It’s not as fully featured as the Oculus Quest, the best VR headset for most people (in terms of bang-for-buck), but it’s one of the least expensive ways to experience VR. In comparison, the Oculus Quest is also a standalone headset, but with more powerful hardware and better tracking capabilities (6DoF). More recently, Facebook updated the Oculus Quest to support a PC connection cable for playing regular Rift games. Because of that, you will be able to play Half-Life: Alyx on the Oculus Quest,

Kingpin: Life of Crime was a heck of a shooter. Later this year it will get another shot at fame as Kingpin Reloaded, a “remastered, enhanced” version of the game in the works at 3D Realms. Kingpin Reloaded will support 4K and ultrawide displays, in classic and “enhanced” modes—you can compare the difference in a couple of images embedded below. 3D Realms’ Kingpin Reloaded page says the game will also offer a “No Violence” mode, if you wanted to do that for some reason. Meanwhile, if you just ca

In case you missed it, Nvidia on Thursday officially slashed the price of its GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition to $299 in an obvious attempt to steal some thunder from AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 5600 XT launch. I’ll get to the rumor in a moment, but let’s go over the specifications of the 5600 XT. With those specs in tow, AMD claims the RX 5600 XT is faster than Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, both of which are priced at $279. While AMD is still showing the slower clocks on its website, Sapphire, a

Over at Walmart, you can score an Evoo Gaming laptop with a 17.3-inch 1080p 144Hz display, GeForce RTX 2060, and Core i7-9750H for $999. So it’s relatively thin and light for a gaming laptop, especially a 17.3-inch model. That’s a good start, but it’s the overall value for the assortment of hardware that makes this system stand out from the pack. Evoo Gaming didn’t slack on the rest of the build either, save perhaps the 1920×1080 resolution (which is still a good choice for RTX 2060 gaming). It

There’s never been a better time to be obsessed with strategy games on PC, unless you have the misfortune to carry a torch for real-time strategy. That’s when things got really exciting, beginning a rivalry between the two studios that would give us what are still considered some of the greatest PC games of all time, from Command & Conquer to StarCraft. More experiments would follow, like Total Annihilation’s unbelievable scale and Age of Empire’s mashup of Civilization and real-time strategy. I

(Image credit: leafthief)All you need for Christmas is good company, and A Good Tree (maybe). You’re only lacking the latter, which you’ll set off in search of, from your snowy forest home. So play in the original, tiny resolution, if you can stand it (or who knows, maybe it will work properly on your computer). If you’ve a few free moments though, and you’re still feeling Christmassy, I think it’s worth a play. You’re trying to find a suitable Christmas tree, and to do this you’ll need to make

It’s been a while since we heard any news about Baldur’s Gate 3, the much-anticipated follow-up to what is widely considered one of the best RPGs of all time. We may not have long to wait now, though, as developer Larian Studios (of Divnity: Original Sin fame) is teasing that something is coming on Thursday, February 27. The teaser doesn’t show anything of the game itself, but it does show some of the work that’s gone into creating it. Motion capture sessions, artists at work and on-location rec

(Image credit: Nomada Studio)Three new games will join the Xbox Game Pass for PC roster soon, growing an already large catalogue of more than 150 games. Gris, A Plague Tale: Innocence and Children of Morta are the new additions, and while it’s likely they’ll roll out some time this month, Microsoft wasn’t forthcoming with a date. All three are a decent time: A Plague Tale: Innocence fared best under scrutiny, with our reviewer writing that it’s “visually beautiful and emotionally affecting” even

At the game awards in December, The Elder Scrolls Online debuted a teaser trailer putting a pin in last year’s adventures in Elsweyr and teasing this year’s new excursion to Skyrim. The snow and ice will have an extra bite, it turns out, because Western Skyrim has a vampire problem. Despite The Elder Scrolls V permanently linking Skyrim with dragons in our minds, ESO just got done with those particular baddies in Elsweyr. The next year of ESO is officially called Dark Heart Of Skyrim, spread out

(Image credit: Humble Bundle)The folks at Humble Bundle are raising funds for animal charities in Australia through sales of the big Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle. The bundle will be available for one week and goes for $25, which you can divide between the three charities as you see fit. If you want, you can kick in more—the top contributor so far, Furd, paid $501 for the package. The fires have also destroyed nearly six million hectares of bush, decimating animal habitats. Other developer

The RTX 2060 is Nvidia’s cheapest graphics card capable of ray tracing, and originally launched a year ago for an MSRP of $350 (though it was difficult to find a 2060 at that price for a while). An upgraded model was released in mid-2019 for $400, the RTX 2060 Super, and now Nvidia has officially lowered the price of the regular RTX 2060 to $299. The first evidence of the price drop came last week, when EVGA released two new RTX 2060 cards at CES, one of which was priced at just $280. Now Nvidia

Horace is an unpredictable platformer with a narrative bent and plenty of mechanical twists. It’s not what it always seems, but to find out more you’ll need to take it for a spin yourself. Thankfully, it’s free on the Epic Games Store for a week. Here’s Dominic Tarason’s take on why this weird platformer is more than worth a look:Six hours into Horace and after several genre shifts, I officially gave up trying to predict what this narrative-driven adventure was hiding up its sleeve next. You can

And now here comes Bonfire Peaks, with more things to climb. The announcement trailer, above, doesn’t give much away, but Martin says it’s an open-world affair about climbing ruins and setting fire to your belongings. Attachment is the theme, apparently, and you’ll be able to “indulge your feelings” as you clamber over the ruins. More practically, you’ll be picking stuff up, plonking stuff down and creating paths so you can eventually toss stuff in the titular bonfires. You’ll be able to get in

A startup has built what it claims is the “world’s first true smart contact lens” with an embedded display that would bring augmented reality experiences closer to your eyeball than ever before. The company is called Mojo Vision, and its Mojo Lens is the culmination of over a decade of research, development, and patent filings (it’s racked up over 100 patents to date). Having a functioning, built-in display in a contact lens is obviously an achievement, but Mojo Vision also claims it is the smal

AMD is pushing out a new Adrenalin driver (20.1.2) for its Radeon graphics cards, and if you happen to own a 5700 series model, you should check it out. According to the release notes, it addresses an issue that causes intermittent reboots when the PC is left idling on the desktop. AMD pushed out a larger GPU update last week containing over two dozen bug fixes, and optimized code for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. Beyond that, AMD’s driver team squeezed in some optimizations for Dragon Ball Z:

It launched in November 2019 in not-quite-stellar shape, bought a studio, added achievements, and then, well, that’s pretty much it. It wasn’t the most auspicious start to a potentially revolutionary new gaming technology, but bigger things are planned for 2020, including a significant expansion of its game library. “Looking at our upcoming lineup, we are tracking more than 120 games coming to Stadia in 2020, and are targeting more than ten games in the first half of this year alone that will be

The Overwatch Lunar New Year event is back for 2020, celebrating the Year of the Rat with a new game mode called CTF Blitz. Weekly challenges are back for the LNY event, giving players the opportunity to win a trio of Epic skins by winning nine games per week over the three weeks of the event. Cosmetics from previous Lunar New Year events will also be available for purchase with Coins, at a discounted price. The Overwatch Lunar New Year event for 2020 is live now (or will be very soon, depending

The latter are typically more expensive, though right now you can snag Corsair’s K68 RGB mechanical keyboard $84.99 on Newegg and type in style. This particular version uses Cherry MX Red key switches. Cherry MX Reds are also on the quieter side, especially compared to Cherry MX Blue switches. Corsair K68 RGB Mechanical Keyboard | Cherry MX Red | $84.99 (save $35)This is an excellent gaming keyboard that uses Cherry MX Red key switches for a relatively quiet and smooth typing experience. View De

Over the last two years, mindfulness and mental health apps have skyrocketed in popularity. Self-care and mental health apps have become a viable market for business as more people are investing time in their mental wellbeing. Developed by Zachtronics, Eliza explores a future where digital therapy and e-counseling are an accessible and on-demand service available to everyone. But, like with many real-world mental health technologies, there is something else beneath the surface. It was revealed t

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s latest update has unlocked a bunch of cosmetic bonuses that were previously only available to players who took a chance on preordering Cal and company’s planet-hopping misadventure. Jedi: Fallen Order lightsaber colours are more important to the Star Wars universe than character development, so most exciting of the bunch is the orange lightsaber crystal, which looks more yellow to me, honestly. Fallen Order has been out for a couple of months now, so anyone who pre