Impulse Gear's Farpoint is a shooter that uses the PlayStation Aim Controller in PSVR.
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Farpoint is shaping up to be a fun shooter on Sony’s PSVR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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First-person shooter games are one of the best genres for virtual reality, as the games become much more realistic and immersive when you are looking around in 360 degrees for things to shoot.

Farpoint from Impulse Gear is one of the games that makes the best use of the medium of VR. I played it in a hands-on preview at Sony’s game headquarters in Foster City, Calif. It’s one of the games that Sony hopes will distinguish its PlayStation VR headset from the rest.

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Dean Takahashi

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.