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Everest VR now represents the most epic mountain climb on Oculus Rift

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2017
3 min

Sólfar Studios has launched its ground-breaking Everest VR virtual reality climbing experience on the Oculus Rift and Touch platform. VR is going through its...

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Apocalypse Now game Kickstarter canceled as fundraising shifts to website

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2017
3 min

Francis Ford Coppola’s film studio American Zoetrope and his game developers have canceled the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Apocalypse Now PC game and have shifted their fundraising efforts to the ApocalypseNow.com website.

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How to play Nintendo 3DS games on an Xbox One

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 14, 2017
2 min

Nintendo hasn’t made a Game Boy Player-equivalent for its 3DS hardware that enables you to play those games on a television, so the company’s unofficial...

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Hearthstone targets fast metagame by weakening Shaman and pirate decks

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 14, 2017
2 min

Shaman’s reign of terror on Hearthstone may end even before the beginning of the next year of Standard. Blizzard announced today that it is changing...

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Where in the world are the game jobs?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2017
16 min

Figuring out how many game jobs there are in the world is a laudable goal. But it’s easier said that done. I embarked on...

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The U.S. game industry has 2,457 companies supporting 220,000 jobs

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2017
2 min

The U.S. video game industry consists of 2,457 companies that directly and indirectly support 220,000 jobs and generate $30.4 billion in revenue, based on...

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Newzoo: Esports will generate $696 million in revenues in 2017

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 14, 2017
2 min

The audiences and events for professional competitive gaming is going to continue its growth trajectory in 2017 and beyond, and this is going to...

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PewDiePie’s anti-Semitic jokes show the peril of backing unpredictable influencers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 14, 2017
2 min

Disney’s Maker Studios and YouTube have severed ties with gaming influencer Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, after he posted nine videos with anti-Semitic images...