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Oculus VR has announced its Oculus Connect 2 developer conference will take place this September. The second annual Oculus Connect will return to the Loews Hollywood Hotel from September 23-25, with registration for the event kicking off sometime next month. Keynote speakers will include Oculus CTO John Carmack, chief scientist …

Fire Emblem: Awakening is nearing – and possibly already surpassed – 2m sales, according to developer Intelligent Systems. VG247 points to a new promotional page for the upcoming Fire Emblem: If, which confirms the game has sold 1.79m copies as of December 2014. Five months have passed since the figure …

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has dethroned Grand Theft Auto V in Steam’s latest weekly top ten sellers chart. In fact, The Witcher as a franchise had itself a very nice week. Along with the first place finish for Witcher 3, CD Project Red’s release also filled the list with …

The release of F1 2015 has fallen back one month. Codemasters’ racing title will now be coming out on July 10th, falling out of its previously-announed June release window. This is still much earlier in the F1 racing season than last year’s F1 2014, which came out in October. Speaking …

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A 17-year-old member of hacker group Lizard Squad has pleaded guilty to 23 charges, including swatting. This is as reported by local Canadian news publication Tri-city News – and spotted by Ars Technica. The teenager can’t be identified because of his age, but has admitted to crimes including extortion, public …

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World of Tanks firm teams up with Belarus mobile dev Melesta Games

New live-streaming service DingIt says it will launch a 24/7 eSports streaming channel. The Twitch rival launched in February of this year, and the firm says it has already grown its user base from 7,000 to over 100,000 in two months. We have about 250,000 broadcasters on board and had …