A report by Cognizant says that technology is boosting learning and development (L&D) in the workplace. The report discusses innovation being constant in the information technology industry as it is continuously changing the way services are delivered to the business and to end users. The report states “From the mainframe era on to the Internet stage, we’re now experiencing...
Month: February 2017
GDC 2017: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on How we Get to Mass VR and AR Adoption
We’re not even one year into the release of the current crop of VR HMDs and mobile headsets, and while sales are in the millions, it’ll still be a while before every household has a VR device or every person walks around the city with AR-equipped glasses. So what will it take for VR and...
GDC: 2017: New VR Strategy Game Blade & Soul Table Arena From Ncsoft
The most memorable part of Blade & Soul Table Arena wasn’t the game itself — which is a lot like Dragon Front if it leaned toward real-time strategy more than a trading card game. Blade & Soul is a massively multiplayer online game that premiered in Korea from Ncsoft. This Table Arena game, though, is...
GDC 2017: Brass Tactics Combines Real-Time Strategy With Oculus Touch
The studio behind popular strategy games Age of Empires II and Defense Grid 2 VR (Review: 8/10) have found success in the genre before, but now Hidden Path Entertainment is developing a brand new title for VR headsets. We went hands-on with the new game, Brass Tactics, at GDC 2017 and found a fun new...
GDC 2017: Arktika.1 Shows Off Deep Story and Amazing VR Visuals
I’m cold. I can see the flurries of snow outside and the thin coat of ice on my hummer’s windshield and I feel cold. This wouldn’t be all that notable except for the fact that a moment ago I was feeling quite warm inside the busy Oculus demo hall at GDC 2017. But I’ve been transported...
GDC 2017: Killing Floor: Incursion Lets You Dis-Arm Zombies And Then Beat Them With It
If I ever am forced to live through and eventually die during the zombie apocalypse, then I will look fondly back on games like Killing Floor: Incursion by Tripwire Interactive as adequate methods of survival training. While not the most realistic experience in the world, I still certainly feel like all of the gore and...
‘From Other Suns’ is an ‘FTL’ Inspired Co-op VR FPS for Rift & Gear VR That’s Different Every Time You Play
Reaching back to an earlier time in gaming, Chronos was an unforgiving third-person action adventure game that launched alongside the Rift. Inspired by FTL (2012) developer Gunfire Games is now applying their lauded old-school game design principles to new-school game tech, with a procedurally generated ‘rougelike’ that lets up to three players experience a galaxy full of...
GDC 2017: Landfall Team’s Next Game is Term1nal – A Stealthy Gear VR Adventure
I’ve always wanted to be a hacker. No, not a boring, real life hacker that has to spend hours writing competent code and squashing bugs. I want to be the kind of hacker that types fast and breaks the firewall all while wearing sunglasses and a black leather jacket. Fortunately for me, that’s the exact kind...
GDC 2017: Here’s Every New Game Oculus Announced Today
Oculus has said before that 2017 is all about content for its VR headsets, and it sure proved it today. As part of its showcase for this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), the company revealed a slate of new titles heading to both the Oculus Rift and Gear VR in the coming year. There’s a...
GDC 2017: From Other Suns is a Procedurally Generated Multiplayer Starship Simulator
From Other Suns, a brand new VR title by Gunfire Games, draws heavy inspiration from several existing concepts and combines them all together, effortlessly, into a fresh and shiny package. It’s got the ship and crew management of games like Star Trek: Bridge Crew and FTL, it’s got the cooperative first-person shooter elements of games like...