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The debate about Oculus exclusivity and its backing of developers continues with Oculus arguing that its actions are of benefit to the entire VR sector. HTC recently voiced stern criticism of Oculus’ model, which sees developers receiving funding in return for releasing games exclusively on Oculus Rift. Oculus VP of …

Parents need to be made aware of the potential risk posed to their kids by the gambling scene that has become associated with some video games. That’s according to the Gambling Commission, which has outlined some of its concerns in a new position paper on virtual currencies, eSports and video …

Developers create DLC and donate some of their sales to the charity

Goes from trying to break 10,000 concurrent players to hitting 100,000 for the first time

Ceremony to take place on Wednesday 12 July

Roblox planning on using investment for "support frictionless cross-platform play across PC, Xbox, Mac and Virtual Reality"

Sean Cleaver speaks to Persistant Studios CTO, Maxime Dumas, about how middleware is constantly adapting to serve the increasing demands of graphical improvement.

Successful social game Roblox has concluded a round of funding with investment totalling $92m. The game currently boasts 48m active monthly players, with some 1.7m creators adding content to its platform. And some of these do pretty well out of it, making as much as $50k a month selling their …

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has found Apple guilty of fixing the price of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 in the country. Russia first opened investigations into the issue last autumn, at which time Apple denied the accusations and insisted that retailers were solely responsible for setting the price of …

ESL has partnered with TEG Live, a major live events company operating out of Australia, to run the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney event.  The partnership will see the two companies collaborate on the CS:GO competition that is set to take place at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on May …