Last week, we started our trucking adventures in Euro Truck Simulator 2 s Iberia DLC and just barely made it into Spain. This week, we ll continue our tour of the latest expansion area developed by SCS Software, but we ll step it up a notch in the technical department. Instead of just trucking on a 2D screen - commonly referred to as pancake gaming - Jan will don his HP Reverb G2 VR headset before getting behind the wheel.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 has an official VR-compatible beta branch in Steam and while VR certainly offers more logistical and technical challenges, the VR experience is most certainly worthwhile. Jan has been practicing what trucking around Spain in VR is like lately, and he s only had a few incidents; nothing that won t buff right out. So expect some lovely Iberian scenery, some unavoidable vehicular incidents, and a lot of looking at Jan s head with an HMD on it.
Azure Speech Services are pushing the boundaries of what AI voices can sound like in apps and games, with some interesting possibilities for future Xbox and PC games.
Even if Sony's using Microsoft's toys to build it, the Japanese tech giant's cloud service is going to be a PlayStation exclusive. What this means for the future of PlayStation as a brand and a console remains to be seen.
Attackers are utilizing a botnet to mine cryptocurrency off of people's PCs. The botnet takes advantage of unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers to work its way into networks.
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Since the launch of Call of Duty: Warzone, the battle royale version of Call of Duty has skyrocketed in popularity, quickly becoming one of the most popular battle royale games available. Warzone quickly locked itself in as one of the three biggest battle royale games on the market and has stayed extremely popular despite not changing too much up. That all changed today, though. The introduction of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season 3 brought with it an overhauled map for Warzone.
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Throughout Season 2 of Black Ops Cold War, the world of Warzone has been overrun with zombies. After arriving in a boat on the map s Prison location, the zombies slowly began to infiltrate all of Verdansk, the home of Warzone. In a four-stage event that kicked off the Warzone side of Season 3, players jumped into a special, two hour limited time-game mode known as The Destruction of Verdansk, Part 1. In it, players had to attempt to survive as long as they cou