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The Oculus Rift VR helmet has been wow-ing people who’ve been lucky enough to try it. It’s also gained the support of several prominent developers and companies whose games will support the device, as well as investors. In a recent interview, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe announced that the Oculus Rift will go on sale in…
The folks at Humble Bundle just keep the hits coming! The Humble Weekly Sale for this week has been announced and it includes 10 great games from Team 17. The Humble Weekly Sale Team 17 is a great line up of games for a great price. Grab it here! You can name your price for…
The Humble Bundle hits just keep rolling in. Recently theHumble Mobile Bundle 2 brought a slew of great games, now Android devices are getting more love! The Humble Bundle with Android 7 includes 6 games that are playable on Android devices, Windows PCs, Macs and Linux boxes! This time around, it’s pay what you will for Ticket to…
Valve recently announced its Steam Machines, a line of PC based consoles aimed at the living room. Valve and other companies are working on PC Consoles, and any PC can run the new Linux-based Steam OS. The unifying factor for all these machines will be Valve’s new controller. Now a new video finally shows off…
Valve‘s been hinting that it had big news about its Steam gaming service and today the company made a major announcement. While the news wasn’t about the much-anticipated Steam Box per se, Valve announced a new Linux based OS that’s focused on the living room. Steam OS is optimized for gaming on the big screen…
Call me crazy, but I would expect a more potent Linux presence in the tablet market. Aside from Ubuntu (and Android), we don’t get to see other Linux distributions fighting for this market. Why that’s the case is beyond me. It’s not like touch-based input only matters for tablets — many of today’s laptops also…
Ubuntu just got another big supporter in the form of China Unicom. China’s second largest operator, which has more than 250 million subscribers, will join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, allowing it to get early access to software builds, devices and other potentially useful information, as well as a “period of exclusivity to ship Ubuntu…
The Canonical team is revamping the Ubuntu Touch OS from the ground up. Instead of booting into Android and firing up the Ubuntu system after Android has booted, the new images now boot into Ubuntu and initialize Android inside an LXC (LinuX Container) container during boot. For regular folks this doesn’t mean a lot, but…
Since its inception, the Humble Indie Bundle has been a win win for everyone involved. Gamers get a bundle of great games at great price, developers make a tiny profit, and a nice chunk of change goes to charity. It was a model of the power of crowd funding well before Kickstarter was a household name.…
The Jolla phone has been finally announced yesterday and is now available for pre-order. The price is set at 399 EUR and the device will start shipping “by the end of 2013.” The phone’s highlights include a 4.5-inch screen (most likely 720p HD), dual-core processor, 8-megapixel rear camera with flash, 16GB of internal storage plus…