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Arguably the biggest news to come out of Oculus Connect 3 was the reveal of a new wireless VR headset prototype. Known as Santa Cruz, the headset at first appears visually similar to the Oculus Rift, however upon closer inspection there is a clear lack of wires. Positioned on the …

The proposed acquisition of Imagine at the hands of Future has hit a stumbling block. The Competition and Markets Authority has found that the 14.2m deal, which was revealed in June, could damage the science fiction magazine market, as titles from other publishers offer only a limited competition constraint” to …

Nominees include Valve, Google, Campo Santo and others

Legal experts from Harbottle & Lewis suggest how developers can help stamp out bad and inappropriate behaviour

The Oculus Touch controllers will add a significant amount to the overall cost of Facebook’s VR system. Coming in at $199 and launching on December 6th the Oculus Touch controllers will finally allow the Rift to do room scale VR and have a more interactive input method. Pre orders for …

Recruitment agency Amiqus asks devs how they decide which tech they plan to build their games on

Your first $5m is on Oculus

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was not seen on stage at the Oculus Connect 3 keynote, probably due to his support of pro Trump memes. Luckey is usually a regular at Oculus keynotes, as you would expect, but at yesterday’s Oculus Connect 3 he was nowhere to be seen, he didn’t …

The CEO of developer Milestone, Luisa Bixio, talks to MCV about the Ride series’ performance so far, what the current racing market looks like and the studio’s growth How would you assess the performance of the original Ride? The game did well commercially. As with every new IP we faced …

The system requirements for the Oculus Rift have been lowered, making VR a little cheaper as a result. Previously the Oculus required an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics card or better, an Intel i5-4590 CPU or better, and a minimum of 8GB of RAM. However …