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Should PC gamers care about RTX Spark?Our Dave is just back from San Francisco with flowers in his hair and a laptop under his arm. Jacob discusses the new Nvidia RTX Spark laptop release with his very ill, very jet-lagged co-host to try and get to the bottom of what the new Arm-based SoC offers and whether PC gamers should sit up and take notice.
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Gamers REACT to the Steam Frame: quality, comfort and priceWe trapped a bunch of gamers in VR to see how they reacted to Valve's new Steam Frame headset. With only a little knowledge of what they were in for, we threw headcrabs, zombies, ping-pong playing kitties, and off-brand lightsabers at them to see how they would react. And, interestingly, the experience of coming face-to-face with Half-Life: Alyx's zombies was almost universally preferable to being confronted with the actual price of the Steam Frame. Yikes.
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