Palmer Luckey on Oculus' Facebook deal: "You will not need a Facebook account to use or develop for the Rift"
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In a week’s time, I’m sure, we’ll all be able to say ‘Facebook are buying the Oculus Rift’ without all the incongruity alarms in our heads wailing - just like we’re now able to say ‘Tesco invaded Poland’ as historical fact.
Oculus, however, are beginning a long, careful process of reassurance. Sickeningly youthful inventor Palmer Luckey has taken to Reddit to pooh-pooh the idea that Facebook might turn the good ship Oculus away from games, or disassemble the company and sell it for scrap.
“I am sorry that you are disappointed,” he told one fan. “To be honest, if I were you, I would probably have a similar initial impression! There are a lot of reasons why this is a good thing, many of which are not yet public.”
Todd Howard praises "passion and dedication" of Zenimax Online as Elder Scrolls hits third decade
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In their first 10 years making the Elder Scrolls series, Bethesda built a name for themselves - and in the 10 since, a major publisher has grown around them. But all the while, a central team has quietly assembled intricate webs of systems and clifftop panoramas.
Like their flagship series, Todd Howard has been at Bethesda for two decades now. Looking back, he’s proud of the fact that the team have “always started over” when approaching a new Elder Scrolls game - and is pleased sister studio Zenimax have done the same for The Elder Scrolls Online.
Wolfenstein: The New Order release date is either larger or closer in Europe and Australia
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Last time Bethesda tried to announce something about Wolfenstein’s release, it was buried beneath the deafening rumble of ten thousand people intoning: “DOOOOOOOOOOM”.
Now that it has room to breathe, however, we can appreciate MachineGames’ Riddick-indebted adventure shooter on its own terms. And enjoy the knowledge that we’ll all be tackling the alternate reality Third Reich together as a sort of international taskforce.
Titanfall DLC will be $10, but new game modes will be free
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By the time I bought into Battlefield 4, I was two map packs behind - even after DICE had momentarily halted DLC development to tackle the shooter’s pervasive bugs.
There’s every chance that new quarters of Angel City will be opened up exclusively to Titanfall players willing to play extra in the coming months - but we can rest assured that any new game modes will be made available for everyone with the base game.
Why Oculus chose Facebook
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Here’s the thing about Oculus: although they’ve have made great progress in building their VR headset, there’s still so, so much to be done. VR as a concept is now inevitable. The progression of technology is absolutely predictable, and the foundations we need for good VR are already here. We have fast, high resolution mobile displays. We have processors and GPU’s that are powerful, and efficient enough to drive them. We have fast firing motion sensors, and excellent cameras able to track human movement.
Oculus’s job isn’t necessarily to invent absolutely everything from scratch. It’s to join the dots into one magic headset. And to do it faster and better than everyone else.
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