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Applications like Star Trek: Bridge Crew are exactly what virtual reality needs to get its feet on stable ground.

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Blizzard announced several nerfs to its core Hearthstone set in preparation for Whispers of the Old Gods, but the biggest changes can come in the most unexpected places.

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By adopting an (unintentionally) dismissive tone and hand-waving away gender as a nonissue in Rust, the Rust developer revealed a fundamental lack of understanding toward its community.

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Nintendo's mobile debut is a quirky social experiment, but probably not the best initial step into the mobile platform.

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For franchises with such strong attachments and money-generating capabilities, it's odd that both Marvel and Star Wars are so poorly represented in the gaming space. 

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E3 is going through its second seismic shift in less than a decade, and this time, it's probably going to stick.

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There's been a lot of debate over whether the first round of virtual reality headsets is priced too high for consumers, but Shacknews CEO Asif Khan is taking today to make the case for why the HTC Vive might be in just the right place, while Oculus Rift is slightly off.

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Guest writer Morgan Rehnberg explains why virtual reality may be out of reach for millions of people, and what the industry can do about it.

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For the past decade or so, anyone that has watched one of Geoff Keighley's award shows has had to sit through network-mandated nonsense, forced comedy, and celebrities that would rather be anywhere else. Last night, The Game Awards left all that behind and finally became an ...

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The decision to contractually bar Hideo Kojima from accepting an award that is rightfully his has elminated gamer goodwill, but why should Konami care when it's barely a video game company anymore?

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DidYouKnowGaming? released a video over the weekend detailing a canceled Avengers from defunct publisher THQ. Upon watching the video, it's worth wondering whether such an endeavor could still work today.

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Sledgehammer Games and Treyarch have made a pair of distinctly different Call of Duty games, but they have one thing in common. They've both helped push the Call of Duty formula forward in some substantial ways. And given how Call of Duty: Ghosts was received in 2013, that m...

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Now that Rocksteady and Warner Bros. have outlined its remaining DLC releases, we can take a fresh look at whether its $40 Season Pass was all worthwhile.

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Assassin's Creed: Syndicate will mark the first game in the series to lack a multiplayer component since it started in AC2, but is it a change for the better?