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The latest Oculus Rift development kit will start to ship to pre-order customers this month, Oculus VR has announced. In a post on the product’s official forums, Oculus VR’s Andres Hernandez confirmed that the first wave of Oculus Rift DK2 units are expected to arrive on July 14th. The company …

MCV’s sister publication ToyNews is to hold a new one-day conference and business networking event for budding toy and game inventors. The Toy & Game Inventors Workshop will take place at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Road, London E1 on Monday, September 22nd. The event will provide both practical advice to …

Team moving into new office as publisher aims to add 100 staff to studio over the next three years

Disgaea and Persona publisher NIS America has opened a new European online store. Great news, right? Wrong. Consumer feedback on the company’s Facebook page suggests people are less than happy with the proposed pricing. The new outlet offers Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited Limited Edition on Vita for 49.99, Danganronpa …

Unity's Anthony Douglas discusses the financial risks taken by studios big and small

More big names sign up to back next week's celebration of development excellence

Virtual reality is a serious part of PlayStation’s future, according to Sony’s UK boss Andrew House. "It’s definitely more than an experiment,” he told The Guardian. We’ve made some commitments; we’re putting significant investment into the product. "With Oculus we saw this groundswell of game development that didn’t necessarily have …

We talk to Creative Assembly’s creative lead Al Hope about the Oculus Rift prototype that will give you nightmares

A Hearthstone tournament in Finland has actively banned females from participating. And even more absurdly, the company running the competition has argued the move was made as part of its effort to promote e-Sports as a legitimate sport”. PC Gamer reports that the IeSF World Championship, organised by the Finnish …

Ubisoft has secured a very respectable No.2 in the Japanese charts with the PS4 version of Watch Dogs. The PS3 SKU charted at No.5, according to the weekly Japanese Famitsu data. In the hardware charts Wii U sales are narrowly back on the up and still tracking ahead of PS4. …