Gaming

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that the GST rates on online gaming, horse racing and casinos will be finalised in the 48th GST Council Meeting which will be held in the first week of August in Madurai. Sitharaman was addressing a Press Conference on the outcome of 47th GST Council meeting. The Council

Acer has launched the new Aspire 5 (A515-57G) gaming laptop in India with the latest 12th Gen Inter Core i5 processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 GPU. The new gaming laptop features a 15.6-inch IPS display with slim bezels and full-HD resolution. The laptop is currently available for purchase through both, offline and online, channels.

Sony said on Wednesday that it’s launching a new line of headphones and monitors targeting the growing PC market for videogames as the Japanese conglomerate looks beyond its core PlayStation console gaming audience. Sony, whose PlayStation 5 console has been affected by supply chain snarls, last month announced a pivot towards releasing more titles on

Arm, the British chip technology firm owned by SoftBank Group, on Tuesday unveiled a set of new chip technologies aimed at making video games on smartphones look better while preserving battery life. The latest products are designs for graphics processing units, or GPUs, most often used for video processing in gaming. Arm makes money by

PlayStation Plus’ free games for July 2022 have reportedly been leaked online. Sony’s subscription-based service is said to offer the 2020 platform game Crash Bandicoot 4, as well as survival horror title The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan that debuted in 2019. Additionally, PS Plus subscribers are reported to receive the 2021 arcade game

Fall Guys clocked in 20 million players within 48 hours of going free-to-play on June 21, a major achievement for game developer Mediatonic. The platform battle royale game was also launched on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X on the same day, which helped it get wider patronage. The official Fall

Gotham Knights — the upcoming superhero role-playing game that supports two-player campaign co-op — is going to have the biggest Gotham City map ever found in an open-world Batman game, the Gotham Knights developers WB Games Montréal have revealed. Of course, map size isn’t directly equivalent to the game being better, as several Assassin’s Creed

Asus ROG Phone 6 specifications have been tipped just days ahead of the official launch. The new ROG Phone is said to come with a 165Hz OLED display and carry an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. The gaming phone is also claimed to debut alongside three new accessories by the Taiwanese company. The

PlayStation Plus is finally taking it to Xbox Game Pass. Starting Thursday, Sony’s game subscription service has morphed into a three-headed dragon, one that’s designed explicitly to take on Microsoft’s behemoth. While PS Plus might count more members — 47 million over 25 million — Game Pass has established itself as the premier offering over

Amazon is running a combo offer in India under which it is offering the Fire TV Stick along with a Bluetooth-enabled Micromini X Ninja game controller with a cashback of Rs. 750. The prime purpose of the promotion is apparently to encourage casual gamers to buy the Fire TV Stick to play games on their

Logitech has launched the Logitech G413 SE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and the G413 TKL (Tenkeyless) SE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard in India. The G413 SE and G413 TKL SE come with Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT) keycaps, aluminium top case, and white backlighting. The gaming keyboards sport tactile mechanical switches and are compatible with Windows 10 or later

HP Omen 16 (2022), Omen 17 (2022), Victus 15 (2022), and Victus 16 (2022) were launched in India on Thursday as the company’s latest gaming laptops. The laptops are powered by 12th-generation Intel Core and AMD Ryzen 6000 series processors. In addition to the new gaming laptops, HP introduced the Omen 45L, 40L, 25L, and

Far Cry 5 Xbox Game Pass release date is out. The fifth instalment of the popular first-person action-adventure shooter game Far Cry will be available July 1 on Xbox Game Pass for PC, console, and cloud. This means that subscribers will be able to play Far Cry 5 on these platforms at no additional cost.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint/charge sheet against two people for allegedly operating “PP Poker Online Gaming App” and placing illegal bets and gambling, ED said on Wednesday. The persons who have been charge-sheeted were identified as Hardeep Singh and Ankur alias Rahul Khanna, both the residents of Kolkata. Earlier on April

Activision Blizzard shareholders voted in favour of a proposal on Tuesday for a report on the video game company’s efforts to prevent employee abuse, harassment and discrimination. Activision, which is being acquired by Microsoft for $68.7 billion (roughly Rs. 5,10,990 crore), has been under fire for alleged misconduct at the company. The company’s shareholders had

Sony has the habit of releasing a slim version of its PlayStation consoles a couple of years after their initial releases. The PlayStation 5, released in 2020, is now a couple of years old, so it might soon get its makeover too. However, it appears a YouTuber has beaten Sony to the punch by creating

PlayStation Plus is changing — very soon. On Wednesday, Sony’s revamped three-tier take on its game subscription offering PS Plus arrives in India and Europe, completing a rollout that began a month ago in parts of Asia. (Due to market and operation reasons, Sony considers India as part of “Europe” rather than “Asia”. I know

PlayStation 5 might soon get a professional controller from Sony — a DualSense Pro, if you will — akin to Microsoft’s Xbox Elite Wireless Controller, according to a new report. As with the Xbox Elite joystick, it will sport trigger stops, rear buttons/ flappy paddles, and removable analogue sticks. The DualSense Pro — I’m just

The EA Play game subscription service brings together some of the most renowned titles published by Electronic Arts under one roof. And it starts at only Rs. 315 per month in India. But if you’re already subscribed to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you can enjoy content from EA Play for no additional cost. But the

The board of directors of US video game publisher Activision Blizzard said on Thursday that there was no evidence to suggest that management had ignored or minimized accusations of sexual harassment. The firm behind hits like Candy Crush and Call of Duty, which Microsoft is acquiring in a blockbuster $69 billion deal (roughly Rs. 5,38,424