Gaming

Swedish retailer Ikea has disclosed key details of its upcoming gaming-themed furniture lineup. It said it will globally launch the furniture, developed in collaboration with Asus and its Republic of Gamers (ROG) sub-brand, in October this year. The new gaming range will include more than 30 products, including furniture and accessories. Keeping in mind the

Battlefield 2042 has been delayed — the rumours were true. EA has announced that the next Battlefield game has been pushed back nearly a month, from October 22 to November 19, owing to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has delayed the return of its development staff to offices. While EA DICE and its co-developers had

Battlegrounds Mobile India update version 1.6, dubbed the September Update, is now rolling out for players. The new update brings a new ‘Flora Menace’ mode, a new Vs AI Mode, the return of Zombie Mode ‘Survive Till Dawn’, and many gameplay improvements. The BGMI update version 1.6 is rolling out for both Android and iOS

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has announced strict countermeasures for illegal programs and activities affecting the game. Developer Krafton said it has banned over 140,000 accounts in under a week and has detailed what could lead to your account getting banned. The free-to-play battle royale game will send players a notice if it detects any illegal

PUBG: New State has received over 40 million pre-registrations on Android and iOS devices. Developer Krafton says that the battle royale game recently finished its second alpha testing. Krafton also announced that it will reveal the launch date of the new game in October. PUBG: New State is slated to release later this year. The

China is reviewing new games to ensure they meet stricter criteria for content and protection of children, Bloomberg News said on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The media watchdog is re-evaluating titles submitted for approval by game developers from Tencent to Netease to make sure they comply with fresh curbs imposed in August, the report

Apple refused to reinstate the wildly popular Fortnite game to its South Korean App Store Friday despite a new Seoul anti-monopoly law that effectively outlaws its lucrative digital payment platform, escalating an ongoing dispute with videogame developer Epic Games. The two firms are at the forefront of a global contest between delivery platforms and content creators

Battlegrounds Mobile India is scheduled to get an update soon. The battle royale game’s 1.6 update has been teased by developer Krafton through an Instagram post that shows the top 10 new features that will be bundled with the update. Along with new features, the update is also said to come with some improvements to

Nintendo Switch has received a price cut. For now, the prices have only been slashed in European market. There is no confirmation if the price change would be implemented in other regions as well. This comes at a time when Nintendo is about to roll out an OLED variant of the hand-held console. The new

The team that created the heavily modded Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP last month says it has added even more new features to the hand-held game console. Macho Nacho Productions asserted that these new modifications will be the “last mod your Game Boy Advance will ever need.” Called The Thicc Boi SP, it will be

Fortnite creator Epic Games has asked iPhone maker Apple to restore its Fortnite developer account and intends to re-release the popular game on iOS in South Korea, offering both Epic and Apple payment side-by-side, it said in a tweet. “Epic intends to re-release Fortnite on iOS in Korea offering both Epic payment and Apple payment

Fortnite developer Epic Games is set to shut down Houseparty, the video chat application that gained traction during the pandemic-induced lockdowns last year. The social video chat platform, which was purchased by Epic Games and integrated with its popular battle royale game Fortnite, will be discontinued in October, the company announced on Thursday, September 9.

Spider-Man 2 with both Peter Parker and Miles Morales, joined by a new villain, in 2023 on PS5. A Wolverine PS5 game from the Spider-Man studio. A remake of the legendary Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a timed exclusive to PS5. Remastered versions of Alan Wake and the last two Uncharted games. New

Apple rejected on Thursday a request by Fortnite creator Epic Games to restore its account on the iPhone maker’s iOS platform in South Korea to add its own payment option, in their latest tussle over app development fees. Apple is battling a lawsuit filed last year by Epic Games, alleging that the smartphone maker has

China has temporarily suspended approval for all new online games in a bid to curb a gaming addiction among young people, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday citing people with knowledge of the matter. The decision was revealed at a meeting between Chinese authorities and industry giants Tencent and NetEase, the report said, adding

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has hinted at the arrival of several new features in the latest post on its website. Game developer Krafton confirmed that weapon skins are now included in crates or roulettes. It also said that is reviewing the possibility of opening up the BP Shop, adding a voice pack in Hindi, and

In glass-paneled conference rooms, members of the Shanghai-based esports team Rogue Warriors tap away at their phones as they train from 11am till late, occasionally breaking for food. “I spend 15 of 24 hours a day playing video games,” says 19-year-old Zhang Kaifeng who plays Tencent’s online battle arena game “Arena of Valor” professionally, adding that

In March, a giant container ship got wedged diagonally in the Suez Canal, disrupting the global trade by blocking a vital supply route for six days. It was one of the biggest stories of the month that inevitably fueled memes. Now, an independent developer by the name of Napas Torteeka has decided to turn the

PlayStation Plus players will get three new games in the month of September — Overcooked! All You Can Eat, Hitman 2, and Predator: Hunting Grounds. Two out of the three games will be available for PlayStation 4 players with the first one being an exclusive for PlayStation 5 players. Thanks to the PS5’s backwards compatibility,

Battlegrounds Mobile India September 1 patch addresses several issues in the game. Developer Krafton has shared patch notes for the update on the game’s official website and has said the patch will be applied when restarting the game. Battlegrounds Mobile India is the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile, which was banned in the country in

PUBG or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was launched in 2017 and soon became a phenomenon. It was developed by Brendan Greene aka Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene under PUBG Corporation, a subsidiary of Krafton. Now, Greene has announced his departure from Krafton to work on his own Amsterdam-based studio called PlayerUnknown Productions. This could be why PUBG was renamed

Marvel’s Midnight Suns is an upcoming real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the Marvel Universe and was showcased at Gamescom 2021. Now, Marvel Entertainment has shared its first gameplay footage that shows off the characters and some of their abilities, along with the game mechanics. Marvel’s Midnight Suns will be released in March next year

Seagate FireCuda 530 is the latest gaming solid state drive (SSD) from the company. The PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD can deliver sequential read speeds of up to 7,300MBps. The SSD is offered in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB storage options. Seagate FireCuda 530 uses its PCIe Gen4 power to have twice as fast transfer rates when

CD Projekt is working on a first expansion of Cyberpunk 2077, Chief Executive Adam Kicinski said after the Polish video games maker reported a first-half beat on its net profit. Cyberpunk 2077, featuring Hollywood star Keanu Reeves, was one of last year’s most anticipated games, but after a bug-ridden start it was kept off Sony’s

Ever since the pandemic forced us inside our homes, many of us have relied on our desktop PCs and laptops for a way to look away from what is going on outside. Many people have taken up PC gaming as a way to pass time. Multiplayer games such as Valorant, CS:GO and Apex Legends have

Battlegrounds Mobile India will soon shut down data transfers with Facebook accounts due to a policy update. Ever since its launch, the game allowed its users to transfer their data from PUBG Mobile to the new game using Facebook and Twitter accounts, given that players used the same accounts in PUBG Mobile. Developer Krafton has

Deathloop, Death Stranding Director’s Cut, Diablo II: Resurrected, and more are releasing this September 2021. It promises to be a busy month for gamers with some much-awaited titles waiting to break cover alongside some brand-new offerings. You can choose to step into the shoes of a superpowered assassin stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop

China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as “spiritual opium”. The new rules, published on Monday, are part of a major shift by Beijing to

PS5’s August 26 India restock, predictably, disappeared in minutes. New pre-orders for the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Digital Edition went live at 12pm noon on Thursday, and all the stock was gone under a minute on most websites. Amazon ran into server trouble once again, with its site throwing up an error page: “It’s rush

Xbox, with each new generation of consoles, brings in several advancements to the hardware, graphic, and user interface (UI). However, as per a hilarious tweet from a user, it also brings some drawbacks that may not be a deal breaker for most but might be slightly disappointing for some long-time users. Gabriel Roland (@noukon), a