Tag: RIFT
Oculus Rift Launch. Things Begin to Look Up
The 28th of March was the exciting big launch date of the Oculus Rift, when the premium VR headset would ship to those who had pre-ordered it. Except… It didn’t. Oculus originally generated a lot of excitement by shipping some units early, with some Kickstarter backers of the original devkit, who were promised a free […]
Oculus Shows Their Hand: Launch Title Prices
Oculus revealed the prices of their release titles at the Oculus Game Day event. The event was held in San Francisco, just outside of the popular Game Developers Convention, dozens of games intended for launch were being shown. There is a huge range of prices for the launch content, Adventure Time: Magic Man’s Head Games […]
Preview: Dead & Buried Multiplayer on Oculus Rift with Touch
A few blocks away from the ongoing Game Developers Conference, Oculus hosted an exclusive preview event for their launch titles and other games coming to the Oculus Rift shortly after launch. One of the games being shown was Dead & Buried, a gunslinger game that makes use of the Oculus’ Touch controllers. Dead & Buried […]
HTC unveils Vive consume edition and pre-order info
Begun the VR wars have. Today HTC has announced their final consumer production model of their VR headset the Vive. In a blog post on their website, HTC announced that the Vive pre-orders will open Monday Feburay 29th (yes that’s leap day) at 10am eastern time. The price will be $799USD, the unit will ship […]
Palmer Luckey insists “we are not making money on Rift”
So the Occulus Rift sold out at 600$. A price point that I belived would make it unobtainable for most average consumers. Way too much for me (I had budgeted for 450$), and 100$ more even than most industry estimates. Much more than what we heard in 2014 which was 200$-400$ and while this was in […]
Final Rift hardware and SDK 1.0 shipping to devs
ITS HAPPENING Occulus has officially annoucned that the first copies of the final rift hardware are “Imminently shipping”. This basically means this week, From the Occulus Rift website “If you’re shipping a Rift title in Q1, you’ll need early access to Rift hardware and new platform features to finalize your game or application. The Rift SDK […]
Community Corner: MMO’s Going F2P
With intense competition pressed upon massively multiplayer online games by the explosion of the casual gaming market, developers are re-evaluating their businesses models to maintain not only their competitive edge but their overall player base. In 2010 Turbine tossed out subscriptions for Lord of the Rings Online and replaced it with a free to play […]
RIFT Wants You To Make a Long Term Commitment
MMORPG Rift is set to expand with the release of Storm Rift, the game’s first official expansion, later this fall. Trion Worlds hopes to entice existing and returning players by offering the expansion free of charge with a one year commitment to the game. Subscribers who shell out for the one year commitment will also […]