Movies For Gamers: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Movies For Gamers is a section of BabysoftMurderhands.com where we post and discuss a trailer for a classic cult movie. The movies we select will hopefully be movies that gamers will love too. And of course, if you haven’t seen it, we’ll give you a link to get it.

Movies for Gamers Shaun of the Dead poster

Following last weeks zombie movie, this week we’ve got Shaun of the Dead! Shaun of the Dead is a unique … [ Read More... ]

Cover Art: Heretic (PC)

Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy. 

From the Publisher of DOOM” and a rating of “Violence“. Those were selling points in 1994. While those things were both true, the Raven Software developed Heretic certainly didn’t need to rely on those things.

Heretic Box Cover Art DOS

Heretic is a fantasy … [ Read More... ]

Abrash Discusses VR & AR Latency while Oculus Pushes Forward

Michael Abrash Palmer Luckey VR HMD

Michael Abrash, literally a genius programmer, recently posted on his blog at Valve regarding some of his VR (virtual reality) & AR (augmented reality) research. It’s chock-full of ideas and thoughts about the obstacles to overcome with VR/AR controller latency. That is making your control in the game world as instant and natural as it would be in real life. He says that even having controls be 99% accurate … [ Read More... ]

HTML5 Port of the Classic RTS Dune II Plays Right In Your Browser

Good news for you cheap gamers out there, Russian programmer Aleksander Guryanov has ported the RTS PC DOS classic Dune II right to your browser. He made it happen with HTML5 and Javascript so you can play it in basically any modern browser and even most mobile phone/tablet browsers. It’s based on the OpenDune project, which was originally created to port the original Dune II game to modern computers as … [ Read More... ]