Hardware

Unlike the Oculus Rift S, the Oculus Quest doesn’t technically want a PC in an effort to play VR games. Instead, it’s a standalone VR headset that you would be able to play utterly wire-free with out having an awesome massive gaming PC at your disposal. Naturally, this implies it’s not fairly as highly effective...

In this present age of social distancing, ensuring you’ve obtained the most effective gaming headset for enjoying games on-line along with your mates has by no means been extra necessary. Not solely does a headset give your PC a giant increase within the audio division, however its built-in microphone means you possibly can simply discuss...

When Oculus launched their unique Rift headset again in 2016, I used to be a kind of individuals who was firmly within the HTC Vive camp. Back then, I simply couldn’t see the attraction. The Rift didn’t do correct room-scale VR, it didn’t include any movement controllers, and it was simply as a lot of...

Buying a brand new gaming CPU is usually one of many greatest and most time-consuming upgrades you are able to do in your PC, as you’ll in all probability should re-build the whole factor from scratch in case your PC’s greater than a few years outdated. However, upgrading to one in every of at this...

As we put together to enter one other spherical of lockdown enjoyable occasions, not less than there are nonetheless bucketloads of PC gaming offers to assist preserve us occupied. Indeed, this week’s roundup of greatest PC gaming offers is (yet one more) bumper crop of tasty financial savings, together with the very best costs on...

As inventory ranges proceed to plummet because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the variety of finest graphics card offers is a bit on the skinny facet this week, particularly should you’re seeking to bag your self an excellent Nvidia graphics card deal. The excellent news, although, is that there are nonetheless a great deal of...

When HTC first introduced that their new Vive Cosmos headset had a modular faceplate design that will allow you to replace it for “different VR needs in the future“, it wasn’t completely clear what these wants would really entail. Would it’s the faceplate equal of their Vive Tracker doodad for bringing real-world objects in VR?...

Your gaming mouse might be one of the vital private bits of package you’ll ever purchase in your PC, so changing your favorite and greatest gaming mouse when it lastly bites the mud will be proper previous chore generally, particularly if it’s an previous mannequin you may’t purchase anymore. The excellent news is that there...

I see you PC avid gamers trying longingly at your Nintendo Switch wishing it was a tiny, miniature gaming PC. I do know I do, and that’s partly why I’m hopeful / excited / vaguely optimistic about Dell’s Alienware UFO doodad, which they unveiled earlier within the 12 months. But whereas the UFO was only...

VR headsets have at all times been fairly an costly proposition for lots of people. Oculus could have been slowly driving down the worth of VR over the past couple of years with their PC-based Rift S headset and standalone Oculus Quest, however HTC’s Vive headsets have remained firmly on the greater, extra prohibitive finish...