Gaming

Resident Evil 3 is finally official. After teasing the launch of a Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999) remake for the past few weeks, Capcom has finally unveiled Resident Evil 3, and has revealed that the game will arrive next year. Resident Evil 3 will be out on April 3, 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, and

With the launches of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 16-series GPUs and Intel’s 9th Gen Core CPUs for high-performance laptops earlier this year, hardware makers have refreshed their offerings and we’re now seeing a flood of them in the market. Many of these models are in demand right now, and we’ve seen some great prices during all

PUBG Mobile has started receiving the v0.16.0 content update, and this one is a big update in terms of new features and changes it brings. The latest PUBG Mobile update marks the in-game winter festival, and it brings a new RageGear mode as well as the ability to snowboard in the new Snow Paradise region

Twitch is now fully engaged in the bidding wars for celebrity gamers, with three popular names pledging to stay on the platform that made them famous. Ben “DrLupo” Lupo, Saqib “LIRIK” Zahid and Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar will all stream exclusively on Twitch through multiyear deals. Twitch did not disclose the length of term nor compensation

Search engine giant Google has made it clear that it will not provide Epic Games and Fornite an exception as it expects all developers to participate under the same terms. Epic Games had submitted Fortnite to Google Play in the hopes of a special exception to the 30 percent rule. Epic believes that Fortnite is

It’s Qiyana. The League of Legends character is just standing there, imprinted on a black T-shirt. It’s called gaming fashion, and it costs $670 (roughly Rs. 48,000). The historic crossover between high fashion and e-sports continues with Louis Vuitton releasing its capsule collection from its partnership with Riot Games and League of Legends. The two

Call of Duty: Mobile (CODM) has reaped nearly $87 million (roughly Rs. 621 crores) in global player spending and more than 172 million downloads in its first two months. The game picked up nearly 21 million installs in November, compared to almost 146 million in October, revealed analytics firm Sensor Tower recently. As per report, the

Playrix Holding, a mobile-game developer that made billionaires of its Russian founders, has bought into about a dozen studios to take on the likes of Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts. Brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman said in an interview that by 2025 they want Playrix’s sales to catch up with those of the US gaming giants.

Microsoft might be working on and planning to release a more affordable and less powerful Xbox console for Holiday 2020, as per a report. There has been much speculation and confusion regarding Microsoft on whether the company will release one or two Xbox gaming consoles in 2020. But it looks like alongside the powerful console

As the gaming industry revs up for the next console cycle – set to begin late next year when Sony and Microsoft kickoff the ninth console generation – economic tallies show the industry to be in good shape. According to an industry report published by Newzoo, consumers will spend over $152 billion (roughly Rs. 11,00,000

The Black Friday shopping frenzy caught up with people across the globe after Thanksgiving Day and deal shopping was so intense that Costco’s website and app in the US went down and long queues were seen outside hypermarket stores like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy. According to USA Today, At a JC Penney store in Merritt

Fortnite Save The World mode is in the limelight again. Epic Games has added Dungeons, a new area for players to explore. Dungeons area in the game’s Save The World mode is riddled with traps and monsters that players need to take on in order to win rewards. A pair of new heroes with unique

Minecraft Earth, an AR version of the classic Minecraft game, was announced back in May this year, but its closed beta testing was limited to only a few regions. The availability of Minecraft Earth has now expanded to India as well, among a host of other countries. The early access for Minecraft Earth on Android

Many longtime members of the Pokémon community called it the worst controversy ever. It’s the “angriest I’ve ever seen the Pokémon community,” said YouTuber TheJWittz. The outrage started this past summer when it was announced for the first time in the series, most of the past Pokémon wouldn’t return in the first home console release

Fortnite’s Chapter 2 is in full swing right now, but it appears that there are some surprises left in the store before Season 1 comes to an end. Epic Games has announced that Season 1 of Fortnite’s Chapter 2 has been extended and it will now conclude in February. As for the reason behind the

Steams Remote Play Together beta was opened in October, and less than a month later, the feature has gone public. Steam Remote Play Together allows multiple players to enjoy a game together, but with only one of them actually owning a copy of the game. The feature is now available on Windows, macOS, Linux, and

Valve is reviving the Half-Life franchise after a long spell, but not in a way that fans of the acclaimed series were hoping for. Valve has announced it is developing a flagship VR game called Half-Life: Alyx. But before you rush to Valve’s website or social media channels for more information on the upcoming Half-Life project,

In 2012, after Disney acquired Lucasfilm — the maker of Star Wars — it decided to end in-house video game development that had gone on for two decades at LucasArts, founded by George Lucas himself. Less than a year later, it signed a decade-long partnership with gaming behemoth Electronic Arts — popularly known as EA

Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia demonstrates the possibilities of gaming from the cloud, but experts say it’s hindered by a lack of compelling video games and a convoluted pricing scheme. Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at IHS Markit, called Tuesday’s launch more of a public beta test than an actual debut. He said the

Nintendo unveiled its first Japanese store on Tuesday in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya shopping district, in a step towards greater commercialisation of its cast of popular characters. The Nintendo Tokyo store in the fashion-focused Parco department store marks the latest move into the mainstream for Japan’s gamer culture and gives Nintendo a key location to attract more

The Google Stadia felt like a miracle the moment I loaded Destiny onto a Google Pixel phone. Sitting in a lounge chair on a rooftop, I was shocked to see that I was able to move my old Hunter around in glorious 60 frames-per-second combat. On a phone! But moments are fleeting, and latency on

Bringing PC games to the mobile platform is a risky task, and even though there is a lot of fanfare, the end result is not always up to the mark. Remember the Diablo Immortal backlash earlier this year? Grinding Gear Games is well aware of the fiasco, and has announced that it is bringing the

Unrepresented in the global online gaming community till couple of years back, India today is churning out next-generation of gaming creators on YouTube and the momentum is picking up fast not only in English and Hindi but also in vernacular languages, a top company executive said on Monday. Games like PUBG have created a sizable

Google Stadia is just a day away from its debut, and even though it will miss out on a host of features, there is finally some consolation for those who pre-ordered the Stadia bundles. Earlier, Stadia was set to launch with just a paltry 12 games, which was significantly lower than the 50 games Microsoft’s xCloud

In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorcese was dismissive about movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, kicking the proverbial hornet’s nest by saying “that’s not cinema.” Others have likewise rejected the idea that video games are a work of art. Film critic Roger Ebert famously stated that “games cannot be art,”

Microsoft’s held its annual “celebration of all things Xbox” in London today. Despite hopes for more information on the next Xbox – the still-codenamed Project Scarlett – no new information on the next-generation console, expected in holiday 2020, had been released. Instead, Microsoft touted its popular $10-per-month (roughly Rs. 720) Game Pass subscription service, which allows

For the Call of Duty franchise, Modern Warfare is a stark return to the basics. The break-neck pace from past games been replaced with measured, tactical gunfights where positioning matters more than your ability to dash, slide or jump across a map. Loadouts no longer include tactical shields or futuristic camouflage; there are flash bangs

Microsoft is expanding the preview of its Project xCloud game streaming service, and one area where it has already beaten its chief competitor from Google is the number of games. The Project xCloud Preview now offers a library of over 50 popular games from major studios for testing. Microsoft has also announced that Project xCloud will be

Google Stadia will launch on November 19, and ahead of its debut, Google’s team is in full steam clarifying all the prerequisites and compatibility details for its cloud-based game streaming service. Prior to Stadia’s debut, Google has unveiled a grip for Pixel phones and the Stadia controller called Claw. Google has also revealed controller compatibility

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, a 4K remaster of the original two-decades-old game with all four previously-released expansions and a bunch of new content, is out this week. The last of that includes four new civilisations — Bulgarians, Cumans, Lithuanians, and Tatars — that will feature in a new single-player campaign, alongside a new