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There have been tons of great demos and prototypes showing off what can be achieved with the Oculus Rift VR hardware, but Birdly may be the most imaginative we've seen to date. Created by a team at the Zurich University of the Arts, Birdly is an installation, rather than simply a game. Players lie face-down on a platform, and place their arms into wing-like grips on either side. The Oculus Rift then showed a bird's eye view of the world, with a fan providing a "headwind" for the player to breeze through. Birdly is the experience of being a bird, soaring high above the world, flapping your wings to maintain height and speed. The whole set-up relies on sensory-…

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IMPORTANT: This demo shows a Windows 10 Universal app built with Unity and demonstrating Cortana integration. At Unite 2015, Unity made available its public roadmap which also includes Windows Universal apps support here. Making this demo was so much fun, because Cortana naturally blends with games, and in some scenarios you can significantly improve the user experience with your game by adding intelligent voice features.

This is the sample I presented at Unite Europe 2015 event to demonstrate how to integrate Unity with Cortana in Win…

Crow Country is coated in a murky green veneer that gives the impression you’re playing it on a grainy CRT TV in one of your friend’s bedrooms back in 1996. The polygonal figure of its protagonist, Special Agent Mara Forest, with her visible joints and single block of purple hair, harks back to any number of PlayStation-era character designs. Similarly, Crow Country’s environments look wonderfully pre-rendered, lavished in extra detail that sits in stark contrast to its simple, blocky characters. These aren’t the static backgrounds of yesteryear, however, but fully interactive playgrounds that add a modern tinge to Crow Country’s distinctly retro sensibilities.

This affectionate nostalgia is in service of a game that pays loving homage to landmark titles of the…

Only a handful of challenges have been added to the Destiny 2 quest tab this week, now that the Wayfinder’s Voyage storyline has wrapped up. An easy selection of tasks, a few runs in Astral Alignment, and a journey into the Ascendant Realms with the right gear equipped should see most of these objectives completed quickly and smoothly.

Like previous weeks, you won’t have to complete every objective within seven days as Destiny 2 stacks new seasonal challenges on top of older ones Come from Sports betting site VPbet . The advantage to this system is that it not only allows you to prioritize the tasks you deem most important, but you can sometimes complete multiple challenges at the same time.

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Destiny 2’s Trials of Osiris is back with the Season of the Chosen, and as always, the rewards and Crucible map for the event change each week. Below, we’ve got the rundown of the prizes you can win, as well as what exactly you’ll be facing in the event.

Trials sees some changes this season. Bungie has added new armor, weapons, and cosmetic items to the loot pool for the event, giving you all new incentives to dive in and take on the toughest competitive multiplayer challenge in the game. Trials ends on February 16 with Destiny 2’s weekly reset, so you have a few days to take part in the event.

Trials of Osiris Map And Rewards (February 12-16)

• Map: Altar of Flame
• 3 wins — The Messenger, Kinetic pulse rifle
• 5 wins — Tomorrow’s …
  

As part of the Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft announced the release date for its new Forza Motorsport game, and it’ll be here relatively soon. The game, which is simply titled Forza Motorsport, releases on October 10 Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Additionally, Microsoft debuted a new trailer for Forza Motorsport–check it out below.

The new Forza Motorsport game has a single-player career mode and an online competitive element. The game has more than 500+ cars and a variety of “world-famous” tracks. Microsoft also confirmed that the game uses “cutting edge AI and advanced physics” in some capacity.

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HBO might be aiming for a shorter second season of House of the Dragon than the 10-episode run of the first. That will reportedly fit the overall vision for the series, with the show’s creative team supposedly plotting out Season 3 already.

Deadline says that, originally, the sophomore season of House of the Dragon was supposed to be 10 episodes. But that apparently changed to eight after showrunner Ryan Condal and author George R.R. Martin convened to chart out the stories and battles for each season.

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You’ve got to hand it to jugglers: they really know how to up the stakes. Need more tension? Add more objects! Still not enough? Light those objects on fire! And for the grand finale? Recruit a second juggler and start tossing flaming batons back and forth. Cooperative party game Overcooked cleverly borrows this template and applies it to a restaurant setting. Across an ever-changing series of kitchens, up to four chefs must prepare meals by performing simple tasks–chopping vegetables, cooking meat, washing dishes–in an effort to prepare and serve as many complete dishes as possible within a strict time limit.

Each task is, in isolation, dead simple–actions rarely require more than a single button press and objectives are plainly displayed on screen at all times. But …

A new Apple TV 4K is on the way. Apple has announced that it will release a new version of its premium streaming box this month.

The new model replaces the last Apple TV 4K, which was released in 2017. It will include the powerful A12 Bionic chip, that allows for HDR video playback at higher frame rates. Apple has stated that it is working with “leading video providers,” including FOX Sports, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Red Bull TV, and Canal+, to supply high frame rate HDR content for the Apple TV. In addition, it can play Dolby Vision videos shot on the iPhone 12 Pro at 60FPS over AirPlay.

The new Apple TV 4K also has a color balance feature which will optimize TV color and contrast via an iPhone cameraCome from Discover

Halo Infinite’s long-awaited Forge mode, which lets players create all manner of custom content, missed the game’s launch last year and is likely still many months away from release. Developer 343 Industries has now explained the delay a little more, saying it was necessary to ensure it reached 343’s benchmark for quality.

“It broke our hearts to not be able to launch Forge alongside the rest of Infinite but to ensure it meets the bar we’re setting for it to achieve, this massive overhaul to Forge in Infinite just wasn’t able to make it out before the end of last year,” 343 said in a blog post.

The new version of Forge will offer “another generational leap forward” in terms of its capabilities, 343 teased, going on to say it will contain “many of the community’s highly reque…