Gaming

Nvidia forecast third-quarter sales above expectations on Wednesday, but results from the data centre business of the rising semiconductor industry star disappointed some investors, pressuring shares. The company, with a market cap that has eclipsed Intel, also beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter. Still, the results sent shares down 1.5 percent in trading after the

Batgirl might be a part of the next game from Batman: Arkham Origins developer WB Games Montréal, if Internet sleuths are to be trusted. On Monday, WB Games Montréal began teasing its next title under the @r3dakt3d Twitter handle. Its bio only refers to the upcoming mega virtual event DC FanDome and redirects users to

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War has been officially announced with a teaser posted on YouTube called “Know Your History”. The short two-minute video sets up the backdrop for the upcoming game with clips from an old interview of KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warning the US about a soviet spy that has infiltrated the

EA Play — previously known as EA Access on consoles, and Origin Access on PC — will arrive August 31 on Steam, Electronic Arts has announced. That will make Steam the fourth platform of availability for EA Play, after Origin, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. But EA Play Pro — the premium tier for PC

Ghost of Tsushima: Legends is a new co-op mode that will be available as a free update later this year. Ghost of Tsushima launched for the PlayStation 4 last month and received positive reviews from the community. Now its developers, Sucker Punch, have decided to give fans a chance to play alongside their friends in

Many aircraft are still grounded due to the coronavirus pandemic, but would-be and real pilots took to the virtual skies on Tuesday with the first update in years of Microsoft’s venerable Flight Simulator game. The bestselling title dates all the way back to 1982, when home computers had less processing power than a graphics card

Epic Games said on Monday it was seeking to block Apple’s removal of Fortnite from its app store and has asked a judge to prevent any retaliatory action against its other games in the store. In its filing, Epic Chief Executive Timothy Sweeney said Fortnite had 350 million registered users as of June 2020, but

The Suicide Squad game is known as “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League”. Warner Bros. revealed the title of the in-the-works Suicide Squad video game as part of the schedule for DC FanDome, the upcoming mega virtual convention for all things DC on August 22. Will Arnett — best known for Arrested Development and BoJack

Fortnite maker Epic Games has launched the most significant effort yet to advance the legal theory that Apple’s iPhone ecosystem has become so “sticky” that it is a distinct software market over which Apple exercises monopoly power. On Thursday Epic filed a lawsuit in federal court after Apple pulled Fortnite from its App Store to

EA Access and Origin Access are being rebranded as EA Play from Tuesday, August 18, gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) has announced. The premium tier Origin Access Premier will be renamed as EA Play Pro. Both the subscription-based video game services — EA Access is for PS4 and Xbox One, while Origin Access is for

With the Marvel’s Avengers PC pre-order beta approaching — it starts Friday alongside the Xbox One pre-order beta — developer Crystal Dynamics has announced the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements. Marvel’s Avengers won’t run on anything lower than 64-bit Windows 10 and you will need a minimum of 8GB RAM. Additionally, the Avengers game

Rovio Entertainment, maker of the 10-year-old Angry Birds mobile game series, on Friday reported a 160 percent jump in second-quarter adjusted operating profit, helped by increased player engagement amid COVID-19 lockdowns. “We reached record high games revenue driven by the strong performance of our key games,” CEO Kati Levoranta said in a statement. Adjusted operating

Redmi G gaming notebook has been launched in China as the Xiaomi sub-brand’s first ever gaming laptop. It has a stylish design and boasts of impressive specifications, like up to 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, dedicated Nvidia graphics card, and high refresh rate screen. The Redmi G gaming notebook comes in a single colour option

Call of Duty: Mobile will receive its Season 9 update on August 16, as announced by the game’s official Twitter account. The upcoming season is called ‘Conquest’ and will bring several new changes and features to the game, including new maps, modes, events, Gunsmith feature, and a new Ranked Series 6. There are some multiplayer

Fortnite maker Epic Games has used a famous Apple advertisement against the iPhone maker in a social media campaign accompanying a legal battle it launched on Thursday. Epic’s “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite”, shows a colorful female Fortnite fighter running through a black-and-white corridor and hurling a unicorn-shaped club against a screen showing an Apple-headed character talking about

Upon their release, both the snowboarding game Alto’s Adventure and its sandboarding sequel Alto’s Odyssey were praised more for their atmosphere, the visual style, and the aesthetic, than the basic gameplay. Among the adjectives used by critics then to describe the two games were “laid back”, “mellow”, “relaxing”, and “soothing”. It’s almost as if the

Intel has announced new details of its upcoming consumer CPU and GPU product lines, as well as 3D Xpoint memory, the 10nm manufacturing process node, future chip packaging technology, software, and much more, in its virtual Architecture Day 2020 seminar. Senior engineers including Raja Koduri, who is a company Senior Vice President, Chief Architect, and

Honor Hunter will be the Huawei sub-brand’s first gaming laptop and the logo for it has been revealed on Chinese micro-blogging website, Weibo. Honor shared a poster for the Hunter series of gaming laptops stating that they are coming soon. The poster does not reveal any information on the laptop itself, nor does it come

The Xbox Series X will launch in November, as expected. Microsoft and Xbox have announced that their next-gen gaming console will be available in online and offline stores in about three months, confirming what many had guessed for a while now. With Microsoft committed to a global launch, expect the Xbox Series X to be

Nvidia has announced it will be hosting an event on September 1. Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, will be speaking at the event and rumours suggest that the new GeForce RTX 3000 series GPUs will be unveiled at the same. The event will be streamed on the company website starting 9am PT (9:30pm IST). As of

Xbox Series S appears to have been confirmed and may be launched as Microsoft’s affordable console. The brand is set to launch the Xbox Series X later this year but it looks like it won’t be the only next-gen console expected in the coming months. Images of an Xbox controller posted on Twitter shows the

Suicide Squad is set to get a game of its own soon. Rocksteady Studios — the developer best known for the Batman: Arkham series — has announced that it’s working on Suicide Squad, based on the DC Comics supervillain team of the same name. It will involve Superman in some capacity, with the image released

OnePlus has announced that the popular battle royale game PUBG Mobile can now be played in 90 frames per second (FPS) on a select range of its devices. The Chinese giant said that the feature would be only available on OnePlus 7 Pro, OnePlus 7T series, and OnePlus 8 series. The 90 FPS experience will

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning US transactions involving Chinese social media and video game leader Tencent Holdings, owner of messaging app WeChat, on national security grounds. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is set to identify transactions covered by the order, which starts in 45 days. Below is a list of

Facebook Gaming app, a dedicated platform for watching livestreams of games, was launched in April to take on competitors like Twitch. This app was made available for Android users initially, and after months of review, it was finally launched on Friday for iOS users. While the Facebook Gaming app is live on the App Store,

The launch of the Avengers game beta was meant to be an exciting time for Marvel fans. Over three years after it was first announced, gamers could finally experience what it felt like to play as their favourite superhero in what’s promising to be a super-ambitious adventure. But then earlier this week, Marvel’s Avengers developer

Apple has revealed that game streaming services like Microsoft’s xCloud and Google’s Stadia violate its App Store guidelines, which is why the services cannot operate on iOS devices. According to a reported statement from an Apple spokesperson, the company requires each app to be tested before being pushed to the store but it can’t review

Beijing on Friday accused the United States of “suppression” after President Donald Trump ordered sweeping restrictions against Chinese social media giants TikTok and WeChat. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a regular press briefing that the US move came at the expense of American users and companies. Trump’s executive orders, which take effect in

Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series finally has a release date for PlayStation VR: August 25. All three episodes will be available on the same day, for a combined price of $30 (roughly Rs. 2,250). An exact price for India is not known, as Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series has yet to

Microsoft xCloud game streaming technology’s testing on iOS devices has been stopped. The company recently announced that it will be bringing xCloud to Android devices on September 15 with no information on an iOS release. Now, as per a new report, Microsoft has stopped testing this service on iOS devices through Apple TestFlight programme but