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An American marketing specialist has said Facebook got it spot on about keeping quiet about the true heft of the Oculus Rift’s price tag. Until Wednesday Oculus has suggested various RRPs for the device ranging between $200 and north of $350. As a result, the actual RRP of $599 came …

Founder of 3DM predicts DRM advancements could produce impregnable games by 2018

Joint venture between Microsoft and Creative England offering up to £50,000 to promising studios outside Greater London

PC and mobile titles to use free global classification process

A mistake by platform holder Sony has seen some Vita owners accidentally getting their hands on a free copy of Legends of War: Patton’s Campaign. Sony has said that the title was mistakenly included” in January’s PlayStation Plus Instant Games Collection range instead of the intended title History: Legends of …

Employees now offered up to 10 full weeks of time away

While the internet continues to debate the hefty 500/$600 price tag handed to Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey has argued that it represents extremely good value. Not only that, but the pricing means that Facebook itself won’t be making a return on the device. To reiterate, we are not making money …

Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit and Dragons of Atlantis among ‘first-generation’ titles offloaded to Chinese publisher

DreamHack have announced two $250,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments for 2016 under the name DreamHack Masters. The events will join the Swedish Modern Times Group-owned company’s five other Open events throughout the year, and bring the total prizepool for CS:GO at DreamHack events in 2016 up to $1m. The first …

24 million users now own mobile puzzle game, with over a third of iOS users also buying Forgotten Shores expansion