PC Gaming
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…
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…
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…