Familiar faces in familiar places reviewing a VR game James secretly takes a selfie with me at this year’s GDC. This is PC Gamer’s first review of a VR-exclusive game, but it’s not a review of the Oculus Rift itself—that will come later this week—so it assumes some familiarity and comfort with the hardware. As we...
The results Starting with image fidelity, things are pretty much as expected: Faster GPUs manage higher image fidelity. Both AMD and Nvidia fare similarly, at least based on price points, so the R9 Fury and R9 Nano square off against the GTX 980, R9 390 takes on GTX 970, and at the top we have...
We originally wrote a guide to preparing for VR last year, but with the Rift finally here, we’ve updated it with new information based on our time with both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. If you’ve ordered an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, your own personal headset may be rolling off a factory assembly...
An office-like environment from Crows Crows Crows’ first game, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist Dominik Johann Dominik Johann is an artist, animator, game developer, and one third of Crows Crows Crows. See more of his work here. PC Gamer: Why were you upset, Dom? Johann: So I’m the...
VR is the talk of the town right now, with all the major players set to ship devices at the end of the month. Wander around GDC and you couldn’t swing a cat without smacking someone wearing a VR headset in the noggin. With multiple VR options showing up, one of the questions we inevitably...
We used a lot of VR while we were at GDC 2016. It was the heart of the conference this year, and we’re rapidly approaching the day the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are available to anyone with money to burn. So we gathered to discuss what the main differences between the two are, and what could be deciding...
I’m sat on top of a castle looking over a gridded battlefield, with a menacing metal mask staring back at me from the fortress on the other side. Dragon Front, a free to play VR card game exclusive to the Oculus store, does a great job of making you feel more like the commander of an...
Nvidia Flow and Rigid Body Physics Besides the released libraries, some of which are available on GitHub with full source code (e.g., Volumetric Lighting), Nvidia has a couple new beta additions with the 3.2 SDK. The first is Nvidia Flow, slated to be integrated into Unreal Engine 4 in Q2 2016, and it’s an updated library...
This just in: I think I’m too much of a baby for horror games in VR. This afternoon I tried out the demo for Paranormal Activity: The Virtual Reality Game on a Vive, and in the few minutes it took to play I screamed out loud three times. Well I say screamed, but these were...
Crytek has released a new gameplay trailer for its VR mountain climbing sim The Climb, this one showcasing the game’s second location in the Alps. The new teaser shows off more in the way of gameplay than the announcement trailer posted late last year. The disembodied hands appear to have changed ever-so-slightly, and those route...
