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Replace your fitness tracker with an earpiece

Replace your fitness tracker with a smart earpiece

It seems that everybody is interested in owning a fitness tracker nowadays, but few fitness buffs can find trackers that work without having to be tethered to a smartphone. While there are fitness trackers that can do their job just fine without requiring a smartphone, some people might not be comfortable wearing gear on their wrists while they exercise. A ...

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Unreal Engine 4 shooter Squad mixes Call of Duty and Battlefield

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For the past few months, a small group of developers have been quietly hard-at-work on a new military-themed first-person shooter called Squad. Squad is defined as a “standalone commercial game“, focusing on strong teamwork and communication. To complement the high level of cooperation the game wants to achieve, Squad also seeks to bridge the cap between “arcade shooters like the ...

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2014 Video Game Contributions on Kickstarter are down

In recent years, crowd funding has become a great way for developers to get to create their games and avoiding the hassle of having a major publisher loom over the creative process. The concept sounds idyllic: Get estimates for how much your game will cost to make; Ask for people to donate money in order to reach that estimated cost ...

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Australian indie developer announces Arena FPS Reflex

Australian indie developer Turbo Pixel has started a Kickstarter that aims to raise funds for developing a competitive arena shooter similar to the well known Quake games. Their project is named Reflex and in order to be able to make it, they need to get the equivalent to $320.000 in Australian dollars. According to the developer, Reflex is going to ...

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Oculus Rift gets new competitor in the form of Totem, promises features never seen before

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The virtual reality market is about to get a bit more crowded soon. We already have the Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus and Samsung’s Gear VR among other headsets, but there’s definitely room for one more. Canadian company Vrvana launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their tentatively named Totem virtual reality headset. At first glance the device looks very similar to the ...

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Divinity: Original Sin DLC brings two new companions

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Today, Larian Studios launches a new update for Divinity: Original Sin. The update contains a patch that fixes several issues with the game and a DLC containing two new companions. The new companions are Bairdotr, a loyal ranger who finds herself in some trouble at the Legion barracks, and Wolgraff, a rogue who is caught in a hustle after stealing ...

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Larian Studios talk about their post-Divinity plans

Swen Vincke, the founder of Larian Studios wrote a blog post in which he spoke of Divinity: Original Sin’s success and the developer’s plans for the future. In the blog post, he praises Divinity’s sales, stating that the game sold over 1 million copies by now, mostly through Steam. He also adds that the company is in profit and that ...

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Death to Spies 3 Kickstarter launching today, demo available for downloading

Developer Haggard Games has recently revealed a few details about an upcoming Kickstarter campaign for its third entry in the stealth-focused Death to Spies franchise. Said crowd-funding initiative is set to launch today, and aims to raise $85000 by October 24th, with the game launching a year later. Death to Spies 3 promises to be a stealth-action game that combines the ...

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Dreamfall Chapters PS 4 trailer released

Dreamfall Chapters, the long awaited sequel to “Dreamfall: The Longest Journey” just got a new trailer for the PS4 version. The trailer shows the two main characters whose stories are told in parallel thorought the game: Zoë Castillo and Kian Alvane, both being the protagonists of the critically acclaimed “Dreamfall: The Longest Journey”. Ragnar Tørnquist, the creative director of Red ...

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Areal surpasses funding goal, is suspended by Kickstarter

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The Areal Kickstarter project, a spiritual successor to the cult hit S.T.A.L.K.E.R., has been suspended just two days after it hit its funding goal of $50,000. The official Kickstarter page for the game now states that a review of the funding campaign has “uncovered evidence that it broke Kickstarter’s rules” and so the company has seen fit to suspend it. ...

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