Gaming

China has imposed a curfew to limit the time spent by children playing games online, in the latest part of a government crackdown on youth gaming addiction. The regulations will mean those under 18 cannot play games online between 10pm and 8am, and for only ninety minutes at a time during the daytime. In addition,

After multiple missteps, including the debacle that was Battlefront II, Star Wars fans are finally getting a single-player game since EA and Lucasfilm signed a deal in 2013. Set shortly after Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order follows “Cal Kestis, a Jedi Padawan who narrowly escaped the purge of

Stadia – Google’s cloud-based game streaming service – is all set to launch on November 19. Ahead of its official debut, the Google Stadia app has landed on the Google Play Store and can now be downloaded on supported phones. However, the app currently does not offer much, apart from letting users link their Google

Pokemon Go maker Niantic on Wednesday moved closer to turning the world into a giant game board in a fun mix of fantasy and reality. San Francisco-based Niantic opened the door for outside developers to build titles to add to its current lineup of mobile games which includes Pokemon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and

Steam – and by that extension, Valve – is no stranger to game streaming, but the options offered by Steam are limited by hardware requirement, which means you need dedicated gear to stream your games. Enter cloud-based game streaming, which essentially removes the hardware requirement from the equation and allows users to enjoy a game just

PUBG Mobile is all set to get a new update tomorrow that will kick off Season 10 and will also bring a tonne of new content. The patch notes for PUBG Mobile 0.15.5 update are now live, revealing the key changes set to arrive with the update that will roll out starting tomorrow. PUBG Mobile

Pokemon Go is all set to get a new multiplayer AR feature that will let players interact with each other in a shared augmented reality experience. Niantic calls the live multiplayer feature Buddy Adventure, and as the name clearly suggests, it will be all about sharing Pokemon Go’s AR experience with friends, allowing multiple players

In a world fractured by political populism and divisive voices on social media, can a video game build bridges to harmony? The Japanese auteur behind Death Stranding hopes so. The much-hyped title comes out for Sony’s PlayStation 4 on Friday and is the first creation of Hideo Kojima, the acclaimed designer of the Konami studio’s mega-selling

PUBG Mobile is all set to receive a new update that will kick off Season 10 on November 9, introducing a host of new items, missions, and even a new character. PUBG Corp has now revealed that the upcoming update will introduce a new map called “The Ruins” that looks heavily inspired by the existing

PUBG Mobile Season 10 kicks off on November 9, and it will bring a new theme, items, missions, and a lot more. A fresh leak reveals the debut of a new character called Sara. She will reportedly introduce a host of new emotes, costumes, and catchphrases, but more importantly, Sara will bring a key tactical

Apple has reportedly partnered with the US game developer Valve to develop its rumoured AR headset, due for launch next year. Earlier, noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the iPhone maker is preparing to release AR headsets by the first half of 2020, DigiTimes reported. Back in July, it was reported that Apple had stopped

PlayStation 4 is nearing the end of its cycle and talks of Sony’s next gaming console – tentatively called the PlayStation 5 – have already begun. But before it sees the sunset, the PlayStation 4 has achieved an important milestone by dethroning the original PlayStation as the second highest-selling Sony console of all time. It

Nintendo’s Mario Kart Tour has already reached 123.9 million unique downloads across the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in its first month, as per a report by Sensor Tower. Nintendo announced the Mario Kart mobile game back in January 2018, with an original launch date of March 2019, but the game was then

We Co, the beleaguered parent of WeWork, has been quietly building an electronic-gaming business. After branching into co-living with WeLive, fitness with Rise By We and education with WeGrow, the money-losing startup is seeking a Play By We trademark, according to an application published by the UK’s Intellectual Property Office last week. It has also

Nintendo said on Friday it would begin testing a multiplayer option for its Mario Kart Tour mobile game in December, a step towards the full multiplayer mode demanded by players and seen as essential to boosting the title’s revenues. A major test of Nintendo’s shift to mobile, Mario Kart Tour currently lacks the option to

PUBG Mobile Season 9 is in full swing right now, but leaks surrounding the next season have already started coming in. PUBG Corp and Tencent Games are yet to officially reveal when Season 10 kicks off, but a trio of video leaks claim to give us a glimpse of what comes next. The Season 10

Valve announced back in March that Steam will soon get a major design makeover with tweaks such as improved categorisation and scaleable thumbnails. The promised Steam redesign is now live, thanks to a new update that also introduces the Remote Play feature in public beta to let players enjoy a co-op game with friends. The redesigned

Nintendo’s second-quarter operating profit more than doubled, blowing past analyst estimates, on strong demand for its Switch console. Nintendo sold 4.98 million units of its hybrid home-portable Switch device in the six months to September and 1.95 million handheld-only Switch Lite units that went on sale in September. It would be “premature” to raise Nintendo’s

Razer has announced the launch of two new products. The first one is called the Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Earbuds, which are the company’s first truly wireless earbuds. These earbuds are compatible with both Android and iOS. The second product is called the Razer Junglecat, which is a dual-sided mobile gaming controller (only) for Android,

EA has announced its quarterly earnings report for second quarter of the fiscal year 2020, and if there is one game that stood out, it was Apex Legends. The free-to-play battle royale game, which was released in February this year, has already amassed a player base of 70 million worldwide. Thanks to the success of

Microsoft started a public preview of its Project xCloud game streaming service earlier this month. While everyone waits for the company’s Google Stadia rival, Microsoft is now letting Xbox One testers try out a new feature called Console Streaming. The new feature lets users play Xbox One games on a mobile device via their own

PUBG Mobile is a lot of fun, but there is no dearth of cheaters out there who employ unscrupulous tricks to gain advantage and ruin the experience for others. While Tencent and PUBG Corp have taken steps lately to tackle cheating in the game, the fraudsters come up with new methods to fool the system.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launched for PC, PS4, and the Xbox One last week. And while there were much hype and anticipation around the launch of the popular title, some Xbox One owners have come across a serious bug that leads to frequent crashing of the video game on Microsoft’s popular gaming console. But

Before the millions of players, before the billions in revenue, before the esports tournaments that topped 100 million spectators, League of Legends was more of an idea than a game. And the game that did exist in the year-long lead up to its release wasn’t very good. “The game really sucked for a long time,” said

Reliance Jio and its new All-in-One plans for Jio Phone users as well as other subscribers dominated the conversation in a week that was relatively quiet on the technology news front. Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro phones also went on sale for the first time this week and the company started rolling

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the reboot of the widely popular first-person shooter game, will launch on Friday and is set to become another billion-dollar hit for publisher Activision Blizzard. The game is a fresh take on the popular Modern Warfare sub series of the Call of Duty franchise that was initially launched in 2007

Fortnite is massively popular, but to the chagrin of many, it is not available via the Google Play Store. If you’ve played Fortnite on an Android phone, you already know the drill. Download the Fortnite Installer on your phone from the Epic Games website, launch the app, and then download the game files. Well, the

The Last of Us Part II has been one of the most hotly-anticipated titles coming to the PlayStation 4, but fans will have to wait longer before they can embark on a new journey with Ellie. Developed by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us Part II was supposed to be out on February 21 next

PUBG Mobile Lite has landed a new content update that brings Survive Till Dawn Halloween mode to the game, a few days after it arrived on the core PUBG Mobile game. The PUBG Mobile Lite 0.14.6 update also introduces a host of new elements such as open character system, complete with a new character called

HTC Vive Cosmos, the latest virtual reality (VR) headset by the Taiwanese giant, has been launched in India. The new PC-based Vive headset supports gesture controls and comes with six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) support. HTC has also offered a wide field of view (FoV) alongside six built-in camera sensors to enable inside-out tracking