Valve released a list of the 100 top selling VR games on Steam in 2018, and the biggest hit gets you off the couch and puts VR lightsabers into your hands. Read More Source: Valve reveals Steam VR’s 100 best-selling games for 2018
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2018 was the year of outraged fans discovering their power
Gamers realize now that they have power, and they are using it to get what they want from gaming companies. Sometimes, that’s a bag or someone’s job.Read More Source: 2018 was the year of outraged fans discovering their power
Blockchain wins the John McAfee Award for Destroying Time and Wealth
Blockchain gaming is one of those technologies that no one is really asking for, and yet we still see a million companies rushing into the space.Read More Source: Blockchain wins the John McAfee Award for Destroying Time and Wealth
The 10 best games of 2018
FEATURE: Sometimes 2018 feels like it flew by, and sometime it feels like it was 6 years long. Either way, we’ve reached the end. And that means we need to pick our favorite games of the year. So we did exactly that. As usual, we deliberated to figure out GamesBeat’s top 10 games as well...
The DeanBeat: 12 predictable predictions on gaming in 2019
Dean Takahashi has his annual predictions about gaming in 2019, with thoughts on blockchain, esports, China, cloud gaming, and battle royale.Read More Source: The DeanBeat: 12 predictable predictions on gaming in 2019
GamesBeat Decides: The best and worst moments of the year
We put together a podcast to talk about our favorite moments as well as the memories that haunt us. Highlights include Smash’s E3 presentation and SonicFox.Read More Source: GamesBeat Decides: The best and worst moments of the year
How Starlight Is Using VR To Replace Pain Medication For Seriously Ill Children
Starlight is a well-known charity organization with the mission to create “moments of joy and comfort for hospitalized kids and their families” through a variety of initiatives. Initiatives include issuing gowns that let kids dress up as whatever they want to feel powerful, fun centers with things like video games, and Starlight Sites to transform hospitals into...
Cambridge Researchers Are Using VR To Better Understand Tumours
Researchers at the University of Cambridge developed a virtual reality app which vizualizes cancerous tumours. The project was part of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK) Grand Challenge Awards. The tumour to be analyzed is cut into wafer thin slices which are stained with markers. These slices are digitally scanned and the system constructs...
Latest Oculus Unity Integration Expands HTC Vive Support, Improves Rift GPU Performance
Last month, Facebook added basic support for HTC Vive to the Oculus Unity Integration. In the December release the company expanded that support, as well as reducing the GPU cost of Oculus Rift support. Rift Performance Improvement The Rift’s GPU performance improvement in Unity apps has been achieved by making the occlusion mesh culling “more...
Valve Reveals 100 Best Selling Steam VR Games Of 2018
Valve released a list of the 100 top selling VR games on Steam in 2018. More than 1,000 titles released on Steam this year with VR support, according to Bellevue, Washington-based Valve Corporation. The vast majority of the releases are VR-only but the only completely new 2018 VR release to reach the top “platinum” tier...