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Facebook’s Oculus sale proves that videogames now write the first draft of history
What do gamers know? Well, an awful lot.
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Project Morpheus will kill us all
Virtual reality is coming, and it is terrifying.
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Facebook purchases Oculus Rift. Wait, what?
This is not the polar caps are melting post. Presumably, somewhere in the fine print, something about this business transaction makes sense. Facebook has laid on the table 2 billion dollars in cash and stock options to purchase the crowdfunded virtual reality headset maker outright. Now before we g
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Through the Oculus Rift: SightLine captures the illogical logic of Lewis Carroll
The interesting thing about SightLine is how it fucks with your sense of perception in manifold head-trippy ways: it’s like psychosis without actual psychosis, beautiful-looking and equally terrifying. For one, it’s played in virtual reality, and that’s always a bit unnerving. But it’s also one of t
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Sony introduces future of videogames with accidental Matrix reference
Discarded project titles: Neuromancer, Lawnmower Man, Cyberhat.
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Sony to blow lid off not-so-secret VR headset next week
Edge is reporting that Sony is indeed developing an Oculus Rift competitor and plans on lifting the lid on it next Tuesday at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. (We’ll be there with bells on.) This news comes to us by the same wings it usually does: anonymous developers blabbing about hot
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Oculus Rift game about hitchhiking zombies takes Best in Show in Kyoto
The Oculus Rift game Modern Zombie Taxi Driver has taken top spot at Bit Summit, the indie game festival in Kyoto. Yes, there is such a thing as Japanese independent games. Not much info is out there on this zombie-bussing game so far aside from a hands-on impression by Destructoid, which says that
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New PBS Game/Show asks if you will suck at virtual reality
Virtual reality has the potential to cause the most tumultuous sea change in games, well, since virtual reality. The tech was introduced back in the ‘80s, but the thing is, it never materialized into anything, except for that mobile VR cave I played once at the mall. Now, things are different. Affo
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Squeak for joy! Classroom Aquatic was successfully funded
We were unsure if this day would come. Primarily because Classroom Aquatic is a virtual reality game about a class full of dolphins cheating off each other, and the Kickstarter project was asking for $30 thousand. Dolphin-game lovers like me surely recall the cruel fate of the ECCO the Dolphin comeb
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Eve Online and Oculus Rift devs say VR will help us transcend "the atoms of this particular earth"
Avatar fan-fests, virtual hands, and meta world peace will all be possible.
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Dadaist cartoon gets Oculus Rift support, awesomely
A glitched-out cat doing standup. A pooping pile of poop with stick legs. A cute plastic frog porn star, who looks like a friendly neighbor from Animal Crossing. These are but a few of the bizarre cartoon characters that you can possess in Character Mirror, the virtual reality “thing” by the awesome
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This guy is building Ocarina of Time’s Kokiri Forest in virtual reality
Sometimes you can go home again, at least in virtual reality. A guy going by Dark Akuma is recreating Link’s happy boyhood village from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Oculus Rift. The software allows you to explore the quaint woodland clearing from the Nintendo 64 game in all it’s bloc