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Zenimax’s lawsuit against Oculus VR and its parent company Facebook will move forward, after separate motions to dismiss by the latter two firms were denied. Polygonreports Facebook’s motion to dismiss due to a number of errors” in Zenimax’s allegations was shut down by US District Court judge Jorge A. Solis. …
Read More »The face of things to come
Tarquin Henderson, head of EMEA Gaming Sales at Facebook, sat down with MCV to talk about the firm’s plans for Gamescom, wider industry trends, and what the social network giant is doing to push video games to the masses. What brings you to Gamescom? Gamescom is a big deal for …
Read More »Nintendo to host Super Mario Maker ‘hackathon’ at Facebook HQ
The world’s biggest social network is to play host to the world’s most popular Italian plumber. In celebration of the upcoming launch of Super Mario Maker, Nintendo is to take the DIY Mario title to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on July 28th and 29th. The social network holds …
Read More »Oculus Rift unlikely to launch this year
Facebook maintains that pioneering VR headset is "very much in the development stage"
Read More »2015 arrival looking unlikely for Oculus Rift
It’s looking increasingly unlikely that the pioneering virtual reality headset Oculus Rift will launch this side of Christmas. We have not announced any specific plans for shipment volumes in 2015 related to Oculus," Facebook CFO David Wehner told analysts, as reported by Gamasutra. Oculus is very much in the development …
Read More »Oculus debuts first in-house film at Sundance
Oculus VR’s Story Studio has debuted its first film – an animated short dubbed Lost” – at the Sundance Film Festival this week. Variety reports on the film, which was developed specifically for a virtual 360-degree environment. It is intended to unfold in about five minutes,” in which the viewer …
Read More »No sex please, we’re Facebook
Why are so many consumers reacting badly to video game Facebook advertising? The social network’s global director of gaming sales, Rick Kelley, tells MCV why publishers ought to cover up their salacious stars… At London Games Conference, you described Facebook as being a personal newspaper. What did you mean? Your …
Read More »Google offering bonuses to YouTube stars as rivals circle
Bonuses are being offered to some of YouTube’s biggest stars in an attempt to stop them being lured away by rival networks, a report has claimed. A person close to the company told The Wall Street Journal that YouTube has been in a fire drill” led by global head of …
Read More »Zuckerberg hits back at Cook, insists the customer is ‘the product that’s being bought and sold’
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has bitten back at what some saw as a closeted attack on the company by Apple boss Tim Cook. In September Cook said: A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re …
Read More »Technology is destined to ‘sit directly on our face’… which sounds potentially uncomfortable
Facebook’s VP of content and media partnerships has offered a somewhat unsual assessment of what the future of technology has in store. "If you think about the trends in computing technology over the last 50 years, we went from mainframe computers – which were very impersonal and distant – to …
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