Pistol Whip is a new, up and coming shooter rhythm hybrid game for VR. It combines hot tracks, quick movement, and accurate shooting to make you feel like John Wick after leg day. We reached out to Cloudhead after getting some short demos of their game at OC6 and came up with the concept of running a head-to-head competition between VRespawn and Cloudhead’s best players. Leading up to the competition we created a custom AltSpace room to host our virtual launch party, including interviewing the developer, watching the competition, and giving away some keys, as well as creating promo content f ..read more

Some days it’s hard being a competitive VR player. We all know that playing VR competitively can feel like a one-sided relationship, like maybe they just don’t really see you. Today is not a hard day. Today is a celebration, because VR sports is finally getting some real love in the form of the first-ever worldwide Pistol Whip tournament put on by the Virtual Athletics League (VAL), with support from Oculus and iBUYPOWER, and in association with VRespawn, LIV, VRML, SpringboardVR, and Splitverse. The event will take place over three weekends in March and will consist of: An online comp ..read more

Season 5 of Pavlov was, in a way, pretty anticlimactic. About halfway through the season, when it started to become apparent that team Thinking’s domination over the rest of the league was less of a streak, and more of a relentless and unstoppable climb to the top, the writing was on the wall: they would be the team to beat come season end. There was no fairytale story here, no group of scrappy underdogs fighting their way to the top to upset the reigning champions and the status quo. Instead, the narrative of Season 5 was essentially proof of a successful experiment, the answer to the hypothe ..read more

The VR Master League continues its march forward towards becoming the premier VR esports league with the addition of yet another competitive genre. This week we saw not only the inaugural season start for Space Junkies, but also the announcement for an upcoming Echo Arena league. The admins of the VRML had previously expressed their interest in expanding to non-FPS games and have shown this by previously bringing on Final Assault as well. Echo Arena now further expands the competitive genres to which VRML participants have access. Beyond expanding game variety, the most recent additions hig ..read more

There are plenty of reasons to be thankful this November with a packed calendar of VR releases. The highly anticipated action games Stormland and Pistol Whip will finally make their debut alongside a handful of other quality, albeit lesser hyped, titles in the genre. Audica and Synth Riders leave early access and expand their offerings, while some relative newcomers in the rhythm genre, like Frequency Garden, make an appearance as well. The upcoming Doctor Who: The Edge of Time and The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets are looking to make waves on the release radar as well. A number of other hyp ..read more

This week we caught back up on the backlog of matches from the more casual weeks past, and teams are fighting harder than ever. We’re only a few short weeks away from the finals of Season 8!  Let’s take a look at all the exciting and fast-paced action! Ember vs. ROME Ember battled ROME in a challenge match that was cast by NightFiree for our first match on Monday.  The teams started on Bazaar Day, with ROME taking a solid first map victory, 1-4. The second and third maps, Subway and Suburbia Day, saw ROME sweep with 0-4 score lines on both maps. This result left the final score at a domi ..read more

This week was All-Stars Week, a week where various league players sign up to be recruited to an All-Stars team and 8 captains are randomly assigned. These 8 captains then draft the best teams they can, and then battle it out for a chance at Onward glory. Only two members can be from one team, and each team drafts 6 players. The teams drafted and the captains are as follows: The Threepeats: Captain -The Sickness VR Other Members – Rafael, Nin10do, ryboman007, St3v3n12, and Silent Knight Capitanos Captain – Spoilty Other Members – Dr. Killinger, Hunnihalf, Nohm4n, SkoobyDoo, a ..read more

It’s time for another review of an exciting weekend in Onward!  We saw ROME, the winner of the Challenger Cup move on into the first round of the Finals in VRML’s Onward Season 8 Championships. Challenger Cup Results ROME faced off against The 5 Horsemen in an epic battle. It came down to the last map, but ultimately, ROME secured their spot with 2 map wins to The 5 Horsemen’s 1.  You can check out all the action in the Twitch recap here! With the Challenger Cup decided, the league has moved on to Stage 3 of the Finals – The Round Robins.  Eight teams (Rank #1 to #7 from the Worldw ..read more

The great state of Texas just got a little greater in the world of competitive VR, with the addition of another Omni Arena installation at Dave & Buster’s, this time in Houston, TX. The Houston venue is the second Dave & Buster’s location to offer Omni Arena. Dave & Buster’s in Austin, TX has operated Omni Arena since May 2019. The Omniverse VR Arena uses Virtuix omnidirectional treadmills to allow players to move around virtual worlds with their own feet instead of controller-based movement.Omni Arena is a full-body competitive VR attraction for up to four players, developed b ..read more

It finally happened! The last week of competitive matches has come and gone, so let’s take a look at the final standings, along with all the match results. Then, we’ll dive into the results of last week’s Challenger Cup. Matches Big Red One vs. Team Big Red One started off the week with a battle against Team for a challenge match.  The teams started on Cargo, where Team took an early lead with a 3-4 win. Team continued the narrow winning streak onto Suburbia Day, which saw a 2-4 win by Team, allowing the team to secure the match. The final map was Bazaar Day, and Big Red One brought i ..read more