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For $7 a month, Viveport now offers more than 150 VR titles to choose from

HTC has expanded the library of games it offers through its Viveport subscription by 75, bringing the total to well over 150.
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Libraries to enable VR learning as Oculus plans 100 Rifts for California

Oculus has announced that it's installing 100 Rift headsets and PCs in 90 libraries throughout California to encourage VR education.
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Oculus says it has no news on MacOS VR support for now

Oculus is not ready to announce any plans for MacOS support for its Rift headset as of yet, though it may do in the future.
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Evil Controllers’ esports gamepad gets rid of macros, speeds up button actuation

Evil has ditched the macros for its Shift controller for the Xbox One, adding new, fast paddles and better tactile feedback on face buttons.
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GOG Summer Sale offers major discounts on hundreds of titles including Witcher III

GOG's Summer Sale 2017 has more than 1,500 games discounted by up to 90 percent. Discounted games include The Witcher III and Wasteland 2.
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Indie MegaBooth is making a MegaShow — and it wants you to attend

MegaBooth is hosting a new MegaShow in Georgia this July to showcase indie talent in gaming, music and art.
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48 hours in virtual reality is not as bad as you might think

Two VR explorers spent almost 48 hours wearing virtual reality headsets to see what effect it would have on their everyday life.
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Apple won't force two-factor authentication, but you should use it anyway

Apple has made it clear that it won't force users to adopt two-factor authentication, even if it would recommend it.
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Elemental attacks are the key to success in new 'Dauntless' gameplay trailer

Phoenix Labs has shown off Dauntless in a new pre-E3 trailer which highlights elemental attacks and a new hub-village for upgrades.
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Valve’s new Vive base stations won’t work with current HTC Vive headsets

Valve's newly designed Lighthouse base stations won't work with first-generation HTC Vive virtual reality headsets.
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Third-party Switch game boxes are a treat for physical game fans

Nintendo has a number of digital-only games available on the Switch, but one gamer has made some great box art for them.
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You won't be able to buy iMac Pro accessories separately

Apple has confirmed that it will not be selling the iMac Pro's space grey accessories separately, nor will the system's RAM be upgradeable.
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Touch typing in Windows 10 — Windows Phone keyboard is coming to PCs

Microsoft is bringing its popular WordFlow keyboard from the Windows Phone platform to Windows 10 Pcs and tablets.
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Is it art? Pix2Pix will make something horrifying from your drawings

The Pix2Pix project uses a clever way to teach AI how to intepret doodles, leading to realistic, if horrifying outputs.
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Tethering update will make it easier than ever to keep your Chromebook online

A new Canary build of the Chrome OS has a nonfunctioning Instant Tethering feature, suggesting it could be coming to Chromebooks.
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Gold-colored PS4 Slim spotted and snapped by a Target employee

A gold version of Sony's PS4 Slim has been spotted in the backroom at Target slated to go on sale on June 9.
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Samsung’s next-gen VR display doubles pixel density of Rift, Vive screens

Samsung has doubled the pixel density of its new generation of virtual reality displays, cramming 858PPI into 3.5-inch panels.
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This rediscovered ‘Traffic Safety’ Mario anime is delightfully bizarre

A near 20-year-old Mario anime designed to teach schoolchildren about road safety has been discovered at a rare screening.
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Now you can ask Google Sheets to make a graph for you

Google has updated the way Sheets constructs graphs and charts, by letting users create them automatically through natural language requests.
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Decapitate colossal ogres as humanity’s last hope in ‘Extinction’

Iron Galaxy has debuted the first trailer for Extinction, showing us what it will be like to challenge enormous ogres with just a sword.
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Watch a Nintendo Switch survive a 1,000-foot fall from a drone

A drop test of a Nintendo Switch from 1,000 feet went better than expected when it survived almost completely intact.
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Ubisoft overhauls logo to better represent the game worlds it creates

Ubisoft has overhauled its logo and stripped out all the color, so it can better represent the worlds it creates in its games.
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Nvidia bundle makes your first game with a new graphics card rocket powered

You can get hit indie sports title Rocket League free with new purchases of GTX 1060, 1050Ti, and 1050 Pascal graphics cards.
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‘Pokéland’ will have you brawling Pokémon in ‘Rumble’-like gameplay

Pokéland is the next Pokéon game to hit smartphones and it will bring real-time battles to iOS and Android at some point in the future.

Take-Two Interactive takes over ‘Kerbal Space Program’ from original developer

Take Two Interactive has purchased Kerbal Space Program giving it exclusive rights to the series in the future.
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AMD unleashes its superteam APU with Ryzen and Vega mobile chip

AMD has bundled a Ryzen CPU and Vega graphics core into a single SOC and shown it working on a laptop design at Computex 2017.
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‘Sonic Mania’ will take us all back to the ’90s on August 15

Sega has revealed the release date for Sonic Mania as August 15, and to celebrate it has launched a new trailer with hand-drawn art.
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Chrome plugin shows how dark the web is without net neutrality

A Chrome plugin called Removal Of Net Neutrality shows what it could be like should the FCC decide to ditch protections.
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‘Injustice 2’ challenge offers ability to dress Wonder Woman in armor from film

NetherRealm Studios has added the ability to earn a new movie-inspired skin for Wonder Woman to Injustice 2.
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Co-op campaign could one day give purpose to Playerunknown's 'Battlegrounds'

Bringing a cooperative campaign mode to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is something the developer would love to do, but not yet.
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2GHz core clock promised with every Kingpin GTX 1080 Ti at Computex

The Kingpin Edition EVGA GTX 1080 Ti shown off at this year's Computex comes with a guarantee that it can overclock to 2GHz on the core.
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Intel debuts Compute Card at Computex 2017, with Dell and HP as partners

Intel has unveiled the official specifications for its Compute Card at Computex 2017 alongside a number of official partners.
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Intel goes wireless with its WiGig-enabled HTC Vive at Computex 2017

Intel has developed a WiGig powered wireless VR solution in partnership with HTC and will begin shipping it in early 2018.
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AlphaGo retires from ‘Go’ after dominating world’s best human player 3-0

Kei Jei, the world's greatest human Go player, has lost the first game against Google's AlphaGo, despite employing the AI's own tactics.