Author: Ishraq Subhan
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Sony has sold 30 million PlayStation 5 consoles to date
[ad_1] In the torrent of CES news, Sony announced that it has now sold more than 30 million PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide, an increase of five million sales since the release of the last sales figures in October. This is despite the fact Sony raised the price of the console in a…
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Asus announces licensed Xbox controller with OLED screen
[ad_1] Asus has announced an officially licensed Xbox controller with a built-in OLED display and tri-mode connectivity. The ROG Raikiri Pro is the first licenced Xbox controller with such connectivity, allowing players to connect to devices via Bluetooth, low-latency 2.4GHz radio, or good old USB-C. This will be especially useful to players who…
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Among Us-like social deduction game Goose Goose Duck smashes Steam player records
[ad_1] Online social deduction game Goose Goose Duck, has surpassed Steam’s concurrent player record for Among Us, the game it has taken heavy inspiration from. Based on the latest figures, the free-to-play game garnered a peak of 563,677 players today, making it the third most popular game on the platform. …
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Silent Hill 2 remake will be “faithful to the original title”, claims Bloober Team
[ad_1] Bloober Team’s remake of Silent Hill 2 will be “faithful to the original title” while also modernising areas that haven’t aged as well. That’s according to Bloober Team’s marketing chief Anna Jasińska in an interview with DreadXP. Asked about the extent the studio was given free reign by Konami to…
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FIFA 23 Easter egg starring Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney discovered
[ad_1] Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, best known in the football world for purchasing small Welsh club Wrexham AFC, have been discovered in a FIFA 23 Easter egg. Smaller clubs like Wrexham aren’t normally featured in FIFA, but the club entered the game in FIFA 22 in the “Rest of…
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Fake Pokémon NFT project taken to court by The Pokémon Company
[ad_1] The Pokémon Company has taken a company using its trademarks and assets to advertise an NFT-based Pokémon mobile game to court. Australian company Pokémon Pty Ltd set up and advertised a website claiming to be launching a crypto game called PokéWorld (thanks, Vooks). The company even claimed to have…
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 players mourn the loss of museum map found in beta
[ad_1] When Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2022) released back in October, players noticed that one multiplayer map available in the beta was conspicuously missing from the final game. Indeed, it was something I reported on during release. Now almost two months on, players fear the Valderas Museum will never return.…
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Meta coughs up $725m in Cambridge Analytica settlement
[ad_1] Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Meta Quest VR headsets, has agreed to pay $725m to settle a class-action lawsuit which accused the company of allowing Cambridge Analytica to access personal user data without consent. The Cambridge Analytica scandal goes all the way back to 2018, when former Cambridge Analytica…
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Microsoft claims FTC’s lawsuit against Activision Blizzard buyout is unconstitutional
[ad_1] Microsoft has issued its response to the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against its planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The FTC has claimed the $69bn deal would let Microsoft suppress its games industry competition. The company defended the proposed $69bn buyout, defended its previous acquisition of Bethesda owner ZeniMax Media, and justified its…
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500 public comments to the CMA on Microsoft-Activision deal were abusive or unintelligible
[ad_1] Gamers were given their first opportunity to have their say on Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard in a public consultation with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. So how did they conduct themselves outside of the gaming bubble? With abuse and unintelligence of course. According to the CMA,…