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And you thought making room for Kinect was tough? VentureBeat has spotted a Vive instruction manual uploaded by HTC that reveals the true extent of the effort needed by owners to set up their playing space for the full VR experience. The setup described is the one that is designed …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to PC merchandise
A wide range of PC accessories and goodies hit the shelves every week. MCV checks out what has been trending lately. In the UK, the digital PC software market was worth 741m in 2014, according to SuperData. It represented a nine per cent increase compared to 2013’s total of 706m. …
Read More »One third of Steam users are running Windows 10
The PCs of one in three Steam users are running Windows new operating system. According to Steam’s updated Hardware and Software survey, 32.77 per cent of users are running Windows 10. During the company’s last questionnaire, 28 per cent of users were running Windows 10. It isn’t the most popular …
Read More »Superhot aiming for PC this month
Greenlight and Kickstarter hit Superhot finally has a release date. The time-bending first person shooter, in which time only progresses when the player is in motion, will be released on PC, Linux and Mac on February 25th. Surprisingly, the game is also getting a limited physical release on the same …
Read More »Surprise! PC game boxed sales down, digital up
Sales of boxed PC games in the UK fell by more than 36 per cent, to just over 1m games sold, in 2015. The latest statistics from GfK Entertainment show that a total of just 21.3m was spent on physical PC games last year in Britain – a drop of …
Read More »Riot made $1.6bn off League of Legends digital sales in 2015, dethrones Clash of Clans
Riot Games, creators of eSports frontrunner League of Legends, reportedly made $1.6bn off the game in 2015 according to SuperData Research. The figures, determined by the market research company from publisher and payment services digital point-of-sale data, make LoL the highest grossing digital game ahead of SuperCell’s Clash of Clans …
Read More »Five Nights at Freddy’s World pulled from Steam
After what can at best be described as a troubled launch, developer Scott Cawthon has removed Five Nights at Freddy’s World from Steam. The game launched with a number of bugs and missing features, with Cawthon admitting that: There are a lot of features that this game should have had …
Read More »Five Nights at Freddy’s dev apologises for missing launch features
The developer of Five Nights at Freedys World has admitted that the game’s release was rushed and missed several key features. The RPG spin-off to the horror series was released last week but was beset with a range of problems including problematic controls and game systems that were completely absent. …
Read More »Elite: Dangerous shifts focus from Oculus to SteamVR
One of the Oculus Rift’s earliest and brightest talismans has turned heel and backed a rival device. Eurogamer reports that developer Frontier has confirmed that its virtual reality development efforts are now being focused on Steam’s HTC Vive headset. Indeed, Elite Dangerous hasn’t been updated to work with more recent …
Read More »Warner accused of abandoning PC version of Mortal Kombat X
The PC community is once again up in arms about Warner Bros’ treatment of one of its key releases. The publisher has announced a new version of the game called Mortal Kombat XL, which features the original title, all of its subsequent DLC and the upcoming Kombat Pack 2 that …
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