Gaming

A cartridge of Nintendo’s classic video game “Super Mario 64” set a world record Sunday, selling at auction for $1.56 million (roughly Rs. 11.6 crores).   The sale, the first-ever of a game cartridge to surpass $1 million (roughly Rs. 7.4 crores), came just two days after a sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda -

FIFA 22 has been announced as the latest upcoming entry in the football franchise. It brings “Next-Gen HyperMotion Technology” to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Series S, and Stadia. While the new technology will be available on next-gen consoles, the game will also be released for PC via Origin and Steam, PlayStation 4, as well

Battlegrounds Mobile India — the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile — has received the first content update since its official release on July 2. The update introduces a new limited-time mode called Mission Ignition and an all-new weapon called MG3 among other changes. Battlegrounds Mobile India has also received the new Royale Pass Month system

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone will get the Season Four Reloaded update on July 15 which will add more content to what the Season Four update from June 17 introduced. The update will bring Mauer Der Toten — the new zombies experience for Black Ops Cold War, a new map, modes,

Battlegrounds Mobile India will soon get its July 2021 update that will bring a host of improvements and new features to the game. Its developer Krafton has shared some of the changes coming to the battle royale game through a video on the official Battlegrounds Mobile India YouTube channel. There will be a new weapon

Battlegrounds Mobile India has crossed 34 million players one week after its official launch on July 2. Developed by South Korean company Krafton, Battlegrounds Mobile India is the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile which was banned in the country last September. The new game was announced in May and released for the public earlier this

Cyberpunk 2077, the flagship game of Polish developer CD Projekt, topped PS4 downloads on Sony’s PlayStation Store last month in the ten days after its return to the platform. The game, featuring Hollywood star Keanu Reeves, was pulled from the PlayStation Store in December shortly after its debut as gamers complained about glitches. Its version

China’s market regulator on Saturday said it would block Tencent Holdings Ltd’s plan to merge the country’s top two videogame streaming sites, Huya and DouYu, on antitrust grounds. Tencent first announced plans to merge Huya and DouYu last year in a tie-up designed to streamline its stakes in the firms, which were estimated by data

Battlegrounds Mobile India was released for players on the Android platform earlier this month. The PUBG Mobile India variant is yet to launch on iOS platforms, but ahead of that, game maker Krafton has announced that BGMI players can gear up for a new season. Calling it Battlegrounds Mobile India Season 20, the developer has

A sealed cartridge of “The Legend of Zelda” for the old Nintendo NES console has sold for a world record sum of $870,000, auction house Heritage Auctions said in a statement Friday. The cartridge, dated to 1987, is still in its original packaging and trumps the previous world record sale of a video game —

Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) has been announced with some upgrades and improvements over the original Switch. It will be offered in two colour options when it goes on sale later this year. Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) will be compatible with all current Nintendo Switch games and the current Joy-Con controllers. The OLED model brings a

To curb internet addiction and especially reduce the time youngsters under the age of 18 spend playing video games, the gaming giant Tencent has rolled out a time-sensitive facial recognition system in China. The objective of Tencent Games’ facial recognition function is to prevent children masquerading as adults from getting around a government rule for underage gamers

Pokemon Go is celebrating its fifth anniversary and developer Niantic has announced Pokemon Go Fest 2021 that will start on July 17. The two-day event will be open to all players globally including India and they can purchase tickets to be part of the event. Indian players or ‘trainers,’ as the game calls them, will

A rare, sealed copy of Nintendo NES 1987 version of The Legend of Zelda is up for sale at an auction. The collector’s item has so far got a bid of $110,000 (roughly Rs 82 lakhs). There’s still two days to go before the auction closes. Interestingly, when the game was first launched more than

Ubisoft has officially confirmed the existence of a new Assassin’s Creed game codenamed Infinity, after a report detailed the new online service-based game. According to The Verge, while Ubisoft’s announcement doesn’t shed much light on what form the new game will take, reports claim that it will be an evolving online game similar to the likes of Fortnite

PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition will be back in stock in India on Monday, July 12. This will be the fifth time when the PlayStation 5 will be available for purchase in the country and the third time when its discless version, PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, will be back in stock. The last PS5 restock

Pokemon Go has surpassed $5 billion (roughly Rs. 37,323 crores) in lifetime revenue in five years, Sensor Tower reports. This milestone has been crossed by game maker Niantic as it celebrates the five-year anniversary of its popular augmented reality mobile game, Pokemon Go, which was launched in 2016. Sensor Tower notes that it remains the

Gaming laptops have a huge market in India, especially now that retail high-end desktop PC components are harder to buy than ever. Many people have chosen gaming laptops over desktops because they prefer compact, versatile machines that can serve for work as well as entertainment, but there have often been limits in terms of hardware