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Valve reckons it has cracked the motion sickness problem that virtual reality headsets cause with a number of players. Boss Gabe Newell admitted to The New York Times that he’d reacted badly to previous demonstrations of VR tech, describing them as the world’s best motion sickness inducers”. However, the company’s …
Read More »Shadow of Mordor and Monument Valley recognised at GDC Awards
UK indie Ustwo Games was the biggest winners at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, with the studio picking up three accolades for its seminal mobile puzzle game Monument Valley. The game was recognised for Best Visual Art, Innovation, and Best Handheld/Mobile Game at last night’s awards ceremony in San …
Read More »Wasteland 2 also coming to PS4
Apocalyptic crowdfunded RPG Wasteland 2 is headed to PlayStation 4. The version hitting Sony’s hardware is a Game of the Year Edition. Developer InXile Entertainment took to the PlayStation Blog yesterday to break the news. The game is coming to PlayStation 4 thanks to Unity 5, which was released earlier …
Read More »AMD reveals new virtual reality tech LiquidVR
Graphics card manufacturer AMD has revealed its VR software development kit. The SDK is called LiquidVR and is designed to deal with some issues virtual reality has had thus far, including motion sickness. The way AMD is doing this is low-latency head tracking – in short ensuring that a player’s …
Read More »Nvidia reveals 12GB Titan X, shows off VR Desolation of Smaug ‘Thief’ demo
A brand new GeForce Titan graphics card has been announced by Nvidia. The company took to the GDC stage to reveal its Titan X, which packs a massive 12GB of video memory. Current high-end GPUs typically offer between 3GB and 6GB of VRAM. Little else is known about the specs, …
Read More »Opinion: GAME gamble on eSports is a safe bet
Any investment in eSports is often viewed as a risk. We have been here before with professional gaming. Pro-gaming organisations promote themselves aggressively, attract big investment, only for them to collapse and leave investors walking away with holes in their pockets. It’s perhaps why investment in this current eSports resurgence …
Read More »Wireless Xbox One controller support for PC coming ‘later this year’
Gamers will be able to use their wireless Xbox One controllers with their PCs later this year. Microsoft has revealed that it will be releasing an adaptor for the Xbox One gamepad so that it can be used wirelessly with PCs later this year. Taking to Xbox Wire, the firm …
Read More »Microsoft confirms Xbox One and Windows 10 cross-buy
Windows 10’s foray into gaming has taken another step with the confirmation that Microsoft will offer cross-buy with Xbox One. The system will work in much the same way as it does on PSN, where some games allow buyers to purchase the game on one system (either PS4, PS3 or …
Read More »Was GAME’s £20m Multiplay deal an astute purchase or an unnecessary risk?
‘Retail should get involved with eSports’. It’s a headline we’ve run several times in MCV over the last two years. The big eSports specialists believe that the High Street is its opportunity to turn pro-gaming from a niche (albeit widely watched) pastime, into something every gamer can participate in. GAME …
Read More »Minecraft creator Notch and Valve chief Gabe Newell make 2015 Forbes Rich List
The creator of Minecraft and the head of Valve now rank among the world’s most wealthy individuals. That’s according to Forbes’ 2015 list of the world’s billionaries. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is back at the top of the list, his pockets lined with a plush net worth of $79.2 billion. …
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