Vince Zampella, head of EA-owned Respawn Entertainment, ex-CEO of Infinity Ward, and co-creator of Call of Duty, died on December 21 at 55 in a single-car crash
A tragic holiday season for the family of a beloved game industry figure. Andrew Weil / WCNC-TV : Report: ‘Call of Duty’ co-creator Vince Zampella killed in car crash Kevin Dolak / The Hollywood Repor...
Amid poor sales, Sony halts sales and offers refunds for its FPS game Concord, which launched as a $40 PS5 and PC title on August 23 after years of development
8yrs in game development. 2 weeks of availability. Priced at $40, this AAA title made only $30,000 on PC sales & never reached 700 users online. — And with that, Sony Playstation is refunding the ...
Lenovo Legion Go review: nice screen, detachable controllers, and FPS mode that simulates a mouse but using Windows is frustrating and terrible battery life
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Makers of CVCheat claim their computer vision-based cheat tool can offer “undetectable” “full auto-aim and auto-shots” for any game on PC, Xbox, or PlayStation
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica : Tweets: @yangcliu , @tylerglaiel , @flugazi , @eposvox , and @storagezilla Tweets: Yang / @yangcliu : Kernel anticheat has been useless for the most dedicated hackers for...
Statespace, whose software recreates the physics of popular FPS games to help players work on their weaknesses, raises $15M Series A led by Khosla Ventures
Statespace has today raised a $15 million Series A financing round led by Khosla, with partner Samir Kaul joining the board.
Leap Motion to release Project North Star, a low-cost open source AR headset dev kit with wide field of view, 1600x1400 display at 120 FPS, robust hand tracking
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Leap Motion to release Project North Star, an open source AR headset dev kit with wide field of view, 1600x1400 resolution at 120 FPS, powerful hand tracking
Over the last few weeks, Leap Motion has been teasing some very compelling AR interface prototypes, demonstrated on an unknown headset.
A rundown of VR experiences that stood out at Oculus' event, including several FPS games and an illustration program
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Lytro's Cinema 755-megapixel light field camera offers 40K resolution at 300 FPS, could make green screens obsolete; rental packages start at $125K
Lytro's 755 megapixel Cinema light field camera is going to kill the green screen — Lytro is taking its rich, volumetric 3D camera capture technology into the world of TV and film.
Consumer-ready Oculus Rift teardown: two OLED displays with a combined resolution of 2160x1200 mounted to adjustable lenses, 90 FPS refresh rate
Oculus Rift CV1 Teardown — We've had two prerelease versions on our teardown table, so we're excited to see what tweaks this Rift has in store.