PC Gaming
Full VR body tracking Xsens has been working on 3D motion tracking technology for the past decade and a half. However, the bulk of its solutions up to this point have focused on athletics, 3D character animation, and industrial applications. With VR positioned to disrupt the consumer market, Xsens saw an opportunity to extend its…
CPU Benchmarking 101 Benchmarking a PC is an essential activity, if you want to separate the hype from the facts. While component and PC manufacturers constantly brag about why this is the “best part ever,” benchmarking is where the rubber meets the road. Specs are interesting, but putting a system through its paces will tell…
Top Deal: Now that you’ve decided it’s finally time to trash your AMD Barton or Intel Northwood PC and build a new rig, the question is, which platform do you run with? If you want to go with the newest, then the answer is Skylake. There are several Skylake processors to choose from, including today’s…
Better but not more expensive Razer jumped into the virtual reality market with its Open-Source VR (OSVR) ecosystem. The idea is to push an open-source standard for developers to embrace rather than get lost creating content for a bunch of different proprietary hardware solutions. To show what it’s capable of, Razer built a headset to…
A better Blade Razer recently announced that it improved its Blade laptop across the board, and it wasn’t kidding. The refreshed Blade with Skylake inside is faster, lighter, and less expensive than the previous generation, a rare but welcome combo. We stopped by Razer’s booth at GDC to get a closer at the new Blade….
Fits like a glove A company called Manus VR has built what it claims is the first consumer glove specifically designed for virtual reality. We caught up with Manus VR at GDC to talk more about its glove and what makes it so special compared to the Vive’s existing controllers. What Manus VR has to…
Bringing and old school vibe to modern technology We had a chance to sit down for a spell with Mike Wilson from Cloudhead Games to discuss Call of the Starseed, the first episode of The Gallery, a built-for VR exploration and puzzle solving game. The game’s description on Steam says it’s inspired by dark 80s…
A compilation of VR mini games set in the Portal universe I recently had the chance to go hands-on with Valve’s new VR title. Dubbed The Lab, the compilation of VR “experiments” (i.e., mini-games) takes place mostly within Portal’s Pocket Universe (if you’ve played the Portal games, think back to those little stick figure dudes)….
Get ready to build Back in 2008, Northway Games build a Flash game called Fantastic Contraption (you can still play it online). It tasked players with assembling various contraptions to move the level’s goal object into the goal area, and you have several tools and items available to help you do that. Now eight years…
We’ve talked before about reasons for you to get a NAS, but here’s a novel purpose for having one: running your games through it. While it might sound crazy to run an application as heavy as gaming over the network, it can be convenient if you’re juggling your games between several PCs and you don’t…