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Dinosaur shooter Island 359 launches on Oculus VR early access

CloudGate Studio is launching its dinosaur virtual reality shooter Island 359 on early access in the Oculus Store.

Hoping to reproduce the terror of fighting dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park films, CloudGate is immersing players in a jungle world where larger-than-life dinosaurs jump at you as you try to take them down with heavy infantry weapons. Already out for the HTC Vive and on Steam, Island 359 uses the Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch controls. Steve Bowler and Jeremy Chapman, the Chicago-based game designers behind the acclaimed The Brookhaven Experiment VR demo, built this dino hunt.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.