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The virtual reality market might be opening up to a wider audience than first believed. Both Steam’s HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift have named the Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD 290 as the recommended cards for VR on PC. However, neither has yet specified their minimum requirements. And with …
Read More »VIDEO: ILMxLab unveils Star Wars VR experiment for HTC Vive
Trials on Tatooine is the first official lightsaber simulator in virtual reality. We wonder if it will be popular…
Read More »Dota’s next Manila Major announced as Shanghai continues to disappoint, baffle
Valve have announced details of the next stop on their seasonal Majors tour, with Manila’s Mall of Asia playing host to a second Dota 2 tournament of the year. The Manila Major will take place over June 7-12, two months after ESL One Manila hosts another premier Dota tournament in …
Read More »VR Wars: Which headset is best for devs?
The first wave of VR headsets isn’t even on shelves and yet developers are already spoilt for choice. Develop gets a grip on virtual reality’s many contenders with the help of Oculus VR’s Jason Rubin, Valve’s Chet Faliszek, PlayStation’s Simon Benson and Razer’s Jeevan Aurol
Read More »Devs called out for allegedly purchasing positive Steam reviews
Just1337, D3DGear and Microids among the studios accused of paying as little as $5 for good coverage on work-for-hire websites such as Fiverr
Read More »Steam introduces dynamic pricing on bundles
Online PC digital retail giant Steam is changing up how its pricing for bundles works. According to official documentation sent from Steam to developers – obtained by PCGamesN – the retailer is automatically giving buyers a discount on bundle pricing if consumers already own some of the games in a …
Read More »Valve’s Dota Shanghai Major woes continue at the main event
After a remarkable group stages-for all the wrong reasons-Valve’s flagship Major series of Dota 2 tournaments has run into further delays and production issues. In an opening gambit last week, Majors host James “2GD” Harding made a series of jokes about disabled pornography and Chinese government censorship leading eventually to …
Read More »HTC Vive virtual reality headset priced at £689 in the UK
A second VR headset now has an official UK price. HTC has announced how the $800 it is charging for Vive in the US will translate on this side of the pond. The number it has produced? 689. By today’s exchange rate $800 is worth about 576, so that’s a …
Read More »Windows Store downloads lack some features of Steam equivalents
Customers who buy products such as Rise of The Tomb Raider on Microsoft’s Windows Store as opposed to rival services such as Steam aren’t getting exactly the same game. That’s according to How-To Geek which reports that differences between how purchases are delivered result in the Windows Store version missing …
Read More »Valve beautifies Counter-Strike: GO visuals with new lighting and shaders
Super sampling for displacement surfaces, cascade shadow maps, phong specular highlights and map blending among graphical improvements made to shooter
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