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VIRTUAL REALITY BLOWS UP

if we were to sum up the most exciting thing to happen to videogames this past decade it would absolutely be the revival of virtual reality. Aside from giving us hilarious videos of people using VR devices for the first time, it has also allowed many of us to experience games in a new and exciting way.

“My first VR experience was during the Nineties with Pterodactyl Nightmare,” remembers gaming veteran Éric Chahi, who is currently working on his own VR game, Paper Beast. “The graphics were 3D flat polygons,

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