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Virtual reality is finally here, with the Oculus Rift shipping to its first customers earlier this week and the HTC Vive coming on April 5. To make sure everything works as it should, the graphics card manufacturers have put out VR ready drivers. Nvidia has put out its GeForce Game Ready 364.72 WHQL drivers that are optimized...

Pollen—officially P.O.L.L.E.N., but we’ll be sticking with the more conventional styling—is a first-person alt-history sci-fi exploration game that drops players into the middle of a “mysterious, mind-bending situation” on the Saturnian moon of Titan. It’s coming to Steam on April 20, and also to the Oculus Rift as a “near-final VR beta,” and the video above...

Happy Lies Day, everybody! Hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful day of lies. It’s time to bring the festivities to an end, however, and settle in for a weekend of extremely serious and definitely happening digital sports. CS:GO is hosting the week’s highest-profile clash, but there’s plenty of LoL, Dota 2, Smite and fighting to go...

NEED TO KNOW What is it? A beautiful, challenging action RPG.Expect to pay £15/$20Developer Heart MachinePublisher In-houseReviewed on GeForce GTX 970, Intel i7-5820K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoneLink Official site The drifter, a mute warrior draped in a red cloak and wielding a sword made of light, is an enigma. He roams a broken landscape searching for...

The Doom closed multiplayer beta is underway. Right now thousands of helmeted space marines are spamming rockets at each other across rivers of blood and lava. Occasionally, one of them stands on a rune and turns into a hellbeast. It’s kinetic and bloody, but is it any good? Tom and Phil have put in a few...

In keeping with April 1 tradition, the Super Adventure Box has returned to Guild Wars 2, but with a twist: this year, it’s the Super Adventure Festival. The Festival incorporates Worlds 1 and 2 of the retro platformer-themed Adventure Box in Normal, Infantile and Tribulation modes, Super Adventure furniture for guild halls, orange SAB weapon skins and a...

Real immersion If there’s been one area of gaming that’s been overlooked for years, it’s been audio. We’ve been hard at work trying to bring greater awareness to audio recently, and it’s more important now than ever. End users are now getting their hands on the Rift and Vive VR headsets, and it’s only a matter of time...

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture has at last been confirmed for PC after a long stint on PS4. We suspected it was on its way: the first hint was Rapture’s appearance in a SteamDB listing—an entry that was updated as time wore on. All but confirming things, a recent AMD Radeon driver update listed Rapture support. Now we have...

The biggest event in the Dota calendar looms once again. Tickets for The International 2016 will go on sale April 7 at 10am PT and 10pm PT (April 7 at 6PM BST and April 8 at 6AM BST) ahead of the main event at Seattle’s KeyArena August 8-13. This year there are two ticketing options: the Midweek ticket gets...

Welcome to your April 1 coverage, where nothing is true and I’m wondering why I showed up to work. That said, I feel safe sharing news of Atlas Reactor’s open alpha with you—because it started yesterday. Atlas reactor is a tough one to explain, but exciting in concept. It’s Overwatch meets XCOM, but definitely neither of those things. Imagine...