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"I think there's some misconceptions about what athletes eat," says Ilona Maher, in a video taken in Paris. She's an American Olympic rugby player.

In a grim first for Indians studying in the US, a first-year student took his own life in March while playing, it is understood, a macabre online game of dares called the "Blue Whale Challenge", which has also been called the "suicide game".

Microsoft has announced an Xbox Developer Direct event, promising updates on the Indiana Jones game, Avowed, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, and more. The presentation will be live streamed across Xbox’s YouTube and Twitch channels on January 18 at 1:30am IST in India/ 12pm PT in the US. A showcase for the future of The Elder Scrolls Online is also ...

US teenager Willis Gibson, known online as "Blue Scuti", has accomplished a seemingly impossible feat by "beating" the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Tetris, a game first released in 1989.

The Last of Us multiplayer game has been cancelled, with Naughty Dog promising more single-player narrative experiences in the future. Following an evaluation by Destiny maker Bungie, the studio would have been forced to work for years on post-launch content, in turn affecting its other projects. As such, the team decided to focus on story games an...

Grand Theft Auto 6’s overworld map has seemingly leaked online, and it’s reportedly from a Rockstar employee’s son. The video was posted on a throwaway TikTok account, which allegedly belongs to Aaron Garbut’s son, the head of development and co-studio head at Rockstar North. The GTA 6 trailer will be shown tomorrow, 7:30pm IST in India/ 9a...

Netflix is opening an entertainment-focused retail store called Netflix House, providing visitors with a physical destination to buy merch, consume themed food, and partake in activities. Its first two outlets are slated to open in 2025 in the US, before expanding to other regions in the world. Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos claims it’s nothing like Di...

Microsoft had been charged with violating the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from children who signed up to its Xbox gaming system without notifying their parents or obtaining their parents' consent, and by retaining children's personal information, the FTC said in a statement.

Grand Theft Auto 6 could launch as soon as 2024. Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two shared its latest yearly earnings report, which details that it’s aiming to achieve $8 billion in net bookings within the fiscal years 2025 and 2026. The fiscal year 2025 will begin in April 2024 and a massive target as such could only be achieved via a maj...

Indie darling Vampire Survivors was crowned Best Game at the BAFTA Games Awards 2023, beating God of War Ragnarök, which secured six trophies. Christopher Judge won the award for Best Performance for his role as Kratos in GoW Ragnarök, while Laya Deleon Hayes bagged one for the Supporting Role as Angrboda the Jötunn. Meanwhile, Elden Ring won tr...

Tencent is planning to host a Valorant esports tournament as the FPS game rolls out in China, following a two-year industry crackdown. Talks are in their initial stages and Tencent could push back its timeline from its predicted summer window. A Valorant league should help kickstart competitive online gaming in China after pandemic restrictions and...

The bizarre food delivery order by this young boy has left us in splits. He even added 25 per cent tip to every order. See what all foods he ordered.

Mexican food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) has opened crypto payments for its customers in the US. Flexa, the online payments provider, has been roped-in to facilitate crypto transactions for CMG. Over 3,000 CMG outlets in the US are currently offering a ten percent discount on purchases made via crypto assets.

The United States has linked North Korean hackers group Lazarus to the recent online theft of cryptocurrency from popular online game Axie Infinity maker Sky Mavis.

Apple’s App Store offers privacy and safety benefits to its users, online gaming platform Roblox said on Thursday, supporting the iPhone-maker's bid to beat an appeal by Epic Games in a key US antitrust case.

"I think there's some misconceptions about what athletes eat," says Ilona Maher, in a video taken in Paris. She's an American Olympic rugby player.

In a grim first for Indians studying in the US, a first-year student took his own life in March while playing, it is understood, a macabre online game of dares called the "Blue Whale Challenge", which has also been called the "suicide game".

Microsoft has announced an Xbox Developer Direct event, promising updates on the Indiana Jones game, Avowed, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, and more. The presentation will be live streamed across Xbox’s YouTube and Twitch channels on January 18 at 1:30am IST in India/ 12pm PT in the US. A showcase for the future of The Elder Scrolls Online is also ...

US teenager Willis Gibson, known online as "Blue Scuti", has accomplished a seemingly impossible feat by "beating" the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Tetris, a game first released in 1989.

The Last of Us multiplayer game has been cancelled, with Naughty Dog promising more single-player narrative experiences in the future. Following an evaluation by Destiny maker Bungie, the studio would have been forced to work for years on post-launch content, in turn affecting its other projects. As such, the team decided to focus on story games an...

Grand Theft Auto 6’s overworld map has seemingly leaked online, and it’s reportedly from a Rockstar employee’s son. The video was posted on a throwaway TikTok account, which allegedly belongs to Aaron Garbut’s son, the head of development and co-studio head at Rockstar North. The GTA 6 trailer will be shown tomorrow, 7:30pm IST in India/ 9a...

Netflix is opening an entertainment-focused retail store called Netflix House, providing visitors with a physical destination to buy merch, consume themed food, and partake in activities. Its first two outlets are slated to open in 2025 in the US, before expanding to other regions in the world. Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos claims it’s nothing like Di...

Microsoft had been charged with violating the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from children who signed up to its Xbox gaming system without notifying their parents or obtaining their parents' consent, and by retaining children's personal information, the FTC said in a statement.

Grand Theft Auto 6 could launch as soon as 2024. Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two shared its latest yearly earnings report, which details that it’s aiming to achieve $8 billion in net bookings within the fiscal years 2025 and 2026. The fiscal year 2025 will begin in April 2024 and a massive target as such could only be achieved via a maj...

Indie darling Vampire Survivors was crowned Best Game at the BAFTA Games Awards 2023, beating God of War Ragnarök, which secured six trophies. Christopher Judge won the award for Best Performance for his role as Kratos in GoW Ragnarök, while Laya Deleon Hayes bagged one for the Supporting Role as Angrboda the Jötunn. Meanwhile, Elden Ring won tr...

Tencent is planning to host a Valorant esports tournament as the FPS game rolls out in China, following a two-year industry crackdown. Talks are in their initial stages and Tencent could push back its timeline from its predicted summer window. A Valorant league should help kickstart competitive online gaming in China after pandemic restrictions and...

The bizarre food delivery order by this young boy has left us in splits. He even added 25 per cent tip to every order. See what all foods he ordered.

Mexican food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) has opened crypto payments for its customers in the US. Flexa, the online payments provider, has been roped-in to facilitate crypto transactions for CMG. Over 3,000 CMG outlets in the US are currently offering a ten percent discount on purchases made via crypto assets.

The United States has linked North Korean hackers group Lazarus to the recent online theft of cryptocurrency from popular online game Axie Infinity maker Sky Mavis.

Apple’s App Store offers privacy and safety benefits to its users, online gaming platform Roblox said on Thursday, supporting the iPhone-maker's bid to beat an appeal by Epic Games in a key US antitrust case.