Twitch gamer receives Bitcoin donation worth more than $70,000 during live stream

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Sick_Nerd, a verified Twitch streamer, received a donation of 20 BTC during a live stream on January 11, 2019, while playing Runescape, a popular Massive…

Epic Games launches refund policy for its game store

By Muhammad Usman ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Epic Games Store has been working hard to attract players and developers alike since its launch on 6 Dec. 2018. But there was one glaring…

Epic and Improbable create $25 million fund, want developers to move away from Unity

By Adeel Aslam ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Improbable and Epic games have announced a surprise $25 million fund “to help developers transition to more open engines, services, and ecosystems”. The announcement was…

What we know about next Gen-Gaming? Spoilers; it’s not 4K at 60 fps

By Rohaan Manzoor ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 5 min read

Microsoft and Sony will be unveiling their next gen-consoles soon and we can’t help ourselves from pondering over what we can expect from them. The…

Top 10 games to look out for in 2019

By Muhammad Usman ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 5 min read

The past year has been abuzz with great video games. With the likes of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. It’s time we…

World of Warcraft honors Stan Lee with a cameo appearance in the game

By Muhammad Usman ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

It was a shock to fans all over the world when the famed comic writer, editor, publisher, and the occasional actor Stan Lee passed away…

Nvidia CEO mocks AMD’s new GPU calling its performance “lousy”

By Shaheryar Ehsan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Nvidia and AMD are having a war of words over the latest GPU announcements at CES 2019. At a round table conference attended by several…

Amazon to introduce a Netflix-like service for video games by 2020

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Amazon, the world’s largest retailer, is working on a Netflix-like video gaming service with its own cloud-based streaming framework which is set to be released…

Will Red Dead Redemption 2 come to PC? Let’s take a deeper look

By Muhammad Usman ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the greatest titles of 2018. But PC gamers are still watching its gameplay videos, all the while secretly…

Fortnite’s merchandise store removes its cryptocurrency payment option

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Fortnite’s online retail store, Retail Row, has officially removed Monero (XMR), the open-source cryptocurrency, as a payment option. What’s more, Fortnite’s CEO claims that its…

Sony’s domination of the console generation continues

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Sony has sold over 91.6 million PlayStation 4 units worldwide as of Dec. 31, 2018. This means that yet again, the Japanese multinational conglomerate has…

Epic Games earned over $3 billion in 2018 thanks to Fortnite

By Rohaan Manzoor ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

While Fortnite’s battle royal mode was released last year, it was 2018 when its adoption surged to record-breaking numbers. The game has been so popular…

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Pokemon Go’s parent company Niantic is now worth $4 billion

By Shaheryar Ehsan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Niantic, the parent developer company of Pokemon Go, is now worth $4 billion as investors pump in a fresh round of funding into the app…

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