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[Updated] Nominees for 2016 Game Awards Revealed

Update: We have updated this post to strike out Pokemon Uranium and AM2R from Fan Creations, since the Game Awards has removed them. Original story below The Game Awards is an award show that helps…

November 16, 2016 | 04:48 EST

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First Contact Entertainment Announces ROM: Extraction For Vive And Rift

Back in August veterans of the industry from Starbreeze, Blizzard, Treyarch, and Infinity Ward joined together to create a new video game development company called First Contact Entertainment. This…

November 11, 2016 | 02:13 EST

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Court Subpoenas Samsung in Oculus Case

A lawsuit regarding VR systems has just been updated with new information. The dispute between ZeniMax and Oculus has been raging for years at this point. Now, a new development has forced a third…

October 30, 2016 | 12:49 EDT

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Become A Blacksmith In Craft Keep VR

Excalibur Games have announced their new VR experience, Craft Keep VR, coming to Steam Early Access on the 10th of November. In the past, Excalibur has released titles such as Jalopy, Circuit…

October 27, 2016 | 09:15 EDT

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John Carmack Shares Thoughts On VR, Cautions Developers to not "Coast on Novelty"

During last week's Oculus Connect event, a conference held in San Jose in California that VR developers use to showcase their new games and technology, prominent games developer and Oculus CTO John…

October 10, 2016 | 09:30 EDT

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Vive Storefront Viveport Launches With Discounts

The HTC Vive has now been publicly available last April and while the majority of its game content comes through Steam, Viveport will be mainly a hub for Virtual Reality experiences and apps. While…

September 30, 2016 | 01:15 EDT

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The Censored Gaming Recap (19th - 25th September 2016)

Welcome to the Censored Gaming Recap. In these articles, we take a look back at all of the latest happenings in the world of censorship and then round them up in a special weekly feature. This time…

September 28, 2016 | 02:00 EDT

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Social VR Platform myVR Announced For Mobile Devices

Today Artem Fedyaev and John Gonzalez, co-founders of the web-based discovery platform myWebRoom announced a new social experience for VR that they are calling myVR. While the majority of VR…

September 22, 2016 | 11:38 EDT

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Insomniac's Feral Rites Price Drops 3 Days After Launch

Pricing in the gaming market is mostly static; a new AAA Game is $60, and an indie game is typically priced around $10 or 15. Indies sometimes experiment with other price points at $5 or less, or at…

September 17, 2016 | 08:30 EDT

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Accounting Announced From Squanchtendo

Earlier this month Gears of War producer Tanya Watson and Justin Roiland, one of the co-creators of Rick and Morty announced that they had formed a VR studio called Squanchtendo and today they…

September 13, 2016 | 04:34 EDT

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Rick and Morty Creator Founds Gaming Studio Squanchtendo

Justin Roiland, co-creator of popular Adult Swim cartoon Rick and Morty, has founded a gaming studio called Squanchtendo as reported by Gamnesia. The announcement came in the form of a comic…

August 29, 2016 | 10:15 EDT

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Ubisoft Announces VR Titles Release Dates

Ubisoft recently ramped up their holiday line up this year at Gamescom with the announcement of several release dates to their virtual reality titles. Alongside the release of PlayStation VR this…

August 18, 2016 | 10:00 EDT

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Nvidia Announces Mobile Pascal GPU's

Nvidia has refreshed its mobile GPU lineup with new Pascal chips. Today, they announced the release of mobile variants of the GTX 1080, 1070, and 1060.Unlike previous generations of mobile GPU’s,…

August 17, 2016 | 08:30 EDT

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Russian Company Announced Sci-Fi Racing Game, Thick Air

Russian studio PeopleGottaPlay have announced that they are preparing their non-violent sci-fi drone racing sim Thick Air for early access release in September 2016 on PC. They are also currently…

August 16, 2016 | 10:52 EDT

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The Steam VR Weekend Sale Is Live

Steam has launched the VR Weekend Sale according to an announcement by Valve. The sale includes games that support either the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift as well as titles that support both headsets.The…

July 30, 2016 | 11:00 EDT

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Star Wars Celebration 2016 - Battlefront DLC, Visceral's Game, and More!

Star Wars Celebration 2016 is currently underway in London, and although there's plenty of movie and television related news coming out from the celebration concerning Rogue One, Episode 8, and …

July 17, 2016 | 11:15 EDT

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Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Viewing Revolution for PlayStation VR

During a tanabata festival live broadcast Bandai Namco made the announcement that their Idolmaster series would be getting the VR treatment. Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Viewing Revolution will be…

July 7, 2016 | 09:57 EDT

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OSVR Developer Fund Tries to Open VR Development

Razer recently announced the launch of the OSVR Developer Fund for their open source virtual reality headsets.The OSVR Developer Fund consists of $5,000,000 to be dispersed to qualifying developers…

July 1, 2016 | 09:30 EDT

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VR Game Giant Cop Loses Vive; Gains Oculus Support

The virtual reality game Giant Cop is stuck in a precarious situation after it pulled away from an HTC Vive launch for the game in favor of the Oculus Touch.The news comes as a shocker for many who…

June 26, 2016 | 04:45 EDT

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Oculus Rift's Latest Update Removes Hardware Checking DRM

One of the hot topics in the current Virtual Reality scene is visor compatibility. Both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift have in their store games exclusive to their platforms and, of course, this…

June 26, 2016 | 09:30 EDT

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Ubisoft E3 2016 - Eagle Flight Gamplay Demo

Eagle Flight was one of the first VR games that Ubisoft revealed that they were working on, and today during Ubisoft's E3 press conference, the dev team finally got to show it off. Eagle Flight is a…

June 13, 2016 | 06:13 EDT

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E3 2016 PC Gaming Show - Giant Cop

Despite someone forgetting to check their microphone settings during the PC Gamer Show, things proceeded along right into a gameplay trailer of Giant Cop: Justice Above All.  The VR title doesn't…

June 13, 2016 | 04:00 EDT

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E3 2016: VR Puzzler Statik Announced!

Statik is a new game debuting at E3 2016 for the PlayStation VR.  The Swedish-based indie development team, Tarsier Studios, has previously worked on DLC for titles in the LittleBigPlanet franchise,…

June 10, 2016 | 12:30 EDT

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E3 2016: Moto Racer 4 Coming to PlayStation VR

E3 is just around the corner, and the launch of PlayStation VR won’t be too long after that. So, it’s fitting that this summer we will begin to learn more about the games that will be launching with…

June 10, 2016 | 12:12 EDT

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The Lab Gets Better at Science in Update

Valve's HTC Vive introduction game, The Lab, is a group of minigames available for free that give a good example of how HTC Vive works. It appears Valve thinks they can give a better example though,…

June 7, 2016 | 08:30 EDT

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AltspaceVR Unveils Slack Integration

AltspaceVR, an application allowing for virtual meetups, has just launched their integration into Slack, a popular team messaging tool. This integration will allow teams to quickly get together in a…

May 4, 2016 | 05:15 EDT

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Crytek Releases VR Game The Climb

Crytek, once a watermark for excessively intense graphics, have renewed that claim with their new virtual reality game for the Oculus Rift, The Climb. Based around challenges and competition, The…

April 29, 2016 | 05:47 EDT

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Minecraft Pocket Edition Comes To Gear VR

Cultural touchstone Minecraft has been released into its first-ever virtual reality incarnation this week. Players of a new VR-enabled Minecraft Pocket Edition, the pared-down version for smartphones…

April 28, 2016 | 04:35 EDT

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tinyBuild Announces Stage Presence, their First VR Title

tinyBuild, publisher of such games as Speedrunners and Punch Club, announced today their intention to publish their first virtual reality title, known only as Stage Presence.  The game was announced…

April 25, 2016 | 04:43 EDT

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Dean Hall releases Out of Ammo in Early Access

In a time of experimentation for VR games, Dean Hall, most known for DayZ has released a VR shooter/towerdefense/builder. The game is called Out of Ammo. It allows the players to be in an overview of…

April 16, 2016 | 02:49 EDT

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Augmented Reality, CCG and an Academy Award winner meet in Hologrid: Monster Battle

Someone say that 2016 is the year of VR. While the statement itself is debatable, it's undeniable that something in the industry started moving in that direction now that the technology reached a…

March 30, 2016 | 10:00 EDT

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Here's What You Get When You Buy The HTC Vive

The most expensive VR kit announced thus far has to be the HTC Vive, the headset that was the result of a collaboration between smartphone and tablet manufacturer HTC and Half Life developer and…

March 29, 2016 | 08:20 EDT

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[Rumor] Sony Working On PlayStation 4.5

Because games now are more demanding than ever, it seems like the current generation of consoles are having an even harder time keeping up than they already were. Now that Virtual Reality is slowly…

March 18, 2016 | 03:58 EDT

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Elite: Dangerous Gets Official Oculus Rift Support For Free

If there ever was a game that seems like it's tailor-made for virtual reality, then Frontier Development's space game Elite: Dangerous has to be one of the top contenders. With the release of the…

March 11, 2016 | 09:20 EST

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Valve's VR Headset Will Have "Limited" Release in 2015

Valve confirmed its launch plan for its upcoming virtual reality headset, the HTC Vive. Valve stated the first Vive units will be available "later this year," to the public, however, only a "limited…

August 29, 2015 | 01:24 EDT

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Oculus Unveils New Controllers and Microsoft Partnership

Oculus has kicked off E3 season early with a press conference announcing their VR control solution as well as a few details surrounding its launch. It will be available to buy in stores in early 2016…

June 11, 2015 | 05:24 EDT

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Steam offers Oculus Rift competitor Vive, gratis

PC gaming hegemony Valve are offering their Vive VR headset, a direct competitor to the existing Oculus Rift, to several developers free of charge. In what is presumably a canny effort to popularize…

March 29, 2015 | 01:07 EDT

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The Complete Steam 'Universe' To Be Unveiled At GDC 2015

It looks as though Valve Software has finally nailed down a finalized version of their Steam Controller, along with some previously announced and unannounced hardware. Click the jump to find out more…

February 24, 2015 | 10:30 EST