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Microsoft announces Minecraft Marketplace for buying third-party content

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 10, 2017
2 min

Microsoft has announced a new Minecraft Marketplace, enabling fans of the popular sandbox block-building game to purchase add-ons developed by third-party creators. Players have previously only been able...

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Shipyard Games raises $2.9 million from Clash Royale maker Supercell

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 10, 2017
2 min

Clash Royale maker Supercell has invested $2.9 million in Helsinki-based Shipyard Games, which is making a location-based mobile game. The deal is the second example...

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Star Trek: Bridge Crew is great in VR because it feels authentic

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 9, 2017
4 min

Before setting out to work on a VR project it’s important to hone in and focus on something specific as a core mission. Do...

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Watch us play Yooka-Laylee: a pretty, messy successor to Banjo-Kazooie

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 9, 2017
2 min

Banjo-Kazooie was one of the standout platformers of the early 3D era, and even though that genre has fallen out of favor compared to...

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Dallas emergency siren hacking is like a scene out of Watch Dogs 2

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 9, 2017
2 min

On Friday night, hackers took control of all the emergency sirens in the city of Dallas. The city’s warning system of 156 sirens started...

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OptiTrack adds realism to shooting games in VR

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 9, 2017
2 min

When you suit up for an OptiTrack demo, it feels pretty serious. First, the demo guy puts a very heavy machine gun in your...

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Sixense’s Siege VR takes advantage of VR motion controllers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 9, 2017
3 min

Virtual reality immerses your eyes in another world, but it still isn’t that great at bringing the rest of you into it. The HTC...

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Looking back on HTC Vive’s first year

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 9, 2017
5 min

One year ago HTC Vive started arriving for buyers. It was $200 more expensive than its chief competition, the Oculus Rift, but the headset...

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How one father is helping his daughter with VR

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 8, 2017
2 min

This is Imogen. She’s seven years old and lives in the UK. She likes to visit the seaside, play arcade games, and loves to...

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Kickstarter for mechanical Atari Pong game table enters its final days

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 8, 2017
3 min

Tabletop versions of Atari Pong used to be the rage in the 1970s. And now a team at Calinfer in Uruguay is reproducing what...

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