I’ve been a huge Wallace & Gromit/Aardman Animation fan since I first saw The Wrong Trousers as a kid randomly on PBS and have loved all the other entries in the series, from the other shorts to Curse of the Were-Rabbit.  So it should go without saying that I was extremely excited for the charming duo’s first foray into VR, The Grand Getaway, which is out now on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro from Astrea, Aardman, AtlasV and No Ghost Studio.

A quiet countryside is terrorized by supernatural beasts, ravaging the lands and turning all those who hear the infectious howls into bloodthirsty monsters. A deaf hunter, gifted with the foresight of battles to come, is immune to the howls. She ventures from her home and deep into the woods in Howl. Developed by Mi’pu’mi Games […]

As we enter the festive season, we loaded up our plate full of games to try out this month. We tried a remade Atari classic with Bezerk: Recharged, suited up as a cybernetic ninja again in Ghostrunner II, tried to solve a mystery in Forest Grove, and more! Check out everything we got to play from this November below in the game box

Things were especially spooky this month for Gamebox as we got to enter creepy locations in Haunted House, The 7th Guest VR, and Dark Envoy. Check out our thoughts and reviews below in the Gamebox 2.0: Games of October 2023.

As we get ready for spooky fall fun, we checked out a new batch of games this September. We dug into the existential dread of (i) doesn’t exist, blasted away at the fiendish Gazzlers in VR, puzzle platformed through 80s action movies in It’s A Wrap, played arcade-style games in two new collections, and more! 

As the summer winds down, we’ve spent some of the last dog days of the season checking out new games for the latest Gamebox 2.0. We reviewed another reimagined Atari classic with Quantum: Recharged, tested our ninja abilities with Ninja or Die: Shadow of the Sun, raised a squadron of soldiers in Arcadian Atlas, and more!

As the summer days get hotter, so do the action-packed games we got to try out this month. This July brought a lot of fun retro titles for a new generation like cult classic FPS Rise of the Triad and the RayStorm X RayCrisis HD Collection. We got to do some fast-pacing shooting in Crime Boss: Rockay City and Rightfully, Beary Arms. Check out all reviews in the Gamebox 2.0: Games of July 2023.

If you’ve ever wanted to test your detective skills like the legendary Sherlock Holmes, then you can strap on your Meta Quest headset and experience Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Hung Parliament, available in the Meta App Lab

Coming from Asylum Square and Gameforge 4D GmbH, Tiny Thor pays homage to classic 16-bit action platformers from the SNES and Genesis era with some fun new twists.

As we head into the summer, sometimes you need to stay inside and beat the heat with some video games, and we got to check out several new games this month for the latest Gamebox 2.0.  We played the “most extreme” 90s shooter ever made with Slayers X, took up Mjolnir as Tiny Thor, got caught in a spooky time-loop with Homebody, and more. 

For the latest Gamebox 2.0, we got to guide people to the light in Humanity, explored a zombie-infested hotel in Propagation: Paradise Hotel, farmed in prehistoric times in Roots of Pacha, and more.  Check out everything we played this May 2023.