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Oculus Touch controller delayed, won't ship alongside Rift
Oculus Touch controller delayed, won't ship alongside Rift
Oculus' Touch controller won't be shipping alongside its Rift virtual reality headset as originally thought, with the company explaining it needs more time with the tech before release.
Jan. 4, 2016
Activision purchases Major League Gaming
Activision purchases Major League Gaming
UPDATE: The purchase is confirmed. Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard has agreed to purchase the majority of North American eSports outfit Major League Gaming's assets.
Jan. 4, 2016
Steam Spy: Last year the paid Steam games market hit $3.5 billion
Steam Spy: Last year the paid Steam games market hit $3.5 billion
Based on data gathered from his Steam Spy analytics platform, programmer Sergey Galyonkin reports that people spent roughly $3.5 billion on full, paid Steam games -- not F2P games or DLC -- in 2015.
Jan. 4, 2016
Obituary: Veteran game composer Brad Fuller
Obituary: Veteran game composer Brad Fuller
Gamasutra has learned that Brad Fuller, a veteran composer who crafted the sound of Atari classics like Marble Madness and Tetris, passed away over the holidays after a long bout with cancer.
Jan. 4, 2016
10 years later, Garry's Mod surpasses 10 million copies sold
10 years later, Garry's Mod surpasses 10 million copies sold
Over the weekend Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman announced that Garry's Mod, the physics engine playground that got its start as a Half-Life 2 mod, has now sold over 10 million copies.
Jan. 4, 2016
The Butt-Stab and the Bloody Baron Effect: Coining a new game dev lexicon
The Butt-Stab and the Bloody Baron Effect: Coining a new game dev lexicon
There are plenty of things we see in games over and over again -- but we don't have words for most of them. Thanks to Vlambeer's Rami Ismail, we're on our way to building a new lexicon.
Jan. 4, 2016
Fail0verflow Group Hacks PlayStation 4 to Run Linux
Fail0verflow Group Hacks PlayStation 4 to Run Linux
A group going with the handle of ''fail0verflow'' hacked PlayStation 4 and run Pokémon on it --- The group used a WebKit flaw to access the Linux Free BSD
Jan. 2, 2016
WhatsApp Down on New Year’s Eve, Faced Outage WorldWide
WhatsApp Down on New Year’s Eve, Faced Outage WorldWide
The famous messaging service WhatsApp is down around the world with people complaining on Twitter how they can't connect, send or receive messages from their
Jan. 1, 2016
7 uses of procedural generation that all developers should study
7 uses of procedural generation that all developers should study
What elements of your game could a well-defined algorithm do a better job at creating than you? Here are seven different games that hit upon an array of interesting answers to that question.
Jan. 1, 2016
DoS Attack on Steam Exposed Details of 34K Users on Christmas Day
DoS Attack on Steam Exposed Details of 34K Users on Christmas Day
A DoS attack reportedly revealed account details of around 34K users of Steam, a popular gaming platform, to others.
Dec. 31, 2015
Get a job: Glu Mobile is hiring a Game Designer
Get a job: Glu Mobile is hiring a Game Designer
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood developer Glu Mobile is looking for a game designer to join their team in Long Beach, California and work on creating new "celeb games" for mobile platforms.
Dec. 30, 2015
Designing games that let livestream viewers take part in the play
Designing games that let livestream viewers take part in the play
Robot Loves Kitty designs games in which stream viewers can take part and even change the outcome. 'This is a new genre in our minds, and we want to dive in,' says producer Alix Stolzer.
Dec. 30, 2015