Gaming

By Hugh Langley One of the amazing feats of virtual reality is that it can make the most mundane tasks feel incredibly rewarding. For me, during the Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine experience, that was fixing the Millennium Falcon by smashing a sequence of colored switches. For context, Trials was made by ILMxLab for the…

By Kevin Lee Microsoft is diving headlong into the competitive gaming world and has announced a new Xbox Live Tournament Platform. The Redmond company announced the new platform has been built as a new part of the Universal Windows Platform SDK. It short, the platform will allow developers to easily set up tournaments on the…

By Kevin Lee Microsoft is diving headlong into the competitive gaming world, announcing a new Xbox Live Tournament Platform. The Redmond company announced the new platform has been built as a new part of the Universal Windows Platform SDK. It short, the platform will allow developers to easily set up tournaments on the Xbox One,…

By Cameron Faulkner Universal Windows Apps are officially headed to the Xbox One this Summer. At Microsoft’s GDC 2016 conference, the Xbox team talked up Windows 10 and how it plans to utilize the added versatility of the platform on a home console. It all circles around the Universal Windows Platform (UWP,) which has gathered…

By Cameron Faulkner Universal Windows Apps are officially headed to the Xbox One this Summer. At Microsoft’s GDC 2016 conference, the Xbox team talked up Windows 10 and how it plans to utilize the added versatility of the platform on a home console. It all circles around the Universal Windows Platform (UWP,) which has gathered…

By Kevin Lee Gaming desktops have taken on some odd shapes in recent history including the triangular Alienware Area 51 to the Base Star-esque Deepcool Tristellar. However, the MSI Vortex might be the most practical and smallest gaming desktop yet. First seen at CES 2016, MSI new desktop could easily be described as a gaming…

By Kevin Lee Gaming desktops have taken on some odd shapes in recent history including the triangular Alienware Area 51 to the Base Star-esque Deepcool Tristellar. However, the MSI Vortex might be the most practical and smallest gaming desktop yet. First seen at CES 2016, MSI new desktop could easily be described as a gaming…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Oculus Rift releases on March 28, and there will be 30 games for you to indulge your virtual reality fantasies with when the time comes. I played a handful at GDC 2016 and was blown away by the variety and the quality of the titles. You’ll find a full list of games…

By David Nield After a long wait, we know the PlayStation VR is going to be in gamers’ hands in October, and that it’s going to cost $399/£349 – Sony announced all this at the GDC 2016 event being held in San Francisco. What it was less clear on was how you could get your…

By Darren Allan Cooler Master has announced the launch of its MasterKeys mechanical keyboards, with two different models on offer for different kinds of gamers (or workers). There’s the MasterKeys Pro L, a full-size keyboard complete with number pad, and the MasterKeys Pro S, a smaller model with the numpad chopped off – a tenkeyless…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Design, feel and comfort Sulon Q is the first tether-less virtual reality (VR) headset, but it’s much more than that – though, that would’ve been enough alone. It offers a mixed augmented reality (AR) and VR experience, with a healthy dose of spatial computing thrown in. While Sulon CEO Dhan Balachand couldn’t…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Design, feel and comfort Sulon Q is the first tether-less virtual reality (VR) headset, but it’s much more than that – though, that would’ve been enough alone. It offers a mixed augmented reality (AR) and VR experience, with a healthy dose of spatial computing thrown in. While Sulon CEO Dhan Balachand couldn’t…

By Nick Pino We gamers all have a point in our lives in which we want to become game designers. But expensive university programs, pesky unpaid internships and seemingly impossible-to-master material stop us from turning that one million-dollar idea into a tangible product. Thanks to Unity, soon, we won’t have such an easy excuse. The…

By Nick Pino We gamers all have a point in our lives in which we want to become game designers. But expensive university programs, pesky unpaid internships and seemingly impossible-to-master material stop us from turning that one million-dollar idea into a tangible product. Thanks to Unity, soon, we won’t have such an easy excuse. The…

By Kane Fulton Doom is back, and you’ll be able to dive into the Closed Beta on May 13 if you pre-purchased Wolfenstein: The New Order (or bought one of the physical copies that contained a code) prior to May 26, 2014. Those planning to play the gore-geous FPS on PC will need their rig…