Category: Gaming

The Gran Turismo series of racing sims has been a PlayStation staple since it debuted in 1997. The franchise enjoys a loyal fanbase with its authentic driving simulation but presents a bit of a challenge for new players to get into the games. To remedy that, developer Polyphony Digital has announced My First Gran Turismo, […]

MSI Claw 8+ AI and Claw 7+ AI were launched on Tuesday as the company’s latest handheld gaming consoles. They are equipped with Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) processors paired with 32GB of RAM and sport up to 8-inch touchscreen displays with a 120Hz refresh rate. Both the Claw 8+ AI and Claw 7+ AI run […]

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available for a week-long free trial across platforms next week. Activision announced that certain modes of its latest shooter will be accessible for free from December 13 through December 20 on PC, Xbox and PlayStation platforms. The free trial will include Multiplayer and Zombies, including new Multiplayer […]

The upcoming season of Foamstars, Square Enix’s 4v4 online party shooter, will be its last, the publisher announced Thursday. The Splatoon-inspired action game will be updated with a new season of content on December 13. The upcoming season, dubbed “The Party Goes On”, will be live till January 17, 2025, before marking the end of […]

Backbone One gaming controller has been launched in India, nearly nine months after the debut of the second-generation model in the global markets. It supports Android and iOS devices with a range of flexible connectivity options — from standard USB Type-C to Apple’s proprietary lightning technology. The gaming controller comes equipped with analogue triggers, precision […]

Ubisoft is discontinuing development on its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, the studio announced Wednesday. The online title, which released in May after several delays and playtests, has not been able to retain strong player numbers after a promising launch, the publisher said. As a result, Ubisoft is also shutting down its San Francisco and Osaka studios […]

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set to launch on PC and Xbox Series S/X on December 9. Bethesda’s action-adventure title, which tells an original story inspired by Indiana Jones films, also releases on Game Pass on day one. Days ahead of launch, Bethesda has now shared PC specifications for the game, detailing Minimum, […]

Lenovo Legion Go S is said to be in the works, and the company inadvertently confirmed the moniker of the purported handheld gaming console last month. Now, renders of the device have been leaked by a publication, giving us a good look at its design. The Legion Go S could arrive with a simpler design […]

Elden Ring, the action-RPG phenomenon from developer FromSoftware, has won numerous accolades, sold over 25 million copies and has continued to attract thousands of players nearly three years after its launch. The studio released a long-awaited story expansion to the game, Shadow of the Erdtree, earlier this year. But FromSoftware has no plans to follow-up […]

The PlayStation 5 has had a slick and functioning user interface but has offered little in terms of customisation options until this year. Sony rolled out a system update in September that let users personalise their PS5 home screens. Now, the PlayStation parent has pushed out a new PS5 feature update that brings distinct theme and sound […]

Sony has reportedly been working on a handheld console that will be able to run PS5 games natively. The PlayStation parent was in the early stages of developing the device, Bloomberg had reported last week. The claim has now received backing from Digital Foundry, which said Monday, citing sources, that a Sony handheld was indeed […]

The planned DLC for Lies of P, the acclaimed action-RPG from Korean studio Neowiz Games, is coming next year. The expansion, first confirmed in November 2023, will launch in the first quarter of 2025, Neowiz reportedly confirmed Friday. The company also announced that the next game from Lies of P co-developer Round8 Studio would be […]

Elon Musk says his AI startup xAI will set up an artificial intelligence (AI) game studio. The world’s richest person made a cryptic post on X (formerly known as Twitter) highlighting his frustrations with a large number of game studios being owned by large corporations. This is not the first time Musk has posted about gaming. […]

Lenovo Legion Go (Review) was launched in global markets last year, and the Chinese firm could launch another handheld gaming console soon. The company accidentally published a reference to a new console on its website, and the company’s support website also listed a BIOS firmware for an unreleased model. The purported device from Lenovo could […]

Microsoft has long been working on an Xbox mobile storefront for Android and iOS platforms. The Xbox store app would allow users to bypass Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store and directly buy and launch games off Microsoft’s own application. Despite the company’s plans to launch an Xbox app on Android in November, the […]

Tencent has announced a new open-world action-adventure title that seemingly blends Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series on PlayStation with Pocketpair’s controversial survival game Palworld. Light of Motiram, developed by Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, looks eerily similar to Horizon games, down to tameable mechanical animals — called “Mechanimals”. Like Horizon, the game is set in a post-apocalyptic […]

Steam kicked off its Autumn Sale Wednesday, bringing deep discounts on PC games across genres. The sale sees price cuts on major new titles released this year like Metaphor: ReFantazio, Silent Hill 2, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and more. Other popular titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Helldivers 2 and Star Wars Jedi: […]

Sony has announced the slate of monthly games joining PlayStation Plus in December. Next month’s free titles are led by co-op adventure game It Takes Two, where players take control of an estranged couple stuck in a “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” situation. Other games joining PS Plus in December include real-time tactics title Aliens: […]

Star Wars: Hunters, the free-to-play PvP shooter from Zynga, is coming to PC. The publisher announced Tuesday that the game will launch in early access on Steam on January 27, 2025. The squad-based arena shooter will get two playtests on Valve’s platform before its early access release. Star Wars: Hunters launched on Nintendo Switch, iOS […]

The fourth Witcher game, codenamed Project Polaris, has entered full-scale production, developer CD Projekt Red announced Tuesday as it reported its third-quarter financial results for 2024. The studio said it had wrapped up pre-production on the game, set to be the first instalment in a new The Witcher trilogy. The polish gamemaker also revealed that […]

PlayStation veteran and games industry legend Shuhei Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), after a 31-year-long career at the company. The Sony executive, who currently heads the independent developer initiative at the company, will depart SIE on January 15, 2025. Yoshida said it was time for him to move on after over […]

Sony is reportedly gearing up to release a set of PlayStation 5 peripherals in a new colourway. The DualSense Edge wireless controller, the Pulse Elite wireless headset and the Pulse Explore wireless earbuds could soon come in black. These PS5 accessories are currently available in the default white colour option. The DualSense Edge, however, also […]