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Everything Oculus VR announced at its pre-E3 Rift event today

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 11, 2015
2 min

Oculus VR held a media briefing today where it announced some of the details of its virtual-reality headset, which will launch in the first quarter of next year. We’re still waiting on a few other important pieces of information, but first, let’s cover what we do know.

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Playmation bands together with toys-to-life games to suck more money out of you

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
June 11, 2015
4 min

Playmation takes the toys-to-life idea in an unexpected, but potentially lucrative, direction.

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The Oculus-Microsoft alliance is just a stopgap, not a powershift

Posted byby Jason Wilson
June 11, 2015
2 min

It's really a marriage of convenience, one born from the need both the Xbox company and Oculus have for content and devices until they have thriving ecosystems of their own.

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Watch us play the ultra-rare Nintendo World Championship 1990 cartridge

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 11, 2015
1 min

The Nintendo World Championship cartridge is a retro gaming treasure.

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Windows 10 can stream Xbox One games to Oculus Rift VR

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 11, 2015
2 min

Microsoft is cozy with Oculus VR, and the two companies have worked together to ensure the headset works well on Windows 10.

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Steam’s community is down

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 11, 2015
1 min

Steam Workshop, discussion forums, and more are not working this morning.

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Oculus Touch is the wireless input system for virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 11, 2015
2 min

The new wireless hand controls were designed to work with VR from the ground up.

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Oculus VR invests $10M for virtual reality indie games

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 11, 2015
1 min

SAN FRANCISCO — Oculus has its Rift headset and many games coming next year — and it’s creating a pipeline for more with a fund to encourage indie developers to make virtual reality games.

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Oculus shows off its first virtual reality games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 11, 2015
2 min

Oculus has begun to reveal games for its Rift virtual reality headset.

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Oculus Rift virtual reality headset comes bundled with an Xbox One controller

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 11, 2015
1 min

This is huge win for Microsoft, which already had a big following in PC gaming with the Xbox 360 controller, and it ties a prominent VR platform to Windows.

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