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In response to a Eurogamer article that seemingly suggested Elite: Dangerous was dropping support for the Oculus Rift headset in favor of SteamVR, Frontier has clarified its position today, saying it's focusing on SteamVR but hasn't abandoned Oculus at all. It first issued this statement to Eurogamer: We've supported VR for a few years now, and Elite Dangerous is arguably...

The most recent Firefall patch faced some pretty significant downtime due to issues with its implementation; players were updated on the state of the patch yesterday with a full rundown of the technical issues facing the team. The good news is that as of this morning, the game's servers are online and the patch is running. Bad news? Existing...

This past week, in the hubub surrounding Smed's new OARPG, Hero's Song, we interviewed bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss, who's building the lore of the game's world. I asked Rothfuss about storytelling immersion in 2-D vs. 3-D worlds, and he argued, quite vehemently, that graphics have nothing to do with immersion. "The truth is, storytelling becomes more immersive and more inclusive...

This week's Overthinking question comes to us from longtime Patron Roger. "If you guys could magically open a connection to any dev team, which team would it be? I'll assume this power includes their answering you as well." Sometimes we have this power already! More often than not, however, the devs are piloted by well-intentioned PR machines, and if there's a question...

Spanish and Portuguese versions of the Final Fantasy XIV trial website had some players hoping that the game would be getting a full-blown localization treatment that would benefit Central and South American players. Unfortunately for those hopes, Square Enix said that the effort is being limited to the website and not extended to the game itself: We decided to localize the free...

If you're tired of hearing how hot e-sports is and how the industry is gunning for it as the future of gaming... perhaps you should scroll to the next article. GDC sent out a survey to 2,000 game developers asking them what they thought would make the biggest impact on the industry over the next few years. The answer? Virtual reality...

Fun fact: RIFT wasn't always known as RIFT. Trion Worlds' fantasy MMO went through many name permutations during its development, including titles such as Heroes of Trion and Heroes of Telara. To celebrate RIFT's fifth anniversary this year, fan site RiftGrate has put together a retrospective to look at the strange and interesting development history of this title. One of...

Over at Crowfall, the subject is once again swinging back to the eternal kingdoms, the game's housing-cum-private world. ArtCraft posted a new 13-point FAQ to explain how players will be constructing their eternal kingdoms via the parcel builder tool. The idea here is that players will piece together their kingdoms with the builder like building a puzzle, then shape each...

Blizzard has delayed the return of Overwatch's beta, according to a post on the official forums today. Game Director Jeff Kaplan says that the tentatively planned resumption date of mid-to-late January isn't happening because the team isn't ready and wants to add "one more big feature to the next beta patch": "After looking through all of the feedback from last year,...

For the longest time, PvE seemed like it would never arrive in the beleaguered HEX -- so much so that it became a running joke of sorts. Well, it's time to put that joke to bed, because HEX announced that it will be coming out with the first installment of its PvE game next week. "Not a day goes by where...