​The Prophet of Virtual Reality

​The Prophet of Virtual Reality

Palmer Luckey, the the man behind Oculus virtual reality goggles, is shockingly young. He may be responsible for one of the current hottest things in tech, but he’s just 21. And he says the kind of things people that age say when they’re bold enough to dream out loud.

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​The Creators of Rock Band Are Making A Musical First-Person Shooter

​The Creators of Rock Band Are Making A Musical First-Person Shooter

Are you in the mood for a very different kind of multiplayer first-person shooter? How about one in which the arena you’re in morphs to the music that’s playing, where your machine gun makes music, where your grenades only blow up on the downbeats and the missiles you fire will keep stalking your enemy as long as you keep tapping the shooting button to the beat of the music?

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Bold Move, Nintendo

Bold Move, Nintendo

Here is the next big game for Nintendo’s Wii U displayed on my TV. Do you see something strange in this picture?

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Nintendo Will Release New Platform In 2015-16 (But It’s About Health?)

Nintendo Will Release New Platform In 2015-16 (But It's About Health?)

During a presentation in Tokyo earlier today, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made a surprising announcement: the company will in 2015-16 be releasing a new platform. For your health.

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Angry Birds Maker: We Do Not Collaborate With Spies

Angry Birds Maker: We Do Not Collaborate With Spies

The maker of Angry Birds, one of the world’s most popular video games of any type, today said it "does not share data, collaborate or collude with any government spy agencies." The statement follows a report yesterday that said American and British spies have harvested data collected by the game.

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30 Years Later, One Man Is Still Trying To Fix Video Games

30 Years Later, One Man Is Still Trying To Fix Video Games

Chris Crawford owns 29,216 small plastic beads. Each bead is one of eight colors, and there are 3,652 beads in each color group. One bead represents a single day in Crawford’s life. Each color group, therefore, represents one decade. The yellow beads are his childhood. The black beads are his teens. The greens are his inexperienced twenties, the oranges his restless thirties, the navy blues his settling forties and so on, all the way up to bead 29,216, which will represent his eightieth birthday.

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Valve’s Steam Machine Delivered To Homes, Gets Unboxed

Valve's Steam Machine Delivered To Homes, Gets Unboxed

As promised, the lucky beta testers of Valve’s own first-party Steam Machines are starting to get their consoles…computers…whatever. Here are a couple of unboxings, showing off not only what they get in the box, but also a pretty snazzy shipping case.

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The 12 Best Games for Mac

The 12 Best Games for Mac

Hey, look! A sleek computer with a piece of fruit embossed on it. Contrary to popular belief, there’s loads of games to be played on Apple’s OS. The best twelve await you below.

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Memories Of Doom, By John Romero & John Carmack

Memories Of Doom, By John Romero & John Carmack

Twenty years ago, on December 10, 1993, John Carmack, John Romero and the rest of the team at upstart id Software unleashed a game called Doom upon the world. Twenty years later, both men have written about their favorite memories of the game for you and all fans of Doom to read. Here they are, in their own words…

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The 12 Best Games on PC

The 12 Best Games on PC

PC gamers have got a pretty great thing going. Interesting, experimental indie games? Yup. The shiniest, most visually impressive versions of big-budget games? Yeah, they get a lot of those, too.

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