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May 2015 NPD: PlayStation 4 tops console sales as The Witcher III has strong debut

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 11, 2015
3 min

Total new physical game-related sales at U.S. retailers generated $507.6 million in May, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That is down 13 percent from $584.9 million last year.

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PlayStation 4 outsells Xbox One in May, according to NPD data

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 11, 2015
1 min

The PlayStation 4 was back on top last month. After the Xbox One surprised everyone by outselling thePS4 in April, Sony has come charging back to own hardware sales in May, according to data from research firm The NPD Group.

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Up close with the Oculus Rift VR headset and the Oculus Touch motion controller (photo gallery)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 11, 2015
3 min

Here's some photos from the big Oculus event in San Francisco.

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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.