Cult classic Space RTS Homeworld is set to be released tomorrown. Remastered in HD and 4k by Gearbox Studios (creators of the Borderlands franchise), the collection will feature Homeworld and Homeworld 2. These are games that have cult classic status, and the new remakes look gorgeous. Don’t believe me? See for yourself!

GDC will be taking place next week, and Valve have big plans for it or so it seems. They’ve said that they will be revealing “previously unannounced SteamVR hardware system” alongside the new Steam Controller and other devices for the living room.

SteamVR is nothing new, it’s been around for a year already providing support for the Oculus Rift on Steam and was released in a patch. Now it seems to have always been the foundation for Valve’s own VR efforts, with a headset prototype having been revealed last year despite public reassurances that for the time being Valve were happy enough to support developers like Oculus rather than make their own VR devices.

Now it seems that their plans are in motion, they’re even reaching out for VR creators on Steam with a message that reads: “With the introduction of SteamVR hardware, Valve is actively seeking VR content creators. Are you a developer or publisher interested in experiencing the new SteamVR hardware? We’ll be giving scheduled VR demos during the week of GDC, March 4th-6th, 2015, at Moscone Center in San Francisco.”

I guess now we just need to wait and see the reveal to know how far along Valve are with their plans.

World of Tanks’ latest 9.6 patch is bringing some big changes in the way crew qualifications work, making it a bit less of a pain to transfer crew between vehicles. It will also add some new premium armour, one being the French AMX CDC.

Crew members and tweaking them has always been a bit of a pin in the game, and now with this new patch Wargaming are making it possible to switch qualifications between crew members, allowing you to take a member experienced in one field and be able to put him into battle with experience in another field. Wargaming said this has been done to cut down on “wasted talent among the ranks in your Garage.”

Elsewhere in the patch, Light Tanks have tweaks to make them more effective and tank destroyers have been nerfed slightly. New HD models have been introduced into game for some tanks, as well as more tanks now being available in both the premium and in-game Stores.

If you’re interested, the full set of patch notes can be found here.

There’s been a few solutions to the issues of multiplayer cheaters in games, but much of them like Valve Anti-cheat, Punkbuster and so on are software solutions. They can be coded around. Now, there’s a hardware solution to the problem being suggested.

Game:ref is the name of a prototype piece of hardware that can be connected to a PC to help detect cheats. The way it works is that it reads incoming data from your mouse and compares it to the data of what’s taking part in game to see if they match up, if they don’t then it knows there’s a good chance its caught a cheater. The makers claim that it is able to catch 100% of input-based hacks.

At first you wonder what good it is to have an anti-cheat device that only the cheater can see the feedback from, but then you consider tournaments and realise that there this could be a good thing if it works as well as it’s claimed to. If all computers were fitted with one and use was mandatory to take part, it’d give faith that all players were probably playing fairly.

The device is going to be open-source, with the idea of making collaboration with developers much easier. The project is planning to come to Kickstarter soon, hoping to raise the money to get the prototype turned into a real product.

I only hope it is as accurate as they say, otherwise it could cause a lot of confusion.

Hey there listeners and readers. PredictedCyborg here, fresh off being chat moderator, streamer and that-cyborg-in-the-call for our GameBlast 2015 stream that came to an end about 20 minutes ago.

GameBlast 2015 was an event that asked gamers to stream games for charity, fundraising for Special Effect – raising money for special technology to help people with physical and mental disabilities join in with our favourite pass time of playing video games. It’s one that’s very worthy.

We decided to do our 24-hour stream on the theme of “space games”, although we used that definition loosely and at some points we might have totally ignored it for the sake of streaming with someone who’d actually slept. Digm started us off with Elite: Dangerous in which he continued with his bounty hunting and was joined in a Skype call by others including guest FieryToad who proved to be very informative about certain aspects of the game ranging from ships, upcoming content and piracy in Elite. Afterwards Lonesamurai took over for a while streaming some Space Hulk and other games with a continuing Skype call that had people coming and going.

Come midnight and Scarlet took over stream for the night shift with some games, starting off with Alien: Isolation and using those of us still in the call to help her stave off some of the creep factor. Lone came back in the early hours of the morning with some more Elite, but with space trucking being the focus before rotating in some other games and eventually myself for a few hours. I played Hearthstone and Lone used Spectator Mode to enable it to stream. This later led to us discovering that it was possible to spectate both people’s hands if you had both on your friend list, which was a pleasant surprise and one we’ll need to remember exists for future tournaments. Finishing off for the last five hours Scarlet played some Grow Home while we talked about things and then Lone came back to fill the last few hours with Shadow of Mordor and finally some Supreme Commander 2.

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