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Watch how Microsoft plans to change the Super Bowl with HoloLens and augmented reality

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 2, 2016
2 min

Augmented reality could change the way humans interface with everything. And Microsoft knows that, for Americans, football is everything. The Windows company released a...

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Twitch and its 100M audience is ideal for an action flick’s trailer debut

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 2, 2016
1 min

Forget about first-person shooters. Here comes a first-person movie. Twitch revealed today that it will show the first trailer for Hardcore Henry, an action...

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How virtual reality feels

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 29, 2016
4 min

We tossed around toys like kids. We played tetherball; I instantly sank back in time to elementary school, the last time I knocked a...

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4 min

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Sorry, Cowherd: Heroes of the Storm returns to ESPN2 with $500K prize pool

Posted byby Jason Wilson
January 28, 2016
2 min

Heroes of the Dorm may have brought in just a .1 Nielsen share last year, but the excitement — and business potential — of esports...

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HTC Vive gets VR game from ‘Rick and Morty’ creator and The Stanley Parable designer

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 21, 2016
2 min

William Pugh, the co-designer and writer of odd gaming experience The Stanley Parable, is working on a room-scale virtual reality game for the HTC Vive with Justin Roiland, creator of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty.

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Activision Blizzard names ‘Pulp Fiction’ producer Stacey Sher to co-lead film studio

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 13, 2016
3 min

Activision Blizzard is intent on elbowing its way into the movie business. Today, the company is announcing that it has hired Stacey Sher, a...

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Hulu shares Valve’s sentiments on VR: ‘We just want to learn’

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 13, 2016
2 min

Hulu executive Ben Smith said that the video-streaming service “just wants to learn” as it ramps up its virtual reality push. That comment, given during...

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Sony tries to trademark Let’s Play and pisses off the Internet

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 9, 2016
1 min

In the video game industry, it doesn’t take a lot to piss off your entire fan base. And Sony is about to re-learn this...

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Palmer Luckey apologizes for Oculus Rift pricing: ‘I handled the messaging poorly’

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 7, 2016
5 min

Today was a historic day for Facebook-owned Oculus VR as the virtual reality company began accepting preorders for its inaugural headset. Within hours, the...

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5 min

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2015’s funniest, glitchiest, and most ridiculous gaming videos

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 29, 2015
6 min

Being a gamer isn’t just about sitting on a couch or at a desk with a gamepad or mouse; it’s also about spending hours...

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6 min