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Team behind mobile games, including Marvel: Avengers Alliance, affected ahead of title’s closure
Read More »Oculus Touch is getting a Rift-like virtual boundary system
Oculus has plans to introduce its own take on the SteamVR Chaperone system with the next update to its pioneering Rift virtual reality holiday. Chaperone enables devs to let players know when their HTC Vive wands are approaching the edge of the device’s sensor range, thus limiting their ability to …
Read More »$100,000 awarded in latest Unreal Dev Grants
Six teams receive funds for their Unreal-powered projects and contributions to the community
Read More »Premium mobile title Reigns passes 600,000 sales
Reigns has sold more than 600,000 copies, primarily on iOS and Android. The narrative game, which mixes a Tinder-style swiping mechanic with kingdom management, was released this summer and announced this sales milestone via itsofficial Twitter account. Responding to a congratulatory tweet, developer Nerial added that the majority of sales …
Read More »Oculus adding virtual boundary system to Touch
Rift update 1.8 will introduce new tool to warn players when they’re out of sensor range
Read More »Reigns becomes latest premium mobile poster child with over 600,000 sales
Nerial’s Develop Award-nominated narrative game proves people are still willing to pay for mobile games
Read More »Layoffs at Sony San Diego studio
PlayStation has laid off an unconfirmed number of employees from its San Diego development studios. GamesIndustryconfirmed the layoffs, which closely follow around of job cuts made at the platform holder’s London Studio. The London team was just winding down after its first major VR project. The San Diego studio was …
Read More »Sony San Diego suffers layoffs
Jobs cut at Drawn To Death and MLB developer in wake of London Studio redundancies
Read More »Sony London Studio suffers layoffs
An unknown number of jobs have been cut from Sony’s London Studio as work begins to wrap up on the team’s first virtual reality project. Having developed many of the game prototypes for PlayStation VR – or Project Morpheus as it was originally known – the studio has been working …
Read More »Layoffs at Sony London Studio ahead of first VR launch
But company will continue to develop new games after London Heist is released
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