Call of Duty: Mobile has surpassed the $1.5-billion (roughly Rs. 11,265 crore) revenue mark in lifetime microtransactions, as per the latest data from Sensor Tower. The game has achieved this revenue milestone in lifetime spending across its Android and iOS. Call of Duty: Mobile was developed by Tencent’s Timi Studios, along with Activision, and was
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This week, overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Meta (formerly Facebook) unveiled its ambitious plan for a “metaverse” powered by AI. During a presentation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg spotlighted several of the company’s related efforts, including an AI system that lets users
Acer Swift 5 and Swift 3 laptops with the recently-introduced 12th Gen Intel Core processors have been launched. While Acer Swift 5 is a premium offering that is designed for professionals, Swift 3 fits both work and casual profiles and comes in multiple colour options. Both of the laptops sport 14-inch touchscreen displays and come
Taiwan will join “democratic countries” in putting sanctions on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, the government said on Friday, with the world’s largest contract chipmaker TMSC adding it would comply with all export control rules. The crisis is being watched closely in Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory and which has faced
PlayStation Plus free games for March have been announced. Gamers will get four games for free next month, as part of their subscription. Three of the four titles are available for PlayStation 4 players, while one title will only be available for free on PlayStation 5. The four PS Plus titles will be available for
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Email-based phishing attacks became a lot more successful in 2021 — and so did ransomware attacks, in terms of getting victims to pay the ransom demand, according to new stats from email security vendor Proofpoint. The vendor’s
A 27-year-old man who held several people hostage at an Apple store on a busy Amsterdam square has died in hospital from his injuries, Dutch prosecutors said late Wednesday. The man, said to be a resident of the Dutch capital, entered the Apple store on Leidseplein armed with two guns, sparking a tense five-hour-long ordeal
Apple has once gained the top spot as the manufacturer with the highest number of shipments for tablets in the US, as per a report by a market analyst firm. PC shipments grew 1 percent year-on-year (YoY), despite seeing a fall of nearly 30 percent in the last quarter of 2021. Q4 2021 saw nearly
The US auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that the automatic emergency braking systems on more than 1.7 million newer Hondas can stop the vehicles for no reason. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it has 278 complaints that the problem can happen in 2017 through 2019 CR-V SUVs and 2018 and 2019
Video game maker Activision Blizzard’s mobile gaming unit, King, said on Wednesday two of its senior executives, including a co-founder, would leave the company before its deal with Microsoft Corp. In January, Microsoft said it was buying the Call of Duty maker for $68.7 billion (roughly Rs. 5,16,885 crore) in the biggest gaming industry deal in
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! In the morning of February 24, 2022, the Russian government began a large-scale military attack on Ukraine. Among the many Ukrainians who are speaking out and asking for support are its game developers. Ukraine is home to
Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is gearing up to allow its users to invest in cryptocurrencies via its platform very soon. Presently, SET is awaiting approvals from the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which also acts as the crypto regulator of the country. The development comes in the backdrop of the crypto sector witnessing
OnePlus 9R is finally receiving the OxygenOS 12 update, albeit as an open beta test. The smartphone was launched in India in March 2021 along with two other OnePlus 9-series smartphones. The OxygenOS 12 beta update will bring a plethora of new features to OnePlus 9R such as the Canvas always-on display (AOD) feature and
Amazon on Thursday announced that it is kicking off the Fab Phones Fest and Fab TV Fest sale to offer deals, discounts, and offers on a range of phones, accessories, and televisions. The Amazon sale that will go live on Friday, February 25, and will last until Monday, February 28, brings discounts on models including
WhatsApp message reactions have been spotted in development on the desktop beta, suggesting the Meta-owned instant messaging service could release the feature in an upcoming update. Message reactions allow users to quickly assign an emoji “reaction” to a message, and are supported on many popular massaging apps, including Facebook and Instagram, also owned by Meta.
Realme 9 5G is reportedly being readied for launch in India. Ahead of the official confirmation, a fresh leak has tipped the phone’s colour options as well as RAM and storage details. The upcoming Realme phone is tipped to come in four different colours and two RAM and storage configurations. Realme 9 5G is speculated
Grid Legends — the latest racing game and the fifth instalment in the Grid franchise developed by Codemasters under its new owner EA — will feature over 120 cars spread out over nine categories. That includes electric cars as well as internal combustion engine-powered cars. Grid Legends players will get to experience more than 130
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! HPE’s launch of private 5G that includes seamless integration to private Wi-Fi networks is what enterprise networks need to increase their intelligence, speed and scalability, the company says.. Enterprises also need to achieve greater 5G-to-Wi-Fi 6 reliability