DUBAI: Entertainment company Waverider today announced that it has joined forces with Galaxy Racer (GXR), a Dubai-based eSports organisation, to organise the inaugural edition of POPC Live! in Dubai. To be held in March 2022, the Middle East’s biggest eSports, comics, and YouTubers’ pop culture festival will feature five days of experiences and unique activities […]
Sony heralds in their support for the nation-sweeping Black Lives Matter movement with launch of new PlayStation (PS) theme for gamers. The wildly popular gaming console has released a new static theme on the PS Store called the “Black Lives Matter Theme” available for free download. Hued in colours black and yellow, the user interface […]
Japanese game developer Sega celebrates its 60 years with a release of several ‘freebie’ games on popular game-community base, Steam. “To celebrate, we will mark each of those years with a day of exciting content to give you, our players, an insider’s look at what has made Sega what it is today,” the company said […]
Dubai’s Department of Tourism has partnered with Electronic Arts, one of the world’s largest gaming companies, to showcase Dubai to a global gaming audience in the VOLTA FOOTBALL mode that takes football back to the streets with enhanced gameplay and new features for fans to enjoy. With the iconic Burj Khalifa and Burj Al Arab […]
A Fallout 76 group, named the ‘Free States Militia’ hosting some 90 plus members on Facebook, found its account barred from the platform with no prior warning, in a moderation-gone-wrong last week. It is unclear whether the wipe came from an AI mixup or a simple human misunderstanding. With its increasing imposition of stricter policies amid […]
It’s been well over a year since the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was announced during E3 in 2019 and we finally learn the fate of the franchise. Nintendo had earlier in the month announced Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, a Breath of the Wild prequel, during a surprise livestream and also gave […]
World-popular streaming platform, Twitch, this week, announced an end to their ‘mid-roll ad pop-up experiment’ after immediate backlash, with complaints from big-name Twitch streamers and viewers alike, pouring in. The ad placement which was generally left up to the streamer, who typically chose to place it at the very beginning – so as not to […]
