Gaming

The UK government will look into the national security implications of US group Nvidia’s purchase of British chip designer ARM Holdings, it said, raising a question mark over the $40-billion (roughly Rs. 2,99,130 crore) deal. Digital minister Oliver Dowden said he had issued a so-called intervention notice over the sale of ARM by Japan’s SoftBank

Amazon’s video game division has canceled an online role-playing game based on the fantasy series Lord of the Rings, which was announced in 2019, an Amazon spokeswoman said. The game had been in development at Amazon Game Studios alongside China-based Leyou Technologies, which was acquired by Chinese tech giant Tencent in December. The resulting contract

Apple launched its much-awaited Arcade subscription gaming service for its smartphones, tablets, and computers in September 2019, and has slowly added new games to the roster since then. Now, Apple is making some changes to how Arcade is organised for the first time. At Rs. 99 per month in India or Rs. 999 per year,

Apple’s App Store has been criticised multiple times in the past for hosting scam apps that make it through the company’s supposedly stringent review process. The latest app to have gotten through to the store is Jungle Runner 2K21 — a seemingly simple platformer game for children four years and over — but is actually

Epic Games said that it was valued at $28.7 billion (roughly Rs. 2,15,890 crores) in a round of funding from investors including PlayStation maker Sony. Epic Games announced that it raised $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,520 crores), with $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,500 crores) of that coming from Sony. The Japan-based video game and consumer electronics

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition has gotten a new comparison trailer with a month to release date, which showcases how the upcoming remastered version improves on the original Mass Effect trilogy of games. It gives us a look at the better character, environmental and visual effects, including beautification passes, skin rendering, enhanced/ remade textures, more detailed

PlayStation 5 is receiving its first major update that brings new storage options and some social features. There are some personalisation options as well as new PlayStation app features in the April update. Most importantly, the new storage options now allow users to transfer their PS5 games to an external USB storage device to free

Amazon Grand Gaming Days sale has kicked off in India and is offering up to 50 percent discount on gaming laptops, consoles, and accessories. The sale that will last till Wednesday, April 14 brings deals and offers to gaming laptops, desktops, monitors, headphones, consoles, and graphic cards from popular brands such as Acer, Asus, Lenovo,

Outriders has been plagued with issues since launch earlier in April, but one bug — that clears out your entire inventory — has come to the forefront following the new patch released over the weekend. Several Outriders players are reporting that they have lost up to 100 hours of progress as a result of the

PUBG: New State crossed the 10 million pre-registrations mark on Google Play store since it was announced, the game’s official Twitter account shared. The mobile game, believed to be a successor to one of the most popular battle royale games of all time, PUBG Mobile, was announced in February this year and has been available

Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop with the latest 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU and Nvidia GeForce GTX graphics card has launched in India. The laptop comes with slim bezels and uses a technology Acer calls CoolBoost, to keep the internals cool. The Acer Nitro 5 supports DTS: X Ultra and has a high refresh

Video games maker CD Projekt has no plans to shelve Cyberpunk 2077 and is committed to fixing glitches to make its flagship game a long-term success after a troubled rollout, joint chief executive Adam Kicinski told Reuters. Kicinski said CD Projekt was in touch with Sony, which pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store only

Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) will return to Xbox Game Pass and xCloud on Thursday, April 8, Microsoft has announced through a blog post. The game was released in 2013 and still has a huge player base thanks to the expanding GTA Online service that keeps players hooked. Xbox console owners will be able

Ahead of IPL 2021, fantasy sports platform MyTeam11 has introduced a new T20 season campaign called ‘Ab Poora India Khelega’ to gear up for the upcoming cricket tournament which begins this week, on April 9. The company says that it saw a rise of 3x-3.5x during the 2020 IPL tournament, and it is hoping to

LG announced its exit from the smartphone market earlier this week. It wasn’t a sudden move as the mobile division of the South Korean company had been making losses for some time. The departure of LG from the smartphone market was a sad moment for at least some loyal customers. On this week’s episode of

Epic Games and Apple dueled on Thursday in legal filings ahead of a trial over whether to break the iPhone maker’s tight grip on the App Store. Epic, the maker of the massively popular Fortnite game, accused Apple of trapping people in its mobile device world and collecting “outsized commission” at the App Store that

E3 2021 will be held from June 12 to June 15. The organisers, Entertainment Software Association (ESA), has announced that it is going to conduct the gaming expo online for this year’s edition. The confirmed developers’ lineup includes Capcom, Konami, Nintendo, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Games, and Xbox. Notably, Sony hasn’t announced its participation

Acer Nitro 5 with the latest AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU and up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU has launched in India. The gaming laptop comes with impressive specifications including an RGB backlit keyboard. It features a high refresh rate display and a sturdy build. The Acer Nitro 5 is offered in multiple configurations

Live-streaming service Twitch will ban users for offenses such as hate-group membership or credible threats of mass violence that occur entirely away from the site, in a new approach to moderating the platform, the company said on Wednesday. The Amazon-owned platform, which is popular among video gamers, said under its new rules it would take

Oppo seems to have a mobile gaming controller that has an earphone storage compartment in the pipeline. An older patent filed back in September of 2019 for this device with filing number CN112451961A was spotted and the image in the patent shows an Xbox style controller with a phone mount attached to the top and

Dell G15, G15 Ryzen Edition, and Alienware M15 Ryzen Edition R5 gaming laptops launched globally on Wednesday, April 7. The Dell G15 gaming laptop debuted in China last month and has now been introduced globally along with its Ryzen Edition. The two models share most of the specifications except the make of their processors. The

Pac-Man 99, a new battle royale game set in the Pac-Man universe, has been announced for Nintendo Switch. The game will be available on April 7, 6pm PST (April 8, 6:30am IST) free-of-cost for Nintendo Switch Online members. Being a battle royale game, the concept is self-explanatory but with some key differences. There are power-ups,

PUBG Mobile has permanently banned over 1.6 million accounts in about five days, the developers have shared on Twitter. The latest Ban Pan anti-cheat report shared by PUBG Mobile shows the different percentages of player in various tiers that were banned and most of them were in Bronze. The tweet from late last week also

Outriders — the new co-op RPG shooter from Poland-headquartered People Can Fly, the studio behind Gears of War: Judgment and Bulletstorm — is an always-online experience. That’s not new for video games in today’s day and age, more so when you’ve got a co-op title like Outriders that allows friends and/or strangers — depending on

Apple Arcade has added more than 30 new games in a major expansion of its catalogue, and also added two new game categories to help people find the games they want more easily. The gaming subscription service by Apple offers benefits like no ads, fully unlocked games, no in-app purchases, and family sharing with up

As the US economy rebounds from its pandemic slump, a vital cog is in short supply: the computer chips that power a wide range of products that connect, transport, and entertain us in a world increasingly dependent on technology. The shortage has already been rippling through various markets since last summer. It has made it

PlayStation Plus subscribers will have their hands full with monstrous quests in April as the free games lineup for the month brings two zombie survival shooters and an otherworldly platformer. Days Gone, Zombie Army 4: Dead War, and Oddworld: Soulstorm will be available for free for PS Plus subscribers starting April 6. The first two

Among Us is finally getting the Airship map. The game’s fourth map is also its biggest one to date complete with multiple floors, contraptions, new tasks, and a fresh set of hats. Developer InnerSloth first announced the new map at the Game Awards 2020 back in December. Thanks to its massive popularity, Among Us has

PUBG Lite, a free-to-play adaptation of PUBG that allows those who do not have a high-end gaming hardware to play the popular battle royale title, is shutting down service on April 29, the developers have announced. Player support will be terminated on May 29. The announcement comes a day after the lite.pubg.com webpage was closed.

Outriders is set to release on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Stadia next week. Developed by People Can Fly, the studio behind iconic shoot ‘em up titles Gears of War and Bulletstorm, Outriders is an RPG-shooter that is primarily designed to be played as a co-op title. Players can play through the story-driven campaign in co-op