Fierce Kaiju’s Viral Is Coming To Oculus Touch, Spin-off Heading to Gear VR

UK-based Fierce Kaiju was one of the first developers to support Gear VR when it launched as an Innovator’s Edition back in 2014, and it’ll be one of the first to support Oculus Touch too.

The studio today announced that it’s revamping it’s original game, Viral, for the position-tracked controllers. Named Viral Ex, the remastered game casts you as an anti-virus named Ragnarok that attempts to rid a computer system known as E.V.E. (Emotional Virtual Engine) of infections, simply by gunning them down. Touch support brings dual-wielding blasters and a deflector shield for defensive play.

“We’re very proud of the original version and the response it received, however we always wanted to bring it to Rift both to widen the audience, and also to really spice up the look and feel,” Fierce Kaiju creative director Paul Colls told UploadVR over email. “Then when Oculus got Touch controllers in our hands, we saw a golden opportunity to bring an extra layer to the actual gameplay and add real value.”

You’ll still be able to play the original version of the game with the head-tracked controls, but Touch makes the game more “edgy”, in Colls’ words. “It presents a quite different challenge, and we’ve offset some of the extra trickiness with a deflector shield on the end of the weapons, which can be activated to punch away enemy shots.”

Viral Ex will be out December 6th — the day Touch itself arrives for $199 — but it’s not all Fierce Kaiju is announcing today. It’s also revealed Viral: Quarantine, a spin-off heading to Gear VR later this year. You’ll take control of Ragnarok once more, though you’re now trapped in an area known as Quarantine.

“We see Quarantine is a spin-off rather than a true sequel, it’s definitely a Viral game in that it shares the same world and the same core physics based aim-shoot mechanic, but we’ve approached the stage design in a very different way,” Colls said of the project. The difference comes in level design. Viral features 50 short stages that the player travels through, but this is designed around five arena stages that players revisit to unlock secrets, improve skills and earn higher scores.

Interestingly, Quarantine will support Rooms, Oculus’ newly-announced social feature debuting on Gear VR this year before coming to Rift. It allows up to eight friends to meet in a hangout space and then launch into games. The game isn’t directly multiplayer, but when everyone launches the game they’ll be able to talk through Oculus Parties.

“Added to this, we’ve also fed in a cool multiplayer feature with Mario Kart style attacks known as ‘Glitches’ – these randomly spawn, and if a player collects one it will ‘glitch’ the other players with one of a number of temporary negative effects, such as under-powered shots or invincible enemies,” Colls explained.

October 7, 2016

Fierce Kaiju Confirms Viral EX as Oculus Touch Launch Title

For Oculus Rift owners keen to find out further information on the upcoming Oculus Touch motion controllers this week hasn’t disappointed. The Oculus Connect 3 keynote yesterday has had lots of new info, including the official price and launch date for the device along with newly revealed titles Lone Echo and Robo Recall. Now British developer Fierce Kaiju has announced it’ll be supporting Oculus Touch with a remastered version of Viral.

The original version of Viral arrived on the Samsung Gear VR head-mounted display (HMD) back in 2015 in which players face off against viruses in physics-based first-person gameplay.

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For this new version, Viral EX, Fierce Kaiju takes advantage of the extra power of Oculus Rift to create an even glossier looking videogame with all the taught, frantic gameplay still in place. Playing as Ragnarok the Anti-Virus, gamers will be able to wage war across 50 stages filled enemies, traps and puzzles. Using Oculus Touch players will have access to a new dual-wield blaster and deflector shield combo, but the motion controllers aren’t required to play the classic gameplay version.

Oculus Touch will be shipping on 6th, December 2016, so that’s when Oculus Rift owners will have to wait until to play the title. Pre-orders for the controllers will begin next Monday, 10th October, retailing for $199 USD / £189.99 GBP.

For all the latest Fierce Kaiju news, keep reading VRFocus.