With August just a day away, Microsoft today confirmed the Xbox Games with Gold lineup for the month of August 2019. Subscribers get a handful of titles for free as part of their subscription every month. The company delivers them the most bang for their buck with this. It’s offering great new titles in the coming month which include Gears of War 4 for the Xbox One.
It goes without saying that Sony’s PS4 console is one of the most popular consoles in the market today, and based on the latest figures, it looks like Sony has pretty much conquered this particular generation of consoles. This is because in the company’s latest earnings, they have revealed that they have sold a whopping 100 million PS4 consoles to date.
Nintendo’s 3DS is more than just a handheld gaming console. The console also comes with support for some apps, such as the YouTube app that allows gamers to watch videos on their consoles, a nice break from just playing games all day. However, if you do use the YouTube app quite a bit, you might be disappointed to learn that the app will be going away in September.
Back in the earlier days of computer games, the narrative would be that playing sports was “cool” while video games were seen as something that was nerdy and had no future. However, fast forward to today, and that narrative has changed massively. Take Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, a 16-year old teen who took home a cool $3 million and the title in the first ever Fortnite World Cup championship.
As developers increasingly support ray tracing technology, there will be a time when AAA titles start requiring ray tracing GPUs if the player wants to play them on a PC. That may not happen until a few years, though. According to a prediction by NVIDIA’s Morgan McGuire, that may not happen until 2023.
Thanks to the Nintendo Switch’s hardware, it is actually sort of based on NVIDIA’s Tegra SHIELD tablets, which means that it can technically run on Android. This is why it wasn’t surprising to see some modders port Android to the console, and just last week, it was reported that an Android ROM for the Switch is in the works that could also be released soon.
Many have criticized the Epic Games Store for not offering a cloud save feature and it’s finally making amends, however, the feature will only be available for select titles initially. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has confirmed that the cloud save feature is being rolled out for a “couple of new games.” He also said that wider implementation of this feature is on the cards as well and will eventually happen.
Bethesda launched re-released versions of Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 earlier this week. However, there was a strange requirement which made it obligatory for players to log into an online account before they could play the games. It wasn’t long before players started criticizing Bethesda for this decision. It has listened to their feedback and confirmed that this requirement will be removed.
If you’re a fan of classic video games, there is a good chance that you might be familiar with the DOOM franchise. DOOM was one of the few games from back in the day that helped to popularize the FPS genre, in which we might not have games like Battlefield or Call of Duty if DOOM was not as successful as it was.
The Nintendo Switch shares very similar hardware as devices like the NVIDIA Tegra gaming tablets which run on Android, and as such, it was not a complete surprise to learn that there were some modders who managed to get Android up and running on the console. It seems that development of this mod has come a long way because it is expected that in the next few days, an unofficial […]