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Microsoft HoloLens dev kit arriving in Q1 2016 for $3000| #Windows10devices
For a device that is not even in the hands of developers yet, Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset has certainly captured the imagination of the tech savvy public. It will likely be quite some time before the device is actually available for purchase by consumers, but HoloLens is one step closer now with the announcement that developer ...
Star Citizen dev threatens The Escapist with lawsuit over “slanderous” article
Last week, gaming news and community website The Escapist published an exposè on Cloud Imperium Games, the game studio behind the $90 million crowdfunded space sim game Star Citizen. Drawing on anonymous sources claiming to have worked at Cloud Imperium, the article accused the studio of toxic work conditions, racism, ageism, and an inability to live up to ...
Valve begins selling Steam hardware through retail stores like GameStop
In a bizarre role reversal, Valve Corp has announced that it will start selling Steam products through physical retail locations like GameStop and EB Games. Select stores will soon have “Steam Sections” that will sell products like Steam Machines, Steam Controllers, and Steam Link. Since current Steam users are already familiar with the service’s digital distribution model, the move to retail ...
Facebook announces plans to beam internet access to Sub-Saharan Africa via satellite
Social media giant Facebook, Inc. announced Monday that it would be partnering with French satellite company Eutelsat Communications SA to bring free basic internet access to parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. The new partnership is part of Facebook’s Internet.org initiative, whose goal is to introduce internet access to developing countries by building infrastructure, partnering with local service providers, ...
PAX Pokémon party planner pays $4k in fines with the help of crowdfunding
A few months ago, The Pokémon Company filed a lawsuit against Larkin Jones, the planner of the “5th Annual Unofficial Pokémon PAX Kickoff Party” at PAX Prime, claiming that the event “created derivative works of, distributed copies to the public, and/or displayed publicly Pokémon Works without the consent or authority of [The Pokémon Company].” Jones quickly cancelled ...
Microsoft buys gaming middleware maker Havok from Intel
Microsoft is now the new owner of Dublin-based Havok Inc, a producer of middleware software for game developers and special effects studios that was previously owned by Intel Corp. Microsoft and Havok announced the acquisition in a joint statement today, which promised that Havok’s technology would still be licensed out to third parties. “As we ...
Activision scrambles to fix disastrous ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5’
It seems that Activision Publishing Inc wanted to prove that Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment isn’t the only triple-A publisher capable of releasing a completely broken game in a major franchise. This time, however, we get to see the meltdown happen on consoles instead. This week saw the release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, the first numbered entry in ...
Star Citizen devs subjected to “toxic” work environment, report claims
Update: According to information posted on the r/StarCitizen subreddit, the sources used by The Escapist may have been lifted from user reviews on Glassdoor.com, which can be submitted by anyone. We will update our coverage as more information becomes available. Update 2: The Escapist has responded to the accusations that it took its quotes from Glassdoor complaints, ...
Batman: Arkham Knight will finally return to PC four months late
While console gamers have had the time to play through Batman: Arkham Knight a few dozen times by now, PC gamers have still been waiting for Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment Inc to fix the game’s incredibly broken PC port since, which was pulled from digital store shelves in June. The publisher released an interim patch in ...
Call of Duty pulls hilariously bad PR stunt with fake terrorist news
They say that no publicity is bad publicity, and it appears that the creators of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 decided to put that theory to the test by posting a series of tweets reporting fake terrorist activity in Singapore. Apparently, quite a few people who either live in Singapore or know people who do are not ...