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Sony trying to calm down gamers after the Christmas outage

Jan 4, 2015

Understanding that their network outages ruined the perfect gaming break for all those freaks out there and probably unfairly deprived many enthusiasts of a lot many deals up for grabs, Sony Computer Entertainm...

Ralph Baer, the father of video gaming dies at 92

Jayaram Pawar

Dec 8, 2014

Innovation

The creator of the first ever video game, Ralph Baer ended the game of life at 92. Baer’s death was announced on the gaming website Gamasutra, by sources close to him. His invention was the first ever made vide...

Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii hits 10 million sales in the US

Amanda

Nov 21, 2014

Innovation

Nintendo tweeted about hitting 10 million sales in the US with its new Super Mario Bros on Wednesday- a piece of news that has come as a surprise for many analysts and sections of the media who had thought that...

Blizzard Studio announces new first-person Shooter game “Overwatch”

Siddhant Ghatge

Nov 9, 2014

Innovation

A new shooter game called ‘Overwatch’ has been announced by Blizzard Entertainment studio, of the World of Warcraft fame. Its venture has been hugely successful in the gaming world. Overwatch has been announced...

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare now available in markets to buy & play

Siddhant Ghatge

Nov 3, 2014

Innovation

A series of games, which has famously sold 140 million copies now has its next version up on sale in the global markets. Kevin Spacey has ruled it out in this version of the game. Viso fame analyst Sterne Agee ...

Rockstar GTA 5 Celebrates 10 years of GTA San Andreas

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 26, 2014

Innovation

October 26th , 2014 marks the 10th year of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which was released on this day in North America a decade ago. Rockstar, the most notable of which is an anniversary event it's hosting i...

NVIDIA Shield Tablet with LTE now available at AT&T for $399

Abby Smith

Oct 1, 2014

Innovation

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), on Thursday released an update to its Shield Tablet. It gives users the update to version 1.2, which comes with some important enhancements and major bug fixes. The fixes...

Microsoft launches Xbox One in China

Abby Smith

Sep 29, 2014

Innovation

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has finally released the Xbox One in China. After a ban on gaming consoles, Redmond giant is the first to launch its gaming console over a period 14 years. China Ministry of Cult...

Oculus VR creator Brendan Iribe says headset will always be for Gaming purpose

Abby Smith

Sep 28, 2014

Innovation

Talking about the new virtual reality headset launched by the Oculus, company CEO, Brendan Iribe said that the device is solely for gaming purposes and will remain intact there. Company recently announce...

Microsoft buys Minecraft maker for $2.5b

Siddhant Ghatge

Sep 16, 2014

Innovation

Maker of the "Minecraft" videogame, Mojang AB is being bought by Microsoft for a whooping sum of $2.5billion. Microsoft is in talks to acquire the Swedish game company, which has a customer base of more than 50...

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