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The virtues and pitfalls of playing as a man (if you’re a woman)
Videogames should follow Facebook’s lead on gender.
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Are gamers ready to share the Oculus Rift?
I sure hope so.
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Modern folk hero Notch continues to walk lonely road of truth
Markus Persson, Minecraft creator and final incorruptible soul of our degraded age, has walked tall against the corporation men once again. After learning of the purchase of Oculus Rift by Facebook—perhaps by listening to the mournful cries of prairie coyotes—the man called Notch spoke out in the ca
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Palmer Luckey on why the Facebook merger makes VR’s future even brighter
The reaction to the news of Facebook buying Oculus Rift could be classified as reactionary, as reactions tend to be. But according to Rift founder Palmer Luckey, there are some very good reasons to be enthused about the buyout. Talking with the Reddit community, Luckey explained how the move will on
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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