If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad, we’ve got some bad news. PC gaming giant Valve says Apple has rejected its Steam Link app, meaning it may not appear on the App Store after all. (It’s available in beta on Android right now.) Valve says that Apple actually …
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After a long lull, this is turning out to be a big year for cloud gaming. Nvidia’s GeForce Now is still in beta but going strong, and now Valve is extending Steam’s in-home game-streaming capability to iOS and Android devices that connect to the same network as the host system. The Steam Link app, which Valve plans to launch the …
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HTC doesn’t call it an NES Zapper. It’s technically a “Hyper Blaster.” But you know what it looks like. It’s the rebirth of Nintendo’s old light gun. Sort of. In this case, it’s more of a motion-controlled VR gun accessory, almost like Sony’s PlayStation VR Aim. I held it in my hand. Yep, it feels just like I remembered. Except …
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LG looks like another upcoming player in the VR landscape. LG is developing a VR head-mounted display, Valve said in a release Monday. A prototype of the headset will be demonstrated at Valve’s booth at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco this week. LG experimented with VR in a pair of mobile goggles about a year ago, but the …
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Microsoft‘s HoloLens headset isn’t a toy. There’s no release date for a consumer version, and the current oh-so-limited-but-awesome development kit costs US $3,000 a pop. And yet, I’ve never wanted to play with a HoloLens more. That’s because Toronto developer Kenny Wang figured out a way to use the HoloLens to bring Portal to the real world. Portal, in case …
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