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Oculus Rift game updates keep rolling in today, with Crashed Lander seeing a significant content update. You might remember Crashed Lander from our review back in 2014. Its a brilliantly fun space-faring game that tasks players with landing a small craft on numerous pads scattered around each level. Combining realistic physics, AI and some bizarre alien landscapes, its a genuinely fun game. Best of all, it looks fantastic on the Oculus Rift, with a nice sense of 3D and scale to let players easily land their craft without smashing it into obstacles or foes. Today the game received a significant update on Steam that adds Oculus SDK 0.4.4 support along with new levels, effects, optimized performance and more. Heres the full and lengthy change-log for version 2.5:

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VRFocus- It's just one month into 2015 and there have already been two significant events from Oculus VR. While the company debuted new audio enhancements for the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it more recently revealed its own film-dedicated division, Oculus Story Studio. Of course, the big question about the Oculus Rift still lingers; when is a consumer version releasing? The company still won't say for sure but has recently debunked so rumours about release information.

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VRFocus - It's no secret that independent videogame developers have played a crucial role in the revival of virtual reality (VR) thus far. While many larger publishers and studios wait to see if the technology becomes commercially viable, smaller teams have pushed on, creating experiences to prove the potential of the likes of the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD). A handful of these developers will be talking about working in VR at this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California, USA.

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VRFocus - Leap Motion has been making strides with its work combining virtual reality (VR) technology with its hand-tracking sensors over the past year. Not only does the company have its own mount for the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) that allows for in-game hand-tracking, but it recently hosted a high profile Game Jam encouraging indie developers to make immersive VR experiences with the controller. This week the developer has detailed one its own creations using both technologies named Planetarium.

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Virtual reality (VR) videogame Final Strike developed by Ghost Machine has unveiled new screenshots in the wake of its Greenlight campaign. The title is a first person flight combat videogame which pits the player against waves of alien invaders. The title is geared towards releasing with Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) compatibility.

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VRFocus - Earlier this week indie developer StellarVR launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for a new virtual reality (VR) compatible flight simulation videogame by the name of Eridanus Wars. The studio hopes to raise £6,000 GBP in order to fund the title, which supports the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD). Now the first screenshots for Eridanus Wars have arrived and can be seen below.

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Vince from Awesome Games writes: 'Sex and video games have shared a long and not-so-clean history. From the text-based Softporn Adventures to the Virtual Reality titillation for the Oculus Rift thats just around the corner, sex has never caused the amount of controversy that we get from say, violence. But inevitably, it strikes a chord in what makes us all human, including the rather large gamer demographic of young men.'

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Vince from Awesome Games writes: 'Sex and video games have shared a long and not-so-clean history. From the text-based Softporn Adventures to the Virtual Reality titillation for the Oculus Rift thats just around the corner, sex has never caused the amount of controversy that we get from say, violence. But inevitably, it strikes a chord in what makes us all human, including the rather large gamer demographic of young men.'