Valve’s handheld PC and most successful Steam Machine to date is wrapping up its Q2 2022 reservation fulfillment today and will be moving on the Q3 preorders starting next week. The devices will also be manufactured at an increased pace, so those who thought they might have to wait a while longer to pick one […]Read More
Valve Steam Deck designer, Lawrence Yang, regarding an SSD mod that came to light recently. We reported on the mod itself last week, which saw one Deck owner (Decker?) replace the original 2230-size SSD with a more readily available 2242-size drive. Yang responded via Twitter suggesting that the charge IC itself gets rather toasty and […]Read More
Metaverse Standards Forum, which will “foster interoperability standards for an open metaverse.” Unlike the relatively straightforward job of setting a minimum PC specification, this group will not create standards for the metaverse, presumably because nobody really knows exactly what the hell the metaverse is at this point. They are very excited for it, though, and […]Read More
patent application made by Valve in December 2021 has surfaced, as of June 16, and in it, there appear plans for a new VR headset that could form the basis of a standalone unit. This is a patent application, so it's no guarantee that such a headset exists, or will exist, although it does highlight […]Read More
Quest 2 is hanging right next to my monitor, and I've almost finished Half-Life: Alyx just two years after launch. Yet I am far from convinced in the metaverse as a tangible concept in my lifetime. And that hasn't changed despite Zuckerberg's recent attempts to prove just how far along Meta is in its quest […]Read More
Overwatch 2 is preparing for launch. But it's taking off in an entirely different landscape to its predecessor, one filled with games that took what the original Overwatch did and ran with it. We now live in a world where Battlefield, Quake and even Counter-Strike sport distinct characters, either replacing or supplementing previously nameless stock […]Read More
Bethesda will be making Fallout 5. That's pretty tough for Fallout fans to get excited about because development won't start until “after” The Elder Scrolls 6, which itself is still mostly likely several years down the road. Meaning we might see Fallout 5… sometime after 2030? You can't really get stoked for something that's probably […]Read More
working in distraction free, virtual environments could be the future. But as it stands today, researchers say, working in virtual reality is not only more overwhelming and frustrating, it doesn't rank as highly for usability or productivity as we might've been lead to believe. The paper, 'Quantifying the Effects of Working in VR for One […]Read More
June 10, 2022 See more Keep in mind that these shots come from pretty early development stages, but there could indeed be some brighter spaces emerging in the dankness of Castle Wolfenstein thanks to the new techniques Wijetunga is utilising. Wolf PT will be based on the open-source iortcw engine, although it'll be coming with […]Read More
FMPONE), animator and G-Man meme generator Corey Laddo, and other volunteer modders, animators, and voice actors. This free new campaign is a DLC-sized action adventure that will last between 4-5 hours. As shown at the PC Gaming Show, here's a seven-minute single-take gameplay trailer that looks just as exciting and polished as the actual game. […]Read More
