Gaming

Battlegrounds Mobile India is nearing 50 million downloads and developer Krafton has announced a rewards event leading up to the milestone. The game, which is the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile, was officially launched on July 2 but was available to a lot of players from mid-June. The downloads have been increasing steadily and now

Japan’s Nintendo said on Thursday sales of its Switch console fell 22 percent in the first quarter as demand for the hit device fades in its fifth year on the market. Investors are watching gaming firms closely for signals that the COVID-19 pandemic sales boom may be running out of steam. Nintendo is highly dependent on

PlayStation VR 2 will reportedly have two OLED displays that will support high-dynamic-range (HDR) video — that should make it brighter, more vibrant with an expanded colour spectrum, and capable of deeper blacks and more powerful whites. The original PSVR headset had a standard-dynamic-range (SDR) LCD display. The next-gen PlayStation virtual reality headset will also

Fortnite is getting two new Street Fighter skins — Guile and Cammy. Players will be able to purchase the new skins via the in-game item shop starting this weekend, August 7. The Guile and Cammy cosmetic skins will join Chun-Li and Ryu skins that were added to Fortnite in February this year. The game has

HP X-series line of gaming monitors has been announced. The lineup has seven new gaming monitors in flat and curved screen models, with a range of sizes and resolutions. The HP X-series monitors feature IPS display panels with a 165Hz refresh rate and 1ms of response time. All seven new monitors also feature AMD FreeSync

The resourceful astromech droid from Star Wars, R2-D2 (Artoo-Detoo), will soon be a Tamagotchi toy that you can carry in a pocket wherever you go. Bandai, the Japanese company behind it, has launched the classic interactive virtual pet that goes on sale in November this year. The R2-D2 Tamagotchi will be available in two colours

Ariana Grande is coming to Fortnite. On Sunday, Epic Games revealed the “record-breaking superstar” who is coming to Fortnite’s Rift Tour series — it’s the 28-year-old Grammy-winning artist known for songs such as “Thank U, Next”. She’s also the most streamed female artist on Spotify and Apple Music, and the most subscribed solo female artist

AMD has unveiled the new Radeon RX 6600 XT mid-range GPU, aimed at gamers who want to target high performance and high refresh rates at 1080p. The company is touting 15 percent better performance than rival Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 and up to 2.5X better performance for anyone who want to upgrade from a GeForce

Pokemon, the iconic game series from Nintendo, debuted in Japan nearly two-and-a-half decades ago. It took the game only a few years to taste immense popularity in not just the US but in several other countries as well. And while Pebblemon — designed and developed to play on the Pebble smartwatch — may not be

Krispy Kreme, the American doughnut and coffeehouse chain, and gaming giant Xbox have joined hands to introduce ‘The Nexus Level,’ a limited-edition doughnut. The delicacy will be available in offline and online stores in the UK and Ireland from August 2 to August 22, said Krispy Kreme in a promotional video posted on Twitter. While

PC maker Dell said it has stopped shipping some versions of its powerful gaming systems to California and five other states because the products do not meet new energy efficiency standards. The regulations affect “select configurations” of its Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 gaming PCs, Dell said in a statement sent to Reuters late on Tuesday.

PlayStation Plus players will get three new games in the month of August — Hunters Arena: Legends, Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, and Tennis World Tour 2. All three games will be available for PlayStation 4 players with the first one being available on PlayStation 5 as well. However, thanks to PlayStation 5’s backwards

PlayStation 5 owners can reportedly buy a new console at 20 percent off with Sony’s “goodwill discount” if their PS5 has had some physical damage. Sony is said to have confirmed to a publication that PS5 owners will not have to pay full price for a new console if their old damaged console is in

When the NFT cryptocurrency-collectibles exploded in popularity in early 2021, they drew the interest of a large number of millennials, helping the NFT craze become mainstream. Seeing an opportunity opening up, several blockchain-based gaming companies began working to occupy the new market. The Axie Infinity game, by indie studio Sky Mavis, was one of them. The

Samsung has unveiled the world’s first mini-LED gaming monitor, Odyssey Neo G9, with Quantum Matrix technology. The gaming monitor comes with a curved display and supports Quantum HDR 2000 for an immersive gaming experience. This monitor is a successor to the Odyssey G9 that was launched last year. The new Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 utilises

There was a time when gamers were treated to big-budgeted cutscenes that looked way better than the games themselves. Games like Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, and World of Warcraft had some of the best cutscenes. However, as the TV technology evolved, these classic cutscenes vanished into oblivion, mainly because they turned out poorly, like a

EA had a bunch of new games to show off at its EA Play Live 2021 event on Thursday, even though it had already unveiled two of its biggest titles for this year — Battlefield 2042 and FIFA 22 — in past weeks and months. There was more info for the former, with Battlefield Portal

PlayStation 5 is back, back again. Today at 12pm (noon), the disc-equipped Rs. 49,990 PS5 will go up for sale a sixth time in India, just two weeks on from the previous round. It’s essentially the same restock divided into two lots, it would seem. There’s no word on the PS5 Digital Edition though, which

Google has launched its largest ever Doodle game, Doodle Champion Island, to celebrate the commencement of the Tokyo Olympics 2020. The game begins when you click the doodle on the search homepage, and it transports you to an island where a sports festival is underway. The main character is called Lucky, a feline character that

PS5 will be back in stock in India this coming Monday, July 26 at 12pm noon, Sony Center has announced on its official website ShopAtSC. Games The Shop and Vijay Sales told Gadgets 360 that they will be taking orders as well. Although it’s not been confirmed, it’s very likely that the other usual retailers

Battlegrounds Mobile India — the local avatar of PUBG Mobile — received a client patch on Saturday to fix some of the known issues. The update fixes a bug that was causing the battle royale game to be stuck at the loading screen when the player is wearing Unicorn-set outfits. There is also a fix

Dinosaur Game on Google’s Chrome browser has been around for several years. To mark the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that are already underway, the search giant has added several tweaks to the classic game. While normally the friendly little T-rex on your screen jumps over cactus when you hit spacebar, a Reddit user has now spotted

Call of Duty: Back Ops Cold War is giving its players an opportunity to try out its Multiplayer and Zombies mode for free for a total of eight days. The free access will be available for players across multiple platforms. However, users will not be able to play the single-player campaign mode during the free

Netflix is getting into gaming, for real. In its quarterly letter to shareholders, the video-streaming service announced that it’s currently in the “early stages” of expanding into games. On the earnings call, Netflix founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings said they are “pushing” on it, while COO and chief product officer Greg Peters called gaming a

PlayStation Summer Sale is now live, offering discounts on over a thousand titles. We have our first price drop on PS5 exclusive Returnal (that launched at the end of April), though there’s no such discount on the latest PS5 exclusive Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which released in mid-June. In the non-exclusive world, Mass Effect

Battlegrounds Mobile India’s ‘Get Ready To Jump’ community event is underway and participants have a chance to win official merchandise. The event requires participants to share a clip of them dropping a pin on the map and landing on their chosen destination. Krafton is looking for tactics that players use to parachute in the battle

Pro Evolution Soccer is in for an overhaul — the biggest since its inception. Konami announced Wednesday that its football simulation title is being rechristened simply as eFootball, after a couple of years carrying the unwieldy title “eFootball PES.” But more importantly, eFootball will be a free-to-play title, offering cross-platform play post launch everywhere. eFootball

Tom Clancy’s is going Fortnite. On Monday, Ubisoft announced a new free-to-play first-person shooter in Tom Clancy’s XDefiant that will offer “fast-paced 6-v-6 arena combat with faction-based abilities”. The factions in XDefiant will be inspired by the other Tom Clancy’s series in the past, including Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, and The Division (which is getting

Until the launch of the Radeon RX 6000 series earlier this year, AMD’s Radeon GPUs were not exactly competitive with Nvidia’s top-end GeForce RTX series. Performance was generally not as good, and there was no support for ray tracing, the hot new technology that everyone’s talking about. It takes a combination of hardware and software

Battlegrounds Mobile India players have been facing some issues after the Season 20 or C1S1 update from earlier this week. The issues pertain to the unicorn-set outfits, a login reward, UC (in-game currency) purchases, and more. South Korean developer Krafton has acknowledged the issues and working on fixing them. Battlegrounds Mobile India has become a