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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Oculus Rift gets priced (and pricey) and PS4 dominated the holidays

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 8, 2016
3 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, everyone’s freaking out about the Oculus Rift’s $600 price, Candy Crush gets some jelly, and Activision...

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Marvel Heroes publisher Gazillion loses chief exec David Brevik

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 8, 2016
3 min

After more than two years as CEO and 6.5 years at the company, game creator David Brevik has resigned from online game publisher Gazillion...

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How virtual reality gaming will change the world in 2016

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 8, 2016
4 min

The new generation of VR is ready to deliver on promises. 2016 will see the launch of three new VR systems, and this time around we're pretty sure that the technology is indeed up to the task.

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Adding gaming to the classroom boosts concentration, study finds

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 8, 2016
2 min

Children in the U.K. could soon be playing a lot more games at school. A new study has found that turning learning into a computer...

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Alienware gamer PC bundled with Oculus will cost $1,600

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 8, 2016
2 min

Alienware will “invest” in making virtual reality a hit when it launches on the PC later this year by bundling the Oculus Rift with...

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Google’s Project Tango will enable cool augmented reality games (hands-on demo)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 8, 2016
3 min

Larry Yang, a former member of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 hardware team, gave me a demo recently over at his new job at Google. Yang...

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Oculus’ pricing ‘misstep’ was a clever marketing ploy

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 7, 2016
2 min

The big mystery behind Oculus’ $599 preorder fiasco was how a savvy company like Oculus, owned by a savvier company called Facebook, could fail...

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Tech company Catalis forms entertainment division after acquiring studio Curve Digital

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 7, 2016
1 min

The British game-development scene got a bit of a shakeup today. The Catalis Group, a tech conglomerate, acquired Stealth Inc 2: A Game of...

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Final Fantasy XIV Yugiri voice actor Sian Blake found dead

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 7, 2016
1 min

Law enforcement in London has confirmed that Final Fantasy XIV and EastEnders star Sian Blake, 43, is dead, according to the BBC. Police found her...

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The best StepMania players in the world will melt your eyeballs

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 7, 2016
1 min

Some of the best gamers in the world have gathered near Washington, D.C. this week, and some have fingers so fast, your mind probably...

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