Virtual Reality- I can’t even say it without thinking about some early-1990s spandex-suit wearing cheesy vision of the future. But finally, it seems, after loads of false starts, VR is here.I’ve been wanting to writing about virtual reality for a while now. This first part of a three-part series is a collection of thoughts and … Continue Reading ››
NVIDIA has added the GeForce GTX 1060 to its family of Pascal gaming GPUs, joining the previously released GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphical powerhouses.The GTX 1060 delivers GTX 980-level performance whilst consuming only 120 watts of power. The new card can easily drive all the latest VR and DirectX 11/12 PC games.The GTX 1060 … Continue Reading ››
I return to the world of Warhammer, over twenty-five years after last playing the now legendary table-top fantasy role-playing game with Total War: Warhammer.When I first played the real-time strategy game, Shogun: Total War, way back in 2000, it reminded me of the childhood table-top battles I used to play using tiny metal Citadel Miniatures.The … Continue Reading ››
I remember, years ago, at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, seeing a futuristic home where everything is automated. Whilst the technology has been available for a while, it’s ever been quite so easy, and cheap to set up in your home as it is now.All you need is home wi-fi network and an Apple … Continue Reading ››
Wargaming.net is famous for its free-to-play historic military battle games World of Tanks and World of Warships. In the pursuit of historical accuracy, the publisher has also been involved in the recovery and preservation of classic military hardware.The game publisher recently permanently loaned an Australian AC1 tank, that they purchased and imported from the USA, … Continue Reading ››
April sees the arrival of Codemasters’ Dirt Rally on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In anticipation, the award-winning publisher put their money where their mouth is and set out to prove to me just how close their rally game is to the real thing.I’ve been playing Dirt Rally on PC since the game’s early access … Continue Reading ››
Wargaming.net, famous for it’s free-to-play World of Tanks games on console, tablet and PC as well as World of Warships on PC has just delivered a real tank to the Australian Armour & Artillery Museum in Cairns.The veteran games developer has shipped the Australian Cruiser Tank Mark 1 (AC1) from Texas, USA, to its new … Continue Reading ››
Project CARS, a game that is possibly the best all-round road racing game available at the moment, gets another iconic Kiwi upgrade.Following last year’s inclusion of Ruapuna Park, the Stanceworks DLC pack adds Kiwi Mad Mike Whiddett’s MX-5 RadBul Formula Drift to the game.The new DLC pack also includes the KTM X-Bow R and the … Continue Reading ››
