Gaming

Lenovo Legion 7, Lenovo Legion 5, and Lenovo Legion 5 Pro gaming laptop models have been updated with the latest AMD Ryzen 5000-series CPUs and Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs. Lenovo has also announced the new Legion Slim 7 with the latest AMD and Nvidia hardware as well. The 2021 Legion lineup is part of

Hitman 3 is coming out on January 20, and here’s everything you need to know about it. Hit man 3 is set to bring a fitting conclusion to the radical World of Assassination trilogy that started with IO Interactive’s 2016-title, Hitman. If you’re a fan of stealth-based action games, you should be well aware of

Intel plans to tap Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to make a second generation discrete graphics chip for personal computers that it hopes will help it combat the rise of Nvidia, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The chip, known as DG2, will be made on a new chipmaking process at TSMC that has not

Hike is shutting down its Sticker Chat app, founder and CEO Kavin Bharti Mittal confirmed. The company is ‘sunsetting’ Hike Sticker Chat in January 2021 itself. Mittal says that even though the app is shutting down, HikeMoji will still be available in its other services. The company had earlier stated that the Hike Sticker Chat

Amkette EvoFox GameBox has been launched in India as a budget friendly gaming console. It supports 4K media playback and comes with hundreds of preloaded games. However, it does not support Netflix or Amazon Prime Video (HD) at present. It is powered by a quad core processor and runs on Android 9 Pie. The package

Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon has been launched on Apple Arcade for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Chronos Dungeon expands on the Oceanhorn universe and brings support for up to four players in local multiplayer. Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon and features a 16-bit-style rogue-lite dungeon crawler gameplay with quick play sessions. Back in September last year, Oceanhorn

PUBG Mobile India’s launch is still a mystery as there has been no formal discussion between PUBG/ Krafton and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). An online publication that filed an RTI asking MeitY for clarity, and found that there has been no official meeting about the launch of PUBG Mobile India. PUBG

Acer Predator XB273U NX, Predator XB323QK NV, and Nitro XV282K KV gaming monitors have been launched, expanding its Predator and Nitro line up. They boast of impressive specifications and are geared towards a wide range of gamers, be it professional or casual players. Acer Predator XB273U NX has a WQHD panel while the Predator XB323QK

Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo prior to launching the first Xbox in 2001, former Xbox executives have revealed, in a bid to secure its coveted first-party titles — the likes of Mario, Pokémon, and Zelda — but the Windows giant was laughed out of the room by the Japanese giant. Microsoft also unsuccessfully tried to

Minecraft Earth AR mobile game, launched by Microsoft two years ago, is shutting down. The developers say that the current global situation has prevented free movement and collaborative play – two things that are essential for playing Minecraft Earth. As a result of this pandemic, Microsoft has taken the tough decision to end support for

Hitwicket Superstars wasn’t grabbing big headlines until it won the Prime Minister’s AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge in the games category. It emerged as the most favourite mobile gaming app, beating Scarfall: The Royale Combat and World Cricket Championship – WCC2. The game is an interactive mobile cricket strategy game that is available both on

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

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

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 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

Valve has released its list of ‘Best Games of 2020′ on Steam which includes games such as Among Us, Cyberpunk 2077, Dota 2, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Grand Theft Auto V, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). The top-performing Steam games are broken down into six lists, although the popular games overlap in some

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has released Hotfix 1.05 for Xbox and PlayStation consoles with a long list of fixes and optimisations. The game has consistently been in the news for all the wrong reasons ever since its launch earlier this month. It is riddled with bugs on both PC and consoles, especially last

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