Ruff Talk VR

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus have a double feature of virtual reality game reviews. It starts with Ghost Signal: A Stellaris game, a new space roguelite game on the official Meta Quest store set in the Stellaris universe published by Fast Travel Game with development from Windswept Interactive. In the second half of the episode our hosts breakdown and review Pea...

On this edition of, what is now tentatively name VR News of the Week, we have plenty to discuss from this past week in the world of virtual reality. There's been new games announced coming soon for the Meta Quest including Fruit Ninja VR 2, Crimen Mercenary Tales, and Tennis League VR. We also discuss some game updates like Creed's Championship Edition update, and plenty more including a...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review Vacation Simulator! Part two of our Owlchemy Labs trilogy, this game takes everything Job Simulator had going on with NPCs, lore, and interaction and completely pumped them full of steroids and caffeine! This game features 3 "Vacations" with beach, forest, and mountain simulations and a plethora of NPCs...

On this edition of Monday Morning News there's no shortage of news to cover! From upcoming game releases this month on the official Meta Quest store like Everslaught Invasion to game updates like Iron Guard VR's endless mode update. We also talk  the reported PSVR2 sales numbers and have a fun speculative discussions regarding what we would do for VR headset sales this holiday culminatin...

On this special edition of the Ruff Talk VR podcast, we have our five interviews from PAX East (And some fun banter in between)! Featuring Jim Squires of Resolution Games to start the show. We then interview Russ Harding from Mazy Theory, the developers of Peaky Blinders VR! We also sit and talk (literally) with the developers of Pin City. We also go flat screen for a moment chatting with Will fro...

On this edition of Monday Morning News have a special edition of the podcast where we do our standard news but also break down and recap our PAX East 2023 experience! But best of all you get to hear us say "Amid Hell" instead of "Amid Evil" about 100 times (sorry about that!) On the news side of things we see new games announced like the new Pixel Ripped and some ports like Kil...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review Job Simulator! One of the most popular VR games on the official Meta Quest store made and published by developer Owlchemy Labs, we are long overdue to review this one! This game has an emphasis on silly humor and intractability as you explore the "simulations" of common human jobs with hilarious robot c...

On this edition of Monday Morning News we go over the next few weeks of game reviews featuring the collection from Owlchemy Labs. We also cover the latest update for Little Cities featuring little population! This is our last edition of Monday Morning News leading in to PAX East! As well Breachers VR is getting an official release date. Listen for all the news! Mondays are dedicated to our series...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review The Light Brigade! A new VR rogue-lite game on the official Meta Quest store made by developers Funktronic Labs! The game packs incredibly fun gun mechanics, a steady rate of improvement with upgrades and different classes, and an incredibly challenging run featuring randomly generated rooms and intense boss batt...

On this edition of Monday Morning News we give our thoughts on the new Walkabout Mini Golf Upside Town DLC course and our thoughts on the relaunched Guardians Frontlines! There's also a bit of fun to be had with a Q and A, a new sponsorship announcement, and a little bit of news with Quest 3 rumors and rumors of a Quest Pass! Listen for all the fun! Mondays are dedicated to our series of epis...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts are joined by Nicholas Sutrich. Nicholas is the senior content producer for smartphones and VR over at Android Central. We get to know more about Nicholas' role over at Android Central, his thoughts on the Meta Quest Pro and the PSVR2, some of his favorite virtual reality games, and much more. You can find Nicholas on social media @Gwanatu If you enjo...

It's a loaded week of virtual reality and Meta Quest news this week! Starting with Walkabout Mini Golf announcing their newest DLC Upside Town! And then Population: One announced an upcoming transition to being free to play and tons of other updates. Also Meta announced the Meta Quest 2 256gb model and the Meta Quest Pro are getting price drops and much more news and fun banter! Listen for al...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review Per Aspera VR! A VR real-time strategy resource management game made by developers Tlön Industries and published by Raw Fury available now on the official Meta Quest store! This game has you control and AI named AI as you colonize and terraform mars. However, humans will be humans and this brings the inherent cha...

There's never a shortage of news in the world of VR and this past week proved that true! From new games like I Expect You To Die 3 and Another Fisherman Tale being announced to Meta partnering with Tencent to bring the Meta Quest to China, software improvements, and more! Listen for all the news! Mondays are dedicated to our series of episodes about the discussion of Virtual Reality (VR) news...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review Drop Dead: The Cabin! Made by developers Soul Assembly, this is spin-off of Drop Dead Dual Strike. A singleplayer and two person co-op zombie survival game, this game brings incredibly difficult gameplay, a variety of weapons, level ups, hordes of zombies to kill and plenty of ways to die! Listen for our full tho...

On this week's edition of Monday Morning News we have plenty of VR news to discuss! Starting off with Bigscreen going from VR software to hardware and announcing their Bigscreen Beyond headset! There's also news of some layoffs over at Pico, Ark-Ade moving from app lab to the official Meta Quest store, and also Mixture and The Light Brigade coming soon! Listen for all the news! Mondays a...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus are joined by Andrew Jepsen, President of Stalwart Games, the developers behind Barbaria! A brand new VR game on the official Meta Quest store that we reviewed this past Wednesday, we are absolutely hooked on it! As such we are very excited to sit down and talk with Andrew about how this game came to be, what's next for Barbaria...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review Barbaria! A new VR game developed and published by Stalwart Games and available now on the official Meta Quest store (and Steam)! This game combines hack-n-slash gameplay with strategy game/base-building elements and even a touch of RPG. With fun combat, asynchronous multiplayer fighting, base building, and more,...

On this week's edition of Monday Morning News we answer some listener questions in a Q and A, as well talk about Meta catching and axing a source of their leaks. There's also big news of Gym Class VR securing a partnership with the NBA bringing branded content to their game, Meta's purchase of the Supernatural developers Within going through, a collab between Walkabout Mini Golf/Gol...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review Dead Second! A high paced bullet hell shooter on the Meta Quest app lab store made and published by developers Spunge Games Pty Ltd! This game features 8 campaign missions with an easy, normal and hard mode requiring all three to be completed for 3 stars, plus leaderboards, plus unlockable guns, plus gun skins an...

On this week's edition of Monday Morning News we split our time half in person and half remote as a burst pipe almost takes us out for the week. But the show goes on! There's plenty to discuss with Echo VR suddenly shutting down, PSVR 2 production rumors, and more! Listen for a hilarious week of Monday Morning News! Mondays are dedicated to our series of episodes about the discussion of...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus are joined by Skeeva and Alex, the hosts of the Between Realities podcast! Being joined by fellow virtual reality podcasters was an opportunity we couldn't pass up and we weren't disappointed! We talk the origins of heir friendship, their careers in VR, some of their favorite VR experiences, their first VR experience, and m...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review Grid Legends VR! A virtual reality port of the flat screen title, this racing game made by EA Codemasters features a story mode with live action actors, an in depth career mode, online multiplayer, a vast library of cars, and more! But, buyers beware with the graphics and integration of VR controls on this one. L...

On this week's edition of Monday Morning News we give our thoughts on the new Walkabout Mini Golf Atlantis DLC, as well as give our early impressions on a new social VR experience on app lab called Beer Pong Basement! Listen as we breakdown these two games, talk some VR and Meta Quest news, and more! Mondays are dedicated to our series of episodes about the discussion of Virtual Reality (VR)...

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus breakdown and review The Last Clockwinder! The winner of Meta's Best Game of 2022 and a nominee for our Game of the Year, this unique puzzle game made by Pontoco has you solve puzzles using clones of yourself. Featuring a heart warming story, it's easy to see why this game was so hyped. Listen for our full thoughts and rati...