VR headsets are a big thing right now, but while the video quality has gotten better and the simulation of ‘hands’ a lot less clunky over time there still remains one big ‘issue’ for VR headsets and they have to do with cables. Most headsets still need them because streaming just can’t handle the amount of visual data needed to simulate a fluid and responsive experience. After all, if done poorly VR headsets can easily make you feel sick.

Some companies are working to eliminate the need for cables though, and one such company TPCAST showed off their wireless adaptor accessory for the HTC Vive at the offices of Chinese internet vendor Alibaba yesterday:

The unit straps to the headset and receives video data and transmits accelerometer data, and apparently has been described as so low latency doing this that it makes “no noticeable difference” in the experience. They are one of several companies who currently working with Valve and HTC to work on wireless technology for Vive.

The doors for pre-orders were opened today to customers and sold through the first batch in just 18 minutes, at $220 per unit. Not bad. A second set of pre-orders for the accessory will be coming next month.

Squad is a very large-scale multiplayer shooter game that’s currently in Steam’s Early Access program. It aims to simulate realistic modern warfare in which both sides have fairly large sides and you need to be constantly vigilanet (with respawning obviously helping to make it seem like both armies are larger than they really are). The game is a spiritual successor to a widely-loved mod for Battlefield 2, Project Reality, and the indie studio behind it grew from the Project Reality team.

Now the game is going to have its first ever free weekend in a bid to attract the players numbers needed to make such large-scale battles work, because you can’t have a fight with 100 players if not that many people are around to join games after all. The game will remain like this until Sunday, November 13th at 1pm Pacific Time, or 9pm UK time. The game is also currently on sale at half its usual selling price and that will last even longer – until Monday 10am Pacific or 5pm UK time.

If you’re not familiar with Squad already, it features vehicle-based combat, combined arms gameplay, large-scale battle environments, voice audio proximity for talking and radio chatter and even base building so you can set up camp. If that sounds like something you could get into, check out Squad’s Steam page to try it out. Then if you like it, take advantage of the £14.99 UK or $19.99 US price to keep it for good.

Dishonored 2 is a hotly anticipated game, thats for sure. A handful of gamers have been able to play it a day early, including myself. I am sad to say however, that the PC version of the game has excessively bad performance issues. While I could detail them all in text, video speaks louder than words. 

Titanfall 2 may have been out for a while now, but it takes a while to get an accurate impression of a game that has such a huge multiplayer component. Fortuantely for you, instead of writing a 50,000 word review, I’ve decided to make it a video instead. So you can watch giant robots punch shit AND get educated about the game! 

COD: Infinite Warfare’s not had a great launch. After the news that the included Modern Warfare Remastered game wouldn’t work without the Infinite Warfare disc for those who had bought the physical copies of the double-game set, it was revealed that for some reason Activision was against cross-platform play. Xbox One and Windows Store players cannot play together and neither can Windows Store and Steam players.

The utter ridiculousness of the situation has just been highlighted in the news that one Windows Store gamer has managed to get a refund on his game. The reason? Because when he went to look for a Deathmatch game he discovered that very few other players were also currently online in the world. How many other players? One.

That’s right. He was one of only two players in the world at that moment looking for an online match.

No matter what you think of Windows Store, you’ve got to admit that Activision’s decision to disallow any sort of cross-platform or even cross-digital distribution interaction is not helping Infinite Warfare any – and this is the game that’s been pretty much an unfavoured child to the series ever since the fans first saw its announcement trailer.

No wonder they wouldn’t allow people to trade in the disc.