The Xbox Series S will receive its second price hike in India in just six months, and third overall, just days ahead of preorders re-opening.
Media analyst Rishi Alwani posted on Twitter that Xbox Series S will get a price hike to Rs.39,990, approximately $485. In the US, the Series S retails for $300. Preorders start on January 10. Reasons for the price hike are unknown and could be a result of low sales in India or the waning power of the Indian Rupee against the US Dollar. According to...
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The next major patch for Riot Games's first-person tactical shooter Valorant is now live, and the update will add two new ready-for-battle locales, one brand-new and the other reworked for better balance.
The new map is called Lotus, which is the ninth map to be introduced since the game's June 2020 launch. The map features an Indian aesthetic and will feature three main areas like fellow Valorant map Haven.
Split will be returning to the map pool along with the addition of Lotus, and the...
Flying cars are no longer a thing of science fiction. Thanks to Aska, we may have them sooner than expected.
According to a CNET report, Aska is preparing to showcase the A5 sometime "within a month" and to purchase one, and it'll cost you $789,000 with a $5,000 deposit. The vehicle is about the same size as an SUV with propellers on top, similar to a helicopter, and fits into a traditional parking space. But for the A5 to take off and land, the vehicle needs an area the size of a helipad...
It looks like Valve might enable local network downloads for Steam Deck, making it easier and quicker to get games on the handheld.
Pavel Djundik, creator of Steam DB, posted on Twitter that Valve had added more code related to moving files from the PC to Steam Decks through local networks. Djundik previously tweeted about Steam working on peer-to-peer downloads in October 2022.
As some Twitter users pointed out, it's like Warpinator--where users can send and transfer files over local...
If your Destiny 2 New Year's resolution has been to complete your Exotic arsenal in 2023, then a quick visit to Xur should help you out on that front. The Agent of the Nine has made his weekly scheduled stop, and as always, he has a fresh selection of gear on offer. Here's where you can find Xur and what Exotics he's selling this week.
This week you can find Xur on Nessus, in the Watcher's Grave area. For his weapon, Xur is offering Two-Tailed Fox. Hunters can pick up The Dragon's Shadow...
Microsoft has removed claims that the Federal Trade Commission violates the US Constitution and admits that it made a mistake.
According to a report from Axios, the new filing still holds to the previous version's central argument--that Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard would not stifle competition. However, a five bullet-point section claiming that the FTC's structure and in-house administrative court violates the Constitution, the separation of powers, as well as the due process...
Xbox Game Pass announcements have looked a little differently recently. At the beginning of the month and mid-month, Xbox traditionally releases official announcements stating what games are arriving and departing the service. But recent Game Pass additions have taken the form of sporadic surprise announcements.
For January, Stranded Deep and Mortal Shell were added to Game Pass suddenly. Shadow Warrior 3 is also rumored, but unconfirmed right now, due to a notification some players...
Josh Munsee, Director of Xbox Integrated Marketing, has praised PlayStation's newly announced accessibility controller.
During the Sony CES 2023 press conference yesterday, CEO Jim Ryan unveiled Project Leonardo, a brand-new accessibility controller kit designed for the PlayStation 5. Official images of Project Leonardo were also released showing its circular base, changeable buttons, and joysticks that can be customized to the player's needs.
The reception was well-received online by...
Masahiro Sakurai, the director of the Super Smash Bros. series and multiple Kirby installments, has staked out his position on a contentious issue. He prefers digital game ownership over physical, mainly out of concern for space issues.
The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director brought up the question on his YouTube channel, called Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games. He asked, "When you buy a console game, do you get it physically or digitally?" Sakurai quickly revealed that he's "team...
Riot Games has announced Lotus, the ninth map to be introduced in Valorant. In addition to introducing a new map, Episode 6 Act 1, set to go live on January 10, will feature a new battle pass and Araxys skin line.
Lotus will be a three-site map similar to Haven and is set in Omega Earth's India, specifically in the Western Ghats. The map will also have inspired traditional Indian step wells and rock-cut Dravidian architecture. Players will also be able to utilize new mechanics such as...
Razer's new handheld gaming device, Razer Edge, will be released on January 26, the company announced during CES 2023 this week. The system debuts that day in the US starting at $400. If the name Razer Edge sounds familiar, that's because Razer first debuted the Edge in 2013, but it had a significantly larger screen and was basically a full-fledged PC running Windows 8.
The new Razer Edge features a 6.8" OLED display with 144Hz refresh rate, running on the newest Snapdragon G3x chip. The...
Cyberpunk 2077's class-action lawsuit from its investors has reached a settlement, and CD Projekt Red will pay out $1.85 million to plaintiffs.
Back in 2020, investors filed a class-action lawsuit against CD Projekt Red and claimed that Cyberpunk 2077's buggy launch state was hidden from investors--thus causing them to lose money.
The settlement sum will cover eligible class members, "settlement administration costs, taxes, attorney’s fees and costs," and more. Eligible class members are...
Displace announced at CES what it calls the "world's first wireless TV," with first models shipping in December 2023.
The Displace TV model is 55 inches and runs on batteries that Displace claims are both long-lasting (around a month if you are using the TV for six hours a day) and swappable. The TV requires no wall mounting, as it has its own suction pump apparatus attached to the back. This ennables to be played on nearly any surface, including a window, for example. The TV does not have...
The latest cinematic trailer for Valorant sets the stage for episode 6 by teasing a new map. The cinematic crosscuts between various Valorant characters as they make their way to a ruined temple, overgrown with giant flowers.
The trailer starts with Astra and new hero Harbor exploring a jungle in India, before cutting to a nightclub in Istanbul. Here, Fade uses her nightmare powers to interrogate men in suits. At the Valorant HQ, Omen tends to a Bonsai tree while Sage starts up a practice...
Alongside a bevy of hardware announcements at CES, AMD announced new 7000X3D CPUs. AMD claims that these new processors are the fastest in the world, offering up to 14% higher performance than the previous generation. 7000X3D processors add 3D V-Cache tech to 7000 CPUs improving performance dramatically.
The three new chips are the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The primary difference between the models are in their core and threads, as well as their...
As part of Overwatch 2 Season 2's Greek mythology theme, Blizzard is introducing a new, limited-time game mode: Battle for Olympus. The mode sees heroes go head-to-head in a free-for-all deathmatch, after which the hero with the greatest number of kills across the entire event will have their statue placed on the Illios Ruins arena map to commemorate their victory. The event runs from January 5-19 and offers players several limited-time rewards.
However, not all of Overwatch 2's various...
Apex Legends Mobile's Season 3.5 Underworld update (which introduced Revenant to the mobile legend lineup) was scheduled to end next Tuesday, January 10, with Season 4 to follow shortly thereafter. But today, the game's developers announced that Season 3 is being extended.
After thanking players for a successful first year (the game swept the competition at both Apple's 2022 App Store Awards and the 2022 Google Play Best Of Awards), the developers explained that the season would be...
Overwatch 2's latest event, Battle for Olympus, has arrived. This event features a number of new cosmetics, as well as a special arcade mode, Battle for Olympus. This free-for-all mode gives the included heroes special, more powerful versions of their abilities. During the event you can purchase a number of cosmetics from the item shop and earn some free rewards by completing challenges. Battle for Olympus runs from January 5-19.
Battle for Olympus game mode and challenges
The Battle for...
At this point it's a bit of a running gag that Skyrim is playable on just about every gaming platform imaginable, and now even Halo Infinite can be added to that list. One of Skyrim's most iconic locations, the city of Whiterun, is now a Spartan battleground thanks to Halo Infinite's Forge creation suite.
As shared by Rebs Gaming on Twitter, a painstakingly detailed recreation of Whiterun has been made by user Bullet2thehead9 for other players to download and play custom games on. The map...
Fanatical is kicking off the new year with a build-your-own-collection Platinum Collection bundle. From a pool of games, players can assemble their own bundles at three price points: three for $10, five for $15, and seven for $20. All games are PC and can be redeemed via Steam.
The selection for the bundle contains bigger games like Elder Scrolls Online and Elder Scrolls III The Morrowind. There's a number of indie gems too like Amanita Design's Creaks--a puzzle game with some platforming...