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LOS ANGELES—Oculus may be the best-known name in the virtual reality gaming space, but it's still lacking in one key category: motion controllers. The HTC Vive has proven how fun those devices can be in a VR game or app, and Oculus' answer, the "Touch" set of motion-tracked controllers, still doesn't have a price or a release date.
Thankfully, Oculus Touch is getting closer to a...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—At a recent press event, Square Enix reps tried to set the tone for the future of the stealthy Deus Ex games with a flashy, live-action video. The next game’s story was foreshadowed in a film called “The Mechanical Apartheid,” anchored by the story of a husband and wife divided by a very Deus Ex kind of conflict: a forced quarantine for any “Augs” who...
Last week, one of my favorite video games of the past few years, Push Me Pull You, launched on PlayStation 4 (with a PC/Mac/Linux version "coming soon"). It's not the best game of the year by any stretch, and it may not even be the best multiplayer game that we see this year—but it'll almost surely top my year-end list.
Why? I'm a couch-combat freak....
Humans routinely solve problems of immense computational complexity by intuitively forming simple, low-dimensional heuristic strategies. Citizen science (or crowd sourcing) is a way of exploiting this ability by presenting scientific research problems to non-experts. ‘Gamification’—the application of game elements in a non-game context—is an effective tool with which to enable citizen scientists to provide solutions to research problems. The citizen science games Foldit, EteRNA...
Humans are better than computers at performing certain tasks because of their intuition and superior visual processing. Video games are now being used to channel these abilities to solve problems in quantum physics. See Letter p.210
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What're those SteamVR "chaperone" grid lines doing in an Oculus-exclusive game? Find out yourself if you own an HTC Vive and use the new Revive patch on many "exclusive" Oculus games. (credit: Sam Machkovech)
In the race to the top of virtual reality, Oculus and HTC have kicked off a hardware showdown the likes of which we...
Uber is using in-app games to recruit engineers while they take a ride.
Business Insider first reported about the company’s new game, “Code on the Road,” after Microsoft engineer Joshua Debner tweeted a couple screenshots he noticed on the Uber app last week.
Uber is now offering coding questions to potential candidates while you're in an uber. How did they know I...
Live professional hockey games are coming to Yahoo.
The tech giant today announced a deal with the National Hockey League to live stream four...
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Nearly five years after the PlayStation Network was subject to a massive breach that exposed the personal data of tens of millions of users, Sony is finally sending downloadable game codes for PS3 and PSP games to those affected, as required by an earlier...
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