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Control solution for virtual reality comprises a glove filled with filled flex and contact sensors which translate hand shapes and movements into virtual objects and actions
Read More »HoloLens Development Edition to launch next month
Microsoft’s AR glasses will cost $3,000 and include Young Conker, Fragments and RoboRaid as games demos
Read More »Valve beautifies Counter-Strike: GO visuals with new lighting and shaders
Super sampling for displacement surfaces, cascade shadow maps, phong specular highlights and map blending among graphical improvements made to shooter
Read More »Microsoft scraps Android-to-Windows app porting programme
Announced last year, Project Astoria was designed to allow game devs to easily translate mobile code for PC
Read More »Pokémon Go dev Niantic chocks up another $5m in funding
Financial backing from companies including The Pokémon Company, Google and Nintendo now totals $25 million
Read More »Cyanide takes over Call of Cthulhu development from Frogwares
Blood Bowl team to helm up PC and console title in absence of Sherlock Holmes dev
Read More »Ori dev warns of lack of launch games for Nintendo NX
The platform holders’ obsession over keeping their new consoles a surprise is damaging their relationships with devs, the head of Moon Studios has argued. Thomas Mahler, CEO of the Ori and the Blind Forest creator, took to aNeoGAFdiscussion about the mystery of Nintendo’s upcoming NX console to air his complaints. …
Read More »FarmVille creator moves to Moonfrog
Former Zynga SVP of games Mark Skaggs will serve as director for Indian mobile studio founded by ex-Zynga devs
Read More »Ori dev: ‘Nintendo NX will have no software support at launch’
Secrecy over new console hardware is the ‘single most annoying thing for every dev’ says Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler
Read More »Ex-EA exec Keith Ramsdale joins Testronic as COO
Former VP of EU major markets for triple-A publisher moves to QA and localisation specialist
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