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Oculus Rift Shakes Up Gaming With Virtual-Reality Headset
Can gadgets like Oculus Rift breathe new life into gaming hardware?
Facebook Gift Event Also Gets Blown Out of NYC by Hurricane Sandy
An early lump of coal, courtesy of Frankenstorm.
Boxes and a Bar: OnLive Employees Pack Up After Cloud Gaming Company Obfuscates About Fate (Photos)
For the record: Obfuscate means to render obscure, unclear or unintelligible.
Building Houses and Cities Online, With a Social Twist
New Facebook-friendly SimCity makes city-building social; The Ville lets you design a virtual house.
Exclusive: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)
A top-level departure at the social networking giant, especially in the wake of continued intense media and investor scrutiny over its rocky IPO last month.
Exclusive: Pinterest Closes New $27M Round With Andreessen Horowitz Valuing Start-Up at $200M
That’ll buy a lot of digital pushpins.
Xbox Live Adds PayPal to its Payments Options. Is PlayStation Next?
The addition of PayPal to Xbox brings into question whether Sony will be next after last month attacked Sony’s PlayStation Network and obtained personal information about its users.
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Boku Signs Direct Billing Relationship for Physical Goods with Telefonica
Boku, a mobile payments provider, said it has signed a direct carrier billing relationship with Telefónica’s O2 in Germany. That means that O2 customers can charge virtual, digital and physical goods ranging from .09 Euros to 30 Euros to their carrier bill by entering their phone number into an app or other form. In general, the trend has been for carriers to increasingly lower the fees they charge for physical goods to make charging lower margin goods to the carrier bill more feasible. Boku says it’s connected to 230 operators in 65 countries, although not all carriers support physical payments.Zynga Rolls Out New Virtual Currency in Addition to Facebook Credits
Zynga is announcing a new virtual currency today called “zCoins,” which will allow users to earn rewards across 10 of its most popular games on Facebook.
Ubisoft's Digital Strategy Includes Ramping Up Its Social Gaming Efforts This Year
Ubisoft, the third-largest independent game publisher in the U.S., said it is hiring in its San Francisco office to build out a team focused on social games.