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New app used to raise awareness of real world issues

Moderator shuts subreddit down, claiming it's become a "hate filled wastehole"

Eight of the main developers behind Kerbal Space Program have left the studio, but Squad assures fans the game will live on. In a post on Reddit eight developers announced their departure from the Kerbal Space Program team. Mike (Mu), Bill (Taniwha), Nathanael (NathanKell), Sbastien (Sarbian), Jim (Romfarer), Brian (Arsonide), …

Beyond Good & Evil creator Michel Ancel has seemingly confirmed that a sequel is in development. After weeks of posting images related to the Beyond Good & Evil series to his Instagram with little more than cryptic messages, Ancel posted another image, this time of a Rastafarian rhino, with a …

Company intends to look for new talents and attend more public-facing events

Mike Bithell has revealed his next project, EarthShape, which is a Daydream View VR game featuring Sue Perkins from The Great British Bake Off. EarthShape initially started out as a small side project for Bithell when working on Volume Koda. Made up of Unity store assets he was playing around …

Not one to be left behind Google has finally entered the world of VR, we’ll just ignore Google cardboard, with Daydream View. The new VR headset is designed to be used with the new Pixel phone, which was also announced yesterday. Much like the Samsung Gear VR, slotting your phone …

Google has announced the Pixel, the first phone made entirely by the search giant with no other companies involved. The Pixel features the best smartphone camera ever, with a 12.3MP camera featuring an f/2.0 aperture and big 1.55 micron pixels, which certainly sounds impressive. It also comes loaded with the …

An angry mod has taken it upon themselves to completely close the No Man’s Sky page on Reddit. User ‘Rougewolf’ blamed the toxicity that had infected the community for the move. Eurogamer reports that the subreddit had 150k subscribers at the time of its closure. So I purged the subreddit,” …

Jeremy Soule warns fans to be "wary"