Even though VR has come a long way from th edays of the Oculus Go, it hasn’t quite gone as big as many folks hoped it would, although VR experience are pretty excellent if you can afford one. Luckily, there are a few modern VR experiences that don’t even require you to have a high-end gaming PC to play games like Half-Life: Alyx, so it’s perfect if you don’t want to spend a ton of money. There are also a lot of great gaming PC deals that include great games you can buy on Steam instead of grabbing them on the VR marketplace for specific headsets, so you can find some great deals.
Either way, VR headsets can get quite expensive, which is why we’ve collected some of our favorite deals below. It’s also worth checking out these video game deals for a few options as well.
The Meta Quest 3 is pretty great, but if you’re not really looking to spend that sort of money on a VR headset, then you may want to consider the Meta Quest 3S, which sits somewhere between the Quest 2 and the Quest 3. For example, it runs the Quest 3’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2, so you get a lot of performance, but you get the older Fresnel lenses that run at a 1,832 × 1,920 resolution, which still isn’t too bad. The bundle also includes Batman: Arkham Shadow, which is great since you get a starter game.
While the HTC VIVE Pro 2 is an ever so slightly older VR headset, it’s a solid option if you don’t want to go with the Quest. It has a combined 4896 x 2448 resolution, with a very respectable 120-degree field of view, and a very solid 90Hz refresh rate, which helps a lot with things like dizziness. The hand tracking is also pretty excellent, probably as good if not better than the Quest 2 or 3, and you have several ways you can wear the headset depending on how you want to use it. You see, much like the Quest, it can run in standalone mode that doesn’t require a connection to a PC, although the option for apps is much smaller, and the HTC VIVE Pro 2 really is made more for connecting with a PC.
Just a few years ago, the biggest names in the VR headset market consisted of HTC and Oculus; however, in today’s market, we have numerous head-mount displays across various brands including HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Samsung. Even Sony has thrown its hat in the ring in the form of the PlayStation VR headset. With the increased competition in the VR hardware market, the overall quality of headsets has become more polished, and the increasing number of headset options is excellent news for both gamers and deal hunters.
Typically, some of the best deals are found on third-party retailers, including Amazon and Walmart; however, the biggest names in the market, HTC and Oculus, have special promotions available on their websites. Most notably, both companies are providing drastic price cuts on their newer products, the HTC Vive Cosmos and the Oculus Quest, and in each case they are bundling an additional item alongside the headsets.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.