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Gamer Cruise In Limbo After Losing Its Boat
4Image credit: Royal Caribbean A combination cruise/LAN party set to sail on Oct. 20 has been put on hiatus for the time being, as organiser Gamer Tech Events searches to replace an investor who pulled out in May.
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This Week In The Business: Dizzying Days For VR
$US400 ($511) — The current asking price of an Oculus Rift and Touch Controllers bundle. As recently as March, it was $US800 ($1022).
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This Week In The Business: Sony Says Indies Are So 2014
“It was just good to talk about in 2013/2014. It is less relevant now. We have VR to talk about now, for example.” — Sony’s global head of sales and marketing Jim Ryan explains >why the company’s E3 press conference lacked the indie presence the company had previously made a selling point of the PS4.
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This Week In The Business: Activate The Spin Cycle
Image credit: Bark. “We want to get our hands on Destiny 2 as soon as possible like everybody else, so we offered to share our PC platform with our sister companies for this release.” That’s Blizzard explaining why the PC version of Destiny 2 will be exclusive to Battle.net, conveniently neglecting to mention that doing…