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Microsoft: VR is big on Windows, but Xbox would need ‘a bunch of work’

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2020
2 min

Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality initiative may have brought multiple VR headsets and a substantial quantity of VR software to the PC platform, but the...

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Justin Wide is studio art director for ForwardXP

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Enterprise VR startup ForwardXP forms game division and hires art director

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 10, 2020
3 min

ForwardXP announced that it has created a new division, Forward Game Studios, and hired a new studio art director Justin Thomas. The Dallas-based enterprise...

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Nine Rocks Games is going to make it happen in Bratislava.

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THQ Nordic opens Nine Rocks Games in Bratislava to create survival sim

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 10, 2020
1 min

THQ Nordic has a new studio in Bratislava, Slovakia called Nine Rocks Games. This team plans to begin work on an unnamed “survival/shooter” game...

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Spec Ops: The Line from developer Yager.

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Tencent invests in Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 10, 2020
1 min

Tencent is making another big move in the gaming space. The Chinese megaconglomerate is investing an undisclosed amount of capital in Berlin-based game studio...

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Golf Pool is an ideal fit on VR headsets

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 10, 2020
1 min

Golf Pool VR does pretty much exactly what you would expect from it. That’s right — you play 8-ball pool with a golf club...

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Mario Kart VR gets a new location in London

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 9, 2020
1 min

There’s a new place to play Mario Kart VR in central London. VR Zone, the VR arcade arm of Bandai Namco, this week launched...

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Oculus Quest (left) connected to an Anker USB cable for Oculus Link, alongside the Oculus Rift S (right).

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Oculus Quest’s hand-tracking now turns on when you’re not using Touch controllers

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 9, 2020
2 min

Hand-tracking now activates automatically on Oculus Quest when you aren’t using the Touch controllers. The feature is the biggest change in the new v13...

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Streaming 101: 4 tips for getting started

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 8, 2020
5 min

In 2014, Amazon bought Twitch.tv for an eye-popping $1 billion. The popular streaming platform now claims to have more than 100 million monthly users,...