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Oculus VR acquires 3D mapping startup Surreal Vision
Facebook Inc.-owned Oculus VR has announced that it has acquired Surreal Vision, a U.K.-based startup that specializes in 3D mapping and image recognition. Surreal Vision says its company works on “bringing super-human visual perception to the emerging fields of mixed reality and autonomous robotics,” and now it will be part of Oculus’ ongoing virtual reality ...
Facebook’s EU woes continue as regulators clamp down
Facebook Inc has become a veteran of the battles fought over online privacy, data security and net neutrality, and it does not look like the social network will be free from scrutiny any time soon. For several months, the social network has been at the center of a series of privacy investigations by various privacy ...
The Witcher 3 is the biggest launch of the year in the UK
It looks like multiple delays were not such a bad idea after all for Polish game studio CD Projekt RED. The studio’s recently released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which had been pushed back nearly half a year, has easily topped every other game launch in the U.K. so far this year and is also performing exceptionally ...
Oculus VR founder faces lawsuit for fraud and breach of contract
Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey is facing a lawsuit from his former employer, Total Recall Technologies, which claims that Luckey unlawfully passed off the work he did for the Hawaii-based company as his own when he created Oculus Rift. Total Recall claims that Luckey was hired to work on a head mounted display for the company ...
Linux usage on Steam is going down, not up
Linux fans have been predicting the downfall of Windows and the rise of Linux for a while now, but it looks like Windows is still the king of PC gaming. Even worse for Linux users, it looks like usage rates of the operating system have actually dropped slightly on Steam, dipping below 1 percent of all ...
In honor of Geek Pride Day, what is a geek?
Long before geek became a fashion statement, it was a subcultural movement that could include everyone from band kids to mathletes and everything in between. The geek label has been applied so liberally lately that it is hard to define just what exactly a geek is anymore, and with today being Geek Pride Day, now is a good ...
Educational games are more effective when they’re hands-on, study finds
Using video games as an educational tool is not a new concept, and edutainment titles have been around since at least the days of Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Lately, educational games have been moving into the mobile space much like everything else, but a recent study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University shows ...
Interested in getting banned from World of Warcraft? HonorBuddy bots are back
Despite Blizzard Entertainment’s massive ban of thousands of players earlier this month for using bots to play World of Warcraft for them, the makers of the HonorBuddy have said that they are staying in the automated cheating business and will soon re-launch their service. If the online game community were high school, then the bot making groups behind tools like ...
Nvidia Gameworks rep fires back at AMD: “[GameWorks] does not impair performance on competing hardware”
The public battle of words between AMD and Nvidia rages on after the recent accusations that Nvidia intentionally tweaked code tank the performance of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on AMD cards. Earlier this week, AMD’s chief gaming scientist, Richard Huddy, claimed that Nvidia’s HairWorks code “completely sabotaged our performance … it’s wrecked our performance, almost ...
Ex-Rovio EVP Jami Laes launches new game studio: Futureplay Games
Earlier this year, Rovio Entertainment’s head of games, Jami Laes, left the Angry Birds studio to pursue other projects, and now Laes is launching a new mobile game studio in Finland called Futureplay Games. “Mobile games are doing better than ever in the past 15 years that I’ve been in the industry, but the future looks even brighter ...