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<p>Last night, a report surfaced that said <a href="http://ift.tt/2cVngx9">Oculus founder Palmer Luckey funded a pro-Donald Trump political group that&#8217;s behind &quot;s**tposting&quot; memes about Hillary Clinton</a>. Now, a number of game developers have started to announce the dropping of Oculus support for their titles.</p>
<p><a href="http://ift.tt/10Tr3is">Fez</a> developer Polytron announced on <a href="https://twitter.com/Polytron/status/779392568425455616">Twitter</a> that its upcoming PlayStation VR title Superhypercube would not support Oculus.</p>
<p>&quot;In a political climate as fragile and horrifying as this one, we cannot tacitly endorse these actions by supporting Luckey or his platform,&quot; Polytron said in a statement. &quot;In light of this, we will not be pursuing Oculus support for our upcoming VR release, Superhypercube.&quot;</p>
<p>Scruta Games also <a href="https://twitter.com/ScrutaGames/status/779134849512857601">tweeted </a>that it&#8217;s &quot;cancelling Oculus support for&quot; its games (Computer Janitor VR) until Luckey steps down from Oculus. Meanwhile, Tomorrow Today Labs said that its upcoming title NewtonVR would &quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/TTLabsVR/status/779155770927480832">not be supporting the Oculus Touch</a>&quot; while Luckey is employed by the VR company.</p>
<p>Some developers are taking a different approach. A $1000 donation has been made by <a href="https://twitter.com/E_McNeill/status/779183476528386048">E McNeil</a>, the developer of the Oculus-exclusive <a href="http://ift.tt/2crBIz5">Darknet</a>. McNeil told GameSpot that he&#8217;s &quot;had a great experience working with Oculus over the years (including working a lot of good people there).&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to boycott the company based on the politics of its founder,&quot; he said. &quot;Instead, I gave $1000 to Hillary&#8217;s campaign in response to the news.&quot;</p>
<p>Logan Olson, the creator of Vive-exclusive <a href="http://ift.tt/2cXqKzo">SoundStage</a>, is another developer throwing support behind Clinton. He&#8217;s donating all the profits from his game in the next 24 hours to her campaign.</p>
<p>On the other hand, some developers don&#8217;t feel the same way. Co-founder of Carbon Games, James Green, told tech outlet <a href="http://ift.tt/2d6czs8">Motherboard</a> that he doesn&#8217;t agree with the aforementioned developers, saying the &quot;backlash is nonsense.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;I absolutely support him doing whatever he wants politically if it&#8217;s legal,&quot; he continued. &quot;To take any other position is against American values.&quot;</p>
<p>When reached for comment, <a href="http://ift.tt/1M5kZNe">Job Simulator</a> developer Owlchemy Labs directed us to the following tweet.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">On a scale from 1 to LITERAL GARBAGE, today is firmly in garbage territory. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/humansWhy?src=hash">#humansWhy</a></p>
<p> — Owlchemy Labs (@OwlchemyLabs) <a href="https://twitter.com/OwlchemyLabs/status/779396721738600448">September 23, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>We&#8217;ve conacted other VR game developers, including Northway Games (<a href="http://ift.tt/1S5rzQ6">Fantastic Contraption</a>), and will update this article as we hear back from them.</p>
<p>This comes as Oculus is gearing up to release its <a href="http://ift.tt/1mTFZLr">Touch hand controllers</a>, which are expected to launch by the end of the year. We&#8217;ve reached out to Oculus for comment on the situation and will report back as we receive more information.</p>
<p><em>Source: <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://ift.tt/2cre7bH">GameSpot</a></em></div>
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