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How Brass Tactics makes VR real-time strategy accessible to core and casual gamers

Hidden Path CEO Jeff Pobst shares learnings from the design decisions behind the Oculus-published tabletop battler

March 8, 2018 James Batchelor

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Oculus Rifts stop working

UPDATE: Company fixes expired software certificate that left VR headsets inoperable for the better part of a day

March 7, 2018 Brendan Sinclair

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Oculus Rift becomes leading VR headset on Steam

Latest hardware and software survey puts Oculus Rift two points ahead of HTC Vive

March 5, 2018 Ivy Taylor

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Starbreeze partners with Emaar Entertainment VR Park

Swedish developer provides four brand new experience for VR park in world's most visited shopping destination

March 5, 2018 Ivy Taylor

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Augmented and mixed reality revenue to overtake VR by 2021

AR/MR revenue expected to double to $3.2 billion this year

Feb. 26, 2018 Ivy Taylor

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Facebook pulls VR shooting demo from display at CPAC

"We regret that we failed to do so in the first place," says Facebook VP of VR

Feb. 26, 2018 Ivy Taylor

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Viveport Subscription increases price

Monthly price of VR service will rise from $7 to $9; storefront says it will now "regularly" give out codes for free games as well

Feb. 15, 2018 Brendan Sinclair

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Bandai Namco opens two virtual reality arcades in south England

Plans to further expand the operation across the UK throughout 2018

Feb. 15, 2018 Ivy Taylor

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Viacom Next VR/AR studio shuts down

Developer of Smash Party and Transformers: Cade's Junkyard axed as part of larger layoffs at Viacom

Feb. 8, 2018 Brendan Sinclair

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Starbreeze plotting IPO for StarVR

Games firm confirms discussions with partner Acer for future of location-based virtual reality company

Feb. 8, 2018 James Batchelor

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Vreal looks ahead to VR "tipping point" with $11.7m Series A round

VR figurehead Chat Faliszek and Maker Studios veteran Chris M. Williams will join the board of VR broadcasting startup

Feb. 7, 2018 Matthew Handrahan

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Latest Steam survey puts Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with equal market share

Oculus Rift closes 8.3% gap since August

Feb. 5, 2018 Ivy Taylor

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Games industry generated $108.4bn in revenues in 2017

$82bn generated by free-to-play games, esports on track to be a $1bn business in 2018

Jan. 31, 2018 James Batchelor

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Sony patents suggest VR-driven redesign for PlayStation Move

Updated motion controllers will include analog sticks and finger tracking technology

Jan. 30, 2018 James Batchelor

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Tencent takes minority stake in Skydance Media

Reports suggest the stake in Skydance Interactive parent is worth $100 million

Jan. 26, 2018 Matthew Handrahan

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Epic Games acquires Cloudgine

Unreal Engine maker picks up cloud compute specialists who worked on Crackdown 3, Oculus Toy Box

Jan. 22, 2018 Brendan Sinclair

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Oculus Start program aims to lighten the load for VR devs

Facebook-owned VR company is offering "access, support and savings" to thousands of developers

Jan. 18, 2018 Matthew Handrahan

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Operation Apex: Teaching conservation through virtual reality

UK developer Curiscope tells us how it uses VR to convey the wonders of the ocean - and how we're ruining them

Jan. 9, 2018 James Batchelor

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Facebook partners with Xiaomi to bring Oculus technology to China

The Mi VR Standalone mobile headset will be exclusive to Chinese market

Jan. 9, 2018 Ivy Taylor

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HTC unveils Vive Pro

Redesigned headset features higher resolution displays; wireless adaptor compatible with all Vive headsets ships Q3 worldwide

Jan. 8, 2018 Brendan Sinclair

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Sony expects 130 PlayStation VR games this year

80% increase driven by 2 million install base, company says

Jan. 8, 2018 Christopher Dring

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VR/AR startups drew record investment in 2017 - Report

Digi-Capital says $3 billion haul led by Magic Leap, Improbable, Unity, Niantic; VR investment cooling as mobile AR ramps up

Jan. 5, 2018 Brendan Sinclair

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Combatting asocial VR with asymmetrical multiplayer

Developer MunkyFun shares how the new League of War bridges the gap between virtual reality and couch players

Jan. 3, 2018 James Batchelor

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Sumo Digital takes over CCP Newcastle studio

Eve Valkyrie team rescued by growing UK developer

Jan. 2, 2018 James Batchelor

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GamesIndustry.biz presents... The Year In Numbers 2017

We present everything you need to know about the global market value, the biggest platforms, the hottest games and more

Dec. 20, 2017 James Batchelor