Gaming

AMD Radeon RX 6000 series will be getting a new addition on March 3, the company has announced on Twitter. AMD announced the Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards in October last year to compete with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30 series cards. The Radeon RX 6000 series currently includes the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT,

Xbox Series S pre-orders have returned on Amazon with shipping beginning from March 9. Flipkart has also started taking pre-orders but with no clear shipping date. This gives interested shoppers another chance to pick up the latest console from Microsoft. Given the demand for the new consoles, stocks are expected to run out pretty soon.

PlayStation 5 may get a firmware update this summer that will unlock its M.2 expansion slot. The console launched in November 2020 with a 1TB super-fast SSD and another empty M.2 slot for expansion but it was software locked. Now, a report states that Sony might release a firmware update this summer that would activate

PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 users can own a copy of Ratchet & Clank for free, as part of the company’s Play At Home initiative. Sony introduced Play At Home in April last year, as the world was just entering consecutive lockdowns due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Under the initiative, the company gave away digital

If everything had been normal in the desktop GPU world right now, the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 would have been met with enthusiasm for bringing ray tracing effects to a new mass-market price point as well as the usual generational performance gains. However, things are far from normal – cryptocurrency miners are once

PUBG Mobile 2 may release as soon as next week, a tipster has claimed. PUBG Mobile was banned in India in September 2020 by the Indian government, citing security concerns due to the game’s Chinese-developer origin. PUBG Mobile 2 is reportedly being developed by South Korean company Krafton that took over publishing duties for the

Epic Games put out word it is paying the equivalent of about $8 (roughly Rs. 580) worth of its virtual money to some players to settle a lawsuit over loot boxes. The Fortnite maker said it would automatically drop 1,000 V-Bucks into accounts of players who bought Loot Llama pinata-style figures containing in-game items, without

Xbox Wireless Headset have been launched for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 devices. The headphones have a black finish and comes with features like auto-mute, voice isolation, and direct pairing with a console. Xbox Wireless Headset come with support for Windows Sonic, Dolby Atmos, and DTS Headphone:X. The headphones

Ludo Zenith is now available for download for Android devices through Google Play. The game that marks the partnership between Japanese gaming giant Square Enix and Indian studio JetSynthesys went up for preregistrations earlier this month and is now available for Android users to try out, with an Apple App Store release for iOS devices

Fortnite creator Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to EU antitrust regulators after failing to make headway in a US court in a dispute over the iPhone maker’s payment system on its App Store and control over apps downloads. The two companies have been locked in a legal dispute since August last year

Zynga on Wednesday forecast annual net bookings above Wall Street estimates, betting on the launch of its upcoming FarmVille game and strong in-game spending in its existing titles such as Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells. The company’s shares rose nearly 3 percent in extended trading. Zynga said it expects full-year net bookings – an indicator

Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) have been cast in HBO’s The Last of Us series adaptation, in the respective lead roles of Joel and Ellie. The Last of Us is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a pandemic results in the creation of the Infected, who are zombies all but

Jack Black has joined the Borderlands movie cast as the robot Claptrap, Lionsgate has announced, alongside the previously announced casting of Cate Blanchett as the legendary thief Lilith, Kevin Hart as the skilled soldier Roland, and Jamie Lee Curtis as an archaeologist called Tannis. Unlike the other three, Black will have a voice-only role (just

Games The Shop Valentine’s Sale is now on and brings huge discounts to over 200 games for PC. The sale has offers across Steam, Epic Games, Bethesda Launcher, Rockstar Games Launcher, and Ubisoft Connect titles. Games The Shop Valentine’s Sale will end on February 21, however, not all games will be available at discounted prices

Steam Lunar New Year Sale is underway and will end on February 15 at 10am PT (11:30pm IST). It brings discounts on several games and a free animated Ox sticker for every day of the sale (to mark the Chinese Year of the Ox). There are discounts on games across genres and interested shoppers can

Asus ROG Strix GA35 and ROG Strix GT35 gaming desktop models have been refreshed with AMD CPUs and latest Nvidia GPUs in India. Both are powered by Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 series GPUs and while the ROG Strix GT35 is powered by a 10th-Gen Intel CPU, the ROG Strix GA35 comes with AMD Ryzen 9

CD Projekt has become a target of cyberattack, which compromised some of its internal systems, the Polish video game maker said on Twitter on Tuesday. “An unidentified actor gained unauthorized access to our internal network, collected certain data belonging to CD PROJEKT capital group, and left a ransom note,” it said in a statement. CD

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are both finally available in India – which one should you buy? Well, available is a strong word right now, given they are both sold out virtually everywhere — and there’s no word on new stock is expected to arrive, unlike the weekly drops that happen in other markets.

Polish video game maker CD Projekt is focusing on improving Cyberpunk 2077 and restoring the trust of players and partners disappointed with its flagship game, Puls Biznesu daily reported the group’s CEO as saying. Shares in the company, one of Polish biggest, slumped at the end of last year amid complaints of glitches in the

FAU-G: Fearless and United Guards, the action game that debuted for Android users on January 26 after some anticipation and delays, is facing a backlash from gamers. Several PUBG fans have bombed FAU-G reviews on Google Play for it not being at par with the game that got banned by the government. The mass criticism

FAU-G has been released globally after being available in India since January 26. The developers of the game, nCore Games, shared the development through a tweet. Players outside of India will now be able to download and play FAU-G through Google Play, but there is still no information on an iOS release. FAU-G became the

FAU-G: Fearless and United Guards developer and publisher nCore Games is disappointed with its review bombing on Google Play by PUBG fans who it believed are making an unfair comparison. The action game saw initial success with over five million downloads shortly after its launch last week. But that didn’t seem to help the action

Ludo Zenith mobile game has been announced, bringing to light the partnership between Square Enix and JetSynthesys. The game is being published by Japanese gaming giant Square Enix and developed by Indian studio JetSynthesys. Ludo Zenith is currently up for pre-registration on Google Play and customers will be notified when the game officially launches, along

PlayStation 5 has been mostly out of stock since it launched in November last year but Sony has somehow managed to sell 4.5 million units in 2020. Sony shared its financial results for the third quarter of 2020 ending December 31, wherein it revealed that its total operating income or profit for Q3 2020 were

Alphabet’s Google said on Monday it would stop internal development of games for Stadia, making the cloud-based game-streaming service entirely dependent on titles from other game developers and publishers. Stadia was launched in 2019 along with an internal game development unit that was expected to make titles for the platform. The company said on Monday

Steam Game Festival will kick off on February 3 with over 500 free, playable game demos. Valve has held multiple Steam Game Festivals, which started in March last year, and is now organising another one with livestreams, developer interactions, and free game demos. The company shared the development on Twitter along with a YouTube video

Video games fan Elon Musk gave shares in Polish games producer CD Projekt a further boost on Thursday after the company’s update of its flagship game prompted short sellers to close positions earlier in the week. Shares in CD Projekt which is valued at almost PLN 37 billion (roughly Rs. 71,960 crores), jumped as much

Bringing resource-intensive games to laptops and other devices that might not have the capability to run them on their own, Nvidia has now launched its cloud gaming service GeForce Now’s beta version for Chrome Web browsers and M1 Macs. According to The Verge, GeForce Now already had applications for Android and Windows 10 devices. But,

Razer Viper 8K gaming mouse has been released and it claims to have the “fastest speed and lowest latency ever achieved.” It comes with Razer’s improved optical switches and introduces Hyperpolling technology that brings true 8,000Hz polling rate. This allows the Razer Viper 8K mouse to send more data to your computer, reducing delay and

PlayStation Plus subscribers can get their hands on three free games in the month of February. Control: Ultimate Edition, Concrete Genie, and Destruction AllStars are on the slate, to be available for download starting February 2. As Sony pushes more free exclusives for its newly launched PlayStation 5 consoles, Control: Ultimate Edition and Destruction AllStars