{"id":106837,"date":"2016-10-06T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106837"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:05:28","slug":"watch-out-for-this-label-on-games-before-buying-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/106837-watch-out-for-this-label-on-games-before-buying-them","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for this label on games before buying them"},"content":{"rendered":"

While South Africa may be a bit\u00a0late to the VR party, the games are still coming and in full force.<\/p>\n

That means plenty of PS4 and PC retail titles will be hitting store shelves that will only be VR-capable.<\/p>\n

While those of you who follow gaming news quite closely will know which games will only support VR, Sony has also begun issuing game boxes with compatibility labels attached.<\/p>\n

Any games with these labels attached to\u00a0the bottom-right corner will be unplayable unless you have a VR headset.<\/p>\n

This is what they will look like:<\/p>\n

\"ps-vr\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is arguably actually more of a problem on Steam, where nearly the entire international catalogue of games are available to South African users.<\/p>\n

Here there are actually two tags to watch out for, making things a bit trickier.<\/p>\n

Some games are HTC Vive and\/or Oculus supported – meaning they can play games in VR but it’s not a requirement.<\/p>\n

Other games require<\/strong> a VR-headset meaning thye won’t start at all unless a headset is connected and detected by your PC.<\/p>\n

Fortunately Steam also has an orange warning box for these games if you don’t catch the symbols the first time.<\/p>\n

\"vr\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Don’t waste your money – make sure games don’t have these labels on the boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,3,11681],"tags":[22563,12593,22561,2163],"class_list":["post-106837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-box","tag-header","tag-label","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106845,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106837\/revisions\/106845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}