
PSVR made me fall in love with gaming
My childhood was reasonably disrupted – as an adult, I realise all my grown-ups were doing the best they could, but if we’re honest they were very flawed individuals. I was a very smart kid who, through living circumstances became…

AMD Are Back, Baby!
Back when I was coming up, unless you were wealthy you used an AMD Athlon as your CPU – if you were smart, you plugged it into a motherboard with an nVidia chipset. There was something about this combination that…

DiRT VR
Some games are just too damn hard. You end up spending your life feeling sad that you bought them. Sometimes that difficulty-curve is exactly why the game exists, and the developers are proud of that. DiRT Rally is one of…

Eagle Flight (VR)
Most developers are having problems adapting to VR and the dross they’re releasing is a threat to a really promising and fun platform. The triple-A studios see all of these users who just spent several hundred dollars on a VR…

How to overcome procrastination when making a game
We can start things with the best of intentions. But then, our lives have this habit of testing our resolve. Family, friends, work, the need for a holiday, all of it can come crashing down around your dev project. Eventually…

What Nintendo Switch should have been
One, Two, I’ve Switched off. Nintendo screwed the pooch, again. Let’s take a moment to consider how we got here. In 1982, home video games raked in about $3.2 billion, and by 1983 video games were done, they were…

So you want to make a VR game?
The current VR market is desperate for content. Provided you can download a copy of Unreal Engine or Unity and write script that can run at about 60, 90 or 120 frames a second, you can probably sell a barely…

Making a start on your first game
All my life I’ve been a computer nerd. I love networking. It’s challenging, and ever changing. Through the day I work as a Network Security Engineer and love my work. But somehow I wanted new IT challenges. I also love…
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