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The Unspoken is like a dark Harry Potter spell duel in VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Spell-casting games will be a good genre for virtual reality because you can wave your hands around to cast spells. The Unspoken from Insomniac Games is a good example of this, as the supernatural dueling game is a lot of fun.

It is part of a wave of good games compatible with the Oculus Touch controllers that will debut for the the Oculus Rift VR headset during the holiday season. I played it at the Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., last week. It is one of the titles that will show that it is possible to make high-quality VR games.

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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.