Monthly Archives: December 2015
Valve Releases Statement on Christmas Day Problems
Valve has finally issued a statement on the problems that plagued Steam on Christmas day. On December 25, the company says, "a configuration error resulted in some users seeing Steam store pages generated for other users."
The issues were caused by a denial-of-service attack that increased traffic to the Steam store by 2000% more than average during Steam sales. Valve enabled caching rules "managed by a Steam web caching partner" to decrease the impact of the attack and "route legitimate user traffic." In the second wave of the attack, "a second caching configuration was deployed that incorrectly cached web traffic for authenticated users."
Platformer Lucky’s Tale to be Bundled with Every Oculus Rift
Virtual reality platformer Lucky's Tale will come bundled for free with every Oculus Rift, Oculus VR announced today.
Lucky's Tale developer Playful Corp. has been invested in VR since the beginning. The company's founder and CEO, Paul Bettner, backed the headset's original Kickstarter campaign and visited the Oculus headquarters in 2012. Since then, the Playful team has created a bunch of game prototypes for the system.
Playful is the original creator of Words with Friends, and Oculus VR saw a lot of potential in the company and its games as well. Palmer Luckey, the inventor of Oculus Rift, has said that Lucky's Tale was one of the "defining experiences in VR" for him.
Platformer Lucky’s Tale to be Bundled with Every Oculus Rift
Virtual reality platformer Lucky's Tale will come bundled for free with every Oculus Rift, Oculus VR announced today.
Lucky's Tale developer Playful Corp. has been invested in VR since the beginning. The company's founder and CEO, Paul Bettner, backed the headset's original Kickstarter campaign and visited the Oculus headquarters in 2012. Since then, the Playful team has created a bunch of game prototypes for the system.
Playful is the original creator of Words with Friends, and Oculus VR saw a lot of potential in the company and its games as well. Palmer Luckey, the inventor of Oculus Rift, has said that Lucky's Tale was one of the "defining experiences in VR" for him.
Platformer Lucky’s Tale to be Bundled with Every Oculus Rift
Virtual reality platformer Lucky's Tale will come bundled for free with every Oculus Rift, Oculus VR announced today.
Lucky's Tale developer Playful Corp. has been invested in VR since the beginning. The company's founder and CEO, Paul Bettner, backed the headset's original Kickstarter campaign and visited the Oculus headquarters in 2012. Since then, the Playful team has created a bunch of game prototypes for the system.
Playful is the original creator of Words with Friends, and Oculus VR saw a lot of potential in the company and its games as well. Palmer Luckey, the inventor of Oculus Rift, has said that Lucky's Tale was one of the "defining experiences in VR" for him.
Pixar Reveals New Finding Dory Characters
Pixar has just released new information about two quirky characters making their debut in Finding Dory. Ty Burrell and Kaitlin Olson will play an important role in helping Dory, played by Ellen Degeneres, find out about her past.
Set six months after Finding Nemo, Dory stumbles upon a marine rehabilitation center where she meets a beluga whale named Bailey (Burrell) and a whale shark named Destiny (Olson). Details are sparse, but Entertainment Weekly reported that the duo are an essential part in finding Dory's parents.
Pixar Reveals New Finding Dory Characters
Pixar has just released new information about two quirky characters making their debut in Finding Dory. Ty Burrell and Kaitlin Olson will play an important role in helping Dory, played by Ellen Degeneres, find out about her past.
Set six months after Finding Nemo, Dory stumbles upon a marine rehabilitation center where she meets a beluga whale named Bailey (Burrell) and a whale shark named Destiny (Olson). Details are sparse, but Entertainment Weekly reported that the duo are an essential part in finding Dory's parents.
Sony: ‘Unprecedented Rush’ of Big Games for PS4 in 2016
While PlayStation 4 continues to sell incredibly well, this year hasn't been Sony's strongest in terms of first-party content. According to SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, however, 2016 is going to be a very different story.
The Sony exec told 4Gamer (via DualShockers) that next year "marks an unprecedented rush of big titles for PS4." Yoshida also highlighted the impending release of PlayStation VR as one of the many reasons for console owners to be excited for 2016.
Sony: ‘Unprecedented Rush’ of Big Games for PS4 in 2016
While PlayStation 4 continues to sell incredibly well, this year hasn't been Sony's strongest in terms of first-party content. According to SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, however, 2016 is going to be a very different story.
The Sony exec told 4Gamer (via DualShockers) that next year "marks an unprecedented rush of big titles for PS4." Yoshida also highlighted the impending release of PlayStation VR as one of the many reasons for console owners to be excited for 2016.
Sony: ‘Unprecedented Rush’ of Big Games for PS4 in 2016
While PlayStation 4 continues to sell incredibly well, this year hasn't been Sony's strongest in terms of first-party content. According to SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, however, 2016 is going to be a very different story.
The Sony exec told 4Gamer (via DualShockers) that next year "marks an unprecedented rush of big titles for PS4." Yoshida also highlighted the impending release of PlayStation VR as one of the many reasons for console owners to be excited for 2016.
Check Out IKEA’s 3D Printed Meatballs
IKEA thinks we'll be eating 3D printed meatballs in the "not so distant future." Space10, IKEA's green-living design lab, is looking for "Tomorrow's Meatball," a healthy and sustainable meatball that'll satiate our "unsustainable appetite for meat."
We have an increasing demand for food, Space10 says. That demand is creating serious problems for our planet—it's impacting global warming, wasting water, destroying forests, and causing soil erosion. The United Nations states that our food demand will increase by 70% within the next 35 years—and so, we "need to be smarter and more efficient about the way we produce our food."