Dragon Front from High Voltage Software and Oculus VR.
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Oculus Rift exclusive card battler Dragon Front is VR’s first stab at challenging Hearthstone

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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High Voltage Software is creating a collectible card game, Dragon Front, as an exclusive for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

The game plays like Blizzard’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, except with the innovative twist that you play it inside VR. That’s a good thing because it shows that a popular genre of game can carry over to virtual reality, which is expected to generate a $30 billion market by 2020, according to Digi-Capital. As companies enable new genres on VR, they stand a better chance of creating a whole new gaming ecosystem on the fledgling platform.

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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.