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The last major Call of Duty tournament of the Black Ops 3 season has been canceled due to Hurricane Matthew, which is due to hit Florida this week. UMG Orlando was due to take place this weekend between October 7th and 9th, however with Hurricane Matthew also expected to hit …
Read More »Deus Ex: Mankind Divided becomes PS4’s first HDR compatible game
High Dynamic Range support was added to PS4 via its 4.00 patch last month, but until now no games have actually supported the feature. However, that has now changed with news that Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has been updated to offer HDR visuals on Sony’s machine. It has …
Read More »Eight Kerbal Space Program devs leave the project, but will be replaced
Eight of the main developers behind Kerbal Space Program have left the studio, but Squad assures fans the game will live on. In a post on Reddit eight developers announced their departure from the Kerbal Space Program team. Mike (Mu), Bill (Taniwha), Nathanael (NathanKell), Sbastien (Sarbian), Jim (Romfarer), Brian (Arsonide), …
Read More »Beyond Good & Evil 2 appears to be in pre production
Beyond Good & Evil creator Michel Ancel has seemingly confirmed that a sequel is in development. After weeks of posting images related to the Beyond Good & Evil series to his Instagram with little more than cryptic messages, Ancel posted another image, this time of a Rastafarian rhino, with a …
Read More »Mike Bithell unveils Daydream VR game EarthShape
Mike Bithell has revealed his next project, EarthShape, which is a Daydream View VR game featuring Sue Perkins from The Great British Bake Off. EarthShape initially started out as a small side project for Bithell when working on Volume Koda. Made up of Unity store assets he was playing around …
Read More »Daydream View is Google’s new VR headset
Not one to be left behind Google has finally entered the world of VR, we’ll just ignore Google cardboard, with Daydream View. The new VR headset is designed to be used with the new Pixel phone, which was also announced yesterday. Much like the Samsung Gear VR, slotting your phone …
Read More »Google announces new Pixel phone
Google has announced the Pixel, the first phone made entirely by the search giant with no other companies involved. The Pixel features the best smartphone camera ever, with a 12.3MP camera featuring an f/2.0 aperture and big 1.55 micron pixels, which certainly sounds impressive. It also comes loaded with the …
Read More »No Man’s Sky subreddit suddenly closed
An angry mod has taken it upon themselves to completely close the No Man’s Sky page on Reddit. User ‘Rougewolf’ blamed the toxicity that had infected the community for the move. Eurogamer reports that the subreddit had 150k subscribers at the time of its closure. So I purged the subreddit,” …
Read More »Google unveils Daydream View VR headset, new titles from WB, CCP and Mike Bithell
plus 50 additional titles before the end of the year
Read More »Why North America won’t fail in Week 2 of Worlds
Here we are again: With more than a little dj vu, North American clubs are 6-3 after the first week of games at Worlds. It’s the same three teams—Team SoloMid, Counter Logic Gaming and Cloud9—and the same overall regional record with the second round-robin looming. Read more on ESPN >>>
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