VR

  • Edge of Nowhere Launch Trailer

    Insomniac Games, the studio behind Ratchet & Clank, have released a trailer for their third-person Acton-adventure VR game Edge of Nowhere. Edge of Nowhere - Launch TrailerWatch this video on YouTube   The game will follow Victor Howard, as he searches for his fiancé, Ava Thorne, who is part of a...
  • Say Goodbye to Tethered VR

    MSI, the Taiwanese information technology corporation, have seemingly taken the prospect of VR very seriously. At the 2016 Computex Conference MSI unveiled a VR capable PC backpack. The fully functioning gaming PC has been fitted inside a laptop form factor which allows it to sit inside this rather fetching backpack. Ultimately this means...
  • E3 Is More Important Than Ever

    Most of us look forward to E3 every year but this years is looking to be even more important than ever. In 2016 we aren’t just expecting to find out the general layout of all the big games for the year ahead, we’re expecting to hear about so much...
  • Steam Might Love The Neo

    As many of you will know, especially if you listen to the Out of the Xfire podcast, I am firmly against the idea of “Upgradable Consoles”. The rumours surrounding Sony and the PS4.5/PS4K/PS4 Neo are a worrying sign for me as a console gamer. I’m sure you are all...
  • Gran Turismo Sport Set For November Release (Trailer)

    Today at a London conference Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi announced the newest entry into the Gran Turismo series will release on November 15th in the US and November 18th in the UK and Europe.   A few details about the game were also released at the conference. It was...
  • Playstation VR Can Wait

    Hear me moan, PlayStation-VR It happened at 9pm on a Tuesday. We were wrapping up Episode 14 of the Out of the X Fire Podcast when Andrew House took to the stage to reveal PlayStation VR’s price and release date. I watched the event unfold on my phone, thanks...
  • 2016 In Gaming – VR, eSports and The Evolution of Streaming

    Originally posted by Sofia Hariz While 2015 will be a tough year to beat in terms of the magnitude of excellent games, 2016 in games will provide not only new ways to play games, but show the rest of the world that video games are here to stay. 2015...
  • The Financial Reality of Virtual Reality

    Hear me moan, On this week’s Out of the Xfire Podcast we discussed the price of Sony’s PS VR. The price of the Oculus Rift was recently revealed, coming in at $599 (£499), which was subsequently followed by a leak that the PS VR would cost even more –...
  • An Interesting Conversation with my Dad

    I was talking to my dad recently – we’ve just moved house and bought a new TV for the living room – about the poor quality of the built in speakers. Perhaps I could start buying him a surround sound system piece by piece for Christmas and birthdays for...