A background image adds greatly to the visual appeal of a Web page. However, an image with large dimensions can take a great deal of time to download on a slow connection, and if you place the ...

In games, nothing breaks player flow like a loading screen, and in virtual reality this problem is amplified tenfold. ‘Presence’ or ‘immersion’, the magical yet fragile feeling of ‘being there’, is ...

Insomniac Games has clarified that that the need to hold down a button to fast travel in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 via the game’s map isn’t masking any background loading, noting that it was instead ...