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Good news if you’re of the mind set that HTC Vive isn’t currently expensive enough. The Vive VR system released earlier this year in the UK for a really actually pretty hefty 689. You could add 57.60 for P&P, too, bringing the total to a skin melting 746.60. HTC has …

Often considered as inferior to visual flair by developers, quality audio design is just as important to delivering an engaging virtual experience. We ask aural authorities for their advice

Xbox One and PC critical hit Inside should be out on PS4 before the end of August. VG247 has word from a trusted source that the game will hit Sony’s console some time at the end of August. Inside is the second game from developer Playdead, which rose to prominence …

Devs also recommended to make games for players that remain seated

With credits in franchises as iconic as BioShock, Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid, Batman and Far Cry, Troy Baker is undoubtedly one of the industry's most prolific voice actors. In an expansive interview, he looks back upon his career and examines why games remain his greatest passion

The first season of ELEAGUE, Turner’s CS:GO league, concluded on Saturday evening and pulled in some incredible numbers. There was more than 168,500 concurrent streams on Twitch for Saturday’s final, with approximately 48 million gross minutes of video consumption across TBS and Twitch. The final was also responsible for 2.9 …

The game is out in less than two weeks, but for one gamer that was simply too long to bare. A Reddit user going by the name Daymeeuhn has paid out a truly mind blowing $1,300+ to land an early copy of No Man’ Sky. He then proceeded to dump …

The 34th edition of the Golden Joystick Awards will be open to the public for the first time ever. Starting today, balcony tickets are being sold to attend the ceremony, which is once again taking place at the Indig02 at London’s O2 Arena on November 18th. The tickets cost 10 …

John Broomhall kicks off our Audio Special by asking sound designers to question the most important part of their work

The clock is ticking on the online services for the Disney Infinity series. Having announced its abandonment of the franchise in May, Disney has now revealed a systematic timetable of server shutdowns that will see the series turned off on every format. Polygon reports that the first of these changes …