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New Dead Space 3 Story Trailer & PC System Requirements

Dead Space 3 PC System Requirements

In this Dead Space 3 trailer Issac Clarke returns for the 3rd game in the Dead Space series… now coming to PC. In this one he’s back with John Carver for Co-Opertaive Dead Space play. This game will introduce several features to the series including online co-op play, new environments/planet, and a new cover system. This new trailer shows a few mysteries to be revealed in Visceral Games’ [ 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... ]

Remember the Linking Book from Myst? This guy made one.

We all should remember Myst. Back in its day it was the highest selling game of all time, and for quite a while at that. Inside the game you come across various foreign and unusual technologies, one of which is the “Linking Book” (You can see it in this gameplay video). It allowed people to record video messages so that others could view them later. It … [ Read More... ]