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Game analytics company DeltaDNA has secured $3m in series A funding, the Scotland-based outfit has announced. The latest round of fundraising brings the total investment in the firm to $5m, which will fuel its initiative to expand business across North America and Europe. The game industry has come a long …
Read More »Consumer Oculus Rift is ‘months, not years away’
The consumer release of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is a matter of months away, says the firm’s CEO. Speaking at the Web Summit 2014, as reported byThe Next Web, Brendan Iribe said a consumer version was close, though did not set a specific release date. We’re all hungry …
Read More »Consumer Oculus Rift ‘months away’
'We’re getting very close,' says Brendan Iribe
Read More »Sledgehammer co-founder: Call of Duty community is not toxic or misogynistic
Misogyny is not common within Call of Duty’s online community, Sledgehammer’s co-founder and head of development Michael Condrey has said. "Like a lot of areas of society there are examples of people behaving poorly," he told the BBC. "I certainly wouldn’t characterise the community of fans I know and had …
Read More »Free Ubisoft games offered to Nvidia GTX graphics card buyers
Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Far Cry 4 and The Crew – those buying a new Nvidia graphics card this Q4 can take their pick. The hardware specialist is offering a free download of one of these games to anyone who picks up either a GeForce GTX 980, 970, 780 Ti, or …
Read More »EFF wants to grant players power to maintain abandoned online games
Publishers of games that have an online component may be forced to hand them over to gamers if they cease to support them. Gamasutra reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed legal paper seeking six exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, one of which seeks exemptions for games …
Read More »Android: What game devs need to know about the future of Google’s OS
ARM's Nizar Rhomdhane looks at the opportunities that will soon be in developers' hands
Read More »EA Access members get to play Dragon Age: Inquisition five days early
Dragon Age: Inquisition will be available for subscribers to EA Access five days ahead of its general release. The game is released in the UK on November 21st but will be playable on Xbox One via EA Access from November 16th. As is the way with EA Access trials, however, …
Read More »GamesLab reimbursing West Midlands devs 50% of hardware and software costs
Qualifying expenditure on single project must total between £2,000 to £10,000
Read More »GAME hands out £1.08m in Reward Points via Virtual Loyalty Shares
Retailer GAME has over the weekend rewarded 8,000 customers with a big slice of free store credit. When GAME floated in the summer it also handed out what it calls Virtual loyalty Shares to 20,000 customers. Most received 100 worth, although 10 were given 1,000 of the virtual shares. 8,000 …
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