GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Supercell reported its revenues hit $2.24 billion (€1.89 billion, up 51%) and before-tax profits of $852 million (up 84%) for 2021, compared with $1.48 billion in revenue and before-tax profits of $463 million a year earlier. And
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has added a new Team Death Match (TDM) map to the popular battle royale game as part of the February 1.8.5 update. The new map, Santorini, is the first 8×8 TDM map in the game, and follows the addition of new features and gameplay changes introduced by Krafton including the ability
Taiwan’s Foxconn said on Monday it had partnered with Indian conglomerate Vedanta to make semiconductors in the South Asian country, as the electronics giant looks to diversify its business amid a global chip shortage. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and a major Apple supplier, has expanded into areas including electric vehicles (EVs) and
Poco M4 Pro 5G India launch is taking place today (Tuesday, February 15). The launch event will be held virtually through a livestream. Poco M4 Pro 5G originally debuted in Europe last year. It comes as a rebadged Redmi Note 11 5G that was launched in China. Poco M4 Pro 5G features a 90Hz display
Asus ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro are set to launch in India today. The launch will take place virtually where the Taiwanese company will launch both its new gaming phones. The ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5s Pro were unveiled last year. Both phones run on the Snapdragon 888+ SoC and
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Tripledot Studios has raised $116 million in its ambition to be the next giant company in mobile games. The financing round led by 20VC gives London-based casual game maker Tripledot a valuation of $1.4 billion. The company
WhatsApp is reportedly working on adding a couple of new functions to its regular version as well as the WhatsApp business version. For the former, the Meta-owned instant messaging service is planning to let users create Communities through a future update. The new Communities feature will give group admins a bit more control and will
India’s Reliance Industries is investing $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,510 crore) in Glance, a lock screen content company backed by Alphabet and owned by ad-tech firm InMobi, to bring the service to new Jio smartphones this year, the companies said on Monday. The investment, made through Reliance’s Jio Platforms unit, values Glance at $1.7 billion
OnePlus has started working on OxygenOS 13 as its next custom skin on top of Android. While the details about the new software version are yet to be revealed, OnePlus has announced an Open Ears Forum for February 28 where it will discuss the next-generation OxygenOS with its loyal customers. Last year, OnePlus announced that
Garena Free Fire has banned by the Government of India, in an order released on Monday. The battle royale game is a part of a list of 54 apps that have links to China and could pose a threat to India’s security. The app has also been temporarily blocked on Google Play store in accordance
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Africa is the last frontier market for games, and it’s starting to pick up a lot of momentum, according to game-focused managers at graphics and AI chip maker Nvidia. I spoke about the emergence of Africa’s gaming
OnePlus’ unified OS will reportedly launch in the second half of this year. The upcoming integrated operating software from Oppo and OnePlus is also said to be based on Android 13 and may debut with a OnePlus flagship. Earlier, it was reported that the unified OS may launch alongside the global variant of OnePlus 10
Horizon Forbidden West — out February 18 on PS4 and PS5 — is an expansive game. For better and worse, that’s typical of modern-day role-playing titles that are meant to serve as flagship products for gaming giants. In industry parlance, these are known as AAA releases. (For 2022, Horizon Forbidden West is one of three
If you are a Mac user and your microphone stays active even after your meetings on Zoom, then here’s how you can fix it. Zoom has acknowledged a bug that appears to cause the microphone on Mac devices running macOS Monterey to stay on even after leaving a meeting; and the version 5.9.3 update on
Apple is rolling out macOS 12.2.1 to all users, fixing an important security flaw alongside bug fixes. The company previously released macOS Monterey 12.2 in January with several security fixes and is currently beta testing macOS 12.3. The latest update also fixes a bug on Intel-based MacBook models that caused the battery to drain while
Even coming off its fastest annual growth in 37 years, the US economy is still bogged down by a persistent shortage of the computer chips essential to the technology that connects, transports and entertains us. The problem has been building since pandemic-related lockdowns shut down major Asian chip factories more than two years ago. Now
South Africa has asked a court to fine the local unit of China’s Huawei Technologies for breaking rules on hiring locals and to order the company to amend its practices, the labour department said on Friday. Approximately 90 percent of the company’s employees were foreign nationals, violating “employment equity” regulations which impose a limit of 40
Twitter said on Friday it had fixed a software glitch in its micro-blogging website that had disrupted services for several thousands of its users. Earlier, Twitter had said on its status page that it was facing an elevated number of application programming interface errors, a set of protocols for building and integrating application software. “We’ve