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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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‘Angry Birds Movie 2 VR’ Studio Raises $2M to Continue Development on AR/VR Games

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XR Games , the studio behind couch co-op VR game The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure (2019), has secured $2 million (£1.5 Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Leeds, England, Angry Birds Movie 2 VR was its second VR game, coming after their first production, the Cardboard game All-Star Fruit Racing (2018).

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‘Shadow of the Colossus’ Creator Fumito Ueda is ‘Interested In Creating Something For VR’

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Even after the belated release of The Last Guardian , Fumito Ueda remains an interesting figure in the Japanese gaming industry, and someone we’d love to see work in VR. Ueda’s games have a distinct feeling to them. A game purely consisting of boss fights, you climb massive beasts and attempt to take them down.

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XR News Round-Up: Grimlord, Mannequin, VAIL, Subside & More

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While gaming news has been relatively quiet beyond Trombone Champ: Unflattened , Halo: Combat Evolved and Asgard's Wrath 2 , this week's Black Friday sales have seen a huge number of offers for VR games , Vive , Pico 4 Ultra , and PS VR2 headsets. December is nearly upon us and there's been plenty happening this last week. Patch 1.01

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VR in 2016: HTC’s $799 Vive Brings Belief To VR Skeptics

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HTC kept the crowds guessing over the holiday season with a tease that it was adding a ‘game changing’ feature to Vive that we would see at CES in the first week of January. These devices were essentially new games consoles this year, and you wouldn’t catch many people laying down that much cash for any new machine.

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PSVR’s Psychonauts Launches February 21st, PS4 Pro Support Confirmed

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This isn’t the long-awaited sequel to the 2005 game (though that is on the way), but instead a VR-exclusive story set right after those events. Double Fine also has a new 3D 360 video screenshot for the game, which you can check out on PSVR itself using the YouTube app, or watch on a smartphone or browser.

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PlayStation’s VP of Marketing: PS VR Is a Step Towards the “Holy Grail Of Gaming” Experiences

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This Thursday, October 13th, Sony is launching the PlayStation VR worldwide. With this hardware launch, virtual reality will be making a larger push into people’s homes through the familiar path of their game consoles. John Koller, VP of Marketing at Sony PlayStation // Image Source. Many of the games are pick up and play.

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