You did not experienced the “immersive experience” until you have tried VR (Virtual Reality). The Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, believes that VR can become our way to interact with computers. Jeff Lande, the founder of Lucky VR says that online, social and mobile gaming channels are also computer environments. He also adds that the VR opportunity goes beyond video gaming. The way humankind experienced entertainment through television, movies, sports and music could be transferred to VR.
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Virtual Reality History and VR Gaming Guide
7 Industries Embracing Virtual Reality
If you believe pop culture predictions made in productions like the 2018 film, Ready Player One, you’ll think that Virtual Reality (VR) will transform the world in a similar way to the internet has but today, the technology is still in its relative infancy. People are still unable to create and visit the wildest depths of their imagination but that doesn’t mean that incredible things aren’t already happening.
VR is currently most associated with the gaming industry. Many of the people who use virtual reality are doing so in order to play video games with hundreds of upcoming titles being released on platforms like Playstation and Steam. Read more…
Can You Really Trust App Store Ratings?
How do you evaluate the quality of a gaming app? Chances are you’ve come across apps through links on social media, word-of-mouth, or you’ve navigated to the Google Play Store on your own. If we base our decisions on ratings systems – which most of us do – only the most highly rated game apps will capture our attention.
The Google Play Store, like the App Store, makes it rather easy for users to quickly assess the quality of a game app through a star rating system. As a case in point, Toy Crush has a stellar 4.5/5 rating from 9,037 reviewers. As the number of reviewers increases, so too does the credibility of the overall score. Of course, a caveat is in order: the rating system must be impervious to pseudo-accounts for it to be believable. Read more…
15 Reasons Why Nintendo Switch Will Fail
We all love playing games. Few of us are so much into them that we bring them outside our screens and into our lives! For now, let’s just concentrate on the latest release – Nintendo Switch. All the video game fans were quite excited to explore its features when it released first back in March 2017. Since then, a lot of opinions and reviews have come up regarding this latest addition to the Nintendo family. And most of them happen to be not much in its favor.
A lot of factors have contributed towards the underwhelming response of this otherwise amazing gaming gadget. These include the exclusion of the old favorite features, unsuitable release timing, and overall generic console design among others. There are just so many faults with this new design that prevents it from being the next big revolution in the world of gaming. And we are here to review all of them so that you know what you are in for before making the purchase. Read more…
15 Cool Tips and Tricks of Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch has been in circulation for almost ten months now, and compared to the sales of every other Nintendo product, has done extremely well. The new features and additions appeal to gamers everywhere, both young and old, and the great thing about considering to get a device after the first initial months, is that all of the teething problems will have already been found.
The Nintendo Switch has proven to be an agile and easy to use device, with the potential for better gaming and a more salient experience. Here is everything you need to know about the device, 10 months on from the release date. Read more…
10 Ways to Play Games and Become a Millionaire
If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of those video gaming fanatics who love to tire your thumbs and fingers with gamepads, keyboards, and mice for hours and hours. Of course when we say it like that it sounds as if you are wasting your life away with this, but what if we told you otherwise?
To further clarify, what if we told you that you could make millions just by playing video games? No, you didn’t read that wrong; it is very much a reality indeed. Gaming has constantly been on the rise for so many years that now some of the games that we see like GTA V and Call of Duty, are surpassing even the film industry itself. Read more…
What You Can Learn About Website Design from Gaming Websites
We’ve already witnessed that they have created some pretty great games — as witnessed by their consistent status atop gaming best-seller lists — but how have some of the most popular video game creators designed their own websites?
The following types of design elements can make or break a gaming company’s website — and spell the difference between an effective site that increases customer awareness and sale or one that sends them clicking away to other sites. Read more…
20 Most Addictive Virtual Reality Games You Must Play
With a plethora of virtual reality games making their debut in recent times, it is rather difficult to choose the best from them. Both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive have loads of titles to offer but you will be surprised to find out that games like Job Simulator have already started drawing praise for the enticing VR experience offered by them as well. As they say, “VR never felt more real before 2016”. So, this is the best time to pick our top 20 most addictive and popular virtual reality games.
Virtual Reality and Video Games: An Inevitable Merger
Video games have been around for quite some time. The first video game was actually created in 1958, and it was a simple tennis game not unlike Pong of the 1970s. In the 58 years since then, video games have grown exponentially more complex, to the point entire universes are simulated with multitudes of players occupying the same digital space simultaneously.
Video games are, in their very nature, forms of virtual reality. Up until very recently, they have been quite simple forms of virtual reality, often represented as 3D images but still ultimately only 2D. True virtual reality is starting to change that. Read more…
14 Reasons Make Pokémon GO More Popular than Facebook
Facebook has been dominating the social media platform until the release of Pokémon Go in the mobile market. Currently, countless mobile users are spending more of their time playing Pokémon Go than on any other mobile application.
Pokémon Go has risen to become a giant in the mobile applications world. Below are some of the reasons why Pokémon Go will be more widespread than Facebook. Read more…
Pokémon Go: 20 Most Common Problems and Fixes
Pokémon Go is a game to be enjoyed at your leisure time. I could not enjoy the game to its fullest when it came out, i.e. glued to my mobile screen eight hours a day. I had work, and then when I got home tired, despite not having much energy to walk around moving my cell phone like an antenna of an old TV or radio searching for signals, I nonetheless was excited enough to devote enough time to it. I caught a lot of Pokémon just on my commute to work and back home. But I’m not fortunate enough to have PokéStops directly, I have to actually get up and GO.
On top of that, how frustrating it is when you literally walked around for miles, and the game was not recording your progress?Or when you worked so hard to reach a pokéstop hub and the game won’t open? Server crashes were literally second nature to us. Read more…
Pokémon Go – Complete Beginner’s Guide
The augmented reality game Pokémon Go is not only the dream of every 90’s kid, but a reality for more than 30 million users – both young and old! This game was released in more than 35 countries already and is easily the best game in the Smartphone history. The firm Sensor Tower believes that in the next two months, the download would cross a 100 million!
As the players go out, the avatar starts moving on the map and will move according to the trainers movement. Avatars? Trainers? If all this sounds alien to you then read this complete beginner’s guide on Pokémon Go and get your game on now! Read more…
8 Tech Trends That Will Change Gaming Forever
Technology has always played an important role in the development and evolution of the gambling industry. The importance of technology and the need for gambling and non-gambling sectors to come together and share technical know-how is greatly felt in modern times. Responding to this need, GamCrowd recently dedicated a day to the Internet gambling industry at London Tech Week 2016.
As many as 100 tech professionals and representatives of the iGaming industry met on a common platform to discuss various tech trends that have the potential to revolutionize the online gambling industry. Read more…
Top 20 Famous Virtual Reality Games You Must Play
In the past a years, Virtual Reality has taken a leap and so are the devices that expand the entire aura. A fresh wave of virtual-reality devices may finally be coming this year, but the source is still very much in its infant stage. Oculus Rift has started blowing the cord now along with HTC Vive. However, the PlayStation VR is not available until October and Samsung’s Ger VR only comes with a smattering of apps to merge into. Virtual reality is still in the wait for its killer app.
However, it does not mean that there are not any VR games out there in advance, or have their release date fixed later this year. As they may not be VR expeditions most of the players are looking forward to, but there are a number of system-selling games and apps available in the market currently. Read more…
Top 20 Most Creative Uses of Lego
No matter what games you have played in your child hood but, you must have played with Lego and spent your childhood joining those creative colorful bricks and blocks. If I say “Lego” is a life time brand for toys, it would not be wrong. Lego is an inspiring brand that allows children to be creative as architect, engineer or designer. If you are parent, you can teach your child creative things to make with Lego bricks, if you are a teacher than you can teach your students that how they can roll their imagination with these simple Lego bricks.
Here I am going to describe few insanely creative Lego uses that will definitely get your attention and inspire you to come out with your creativity. Read more…