Category: Hardware

Virtual Air Guitar interview – motion control and virtual reality

Amidst all the talk about Virtual Reality headsets, Virtual Reality controllers and (upcoming) Virtual Reality games, we’re forgetting that there is an overall trend that we’ve seen pop up for about ten years now. That trend is, of course, the changes we’re seeing in the way we’re interacting with games. Virtual Reality is, for now at least, quite a complex and expensive way to change your game experience, and we’ll see how the general public takes to it. Meanwhile, we talked to Virtual Air Guitar’s Aki Kanerva about a trend that is much more mainstream already: motion gaming. Continue reading “Virtual Air Guitar interview – motion control and virtual reality”

Roccat Kiro review

The market for gaming mice exploded a couple of years ago, with companies like Razer, Logitech, Steelseries and Roccat all releasing mice that were focused on the serious pc gamer. DPI values kept getting pushed higher and higher – pretty much to the point where the vast majority of games didn’t even experience any difference anymore. Another popular addition was the inclusion of programmable buttons and macros, allowing even the most complex control schemes to be mapped onto a single mouse (albeit with a ton of buttons). Continue reading “Roccat Kiro review”

OculusVR interview

We recently sat down with OculusVR founder Palmer Luckey and VP Product Nate Mitchell to discuss what’s coming up for the Oculus Rift, what the main challenges are in terms of the upcoming consumer version of the popular virtual reality headset and how they feel about others jumping onto the VR bandwagon. Here’s our report. Continue reading “OculusVR interview”

HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset review

The HyperX Cloud is the first entry in the headset market for Kingston’s gaming brand, and it’s an impressive first step that checks off a lot of boxes in terms of what we look for in a good headset. Read on to find out why we are looking forward to what HyperX might do next. Continue reading “HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset review”