At long last Sony has announced a price and release date for for its virtual reality system during its conference at the Game Developers Conference: The PlayStation VR will launch in October for $399 (£349 in the UK). That’s a fair bit cheaper than competing systems like the Ocul … | Continue reading
Sony game chief Andrew House said today that Sony is partnering with Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm to create a exclusive virtual reality version of Star Wars Battlefront for the PlayStation 4’s PlayStation VR headset. House said that Sony will launch the PlayStation VR headset fo … | Continue reading
Sony game chief Andrew House announced today that the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset will launch for $399 in October. It’s going to be a big year for VR, and the crowds at the VR sessions at the Game Developers Conference reflect that. VR is expected to be a $30 billion m … | Continue reading
Sony took to the stage today during GDC 22016 in SF to show off the consumer-ready version of its PlayStation VR headset. A good deal was already known about the company’s first foray into console virtual reality, except for a couple key ones: price and availability.Well, we now … | Continue reading
UPDATE 16/03/2016 1.31am: It looks like there's going to be a PlayStation VR / PlayStation Camera bundle, at least in North America. A Sony rep told Te… | Continue reading
Sony has finally announced the final price of the PlayStation VR. The virtual reality headset will cost $399, and it will be available in October 2016. The company announced the news this afternoon at the 2016 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA.That price could almost … | Continue reading
Washington DC's Metro, the city's subway system that is used by more than 700,000 people every day, will close for 29 hours beginning at midnight tonight — all day on Wednesday, in other words. The closure will allow the inspection of electric cables in the system following an el … | Continue reading
Sony just took the wraps off of the final consumer version of its PlayStation VR headset at its event at GDC 2016. The final version looks very similar to the headset Sony first showed off way back in 2014, but it has a slightly different lighting pattern on the outside. Sony say … | Continue reading
Twenty-five members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently sent a letter to the Academy's board of directors voicing their concerns with parts of the Oscars that perpetuated Asian stereotypes, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The jokes in question came during … | Continue reading
Accounts of racism, sexism and discrimination are unfortunately way too common in the tech industry. The latest comes from Amélie Lamont, a black woman and former employee at website creation company Squarespace, who was fired after slapping a co-worker at a bar. Lamont was a cus … | Continue reading
Secret Cinema has revealed that its nightclub concept, Secret Cinema X will return for one night on Easter Saturday (26 March). | Continue reading
Join us live from San Francisco to see the future of Sony's virtual reality efforts, and stay tuned as we get a hands-on look at new games and hardware. Continue reading… | Continue reading
I don’t like to use words like ‘brilliant’ lightly, but seriously, the Irish Startup Wake at SXSW really was that. Failure is something that has become fetishized in the startup world. At some point in the past few years ‘it’s okay to fail’ became ‘failure is cool.’ But there’s s … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: The battle for high-quality mobile users has never been more fierce. Find out how companies who are killing it in UA are achieving phenomenal success — without paying through the nose. Register here for free. Most apps fail. That’s the simple, brutal, but honest truth … | Continue reading
When you learn to ride a bike, you’re bound to encounter the cold, hard reality of gravity. But after hitting the pavement, chances are you’ll get back up and try again. And again. And again. The same principle applies to social media content, only instead of riding on the paveme … | Continue reading
Startup Peerio today announced the availability of its encrypted messaging app on both iOS and Android. They’re a long time coming; Peerio first launched in January 2015, but it’s only been available on desktop, and the alpha and beta testing for the mobile apps — which support c … | Continue reading
What's the old saying: "Sometimes you hit the bus. And sometimes the bus hits you"? I know it's something like that.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Either way, it shouldn't happen to Google's self-driving cars anymore because the tec … | Continue reading
ARM and TSMC are continuing their tradition of teaming up to bring the world a commercially viable 7nm chip. | Continue reading
Medium is quickly evolving into a powerful, feature-rich platform for publishers, but today the company is taking new steps to surface its best content for readers. With new updates to its apps for Android and iOS, Medium is switching up the home screen to highlight new "collecti … | Continue reading
Crime reporting applications for smartphones aren’t new, but the US Army hopes that ‘iWatch Army’ can boost its efforts to shore up military installments against crime and terrorism. “iWatch brings the concept of the neighborhood watch to the Facebook generation,” said founder Da … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has another hit franchise in its stable. The publisher revealed today that its online shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division has had best first week ever for a new games franchise. Previously, its opening day sales were the best in the company’s history. According to Ubisoft, … | Continue reading
Instead of jumping back and forth between apps to figure out your ride and where you want to go, Google is combining the two for your convenience.Google Maps is adding a new feature to that allows you to look at information for ride services like Uber right in the app. The new ta … | Continue reading
This War of Mine [$3.99] put gamers in an awkward position when it came out because while the game is great in so many ways, it was tricky saying that you really enjoyed a game about the despair of civilian population in warzones. This was a game about war at its grittiest, and w … | Continue reading
Campaign season should be more than just stump speeches; it’s a chance for us to evaluate how our future leader will handle the many tech opportunities and challenges ahead. In the absence of a clear vision from any of the candidates, we’ve laid out a tech agenda that could help … | Continue reading
Andy Kelly, one of our project managers here at Ignite Visibility, noticed a new fetch as Googlebot option today, “Mobile: Smartphone – Upcoming.” Here we see the new option. New Fetch as Googlebot Option in Search Console This mysterious new option has the SEO community wonder … | Continue reading
A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that a U.S. lawsuit claiming that Japan’s Mizuho Bank inflated customers’ losses directly by limiting withdrawals from their Mt Gox accounts, as the now-defunct exchange’s banking partner, can move forward. Furthermore, the Judge also rejected … | Continue reading
So, over the past few days I've been playing an early build of Obsidian's Pathfinder Adventures (formerly known as Pathfinder Adventure Card Game), and if you like RPGs, CCGs, and the feeling of rolling dice for your life, I think you're going to love this one. If you don't know … | Continue reading
Akira Tago, the puzzle designer behind the Professor Layton series, passed away on 6th March at 90 after falling victim to interstitial pneumonia.Prior to his work on Professor Layton, where he is credited as a "puzzle master", Tago was a psychologist and wrote a series of best-s … | Continue reading
Many claim that Pope Francis is the most liberal Pope to date, and with his decidedly left-wing stances on gay marriage, economics and the environment, it’s hard to argue. Now, Pope Francis is set to drop liberal politics in exchange for liberal use of hashtags and filters by joi … | Continue reading
The universal reaction to Atlas, the newly upgraded next-generation humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics (a company owned by Alphabet), was lots of empathy. Unmindful of being punched, pushed and teased, it focused on finishing tasks in a demo video. People who watched the video r … | Continue reading
Ooyala's latest Global Video Index reveals pertinent information to help marketers strengthen video strategies. | Continue reading
As part of their initiative to launch 100 smart wearables this year, today Fossil has unveiled seven new models, two of which are Android Wear. | Continue reading
While card game mechanics seem to be in almost every game on the App Store recently, you won't hear many complaints from me because I've always enjoyed card games, from Ascension [Free] to Hearthstone [Free] and beyond, although their themes are often a bit too similar. VEmpire: … | Continue reading
When the pilot for AMC’s upcoming series adaptation of Preacher screened at SXSW yesterday — to rapturous applause from the fan-heavy crowd — much of the focus was on directors and executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. But the secret weapon of the show is writer/showr … | Continue reading
The Division has set a new world record for biggest week one sales of a new IP, Ubisoft trumpeted.That's right, it even toppled Destiny. (Though Bungie's sh… | Continue reading
GitHub just changed the way code reviews are handled, and it will probably leave developers with a lot more time on their hands. Saying the changes are meant to make GitHub “faster and more flexible” for teams, developers can now filter pull requests by extensions. If you’re the … | Continue reading
Crytek announced today that it is changing its business model to “pay what you want.” It is also setting up a $1 million indie game development fund. The new business model is a bold bet that relies on the kindness of fellow game developers. The company made the announcement as p … | Continue reading
Have you ever wondered when you should be posting on social media? We have discovered that the best days and times vary across each social media platform. Keep our infographic on hand the next time you want to optimize the number of likes, clicks or retweets on your post. Read o … | Continue reading
The expression “timing is everything” could not be more true when it comes to posting on social media. It’s one thing to create fresh and exciting content, but what’s the point of posting something if your audience is not seeing it? Posting content at the right time, on the right … | Continue reading
In a clearly stated analysis and opinion blog post about the costs and benefits of doing either a hard fork to a 2 MB block size limit versus going with the “Hong Kong Compromise” Segregated Witness (Segwit) upgrade, Sam Cole offers the perspective from that of a Bitcoin miner in … | Continue reading
There’s virtually no drama in the story of a successfully recovered addict, plodding dutifully through the daily fight for sobriety. But there’s plenty of drama in a story about addicts buckling under pressure, giving in to their worst impulses when it matters most. That simple e … | Continue reading
A judge has rejected a claim by Mizuho Bank that a class action lawsuit related to its involvement in the collapse of Mt Gox should move to Japan. | Continue reading
ILMxLab has just revealed its first trailer for the upcoming Vive-exclusive VR experience Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine. | Continue reading
Crytek unveiled its next-generation video game development engine, CryEngine, with support for virtual reality headsets. The Frankfurt, Germany-based company made the announcement at an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, sa … | Continue reading
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Without the right tools, working with social media clients can be frustrating. Here are 3 reasons why Facebook Business Manager is your lifesaver. | Continue reading
With the primaries in full swing and the election just months away, a handful of new (and new-ish) Google search features make researching and tracking your favorite — or least favorite — candidates even easier. The best part is, you don’t even have to leave Google Search results … | Continue reading
Which is more effective? Content marketing or native advertising? The difference between the two is that websites charge sponsors to place native advertising that looks like editorial content whereas websites accept and publish content marketing pieces as an actual part of their … | Continue reading