Megaton Rainfall PS4/PSVR review

The sense of flying is one of the most amazing experiences you can have in virtual Reality. Be it soaring around the globe in Google Earth VR, flying an Iroquois helicopter across the Nevada desert in DCS, or even dogfighting in space with Eve Valkyrie, departing terra firma is exhilarating.

You can add the PlayStation VR title, Megaton Rainfall to this list. Casting the player as a super-powered protector of the Earth, this is the closest that you’ll get right now to a full-on VR Superman simulator. Continue reading Megaton Rainfall PS4/PSVR review

The Invisible Hours PSVR review

The Invisible Hours is an interesting one. It’s not really a game, it’s more like a piece of interactive theatre.

On purchasing your ticket, you enter an old-style movie theatre and walk to your box. As you begin you are transported to a jetty, as a bearded fellow disembarks a small boat and makes his way up some steps, through the rain, towards a house perched on top of what is a small island. Continue reading The Invisible Hours PSVR review

Hands-on review: Edifier Spinnaker e30 Multimedia Speakers

Speaker designs tend to follow function over form. Sure, you can get them in hipster-friendly wooden boxes or, if so inclined, a more industrial metallic finish, but they still all look like speakers.

Browsing through the Edifier website in order to take up their offer of reviewing “whatever you like”, the e30 Spinnaker speakers really stood out. Whilst there’s no mistaking that they are speakers, they are not trying to be a vase or some sort of modernist art piece, but they do look rather striking. Continue reading Hands-on review: Edifier Spinnaker e30 Multimedia Speakers

PC Gaming gets supersized

At CES in Las Vegas NVIDIA have just announced the introduction of the big format gaming displays, AKA BFGDs.

Created in conjunction with NVIDIA hardware partners Acer, ASUS and HP, BFGDs integrate a high-end 65-inch, 4K 120Hz HDR display with NVIDIA G-SYNC technology together with the NVIDIA SHIELD streaming device. This combination delivers a buttery-smooth gaming experiences for PC gaming and media streaming applications — all on a giant screen. Continue reading PC Gaming gets supersized

South Park: The Fractured but Whole PS4 review

For the second South Park game Ubisoft switches developer from veteran adventure game outfit, Obsidian, to an in-house team calling on the publisher’s studios dotted around the globe.

If ever there’s was a cartoon series befitting a video game it is South Park. The retro animation has a charm that translates perfectly. Add to that the TV show’s biting no-holds-barred humour and you’ve a video game experience that is quite unique. Continue reading South Park: The Fractured but Whole PS4 review

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