Oculus Rift used to design prototype vehicles at Ford facilities
Ford has teamed up with virtual reality headset developer Oculus Rift and motion capture company Vicon to “prototype and evaluate vehicles in a virtual environment”.
Intel at CES 2014: dual-boot Windows and Android PCs, Steam Machine support
Intel’s CES 2014 keynote including some interesting developments for anybody on the look out for a new gaming PC.
Outrise in development by industry veterans, blends Shadow of the Colossus & Left 4 Dead
Outrise is a new shooter project that brings together talent from Ubisoft, Crytek and Hawken studio Adhesive Games. Project lead James Wearing has billed the game as a blend of Shadow of the Colossus and Left 4 Dead. It features grunts fighting big stompy robots. You guys like those, right?
Sony Online Entertainment considering single subscription model over all games for $14.99
SOE boss John Smedley has revealed that the MMO studio is considering a single subscription model across all of its titles, as discussed in a post on Reddit.
Oculus VR founder, Stanley Parable writer & more make Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list
Forbes has published its latest ’30 Under 30′ list, which recognises influential people out there in the wide world. The gaming top 30 list features a few notable entries from across the games industry this year.
Alien: Isolation product listing appears on Xbox.com with synopsis & screens
Alien: Isolation – the new tie-in from Total War studio The Creative Assembly – received a product page on Xbox.com briefly before Microsoft pulled it. The entry revealed new details about the game.
Steam Machines: Valve posts official brochure online
Valve has posted an official Steam Machines brochure online, giving insight into the rigs, pricing, manufacturers and more.
Hitman statement: IO Interactive project still ongoing, Square Montreal doing mobile games
Hitman publisher Square Enix has sent VG247 a statement regarding the cancellation of its Montreal team’s off-shoot project.
The Division delayed into 2015, source suggests – rumour
The Division could have been delayed into 2015, according to an anonymous source from within Ubisoft Massive. This could be utter bollocks though, so make of this what you will while we investigate further.
American McGee’s Grimm out now on Steam
American McGee’s episodic fairytale romp Grimm has launched on Steam in its entirety, following a successful Greenlight campaign.
EGX Rezzed gets DayZ developer session and interview
DayZ creator Dean Hall will deliver a “special” session at EGX Rezzed in March, and engage with fans via a live interview. More »
Alienware Steam Machine is the one Valve believe will "make the most Steam users happy"
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Its existence was news to us yesterday, and today Alienware’s Steam Machine is barely visible in the mind’s eye - an image built only on figures of its proportions and ports, devoid of any real idea of what’s inside. But Valve’s Greg Coomer says that Alienware’s new box is the Steam Machine more of us are going to come to know than any other.
“It's what we hoped would happen when we began this relationship about a year ago,” Coomer told The Verge. “This machine is the one that we think is actually going to serve the most customers and make the most Steam users happy.”
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