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An enemy mech falls back with a crack in its windshield in Underdogs

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Reality Bytes: Underdogs is the undisputed champion of the VR arena fighter

Thrilla in Gorilla

March 29, 2024 Rick Lane

Using vampire powers on an unsuspecting rube in Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice

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Reality Bytes: Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice wants to be a bite sized Dishonored, but is defanged by sloppy design

A bloody mess

March 8, 2024 Rick Lane

A bazaar in a Lego Bricktales VR level, with the player talking to a 'painfully rich merchant'

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Reality Bytes: Lego Bricktales offers a glimpse of the future. But it could be even better

Blockbuster

Jan. 29, 2024 Rick Lane

A man with glowing eyes rises out of a portrait in The 7th Guest VR

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Reality Bytes: Was 2023 a good year for VR?

Another year oVR. A new one just begun

Dec. 22, 2023 Rick Lane

The player clasps a ledge in Assassin's Creed Nexus

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Reality Bytes: Assassin's Creed Nexus features fantastic VR platforming, but crap combat

Bird's eye spew?

Dec. 4, 2023 Rick Lane

A man with glowing eyes rises out of a portrait in The 7th Guest VR

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Reality Bytes: The 7th Guest VR is a sumptuously spooky remake

Guest Room

Nov. 8, 2023 Rick Lane

The player holding a file marked Top Secret in I Expect You To Die 3

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Reality Bytes: I Expect You To Die 3 is a fun telekinetic-Bond spy caper

Couch Potat00

Oct. 6, 2023 Rick Lane

A minigolf course styled after a medieval European village in Golf It!

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Reality Bytes: Golf It! vs. Walkabout Mini Golf in the VR Minigolf Open

Two fore one

Sept. 14, 2023 Rick Lane

Gloved hands operating a code machine in The Room VR

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Reality Bytes: Revisiting The Room VR in a golden age of VR puzzlers

Room for improvement?

Aug. 4, 2023 Rick Lane

Picking up a tiny model fisherman on a model boat in Another Fisherman's Tale

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Reality Bytes: Another Fisherman's Tale brings a whole new approach to its mind-bending puzzles

Catch of the day

July 4, 2023 Rick Lane

An Amid Evil VR screenshot showing a group of pink ghost enemies approaching the player in a tall hallway with wood beamed walls and stained glass decorations

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Reality Bytes: Amid Evil VR is an intriguing experiment

Does this arcane retro shooter work in virtual reality?

June 7, 2023 Rick Lane

Crossing lightsabers with Darth Vader in Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series

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Reality Bytes: The Star Wars VRoliday Special

Star Waaaaars. It's VR Star Wars. Yes VR Star Wars. VR Star Waaaaars!

May 19, 2023 Rick Lane

Chainsawing a zombie up close in the vr game The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2

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Reality Bytes: The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution is long on title, short on ideas

Extra bite

April 7, 2023 Rick Lane

A floating enemy in The Light Brigade VR roguelike, in what looks like a ruined church, its pillars covered in shards of ice. The enemy has spikes growing down from his back and is called Altair The Zealot

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Reality Bytes: The Light Brigade is a blessed VR roguelike

Yours not to reason why

March 7, 2023 Rick Lane

Holding a fire staff in one hand and stabbing a soldier with the blade in your right hand, in the VR combat game Blade And Sorcery

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Reality Bytes: Blade And Sorcery will make you a better sword-fighter and a worse person

WarpFrog's VR swashbuckling sim makes stabbing impressively tactile

Feb. 7, 2023 Rick Lane

The Pico 4 VR headset and controllers

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Reality Bytes: Was 2022 a good year for VR?

Meta or worse?

Dec. 23, 2022 Rick Lane

The player throwing a can at the guard in the station at the start of Half-Life 2, in Half-Life 2: VR Mod

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Reality Bytes: Half-Life 2: VR Mod is a fantastic adaptation of a classic

Half-Life just works in VR

Nov. 30, 2022 Rick Lane

A strange orange figure covered in a web of white light lunges at the player in Bonelab

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Reality Bytes: Bonelab is a weird, interesting metric for how how VR has evolved

Identity crisis

Oct. 28, 2022 Rick Lane