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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey admits he “handled the messaging poorly” regarding Rift price
Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset went live yesterday, and after months or even years of speculation, we finally learned that the actual price for the device would be $599. The price came as a surprise for many consumers who were hoping that Rift would be a bit cheaper, and in a recent ...
Psychonauts 2 hits its $3.3M funding goal on Fig with less than a week remaining
The long awaited sequel to the cult classic platformer Psychonauts has reached its $3.3 million crowdfunding funding goal on Fig with only five days remaining in its campaign. The campaign was first announced by developer Double Fine Productions last month at The Game Awards, and it had already raised over $1 million within a few days. ...
Creators of brain-game ‘Lumosity’ hit with $2M fine for over-promising health benefits
Lumos Labs Inc has been forced to accept a $2 million settlement by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it made some lofty (and unsupported) claims about the mental health benefits from playing its “brain training” game Lumosity. Specifically, The FTC accused Lumos Labs of “deceiving customers” in advertisements for Lumosity claimed that the game could make players perform ...
Oculus Rift pre-orders are live at a $599 price point
No one ever expected high-end virtual reality to come cheap, and Oculus VR has certainly proven that fact today by finally revealing that the price point for Oculus Rift will be $599. While that does seem a bit pricey for the average non-hardcore gaming consumer, the Rift will come with a few extra goodies aside from the ...
Valve reaffirms lifetime bans for ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ match fixers
It has been nearly a year since Valve Corp made the decision to permanently ban players who had been involved with rigging professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournaments, and this week Valve reaffirmed that stance, saying that it has no intention of giving any of the players another chance. “Professional Counter-Strike is very important to us ...
SuperData expects VR industry to hit $5.1B in 2016, but it won’t be Rift or Vive leading the charge
While the claim that 2016 will be the year of virtual reality is still debatable, there is no denying that the technology is generating a lot of interest from both consumers and industry professionals, and now analytics firm SuperData Research Inc has validated their excitement. According to a new report, SuperData estimates that the virtual reality industry could ...
Guillermo Del Toro to present Hall of Fame award to Hideo Kojima at DICE 2016
One of the most heartbreaking consequences of the bizarre fallout between Konami Corp and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was the abrupt cancellation of the Silent Hills game he had been working on with famed horror director Guillermo Del Toro. But while Kojima’s departure from Konami meant the end of Silent Hills, it was not the end of ...
HTC Vive adds a front-facing camera so you never have to take it off
In December, HTC Corp. and Valve Corp. made a surprise announcement that they would be delaying the release of the HTC Vive VR headset by several months due to “a very, very big technological breakthrough,” and now it looks like we might possibly have an answer for what that breakthrough might be. This week at ...
Veteran RPG dev Chris Avellone on the resurgence of old school PC games
For all of the gamers who complain about the lack of originality in modern video games, there are just as many who clamor for sequels, remakes, and reboots for series they enjoyed many years ago. This has become especially apparent over the last few years, with several high profile (and extremely successful) crowdfunding campaigns for ...
AMD unveils new ‘Polaris’ graphics architecture for its next-gen GPUs
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Advanced Micro Systems Inc (AMD) is unveiling the new Polaris GCN architecture, which it promises will be able to match the performance capabilities of similar cards but with a huge reduction in power requirements. “Our new Polaris architecture showcases significant advances in performance, power ...
