Gaming

GameStop, the popular video games retailer and trade-in outlet, is serious about its entry into the crypto-verse and has posted eight job listings in the past week which hint at a major blockchain and non-fungible token (NFT) expansion. GameStop’s vision for its future was also mentioned in one of the listings where the company notes,

Apple Music is now available for users on PlayStation 5 consoles. Sony announced that PS5 players will now be able to play music through Apple’s streaming service, similar to what Spotify is already offering on both PlayStation and Xbox. Players would be able to listen to music while playing games or can just play their

PlayStation Plus subscribers will be getting three new games in November, along with three free titles for PlayStation VR as well. The three games coming this month are Knockout City, First Class Trouble, and Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. All three games are available for PlayStation 4 while two will be available for PlayStation 5. The

Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick has asked the company’s board to reduce his total compensation to $62,500 (roughly Rs. 46.7 lakh), at a time when the owner of the “Call of Duty” franchise is battling claims over sexual harassment and discrimination at its workplace. Kotick, who received a total compensation $154.6 million (roughly

Pikmin Bloom, a new location-based augmented reality (AR) mobile game, is now being rolling out for users in Singapore and Australia. The free game is developed by Pokemon Go developer Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and will be launched globally in the coming days. Similar to Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom will ask players to go

Battlegrounds Mobile India developer Krafton has announced a partnership with Denis Villeneuve’s latest sci-fi movie Dune. With this collaboration, Battlegrounds Mobile India players will get special Dune-themed rewards. The Dune crossover will be live in the game till the second week of November and will be hosted in the game’s EvoGround mode. Earlier this week,

Japan’s Sony on Thursday reported a 1 percent rise in operating profit for its second quarter, beating estimates, as a stronger performance in its electronics business offset a fall in gaming profit. Sony reported profit of JPY 318.5 billion (roughly Rs. 20,970 crore) for July-September. That compared with the JPY 222 billion (roughly Rs. 14,620 crore) average

Microsoft on Tuesday forecast a strong end to the calendar year thanks to its booming cloud business but said supply chain woes will continue to dog key units such as those producing its Surface laptops and Xbox gaming consoles. The company beat Wall Street expectations for its fist quarter ended September 30, with pandemic-induced demand for the

Battlegrounds Mobile India developer Krafton has announced new Diwali offers that bring in-game credit — UC — and other rewards for players. Players will get additional UC while purchasing in-game credit. They will also get additional benefits in the form of lucky spins, which will give them new outfits, helmets, emotes, and more. The UCs

The popular social deduction game, Among Us’, is arriving on Xbox and PlayStation on December 14. It will also launch on Xbox Game Pass on the same day and be available on Xbox One, Xbox Series S / X, PS4, and PS5 consoles. According to The Verge, this announcement comes months after Sony confirmed Among Us was coming

Those who were hunting for the Xbox Series X-styled mini-fridge faced disappointment on Thursday as the latest offering from Microsoft sold out immediately upon launch. The $99 (roughly Rs. 7,400) product, which was once only a viral internet meme, is now a real thing. The fridge can hold up to a dozen cans of your

Pokemon Go Halloween Mischief event is back for its 2021 edition. This year’s event is divided into two parts, and the first part has already begun on October 15. The first phase will continue till October 22, and it is themed around creepy companions. It introduces new psychic and poison-type Pokemon to the game, as

PlayStation 5 and PS5 Digital Edition will be back in stock on Monday, October 25 at 12pm (noon) in India. Sony’s online store ShopAtSC has updated its FAQs for PlayStation 5 page with the pre-order date and time for both the standard and Digital Edition of the PS5. The details were also mentioned briefly in

World football’s governing body FIFA said on Friday that it will widen its gaming and e-sports portfolio to ensure that controlling rights don’t lie in the hands of one party. This comes after a report by The New York Times earlier this week that said videogame publisher Electronic Arts is struggling to renew the contract

Valve plans to remove all games from Steam that use blockchain to exchange cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFT) in a move that does raise a few questions about the future of NFTs in the video games industry. While that’s a fairly harsh stance on behalf of Valve since Steam is by far the largest digital

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League gets a new trailer. The action-RPG was announced at DC FanDome last year with a cinematic trailer and since then, this is the first time fans are treated with yet another cinematic trailer since then. Based in the Arkhamverse — continuing on the Batman: Arkham storyline — Suicide Squad:

Gotham Knights unveiled a brand-new story trailer at DC FanDome on October 16. After over a year since the last DC FanDome, the upcoming co-op action RPG offered a deeper look at its overall plot. Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and Red Hood will take on the sinister Court of Owls, an evil organisation overseeing nearly every

Gaming memory module is used to increase the efficiency of a system in order to elevate the overall gaming experience. If you are looking for gaming RAM, here are some options for you. 1. XPG Adata Gammix D30 (8GB) The XPG Adata Gammix D30 module has a speed of 3200MHz, and is said to support