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Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will go live this week. The company has announced that customers will be able to lay down money for the device from 8am PST (4pm UK time) on Wednesday January 6th. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey will also be doing a Reddit AMA …

Hacking group fail0verflow has taken the biggest stride yet toward a full-scale hack of Sony’s PS4. The group, which Eurogamer reports has previously been responsible for discovering exploits on the PS3, Wii and Wii U, has not only bypassed some of the machine’s security systems, however – it has even …

Execs from Wargaming, Tencent, Warner Bros and more confirmed for this month's conference

Growth expected from UK games industry in 2016, according to new TIGA survey

The price of the headset is just the beginning of what looks to be the very expensive virtual reality revolution. Nvidia has named the minimum requirements for playing VR games on PC. The cheapest compatible graphics card is the GTX 970, which currently retails for around 250. Also compatible are …

UK games execs named in 2016 New Year’s Honours list

‘VR Ready’ badge introduced in effort to make nascent technology more accessible

Platinum Games’ Xbox One exclusive Scalebound will miss its 2016 release date. Development on the game is going well and we’re really happy with how it’s coming together,” the studio said. Scalebound is one of the biggest games PlatinumGames has ever created: an epic adventure filled with exploration and fantasy …

Prehistoric survival romp Ark: Survival Evolved has become a massive hit on Xbox One. Studio Wildcard co-founder and co-creative director Jesse Rapczak revealed that the game has a bigger player count on Microsoft’s console than it does PC. Rapczak reckons this is most likely because while the survival genre is …

MCV will launch the eSports Pro Awards in November 2016 – a brand new event recognising the players, companies, games, and more behind the fast growing UK eSports scene. The eSports market was worth an estimated $612 million in 2015, with an audience of around 134 million. The phenomenon is …