PC Gaming
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…
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…
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…
Whistle while you work One of the things about working on weekend projects is that they are often labor intensive, but frequently not big concentration hogs. So, when I work on a project I enjoy listening to music while I do so. It can help me focus, reduce stress, and give a kind of rhythm…
Top Deal: It’s time to put that big, bulky CRT monitor out of its misery. You hear it wheezing when you turn it on, and you also see it struggling to hold a steady picture. Hey, it was a fantastic monitor back in the day, but that was forever ago. And now? Well, now it’s…
Twice the Fury AMD has answered the call for a graphics card with two GPUs based on its Fiji architecture, but the new Radeon Duo Pro isn’t really intended for the home consumer market. Instead, AMD is taking aim at content creators focused on virtual reality games and applications. This is a two-headed beast that…
Hardware refresh Razer today announced that it upgraded its thin and light 14-inch Blade laptop. The improvements extend “across the board from its predecessor,” and there’s a new, more affordable price tag to boot. To start with, Razer brought its Blade current by going with a Skylake foundation. Specifically, the Blade now features a 6th…
Uniting gamers in glorious warfare You’ve undoubtedly heard the term PC master race, a designation some PC players throw around to declare their dominance over their console brethren. But are PC players really better at games than console gamers? Cross-platform play between the Xbox One and both PC and PlayStation 4 may answer that question….