Nearly everyone who’s buying a new Oculus Rift headset is also purchasing its Touch motion controllers, Oculus has revealed. Speaking at a Digital Dragons presentation in Krakow last week, Oculus’ publishing and developer relations for third party content Paul Jastrzebski told developers that the recent price cuts on both the …
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HTC and Intel have teamed up to bring Intel’s WiGig wireless VR tech to the Vive, the companies announced today at Computex. HTC will also be taking on manufacturing duties for the WiGig wireless VR accessory. This isn’t the first wireless accessory that will be coming to the Vive, as …
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Square Enix and PlatinumGames’ Nier: Automata has now shipped over 1.5m units worldwide on PS4 and PC, the publisher has confirmed. Announced via Twitter this morning, the figure includes both physical and digital sales of the game, marking another 500,000 copies sold over the last two months since Square Enix’s …
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Senate Bill 240 may not sound like a particularly exciting bill, but the bill, dubbed the “esports betting bill” has enshrined into law the right for people to have a flutter on esports events in gambling capital Las Vegas. The bill, signed into law by Nevada governor Brian Sandoval, comes …
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Far Cry 5 will be arriving on PS4, Xbox One and PC on February 27th 2018, Ubisoft has confirmed, and will include support for both the PS4 Pro and Project Scorpio. For the first time in the series, Far Cry 5 will take players in the depths of rural America, …
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After more than ten years on shop shelves, Sony has finally ceased production of the PlayStation 3, according to the official Japanese PlayStation website. As translated by Gematsu, shipments for the standard 500GB model have now officially ‘ended’. Sony previously hinted at the end of its production run back in …
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Hot off the back of the digital release of its Game of the Year edition, Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch climbed 16 places in the UK charts last week, claiming the No.2 spot after a impressive 281 per cent rise in sales week-on-week. It still wasn’t enough to dislodge Injustice 2, however, …
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MIDiA Research’s lead analyst for research on games and the mobile content economy Karol Severin shares his views on Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass and how it will affect the future of the digital games subscription market. He can be reached @karel_kayo Xbox has announced that its subscription service, Game Pass, …
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PCGamesN has appointed two new deputy editors: Ben Maxwell (pictured left) from Future Publishing’s Edge magazine, and Julian Benson (pictured right), also of Future Publishing, from Kotaku UK. Benson and Maxwell will be replacing existingdeputy editor Phil Iwaniuk, who is departing the publication to pursue an MA.Maxwell will be joining …
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Twitch and Bandai Namco Entertainment America have announced an exclusive partnership to create the Tekken World Tour. The multi-year deal will not only see Twitch become the exclusive broadcasting platform for the new competitive games league, but the livestreaming service will also manage Tekken 7’s league operations, circuit events and …
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