Collaborate Disseminate
DarkRookie2 shares a report from Ars Technica: After a seemingly endless run of rumors, the news Halo fans have been waiting for is here: the series is finally coming back to PC, and in pretty big fashion. Halo: The Master Chief Collection will arrive … Continue reading Halo: Master Chief Collection Is Finally Confirmed For PC, Will Include Reach
MojoKid writes: Gaming enthusiasts and pro-gamers have believed for a long time that playing on high refresh rates displays with high frame rates offers a competitive edge in fast-action games like PUBG, Fortnite and Apex Legends. The premise is, the f… Continue reading Study Shows Gamers At High FPS Have Better Kill-To-Death Ratios In Battle Royale Games
In first-person games, an effective way to heighten immersion is to give the player a sense of impact and force by figuratively shaking the camera. That’s a tried and true practice for FPS games played on a monitor, but to [Zulubo]’s knowledge, no one has implemented traditional screen shake in a VR title because it would be a sure way to trigger motion sickness. Unsatisfied with that limitation, some clever experimentation led [Zulubo] to a method of doing screen shake in VR that doesn’t cause any of the usual problems.
Screen shake doesn’t translate well to VR because the traditional …read more
An anonymous reader quotes Newsweek:
The makers of PUBG sent down the banhammer Thursday afternoon in a ban wave believed to iimpact more than 30,000 fraudulent player accounts. What PUBG Corp likely didn’t expect, however, was that its new security me… Continue reading Videogame PUBG Bans 30,000 Cheaters, Discovers Professional Players Cheated
An anonymous reader writes:
In just the last 35 weeks, one online divorce site received over 200 petitions citing addiction to Fortnite and other online games as one of the reasons someone wanted a divorce. “[T]he dawn of the digital revolution has int… Continue reading Addiction To Fortnite Cited In Over 200 Divorce Petitions
“Almost 25 years after it was released, Doom 2 has finally given up its last secret…” writes Polygon. An anonymous reader quotes their report:
It’s secret No. 4 on Map 15 (Industrial Zone). Now, the area in question has been known, seen and accessed… Continue reading After 24 Years Doom 2’s Last Secret Has Finally Been Discovered
Long-time Slashdot reader t0qer writes: In the early days of PC gaming, there was 3 major titles. Doom, Duke Nukem, and Descent. Descent was the first game to have true 3D environments and enemies, whereas Doom/Duke was considered “2.5D.” Even though D… Continue reading ‘Descent’ Creators Reunite For a New Game Called ‘Overload’
15 years after the beach invasion level in ‘Medal of Honor: Allied Assault,’ Call of Duty’s version is much worse. Continue reading The Normandy Level in ‘Call of Duty: WWII’ Shows How Far the Shooter Has Fallen
An anonymous reader quotes the Atlantic:
As far as video games go, Operation Overmatch is rather unremarkable. Players command military vehicles in eight-on-eight matches against the backdrop of rendered cityscapes — a common setup of games that somet… Continue reading Thousands of Videogame-Playing Soldiers Could Shape the Future of War
The new anti-cheating system installed in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been banning more than 6,000 suspected cheaters every day. An anonymous reader quotes PC Gamer:
That’s according to BattlEye, which polices the game’s servers. Its official acc… Continue reading PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Blocks 322,000 Cheaters