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Valve reckons it has cracked the motion sickness problem that virtual reality headsets cause with a number of players. Boss Gabe Newell admitted to The New York Times that he’d reacted badly to previous demonstrations of VR tech, describing them as the world’s best motion sickness inducers”. However, the company’s …

The creator of Minecraft and the head of Valve now rank among the world’s most wealthy individuals. That’s according to Forbes’ 2015 list of the world’s billionaries. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is back at the top of the list, his pockets lined with a plush net worth of $79.2 billion. …

The Vive VR headset won’t be Valve’s only entry into the Virtual Reality hardware market; the firm also has VR controllers in the works. Unlike the Vive, which is set for a consumer launch later this year, Valve’s VR controllers are still in a prototype phase – Valve insists the …

Unreal Engine 4-based sci-fi horror game Caffeine is expanding its launch platforms beyond Windows PC. Creator Dylan Browne has announced PS4 and Xbox One editions of the game will release alongside the PC version. The Xbox One version will be published via Microsoft’s Indie Program, ID@Xbox. Browne touched on wanting …

Alpha version of SDK now available to registered developers

Half-life VR is not real. Half-life 3 has not been announced. For many gamers today has effectively eradicated their reason for being. There was tremendous excitement among Half-life’s criminally underserved fan base yesterday when HTC chairwoman Cher Wang said that the company, which is making Steam’s virtual reality headset, said …

DayZ creator Dean Hall says that the zombie simulator chapter of his life is closed and that his attention has now fully shifted to work on a brand new title. He has teamed up with Improbable, who have produced the tech behind Bossa Studios’ Worlds Adrift. My first meeting with …

Blizzard’s MMO World of Warcraft is to offer a new mechanic that will allow players to trade gold and game time between one another. Players will soon be able to purchase WoW Tokens for real money and subsequently sell them through the in-game store for in-game gold. Buying a Token …

Gearbox’s Homeworld Remastered Collection has grabbed the top spot on Steam’s latest weekly top ten sellers chart. The release beat out Dragon Ball Xenoverse, which settled for runner-up ahead of Grand Theft Auto V (pre-orders), H1Z1 and Counter-Strike Global Offensive. Last week’s winner, Total War: Attila, fell to sxith. Pre-orders …

Smartphone powerhouse HTC has been named as the manufacturer of Valve’s virtual reality headset. The device is called the Vive. A developer version is due out this spring and the consumer version in ‘holiday 2015′, meaning that potentially it could beat big-name rivals such as the Oculus Rift and Sony’s …