September 24, 2015
Oculus Positions VR For Primetime
Today Oculus gave 1,500 developers at the Oculus Connect 2 conference (as well as those at home via livestream or on Gear VR a chance to watch) a look…
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September 21, 2015
Land’s End Is Monument Valley Maker ustwo’s First Careful Foray Into VR Gaming
How do you design a VR game that’s less likely to make a player’s stomach churn? Turns out you need to put some pretty strict limits on how…
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Is Virtual Reality Gaming Bound To Crash?
Techies of all varieties constantly look forward to the next great revolution. For video gamers, that revolution promises to be virtual reality. Countless new companies have emerged to…
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Try To Land The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Yourself
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is trying to launch a spacecraft and have the rockets return safely to Earth…specifically on a floating barge. As it turns out, it’s not that…
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The Mobile Gaming Business Model For Freedom And Fantasy
Mobile gaming has by far made the greatest impact on — and effected the most change overall in — the gaming industry. From a dollars and cents perspective,…
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Blizzard’s Final Starcraft II Expansion Lands November 10
In case you were not tuned into the finals of WCS Europe earlier today, Blizzard, a popular gaming company, announced that the final chapter of its Starcraft II…
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Google Updates Play Games Player Analytics With Improved iOS Support, New Ways To Track Players
Earlier this year, Google launched Play Games Player Analytics, a service that allows game developers to get improved analytics for what their users are doing while they are…
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What Do The App Store, PlayStation 2 And The Roman Empire Have In Common?
If you casually follow tech industry headlines, you might be convinced that the app store model is the bright future of software distribution. So when I say, “I…
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Privacy Concerns Raised Over Kids’ Apps And Websites
Given the sophisticated tracking technologies embedded into so many digital products and services as a matter of course, it should come as no surprise that a global privacy…
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Vive VR Headset Full Consumer Launch Slips To Q1 2016
You wait years and years for virtual reality to become a thing, and then suddenly a truck load of VR headsets pile into the tech hype cycle almost…
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