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Ever since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive debuted, the Vive has had one significant feature that the Rift lacked: handheld controls. While not technically necessary for VR gaming, as many games default to an Xbox controller, the Vive’s support for touch controls was a critical difference that led some sites to endorse it over the Rift — despite the Vive’s $800 price, as opposed to Oculus’ $600. ...

The Berlin art dealer Heiner Bastian and his family announced they will give their house near Museum Island to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the organisation that oversees the city’s museums.The house, designed by the British architect David Chipperfield and completed in 2007, currently showcases contemporary ...

At its Oculus Connect event today, Oculus announced a new set of $500 systems designed for fast, smooth VR at a much lower price point. When the Oculus Rift launched this year, Oculus’ official minimum recommendation was an 900 system running a GTX 970. Today, the company described a new technology it’s invented, asynchronous spacewarp, that allowed it to bring VR to much more affordable ...

Game developer Bethesda Softworks has announced the upcoming Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4 will both be receiving mod support on the PS4. Previously, this had been in some doubt — while Bethesda announced plans to bring FO4 mod support to both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, updates from earlier this summer suggested that Sony wasn’t keen on the idea and Bethesda might scrap it altogether. ...

EUR/USD was on the back foot as the US dollar dominated across the board. Can it continue falling?. The upcoming week’s highlight is undoubtedly the ECB meeting. Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week.

1. CPI (final): Monday, 9:00. The numbers are expected to be confirmed now.
2. German PPI: Thursday, 6:00.
3. Current Account: Thursday, 8:00.
4. EU Economic Summit: Thursday and Friday. Leaders of the European Union convene for

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