Gaming

FAU-G will be released in India on Republic Day, January 26. The game, which was announced soon after the ban on PUBG Mobile, has been up for pre-registration on Google Play since last month. Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, tweeted the launch date, along with a new trailer for the game. FAU-G was marketed as an

Tencent’s online games were removed and then reinstated on Huawei’s app store on Friday in a dispute over revenue sharing by the Chinese companies. Huawei was insisting on a 50-percent cut of Tencent’s game sales on the app store and the Tencent games were removed because the companies had been unable to agree a deal,

Tencent’s online game offerings have been removed from Huawei’s app store since the two companies failed to reach an agreement on revenue sharing, Tencent and a source said on Friday. “Due to the failure of Huawei’s mobile game platform to renew its contract with our Mobile Game Promotion Project Agreement as scheduled, relevant products of

Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 appears to be getting an upgrade with Ryzen 5000-series processor. The new gaming laptop model has been spotted on Amazon China website with model number GA503QS. Asus launched the last ROG Zephyrus G15 laptop at CES 2020 in January 2020. It came with AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800HS CPU. Asus is likely

PlayStation 5 will be launched in India on February 2 with pre-orders for the PS5 starting from January 12 at 12pm IST. Sony shared the development on Twitter through its PlayStation India account and said that pre-orders will be open till stocks last. The console originally launched in select regions on November 12 and rest

Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day, as it set year-end as deadline for all game publishers to obtain a licence. The takedowns come amid a crackdown on unlicensed games by Chinese authorities. Including the 39,000 games, Apple removed more than 46,000 apps in

PlayStation Plus subscribers can kick off 2021 with an impressive selection of free games – Maneater, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Greedfall. While PlayStation 5 users can get their hands on all three games, PlayStation 4 users will get free access to just the last two. Since Sony launched the next-gen PS5 in November,

Worldwide spending on mobile apps reached $407.6 million (roughly Rs. 2,988 crores) across Google Play and Apple’s App Store on Christmas day, according to a report. The record spending shows a 34.5 percent year-over-year growth from $303 million (roughly Rs. 2,221 crores) in 2019. A majority of the Christmas spending was on mobile games, with

We streamed, we Zoomed, we ordered groceries and houseplants online, we created virtual villages while navigating laptop shortages to work and learn from home. In many ways, 2020′s pandemic-induced isolation threw our dependence on technology into overdrive, snipping away at our real-life connections while bringing digital relationships to the fore. But for every life-changing Zoom,

Many of us have spent a lot more time in front of our computers in 2020 than ever before, thanks to lockdown conditions and completely changed dynamics around work, communication, education, and even leisure. Our technology has kept us all connected, and the industry has largely kept pace with these changes. In fact, we’ve seen

CD Projekt SA, the Polish video-game publisher of Cyberpunk 2077, was sued by an investor who claims the company misled him about the potential of the error-plagued game whose botched release this month caused shares to dive. Andrew Trampe sued Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles and seeks to represent other investors who bought

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has released Hotfix 1.06 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles as well as PCs. The hotfix brings in optimisations for consoles and removes the 8MB save file-limit on PCs. The game, infamous for consistently being hit by new bugs, has already had three hotfixes (including the latest one) since its

Polish gaming studio CD Projekt SA sold 13 million copies of its troubled Cyberpunk 2077 game by December 20, a figure which factors in the number of refund requests the company has received. The studio’s awaited sales update doesn’t include information about the scale of refunds themselves, just providing the net sales number. Cyberpunk was

Steam Winter Sale offers good deals on thousands of games, with deeper discounts than ever before on Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Need for Speed Payback, Sea of Thieves, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Ghostrunner. Many other games are available at prices matching their previous best offer, including the likes of Control, Crusader Kings 3,

China’s ByteDance is in talks to buy into mobile games publisher CMGE Technology, four people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, as the owner of short video app TikTok moves to strengthen its next pillar of growth. The deal would come as the gaming industry continues to benefit from COVID-19 pandemic countermeasures which

PlayStation Holiday Sale is now live and comes with discounts on major new titles such as Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, and Yakuza: Like A Dragon. There aren’t any discounts on the major PlayStation 5

Cyberpunk 2077 players are reporting that if their save files become too big they get corrupted. As per a report, if the save file exceeds 8MB size, the players cannot load it and they get an error message. CD Projekt Red’s much-awaited action-RPG title has become quite infamous owing to the numerous bugs that have

The technical glitches plaguing CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 game have cut more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,300 crores) off the wealth of the company’s founders. Perhaps more seriously, the quality-first image of the studio has been shaken and may not be easy to win back. CD Projekt shares plunged by a third over the

Sony is pulling the much-hyped Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation stores around the world, the firm said Friday, after a flood of complaints and ridicule over bugs, compatibility issues and even health risks. The dystopian-themed title is reportedly one of the most expensive video games ever made, and its December 10 release was hotly anticipated, but

Among Us, the popular multiplayer game that rose to popularity this year, will be available on Xbox consoles in 2021. The announcement came soon after the game joined Xbox Game Pass for PC. Among Us will be available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S in 2021, although the launch date has

Cities: Skylines is free for one day today. Epic Games has kicked off its holiday sale offering one free game every day for 15 days, and city building sim Cities: Skylines is the first on the list. The game is available for free on the Epic Games store today, December 18, till 9:30pm IST, after

Among Us is now available on Nintendo Switch. The multiplayer game will feature cross-platform play on the Switch, allowing mobile, PC, and Switch users to play the game together. Among Us is available for purchase at $5 (roughly Rs. 400) through Nintendo’s online store. The 2018 game by InnerSloth rose in popularity this year and

Has PUBG Mobile India been granted permission to launch by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)? Responses given by the ministry in response to two different RTI applications revealed that no such permission has been granted. Last month, PUBG Corporation announced the launch of the India-specific game, PUBG Mobile India, that could bring the

Soundcore Strike 1 and Soundcore Strike 3 wired gaming headphones have been launched by Anker in India. These headphones come with specially designed driver enclosures for precision hearing, an ultra-durable construction, and a lightweight design. Soundcore Strike 3 headphones offer a virtual 7.1-surround sound experience and the sound can be personalised through the Souncore app.

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has admitted that it “ignored” signs that the game needed more time to be ready for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The Polish studio focused more on “PC and next-gen performance rather than current-gen”, which is strange given Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t have a native version for PlayStation 5 and

How does Cyberpunk 2077 perform on a next-gen console like the Xbox Series X? We already told you the game is a disaster on the PlayStation 4. On the Xbox One X, it’s — unsurprisingly, given it’s a half-gen upgrade — a step forward, but it still falls short of what you’d expect. If you’re

Fortnite has got a new LTM (Limited time modes) playlist, The Spy Within, which brings a game mode similar to the popular online game Among Us. There can be two spies in a match and other players will have to figure out who they are before the spies eliminate them. The LTM playlist for Fortnite

Fortnite will now be able to run at higher frame rates on more PCs with less-capable hardware. This has been made possible with the new Performance Mode that is currently in its Alpha stage and it reduces visual quality for better frames per second (fps). While Fortnite is not a very demanding game to begin

Electronic Arts said it had reached an agreement to buy Codemasters in a deal worth $1.2 billion (roughly Rs. 8,800 crores), trumping an earlier agreement between the British company and rival Take-Two Interactive. Shares in London-listed Codemasters surged 18.7 percent to GBP 6.37 (roughly Rs. 600) by 08:45 GMT (2:15pm IST) above the GBP 6.04

Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most awaited games of 2020, and it turns out it’s also one of the most overhyped games of 2020, which is a fitting way to cap off the year. The first major title from Polish developer CD Projekt Red since the award-winning 2015 action RPG The Witcher 3: Wild