The Valve-supported HTC Vive has today gone up for pre-ordering, but for a much higher price than its most well-known rival the Oculus Rift.

While they differ from region to region, the price of the Vive is above the Oculus’ new Rift headset which has been taking pre-orders for a little while now. For the US, including postage and all that other stuff that isn’t the price of the device alone the Vive will cost $829; the UK has the price set at £746.60 and the EU prices are somewhere around €972. This does mean that effectively the UK and Europe are having to pay a lot more for their tech than the US. It’s also far out matched by the Rift’s $599 price tag.

The Vive will come with the headset, some controllers to detect hand motions and three apps – Fantastic Contraption, Job Simulator and Google’s Tilt Brush drawing program; so there are some things there to justify it being more expensive than the Oculus is. The fact that Oculus were bought out by Facebook probably helps them keep the price down as well.

Either way, if you’ve got a lot of money to blow and would like to give the Vive a go, head over to the pre-ordering page.

XCOM 2’s been pretty popular since its release, with most people agreeing that it’s a challenging step up from the previous Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within games. Of course, as with most games with Steam Workshop support if you’re not fully satisfied you can do a little modding of the game to tweak it to something you’ll enjoy more. And an awful lot of those mods are cosmetic pieces.

One such cosmetic mod you might enjoy, especially if you’re a fan of the Star Wars films, is a set of helmets for your troops, based off those of the Stormtroopers and various others seen in the films. Developed by Steam user Platoon you can choose from either the original trilogy’s helmets or the newer First Order inspired ones if you’re in the mood for something iconically Empire-themed, or if that doesn’t take your fancy how about helmets based off those of a Republic Commando, a Tie Fighter pilot, a Flametrooper or even a Clone Trooper Phase 1 helmet? There’s even colour and camo customisation options so that you can make the helmets fit the rest of your soldier’s attire.

Platoon is also working on improving them all the time, at the moment improving the textures of the helmets and is even working on a full-scale armour mod based off the Star Wars armours so you can really feel like you’re playing in a galaxy far, far away.

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There’s a reason the Windows Store is not compared favorably to the likes of Steam or GOG. To put it simply, you’re much more likely to suffer certain issues if you buy them from there – for example the recently released Rise of the Tomb Raider had many issues when compared with the Steam counterpart. However, Phil Spencer has promised to do something about this.

In a response to an article about the state of the Windows Store version of Rise of the Tomb Raider Spencer had this to say:

@BigMouthGamer We know lists like this include features PC gamers want to see from us, we appreciate the feedback and have plans to improve

— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) February 26, 2016

This isn’t the first time Spencer has gone on record saying that improvements were needed to the Windows Store and that Microsoft were committed to making them. Last year he said “I can tell you definitively that our team has never committed more resources to making Windows better for game developers and gamers, and that means any gamer on Windows 10, regardless of storefront or device.”

There’s also the fact that at the GDC next month Microsoft are due to host a session called “The Future of Xbox Game Development for Windows.” Hopefully any improvements they’re due to make could be detailed there.

Street Fighter 5’s launch hasn’t been wonderful. With issues ranging from online connectivity not working, to modes missing from the game that people have come to expect from this genre of game it’s fair to say that Capcom has ticked a lot of gamers off. However they seem to be working on trying to solve problems, and one such problem they’re targeting is the issue of rage quitters.

Basically what happens is that if a rage-quitter sees that they might lose a match and break their winning streak they leave the game, which takes the win away from their opponent and understandably is not a popular move. Capcom are now looking for evidence and aim to punish the worst offenders in coming weeks.

“This punishment will be severe for the worst offenders, but we will need the community’s help with this. We will follow up with more details next week, but over the weekend, please record every instance of rage quitting you encounter.”

Although there’s no set date for whatever they’re planning to do, the steps will be taken from next week and punishments handed down to the players who have been abusing the loophole in the system. Any recording should be fine enough, whether a local recording or one taken from Twitch archives.

Other improvements are also being made, especially to matchmaking in “Europe, the Middle East and various other regions”.

“Several improvements were made this past week that should have decreased the wait time for many users in those territories,” Capcom conclude, “but we will continue to monitor the situation and will provide updates when additional improvements are made.”

Hey, remember that time a little while ago when it was asked if the Division would have microtransactions and we discovered that Ubisoft’s definition of the word DLC was probably a little different to our own? Well, during the beta of The Division some players uncovered something that could hint at The Division actually having microtransactions – or at least an in-game currency.

One of the main things that people said about The Division’s beta was that it was ridiculously easy to game the system and cheat, so no wonder this was uncovered. In case you weren’t aware, The Division already had another currency available called Dark Zone Funds which gave you a reason to venture into the PvP part of the game. So this other currency, called Phoenix Credits could be something that Ubisoft are aiming to charge real money for. However, a community manager for Ubisoft denies this is the case.

When asked, Natchai Stappers said that the company would “communicate on it later, but don’t worry,” following that up with: “There will be no microtransactions, and definitely no P2W.” However, as we determined before Ubisoft’s definition of DLC was being applied to some planned content that seemed more like the sort of thing most would call a microtransaction – cosmetic accessories.

However, to see what the true purpose of a Phoenix Credit is, we’ve no choice but to wait for the full game’s release.