Gaming

If everything had been normal in the desktop GPU world right now, the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 would have been met with enthusiasm for bringing ray tracing effects to a new mass-market price point as well as the usual generational performance gains. However, things are far from normal – cryptocurrency miners are once

FAU-G is getting its promised Team Deathmatch mode that will add some multiplayer content to the game, developer nCore Games has announced on Twitter. FAU-G officially launched on January 26, and while a lot of people downloaded and played the game, a general consensus was that it does not have enough content. Bollywood actor Akshay

PUBG Mobile 2 may release as soon as next week, a tipster has claimed. PUBG Mobile was banned in India in September 2020 by the Indian government, citing security concerns due to the game’s Chinese-developer origin. PUBG Mobile 2 is reportedly being developed by South Korean company Krafton that took over publishing duties for the

Epic Games put out word it is paying the equivalent of about $8 (roughly Rs. 580) worth of its virtual money to some players to settle a lawsuit over loot boxes. The Fortnite maker said it would automatically drop 1,000 V-Bucks into accounts of players who bought Loot Llama pinata-style figures containing in-game items, without

Watch Dogs: Legion online is nearly here. Ubisoft will deliver the multiplayer mode of Watch Dogs: Legion — the London-set third game in the series — in two weeks’ time, after what will have been over four months since the game’s launch on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Since then, it’s also gotten free

Ludo Zenith is now available for download for Android devices through Google Play. The game that marks the partnership between Japanese gaming giant Square Enix and Indian studio JetSynthesys went up for preregistrations earlier this month and is now available for Android users to try out, with an Apple App Store release for iOS devices

Xbox Wireless Headset have been launched for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 devices. The headphones have a black finish and comes with features like auto-mute, voice isolation, and direct pairing with a console. Xbox Wireless Headset come with support for Windows Sonic, Dolby Atmos, and DTS Headphone:X. The headphones

Fortnite creator Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to EU antitrust regulators after failing to make headway in a US court in a dispute over the iPhone maker’s payment system on its App Store and control over apps downloads. The two companies have been locked in a legal dispute since August last year

Zynga on Wednesday forecast annual net bookings above Wall Street estimates, betting on the launch of its upcoming FarmVille game and strong in-game spending in its existing titles such as Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells. The company’s shares rose nearly 3 percent in extended trading. Zynga said it expects full-year net bookings – an indicator

Games The Shop Valentine’s Sale is now on and brings huge discounts to over 200 games for PC. The sale has offers across Steam, Epic Games, Bethesda Launcher, Rockstar Games Launcher, and Ubisoft Connect titles. Games The Shop Valentine’s Sale will end on February 21, however, not all games will be available at discounted prices

Jack Black has joined the Borderlands movie cast as the robot Claptrap, Lionsgate has announced, alongside the previously announced casting of Cate Blanchett as the legendary thief Lilith, Kevin Hart as the skilled soldier Roland, and Jamie Lee Curtis as an archaeologist called Tannis. Unlike the other three, Black will have a voice-only role (just

Steam Lunar New Year Sale is underway and will end on February 15 at 10am PT (11:30pm IST). It brings discounts on several games and a free animated Ox sticker for every day of the sale (to mark the Chinese Year of the Ox). There are discounts on games across genres and interested shoppers can

Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) have been cast in HBO’s The Last of Us series adaptation, in the respective lead roles of Joel and Ellie. The Last of Us is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a pandemic results in the creation of the Infected, who are zombies all but

Asus ROG Strix GA35 and ROG Strix GT35 gaming desktop models have been refreshed with AMD CPUs and latest Nvidia GPUs in India. Both are powered by Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 series GPUs and while the ROG Strix GT35 is powered by a 10th-Gen Intel CPU, the ROG Strix GA35 comes with AMD Ryzen 9

US video game powerhouse Electronic Arts on Monday announced a $2.1 billion (roughly Rs. 15,300 crores) deal to by smartphone-focused game studio Glu Mobile. The acquisition came with Glu’s library of titles including MLB Tap Sports Baseball and was described as part of a move by EA to significantly beef up its offerings on smartphones

Epic Games Store has announced a Spring Showcase and sale that will start from February 11. The Spring Showcase includes new announcements, gameplay, and more which will be livestreamed on Twitch starting at 2pm EST on the day. The Epic Games Store Spring Showcase and Sale will start from 11am EST on February 11 and

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are both finally available in India – which one should you buy? Well, available is a strong word right now, given they are both sold out virtually everywhere — and there’s no word on new stock is expected to arrive, unlike the weekly drops that happen in other markets.

CD Projekt has become a target of cyberattack, which compromised some of its internal systems, the Polish video game maker said on Twitter on Tuesday. “An unidentified actor gained unauthorized access to our internal network, collected certain data belonging to CD PROJEKT capital group, and left a ransom note,” it said in a statement. CD

Polish video game maker CD Projekt is focusing on improving Cyberpunk 2077 and restoring the trust of players and partners disappointed with its flagship game, Puls Biznesu daily reported the group’s CEO as saying. Shares in the company, one of Polish biggest, slumped at the end of last year amid complaints of glitches in the

Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S is coming to India on February 8, Seagate India has announced. It will cost Rs. 23,499, but will be available for a promotional price of Rs. 22,999 for the first week: from February 8–14. In the US, it’s priced at $220 (roughly Rs. 16,250). Seagate India will

Cyberpunk 2077 hotfix 1.12 for PC users fixes a critical vulnerability related to custom save files and installing mods. The company had recently warned players against installing mods because of this issue, which it says has now been fixed. Developer CD Projekt Red had released modding support tools for Cyberpunk 2077 just last month. The

Cyberpunk 2077 players have been warned against using mods or custom saves on PC as they could lead to a security risk. CD Projekt Red, the developers of the game, took to Twitter to let PC players know that a vulnerability in external DLL files that the game uses could be used by hackers to

FAU-G: Fearless and United Guards developer and publisher nCore Games is disappointed with its review bombing on Google Play by PUBG fans who it believed are making an unfair comparison. The action game saw initial success with over five million downloads shortly after its launch last week. But that didn’t seem to help the action

FAU-G: Fearless and United Guards, the action game that debuted for Android users on January 26 after some anticipation and delays, is facing a backlash from gamers. Several PUBG fans have bombed FAU-G reviews on Google Play for it not being at par with the game that got banned by the government. The mass criticism

PlayStation 5 has been mostly out of stock since it launched in November last year but Sony has somehow managed to sell 4.5 million units in 2020. Sony shared its financial results for the third quarter of 2020 ending December 31, wherein it revealed that its total operating income or profit for Q3 2020 were

Japan’s Sony raised its full-year profit outlook by one-third, helped by pandemic-fuelled demand for games, movies, and other content, but said it was struggling to build enough PlayStation 5 consoles amid a global shortage of semiconductors. The electronics and entertainment conglomerate said on Wednesday some customers may have to wait longer for their consoles as

Alphabet’s Google said on Monday it would stop internal development of games for Stadia, making the cloud-based game-streaming service entirely dependent on titles from other game developers and publishers. Stadia was launched in 2019 along with an internal game development unit that was expected to make titles for the platform. The company said on Monday

The PlayStation 5 has finally arrived in India. After multiple bogus PS5 release dates, a belated price reveal, reported trademark troubles, unofficial pre-orders by opportunistic stores, a Twitter campaign by exasperated fans, messages from Sony India that tried to reassure but failed instead, followed by long periods of silence, and failed promises that took the

Steam Game Festival will kick off on February 3 with over 500 free, playable game demos. Valve has held multiple Steam Game Festivals, which started in March last year, and is now organising another one with livestreams, developer interactions, and free game demos. The company shared the development on Twitter along with a YouTube video

Japanese video game maker Nintendo will face an EU-wide complaint for premature wear of a joystick controller, French and EU consumer groups said Wednesday. The French consumer protection group UFC-Que Choisir said it would join a complaint launched by The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) against recurring problems with the Nintendo Switch console. The glitch has