CES will be full of innovative new PC hardware due to launch in 2020, one new product that looks particularly interesting is the VR haptic glove designed for devices such as Oculus, HTC, Microsoft and Varjo VR and mixed reality headsets from BeBop sensors. BeBop Sensors has announced it will …

Nvidia has announced its new software-defined platform for autonomous vehicles and robots. Nvidia Drive AGX Orin is set to be powered by the company’s new Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC) which is the result of four years of R&D investment. The Nvidia Orin SoC consists of 17 billion transistors and integrates Nvidia’s …

Halo Infinite hasn’t had the greatest luck as of late. Less than two months after the departure of the game’s Creative Director, Tim Longo, 343 Industries is having to say goodbye to another important figure in the game’s development. Mary Olson, who was promoted to Lead Producer of Halo Infinite …

It was announced recently that Microsoft would be buying GitHub, the repository sharing service, for an eye-watering $7.5 billion. A few days ago, the future GitHub CEO, Nat Freidman, did an AMA on Reddit answering the community’s burning questions about the acquisition. On Reddit, Nat Friedman decided to do an …

Playdead, the developer behind hit indie side-scrollers Inside and Limbo, has teased its next project and it has a similar theme. Dark, shadowy and without much colour, the new game has an art style that should be familiar to anyone who has played Playdead's previous titles, though how it may …

Satellite navigation device maker TomTom, has purchased an autonomous vehicle developer. The Berlin based startup is aptly named, Autonomous and has previously provided research and development consultancy services for a number of automated vehicle systems around the world. Although TomTom is most well known for its navigational systems, it has …

Following news that months have gone by without many of Crytek's employees being paid at all, the long-time video game company has now announced that it is closing five of its seven studios. While Frankfurt and Kiev-based studios will remain, those in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China and Turkey will …

Non-profit AI research initiative, OpenAI, has announced a new platform for measuring and training artificial intelligence (AI) that uses games and websites that humans use. It's designed to teach them to learn like we do, through experiences and the usage of tools like the classic keyboard and mouse. Known as …

Blizzard might have a lot of popular games available to play right now, but only one of them is in the first person perspective: Overwatch. However that may not be the case forever, as it's now created two new job listings for software engineers for an unannounced project built using …

As much as roomscale tracking in virtual reality has opened up many doors in terms of the types of games we can play, the difficulty presented by restrictions in real world space is very much apparent in many contemporary releases. IronWolf VR looks to fix that with some unique locomotion …

The publishing arm of the World of Tanks developer, Wargaming, is set to take the reins of Creative Assembly's still in-development, Total War: Arena. Although Sega will still have some say in the whole process, it was officially partnered with Wargaming Alliance to handle the majority of the heavy lifting. …

Kerbal Space Program might be one of the biggest indie success stories of recent years, but that hasn't been able to keep developers at the studio that made it. Eight developers have announced their departure from Squad at once, leaving the company essentially gutted of all its major staff. Kerbal …

With a net income of more than  $120 million in the red, Farmville creator Zynga is not in the strong financial position it once was. Perhaps because of that it's hired on a new chief financial officer (CFO). Drawing from a similar well as it has in the past, Zynga …

Update: Despite many publications (ourselves included) publishing yesterday that the single player component of Star Citizen, Squadron 42, has been delayed, developer Cloud Imperium has denied these claims. While it wouldn't be drawn on when the campaign would be unveiled, it did say that no delay had been stated by …

Although it was only recently that EA executive Patrick Soderlund gave the world hope that a series of Mass Effect remasters may not be too far away, head of EA Sports, Peter Moore, has doused that idea completely. In a statement he made it quite clear that EA wasn't considering …

Rick and Morty co-creator and voice actor, Justin Roiland, has announced that he's starting his very own virtual reality game development studio, along with Epic Games alumni, Tanya Watson. It's called Squanchtendo and we know this because “Little Splzooshly,” the new studio's mascot, told us all about it in a …

In a world where game developers and publishers come and go, folding, founding, merging and being bought out by larger entities, Valve has been a real constant for the past two decades. It's given us a lot of big games and big milestones in gaming, so today we celebrate its …

THQ, it's in the game. Or at least it once was, but now it's back! Nordic Games, the company that purchased up many of the IPs under the THQ brand when it went defunct in 2012, has now rebranded itself as THQ Nordic, resurrecting the old publishing house, at least …

For all his bluster, pomp and failed political ambitions, Kim Dotcom has done a few things well over the years, namely making file lockers. MegaUpload and more recently Mega, were big successes and though he's not involved in either any more, he may build a new one, with a name …

Sega has purchased Endless Space developer, Amplitude Studios, acquiring the company's staff and assets, including the Endless franchise, which now includes Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless and the future Endless Space 2, still in development. Amplitude Studios is quite a young developer, having only been founded in 2011. However its …

As is the case with every major court case between industry giants, the legal battle between Oracle and Hewlett Packard (HP) has been ongoing for more than four years at this point. However a jury has finally awarded damages, mandating that Oracle pay HP a total of $3 billion (£2.25 …

The original Mass Effect trilogy was an important series in the history of gaming, helping showcase how player choice just in talking with characters could have a dramatic effect on the NPCs and the player. However it was rather binary, so in the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda, you won't get …

Ubisoft has found itself in quite a predicament recently as a company known as Vivendi has been buying up shares in what could turn out to be a hostile takeover. However, while a takeover is still on the table, Vivendi's CEO has proposed a “fruitful cooperation” between itself and Ubisoft, …

League of Legends has been the world's most popular PC game for a number of years now; in 2014 it was reported that there were over 67 million active players. But perhaps Overwatch could one day eclipse that. Although a new competitor on the scene, Overwatch is currently the second …

Ever since the big exclusivity debate kicked off between the likes of Oculus and the virtual reality community, Palmer Luckey has been rather quiet online. Once a regular Redditor and Tweeter, he's been almost silent for the last few months. At E3 though he made a few statements, one of …

You wouldn't know it, but for the past three years developer of No Man's Sky, Hello Games, has been embroiled in a legal battle with BSkyB, the owner of the Sky TV service in the UK. The cable TV company wanted the explorative space title to change its name, but Hello …

Creative Assembly initially wasn't going to allow mods with Total War: Warhammer – we suspect because of Games Workshop influence – but it must be glad it turned things around, as already there are over 1,000 of them. From adding new playable armies, to increasing the size of the battles, …

If you've been stomping your orcish and undead hordes through castle after castle in Total War: Warhammer, then you probably think it's a breeze taking fortresses from on-high. If you get into the thick of the fray though in a game like Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, it gets a …

There's been a lot of discussion around virtual reality exclusivity and Oculus' attempts to create a gated community around its titles, but everyone else seems to hate it. Including it turns out, Valve founder Gabe Newell and head of Xbox Phil Spencer, both of whom have spoken out against this …

Update: Oculus has since reached out to KitGuru and provided us with the following statement, which we print here in its entirety: “We regularly offer developers financial grants to help fund early development of new titles to accelerate development or expand the scope of the game. In some cases, we …