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VR players may soon be able to have their real-life hand movements accurately recreated in game. A Sony patent is described at length in itsofficial paperworkas: Aglove interface objectcomprising at least one flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of at least one finger portion of …

Brighton-based outlet comprises much of the team behind Mind Candy’s World of Warriors

Sony has discontinued the PlayStation TV in Japan, a little over two years after the machine first debuted in the territory. Game Informer reports that the news was revealed on the device’s official Sony product page. The future of the console began looking especially bleak in November when it was …

Control solution for virtual reality comprises a glove filled with filled flex and contact sensors which translate hand shapes and movements into virtual objects and actions

Two brand new releases fly to the head of the UK All Formats charts. Far Cry Primal shoots to No.1, marking Ubisoft’s first top spot of the year. Games in the Far Cry series normally launch in the busy Q4 period. GfK notes that this is the first entry in …

Microsoft’s AR glasses will cost $3,000 and include Young Conker, Fragments and RoboRaid as games demos

Popular toys and video game entrepreneur Fergus McGovern passed away at the weekend. He was just 50. McGovern is best known for co-founding Probe, a games developer that had worked on a number of major video game franchises including FIFA, Alien, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mortal Kombat. He sold …

A second VR headset now has an official UK price. HTC has announced how the $800 it is charging for Vive in the US will translate on this side of the pond. The number it has produced? 689. By today’s exchange rate $800 is worth about 576, so that’s a …

New Pokmon titles Sun and Moon will be localised into Chinese, The Pokemon Company has revealed. In a short Nintendo Direct (below), the Japanese firm’s boss Tsunekazu Ishihara (pictured) said that the two new games would be available in nine languages at launch, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese. In addition, …

The co-founder and studio head of COD developer Sledgehammer Games has said that the industry must start confronting its diversity problem. As reported by Games Industry, a 2005 report from the International Game Developers Association found that 88.5 per cent of developers were male, 83.3 per cent white and 92 …