VR Porn Is About to Explode All Over Sony's PSVR Thanks to This Hack

If we are looking to reinvigorate virtual reality from its current limp state, perhaps we should be looking to porn. The porn industry's interest in virtual reality remains strong, to the point that virtual reality-focused porn site VR Bangers recently published a tutorial that explains how to get the PlayStation VR headset to render all the site's VR porn videos in stereoscopic 3D.

Up until now, anyone watching VR Bangers' porn with PSVR had to watch it in 2D, essentially like watching any other video but with 360-degree views. But with the new Littlstar hack, which has been circling on the wider internet for a while now, owners of Sony's relatively inexpensive $399 headset can act out doin' the nasty with the likes of porn star Brigette B. With it, things on screen things appear to jiggle and grow much as they would in real life.

Mike Henigan of the VR Bangers team told me in an email that they've seen a 40 percent rise in PlayStation VR downloads in 2017, and that traffic as a whole is going up. For all of the excitement about the PSVR, though, he said, the best and most popular headsets for VR porn remain the smartphone headsets."

"Compared to the last six months of 2016, the numbers of sales have increased as well with the popularity of the one-year membership sales, which shows that the people are staying around and not just checking it out," he said..

"The experience is mind blowing and gives a completely different fully immersive feeling as compared to the standard mono," VR Bangers said in a press release. We're sure that's not the only blowing going on.

It's a fairly simply process. Just download the software, load the files onto a Flash thumb drive, stick it into your PSVR, and launch the Littlstar VR Cinema app. Provided you've downloaded some of VR Bangers' many videos, the magic presumably happens soon after.

"We did not develop the hack, we just made it simple for people to understand how to use it," Henigan said. "We made a guide that integrates it with our videos and makes it a lot simpler, so instead of 14 stages, we made it so there's just four."

Sony did not respond to a request for comment.

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Here's What 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' Looks Like in 4K

Earlier this week we contacted the team leader of the Cemu Wii U emulator for the PC, and discussed in detail how he'd gotten the critically acclaimed Switch and Wii U game The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild working for PC just a few days after release. And now, thanks to a video from YouTube's YamGaming, we can now see what the first fruits of those efforts look like in practice. In many respects, it's a beauty, and the inclusion of a 4K graphics pack with Cemu marks a clear step up from Nintendo's graphically inferior consoles.

As the video above shows, though, it's currently a bit trashy when it comes to performance. "Exzap," Cemu's project head, warned as much in our interview. The stylized details look breathtaking compared to their counterparts on the Switch, but Link shuffles along at a stomach-turning 15 frames per second or less. Bugs abound, including missing textures, a near total absence of Breath of the Wild's lovely grass, and Link's tendency to sink halfway into the landscape.

Yet considering that the game only came out last week, that's a stunning turnaround time for a jump to a PC emulator. And considering that the team behind Cemu managed to get Xenoblade Chronicles X working fine on PCs even with 4K resolution, it may only be a matter of months before PC players can (admittedly illegitimately) enjoy the latest Zelda game in its full glory.

"The goal is to get every game running 100% eventually," Exzap said our interview earlier in the week. "How we get there and how long it will take is difficult to answer. But in regards to [Breath of the Wild], I think we will see small incremental improvements in almost every future Cemu release. It's been this way for most other games so far."

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'No Man's Sky' Just Announced Another Big Update, But Do We Care at This Point?

The strange, tragic saga of the onetime indie gaming darling No Man's Sky continues with Hello Games' announcement today of a new patch due out this week. According to a post on the Steam forums, it's called the Path Finder Update, and apparently it adds a new vehicle that "will aid home planet exploration." The brief 135-word post says little else besides a promise of more detailed patch notes to come and an acknowledgement that the team addressed some issues players reported pertaining to the previous update.

It's nice to see that Hello Games is living up to its promise to continue updating its game, but does anyone really care at this point? In the whirlwind of news about the Nintendo Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and other fascinating exploration games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, No Man's Sky feels a bit like ancient news. And neither is the Path Finder Update all that spectacular. We noted in our coverage of November's Foundation Update that the patch's key features still left No Man's Sky as "essentially the same game," and the Path Finder Update appears to do much the same, only this time with a car to explore a bunch of planets that barely differ significantly from one another. And seven months later, there's still no proper multiplayer action.

Hello Games will need to do much more than include a buggy if it wants its players to return. Infamously, No Man's Sky's numbers as reported by SteamDB have been plummeting since the very beginning, droppingly wildly from more than 212,000 concurrent players on Steam on launch day to around 19,000 by the end of the month. Today, the numbers are even more dire, as SteamDB shows its most recent 24-hour peak for concurrent players reached only a pitiful 527. The appeal, as strong as it once was, is gone.

No Man's Sky burst on the scene with the promise of unlimited worlds to explore. Unfortunately, with all that on offer, players have found that there are far more interesting worlds out there than these.

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Now You Can Watch the Nuclear Apocalypse Unfold in VR

Released back in 2006, the strategy game Defcon resembles the maps on the large screens that dominated the tense moments of the 1983 film Wargames. Lines arc from continent to continent, symbolizing nuclear missile trajectories and likely the beginning of the end for us all. And now you can experience that abstract horror in virtual reality on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

Normally Defcon just has the maps and tables, but a free new download on Steam from Introversion Software called Defcon VR drops players in an actual war room. Metal staircases allow players look down on a holographic spinning globe, a strategic map of the earth lines the dominant wall, and another screen crawls with ominous statistics.

Unfortunately, you can't decide the locations of nuclear strikes in Defcon yourself while in virtual reality—you can only watch, accompanied by other players who manifest themselves as floating general's caps. It's limited to the spectator mode that lets you watch other matches, all while you're powerless to do anything besides toss around a few virtual chairs and watch the apocalypse unfold. Come to think of it, that's probably what the end of all things will be like for most of us.

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'Overwatch' Meets 'GoldenEye' in the Shooter Mashup We Wish Was Real

Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch is easily one of the most popular first-person shooters around right now, but back in 1997 GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64 was the shooter on everyone's minds. The games may be two decades apart, but YouTuber Noilleber recently smashed them together to show us what it'd look like if Blizzard characters like Torbjörn and McCree traded bullets and rivets in James Bond's world. And honestly, it's pretty awesome.

Noilleber sets the whole thing in Overwatch's Dorado map, which stands in nicely for the decades-old aesthetic of GoldenEye. Little touches evoke GoldenEye at almost every turn, whether it's Torbjörn's gameplay nods to GoldenEye's much-maligned Oddjob or the blood that spills over the screen when you die, accompanied by the iconic James Bond riff.

Our love affair with GoldenEye 007 hasn't cooled much in 20 years, and modding it or modding other games to look like it remains a popular pastime. Just like summer, modders were  busy recreating GoldenEye 007 within the original Doom engine and updating fan-made remasters of GoldenEye with new effects.

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I'm Honestly Surprised It Took This Long to Make 'Metal Gear Solid V' Porn

One of the main characters of 2015's hit game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is Quiet, a badass sniper who sashays through modern desert battlefields wearing little more than ripped stockings and a teensy bikini top. Why? What follows is one of the most ridiculous justifications for sexualized depictions to date—according to Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, it's because she can only breathe through her skin, and thus the skimpiness lets her freely soak in air and water through her curves.

Naturally the porn network Brazzers thought this was a fantastic idea for a porn parody.

They're calling the resulting creative achievement (but of course) Metal Rear Solid: The Phantom Peen, and it'll be available for Solid Snakes everywhere on Wednesday, February 8. In it, porn star Casey Calvert dons (and likely soon removes) the thongs and straps of Quiet—known here by the copyright-friendly name of "Tushy"—while an eyepatched Charles Dera plays "Boss," a stand-in for Snake that's about as subtle as the plot.

It's cheesy as hell, but it's worth a smirk for Metal Gear V fans if only for the little details, which extend right down to attacks on outposts and making goats and other critters hang from balloons.

There's definitely a niche for this type of thing, if the sexualization of Quiet didn't already tip you off, but it usually manifests itself in fan-made animated creations such as scenes with the crew from Blizzard Entertainment's shooter Overwatch trading their usual team combat for some intimate one-on-one action. It's likely no accident that Brazzers followed up last summer's rapid demand for Overwatch porn with its own parody called Oversnatch in September and then another spoofing Call of Duty. The network's even started filming "Let's Play" videos featuring famous porn stars and embarrassed married nerds.

After all this, I'm left wondering why they haven't tackled The Witcher 3. Too easy?

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