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PUBG team has pushed a new update for the console players in the form of Update 4.2. The update is now live for the PUBG PS4 and Xbox players after hours of maintenance and brings a number of improvements and new features. Among the highlights, the PUBG team mentions the inclusion of dynamic weather on

Lenovo has unveiled two new gaming laptops in its Lenovo Legion series, in addition to a new range of desktop gaming PCs and accessories including gaming keyboards, mice, and headsets. The two new laptops feature the latest 9th Gen Intel Core CPUs and Nvidia GeForce RTX series GPUs as options. The company is hoping to grow

Fortnite now has a Borderlands 3 mashup. Epic Games has introduced a Borderlands 3 crossover with the new v10.20 update for Fortnite. This new crossover is called, ‘FortniteXMayhem’, and was first teased by Fortnite’s official Twitter handle on Monday, August 26. With this new update, Fortnite players will now be able to play in the

Mario Kart Tour, a mobile game from the Nintendo’s Mario Kart franchise, was announced way back in February last year. And even though the game was originally scheduled to hit Android and iOS phones in May this year, it was delayed to summer 2019 citing quality improvement goals. If you’ve been eagerly waiting for Mario Kart Tour, there

Need for Speed Heat gameplay trailer was released on the opening night of Gamescom 2019, last night. While the cinematic trailer released last week was definitely exciting to watch, we didn’t know much about the actual gameplay and mechanics of the newest instalment in the Need for Speed racing game series. With the launch of

Urging fans to plunge into a virtual high-res surround sound universe of extraordinary games, Google hopes its cloud-based Stadia platform will take the world by storm on its November launch. The US digital behemoth unveiled details of its nascent streaming video platform at this week’s Gamescom trade fair in Cologne in the hope it can

Valve recently attracted a lot of criticism from the cyber-security community after turning away a researcher who discovered a couple of zero-day vulnerabilities in Steam, and eventually blocked him from its bug bounty platform. Valve has now taken cognisance of the whole incident, and after patching the two potentially serious Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities,

Earlier this year, EA Dice teased a 5v5 competitive mode in Battlefield V. Well, if you have been waiting to engage in some five-on-five action, there is some bad news. EA Dice has revealed that Battlefield V’s 5v5 combat mode has been cancelled, with the studio citing more focus on bug crushing and content creation as the

Fortnite recently introduced Junk Rifts with the v10.10 content update to level the battlefield against the B.R.U.T.E. mechs. But it appears that Epic Games has another strategy to quell the outrage against the B.R.U.T.E. mechs, and it involves increasing their health. Not only that, the Junk Rift has also been temporarily removed citing an audio

Do you have a Microsoft video gaming console Xbox at home? It is possible that third-party contractors working for the tech giant are listening to your living room talks. After revealing that contractors listened to sensitive and personal conversations of users via Skype and virtual assistant Cortana — which Microsoft has admitted — Motherboard now

Microsoft lifted the covers from Project Scarlett – the next-gen Xbox console – at E3 earlier this year, making bold promises about its capabilities and the boost it will bring to the table. The company has already confirmed some major advancements such as 8K gameplay support and a huge 4x performance enhancement. Xbox General Manager,

Epic Games recently stirred up an uproar in the Fortnite community with the Season 10 update by introducing the ridiculously overpowered B.R.U.T.E mech. If you’ve been among the victims of the two-player machine-of-destruction, there is some good news. Fortnite’s latest v10.10 content update has introduced a new weapon called Junk Rift, which gives players a

Nintendo took to the stage at E3 2019 a few months ago and finally confirmed a long-standing rumour – the arrival of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on the Nintendo Switch. Fast forward to Gamescom 2019, and we now have a release date for the multiple award-winning game’s Nintendo Switch version. CD Projekt has revealed

Denuvo – the anti-tamper technology and digital rights management tool for PC games developed by the eponymous Austrian company – is venturing into the world of mobile games. Irdeto, of which Denuvo is a subsidiary, has announced Mobile Game Protection solution at Gamescom 2019 to protect mobile games from being tampered with. Or in simple words,

These should be heady times for Fortnite, the battle-royale shooting game that’s set the video-game industry reeling since its release two years ago. Its publisher, closely held Epic Games, held a much-talked-about World Cup tournament that attracted more than 40 million players and culminated at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York in late July. On

Western Digital has expanded its WD Black product line to encompass a variety of gaming-related storage devices including external desktop and portable hard drives and a new portable SSD. The hard drives will also be available in variants marketed especially for Xbox One users, which will come with limited-time Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions. The

A record $33.5 million (roughly Rs. 239.89 crores) is up for grabs but professional e-sports players like those competing in The International in Shanghai this week pay a physical price with deteriorating eyesight, digestive problems and wrist and hand damage. At first, Evgenii “Blizzy” Ri looks perplexed at the notion: “It’s impossible, how can you

Sony Interactive Entertainment on Monday announced a deal to buy Insomniac Games, the studio behind hot-selling Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank video games. Sony did not disclose financial terms of the acquisition that will add Insomniac to its stable of studios making games exclusively for the Japanese consumer electronics giant’s PlayStation consoles. “Insomniac Games is one of

Microsoft said on Monday it will use chipmaker Nvidia’s real-time ray tracing technology to provide the software company’s Minecraft video game players more realistic graphics on personal computers. Real-time ray tracing, or the ability for the chip to simulate how light rays will bounce around in a visual scene, helps video games and other computer graphics

Need for Speed Heat has officially been revealed, and if you’ve been yearning for a return to the street racing spirit, the latest instalment in EA’s hit franchise is right up the alley. The game’s cinematic trailer was definitely exciting, but the gameplay details and mechanics are yet to be showcased. But that will change

Now that Season 2 of Apex Legends is in full swing, Respawn is bringing some more excitement to the game by introducing a limited-time battle royale mode called Solos. The new each-man-for-himself mode comes as part of the Iron Crown Collection Event, which has now kicked off on all supported platforms and introduces a host

Microsoft has halted development of an ambitious update to Minecraft, throwing in the towel after concluding it was technically too complicated, according to a blog post by the team responsible for the hit adventure and construction game. Microsoft had unveiled the project, dubbed “Super Duper Graphics Packs,” to great fanfare in 2017, at E3, the

Nintendo recently launched the NES controller set for the Nintendo Switch, reviving a classic piece of console history for nostalgia-hit gamers. It now appears that the SNES is in line to receive the same treatment, or at least that’s what Nintendo’s new US FCC filing suggests. Nintendo has filed an FCC application that shows an

PUBG Mobile 0.14.0 update is here, and it brings a tonne of new elements such as an entirely new mode, a fresh character system, rewards, and a lot more. The most notable addition is the Infection Mode, which allows one to play as a defender or a zombie in an entirely new map setting, and

Video game star Tyler Blevins, known to his fans as “Ninja,” had amassed over 14 million followers on the streaming platform Twitch, thanks to his mastery of the popular game Fortnite. But after he departed the platform for a rival streaming service, viewers who went looking for his Twitch channel on Sunday didn’t get to

Reliance Jio at the 42nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Monday announced the launch of the 4K-supported Jio Set-Top Box that will enable newer entertainment and gaming experiences. The new set-top box is touted to accept the broadcast cable TV signals from local cable operators (LCOs). Additionally, the Mumbai-headquartered company

Walmart Inc said on Friday it has asked employees at its stores in the United States to take down signs and playable demos of violent video games but made no changes to its policy on selling firearms. In an internal memo, Walmart also asked its employees to turn off hunting season videos immediately. The largest

Kings of the video game console world plan to require games hawking “loot boxes” to tell players how likely they are to get prized booty. Console makers Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are targeting next year for implementation of the new policy, which will apply to console and Windows PC games, trade group Entertainment Software Association

Nintendo recently launched its latest gaming console called the Nintendo Switch Lite, which will be available for purchase starting September 20. This new console is a more affordable version of the original Nintendo Switch that was released on March 2017. Earlier reports had claimed Nintendo may have another, high-end Switch console planned to release later

Do video games trigger violent behaviour? Scientific studies have found no link. But the persistent theory is back in the headlines following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. An online manifesto thought to be authored by the gunman briefly mentioned the combat game “Call of Duty.” Then President Donald Trump weighed in,