Another Acquisition: Facebook Buys Oculus Rift

It seems that now Facebook is entering into the console world as well. The company has acquired Oculus VR, the company which is building the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, for a whopping $2 billion. The company (Oculus) has kept one condition that it will keep its headquarters in Irvine, California only and not shift its base. “We are very …

Google Now Available To All Chrome Users

Google’s prognostic digital assistant, Google Now, is ‘now’ offered to all the Chrome users. This means the same Google Now cards that adorn your smartphone—commute traffic, weather, sports scores and event reminders—will now be there on your Chrome desktop as well. While checking your emails at the end of the day, you may now get an alert suggesting that you …

Koji Igarashi Leaves Konami

Symphony of the Night assistant director and its series producer Koji Igarashi has left Konami to become an independent freelance developer. When Igarashi and the remainder of his team had begun performing on Symphony of the Night, they had an analogous mentality. “With action games, particularly if it is a franchise, a lot of you cater to requests and the …