Smartphone makers have looked to the emerging markets, particularly China, for growth over the past couple of years — especially in the all important high-end market where margins are made. But the Chinese market for high-performance smartphones is becoming saturated, as is much of the rest of the developed world. Many people now balk at […]
New Delhi: Within gaming notebooks, there is a whole new bunch that doesn’t look like them at all. They are designed to look less flashy, take up less space and fit into a professional environment. Built on the same design principle, the ROG Zephyrus M GU502, is one of the slimmest and smallest gaming notebooks from Asus till […]
We have been seeing a whole lot of premium smartphone in India lately and gaming phones are also part of this list. After the BlackShark 2, Nubia is the second company to announce a gaming smartphone in the Indian market. Equipped with eyeball grabbing features, the Red Magic 3 is a mighty phone on paper and […]
Cloud gaming is undoubtedly the next big wave in gaming. At E3 2019, industry titans like Microsoft and Google have already begun their foray into cloud gaming. While Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud have been in the works for quite some time now, E3 gave us a deep dive into all the details. So, how […]
As the doors of the E3 gaming jamboree open in Los Angeles today, the focus is not just to the most-anticipated new titles, but how we will play games in the future. Sometimes dubbed the Netflix of gaming, cloud gaming has hogged the limelight, with Google announcing a November launch of its Stadia service and Microsoft promising […]
Video games have long been literally the center of attention in the App Store, so Apple’s prospects for finding Arcade subscribers among its installed base of over 1 billion iOS devices is pretty straightforward. But can Apple Arcade spread the wealth of iOS’ developer attention to its other platforms, meaningfully driving new interest in gaming […]
Bengaluru | Kolkata: Online gaming companies, which got their first unicorn in Dream11 earlier this month, are on a talent hunt as they race towards growth, riding high on improved technology, greater proliferation of smartphones, cheap internet and increasing data penetration. It is the next big thing in the startup ecosystem, after travel, e-commerce and fintech, with […]
If you’re a mobile games fan, you can expect “bigger, better and badder” franchises coming down the line thanks to 5G. That’s according to Frank Gibeau, CEO of Zynga, whose claim to fame resided with its Facebook-based games like ”’Farmville” before it transitioned to creating its own mobile gaming services and brands. Gibeau told CNBC that […]
Today, Xiaomi announced its new gaming smartphone, the Black Shark 2. We previewed the first model last year; at the time, it seemed like a promising competitor to other gaming phone makers, like Asus and Razer. And Xiaomi is no stranger to designing and releasing high-end smartphones in China and elsewhere, even if they’re still fairly new […]
Gan said a total of five shots were fired into his and his friend’s rooms, apparently fired by a stranger who was “partying behind the street.” Thankfully no one was hurt by the stray gunfire, including Gan. The shots came in around 4 AM and he wasn’t sitting at his PC at the time—but if […]