Lone Echo II Arrives Aug. 24 On Rift, Play On Quest Via Link

The last announced Oculus Rift exclusive title, Lone Echo II, will launch on August 24 for $39.99 and it will be playable on Quest from a VR-ready PC via Oculus Link or Air Link. Lone Echo’s impressive single-player campaign in 2017 was one of consumer VR’s early standouts for hand-controlled interaction and the original game […]

A 24 Karat Gold Nintendo Wii Made For The Queen Is Up For Sale

A 24 karat gold-plated Nintendo Wii made for Queen Elizabeth II has been put up on eBay, currently for sale for $300,000. At first we weren’t quite sure why the Queen was being dragged into this, but it’s probably prejudice to assume she also doesn’t fancy a bit of Super Mario from time to time, right? […]

ESPN among broadcasters for 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual

A host of major broadcasters including ESPN in the USA and Eurosport pan Europe and pan Asia will televise the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, bringing the exhilarating combined world of motorsport and esports to a potential 400 million plus homes across the globe. A special TV show covering this unique event will […]

New XCOM game coming April 24 with a twist on turn-based gameplay

There’s another chapter in the story of XCOM, Firaxis Games’ reboot of the venerable turn-based strategy franchise. It’s called XCOM: Chimera Squad, and it’s coming very soon: The stand-alone game is due out for Windows PC on April 24. The game focuses on a group of 11 named characters, brought together in a new location […]

Qcraft raises over $24 million to train autonomous vehicle systems in simulation

Qcraft, a robotics startup focused on autonomous vehicles (AV) development, this morning announced that it raised over $24 million in seed funding. The company says it’ll use the capital to further develop its large-scale intelligent simulation platform, which generates driving scenario data that enable engineers to optimize autonomous systems’ motion planning and decision-making. A simulation-based […]