Top Deal: Thinking about making the jump to 4K Ultra HD? We don’t blame you, the added screen real estate can be a real boon, and if you have the graphics hardware, gaming on 4K is pretty awesome, too. The caveat is price, of course, though if you’re looking to upgrade to a 4K panel…
By now you’ve probably heard the big news out of the annual Game Developers Conference — PlayStation VR launches this October for $399 U.S. dollars. We’ve spent the better part of a year talking about PlayStation VR from a largely technical perspective. But as cool as the technology is, it’s always going to be about…
A super reality platform for developers You might remember a Kickstarter project for a mixed reality headset by a company called uSens. What it does is blend virtual reality and virtual reality, hence the mixed reality nomenclature, though Mark from uSens prefers to call it super reality. Terminology aside, we had a chance to sit…
VR doesn’t have to be a single player experience Much of the attention being paid to virtual reality games and demos up to this point has focused on single user experiences. There’s nothing wrong with that—we’ve seen some fantastic uses of VR—but what about the multiplayer aspect that’s become so popular in gaming today? Survious…
Exercise made fun The highlight of virtual reality is tricking your brain that you’re actually in a virtual world. This is achieved through headgear that blasts your eyeballs with fantastic visuals and head tracking technology, though VirZoom takes it a step further with an interesting motion controller. It’s essentially a fancy stationary bike. The obvious…
Hello PlayStation fans, Dominic Matthews here from Ninja Theory. Today I’m very happy to be sharing with you a scene from our upcoming PS4 game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. In this scene we are revealing a new look for Senua based on our aim to make her one of the most believable characters ever seen in…
Playing fast with VR Our illustrious Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang has been toiling away at the 2016 Game Developers Conference (that lucky dog) getting up and close and personal with several VR players. One of them is Ben from Tasty Beverage Studios (500 geeks points right off the bat for a cool name), who…
There are abnormal levels of excitement in the Boneloaf office as we get closer to finishing work on Gang Beasts, the silly multiplayer party game we are making with Double Fine Presents for PS4. Gang Beasts is a silly party game that has groups of surly gelatinous characters fighting in a series of playfully hazardous…
Microsoft takes a mulligan Seemingly out of nowhere, Microsoft earlier this week quietly added an entry to one of its support pages announcing that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin currency for purchases in the Microsoft Store. This came as a surprise in part because Microsoft didn’t offer up a reason for its ban on…
As a young kid I was inspired by both my grandfathers and my father. They showed me the beautiful worlds of mathematics, science, physics, and technology. I remember endless conversations with them about how things work, why and how they can be used. How can we understand the world of nature and use it in…