Valve had next-gen VR 'headsets ready three, four years ago and they were big, bulky devices' but went back to the drawing board after actually putting them on

Valve had next-gen VR ‘headsets ready three, four years ago and they were big, bulky devices’ but went back to the drawing board after actually putting them on

The Steam Frame is here and it’s one of the best VR headsets I’ve ever had attached to my face, just don’t ask me about the price. But when we spoke to two of the people at Valve who helped create the device—Joy Lyons and Jeremy Selan—they told me the company actually had its new…

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Forgotten FPS sequel Heretic 2 gets a ‘reverse-engineered sourceport’ that fixes bugs, improves the framerate and adds ‘lots of cosmetic improvements’

Classic boomer shooters Heretic + Hexen received a lavish overhaul courtesy of Nightdive Studios last year, making these classics of the 2.5D FPS era much more accessible on PC. Playing the sequels to Raven Software’s early shooters is not so straightforward, however. Hexen 2 is available to buy on Steam in its original, unvarnished form,…

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I never want to play a Cleric in D&D, but 2026’s best RPG stars one for a simple reason: ‘I’m sorry to say they are just overpowered’

When I spoke to Christoffer Bodegård, developer of the running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb (which uses a modified form of D&D 5th Edition rules), I had to ask: Why a Cleric? The ubiquitous fantasy holy healers never feel like protagonist material to me⁠—I’d much rather be a sneaky little Dick-Ass Rogue. There was…

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