June 12, 2015
Oculus App Store Will Require Pre-Approvals, Comfort Ratings, Tax
Oculus doesn’t want to make you puke or scare you to death. So when its revamped app store launches for its consumer Rift headset shipping Q1 2016, it…
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June 12, 2015
YouTube Announces YouTube Gaming, A Standalone App To Compete With Twitch
Today’s announcement of YouTube Gaming, a standalone app and site focused on video game related content, shows the company isn’t sitting idly by while outside forces steal attention…
Read articleJune 11, 2015
Watch Our First Look At The New Oculus Rift And Touch Controller Hardware
Earlier today, we got the chance to check out the Oculus Rift consumer virtual reality headset, which has finally been fully revealed to the world. We also get…
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Oculus Is Working On Transporting You Fully Into VR, Down To The Last Fingernail
Oculus may be focused on this generation of hardware with today’s big Rift VR headset unveiling, but it’s also keeping an eye to future generations. We caught up…
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Oculus Previews “Oculus Touch” Handheld Motion-Tracking Haptic Controllers
Oculus wants to go beyond the Xbox One controller shipping with the Rift, so today it showed off the prototype of Oculus Touch, a set of handheld motion…
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Oculus Shows Flagship Games Like Space Shooter EVE Valkyrie, Will Invest $10M Into Indie Titles
Oculus today announced its Rift headset will ship with an Xbox One controller. To make sure you’ll have something to play with it, Oculus worked with EVE Online…
Read articleJune 10, 2015
Facebook’s Messenger Platform Gets Its First Game
Facebook Messenger’s quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games. Today I spotted “Doodle Draw Game” in the Messenger platform app…
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New Xbox One Matte Black Console Offers 1TB Of Storage
Microsoft isn’t waiting for next week’s E3 show to start showing off new things – the company revealed a new version of its Xbox One console today, with…
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Apple’s WWDC Keynote In 90 Seconds
Apple had a lot to announce at its Worldwide Developer Conference this morning, and it was easy to miss big news as it happened during the two-hour-plus keynote.…
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Why I Cautiously Support the App Store Change
There are very good reasons for Apple’s recent change to the App Store’s listings, especially for games, as the charts had become over-dominated by incumbents at the expense…
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