It’s January and that means CES is just around the corner. The world’s largest consumer tech show is bound to be awash with AI-powered 120” TVs, fridges with ChatGPT built into them and Midjourney picture frames, but what about gaming? What can we expect from a show that is not...
Sony has released a trailer for some of the most exciting PlayStation 5 games coming out in 2024 and it is looking like a fantastic year for PS5 owners. There are some long-awaited follow-ups and some exciting new titles too. Here are some of the highlights that gamers will not...
Xbox Game Pass is a staple for players who have chosen the Microsoft side of the street when it comes to console gaming, and they gave gamers nearly $9000 worth of games to play in the year 2023. Prices rose for Game Pass in the latter part of last year,...
2023 has been a remarkably successful year for video games. We have had some stunning achievements to enjoy, and have been spoilt for choice by the high standard of what we have been offered. It’s also a year where the industry has come down hard on itself with masses of...
Sitting down to write this should be exciting. We are about to wave farewell to one of the most successful years in gaming for well over a decade. Unfortunately, 2023 is also the year the gaming industry saw mass layoffs, so it is impossible, in good conscience to celebrate fully...
Xbox had some pretty good exclusives in 2023. Forza and even Starfield were huge - even if the latter didn’t quite have the impact Bethesda and Microsoft might have hoped for. We do believe though that Starfield has the potential to get much better going through 2024. It’s not something...
Elon Musk's X Corp., previously known as Twitter, has failed in its legal attempt to overturn a California law aimed at regulating harmful content on social media platforms. According to a recent Bloomberg report, a federal judge in Sacramento dismissed the company's claim that the law infringes on the free...
Okay, so let’s stop talking about what a great year in gaming 2023 was. It’s been, it’s gone, it was. But gaming doesn’t just stop there, we have 2024 to think about. What’s coming now, what should be be looking out for? Are there any surprises on the horizon? We...
Activision-Blizzard announced today that its long-term CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down from the role. After 32 years at the company, Kotick will officially step back from the company on December 29, 2023. This comes two months after Microsoft officially acquired Activision-Blizzard in a $69 billion deal in October. The...
Hacker group Rhysida made good on a promise to leak gaming and personal data related to Insomniac Games. This has caused a rallying surge of support from game developers in the wake of these personal data breaches. Spider-Man 2 studio hacked The Spider-Man developer refused the ransom demand of 50 Bitcoin...
Elon Musk reportedly told lenders they would not lose out on the $ 13 billion lending agreement to buy Twitter/X. As reported in the Financial Times, Musk is said to have made the assurances in private to lenders from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, BNP Paribas, Mizuho and...
Gaming giants announce their 2023 retrospectives for players As 2023 draws to a close, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft look back at this year’s most significant gaming milestones for console gamers. The year in review has been busy for the gaming industry, with notable highlights including the hotly anticipated announcement of...
In the latest high-profile gaming hack, it seems Spiderman 2, and current Wolverine developer Insomniac Games has been breached, by a group called Rysida, who has published screenshots from Wolverine, alongside the identity pages of passports of staff, past and current, suggesting that the data stolen is from multiple departments....
During the 1990s games journalists and developers flocked to LA and Atlanta in their thousands to visit the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) for a week each May for a spectacular display of the games industry's opulence. The E3 exhibition was a monumental pre-internet triumph year after year, but more recently,...
Microsoft may be considering the possibility of introducing new tiers to its Game Pass subscription model, including an ad-based model that could allow players access to the games in the library, in return for watching streamed advertisements. In an interview transcribed by Tweaktown from the Wells Fargo TMT Summit, Microsoft...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that Vaishali Kasture, the interim head of AWS India and South Asia has announced her resignation. AWS, the world's largest provider of cloud computing solutions, has major plans in India. In a sign of how important the country is to the Amazon subsidiary, the...
The online rumor mill around the existence of a potential Pro version of the PlayStation 5 has turned a little more with the release of some unsubstantiated information at this stage but may have some basis in reality. A user called RandomlyRandom67 released a list of specs on the videogame...
The Sony PlayStation VR2 - the second-generation virtual reality headset for the console has been launched in India, almost a year after it launched successfully in the West. Priced from Rs 57,990 for the lowest spec model, the VR2 features four cameras built into the headset itself and features intelligent...
G42, a leading United Arab Emirates (UAE) artificial intelligence (AI) agency has vowed to cut ties with Chinese hardware suppliers. The announcement is another development in the geopolitical struggle between China and the US in the race for emerging information technology in the Middle East, reports The Financial Times. The...
The United Kingdom's (UK) Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. The competition regulator announced on Friday (Dec.8) it would consider if Microsoft’s partnership with the artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind ChatGPT has resulted in "a substantial lessening of competition" within the nation's technology...
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