Today, ASUS is launching its first ROG Gaming Phone, featuring a very slim design, metal construction, a 90Hz AMOLED HDR screen, the world's fastest Snapdragon 845 chips and 500GB of storage. It also packs in some very innovative features for desktop connectivity and dual-screen usage!

Developer PUBG Corp. has apologised to fans in its latest blog post, stating that it has “fallen short” with performance optimisation, instead opting for “meaningful improvements” in the form of new content. This is set to change, however, as PUBG Corp. has outlined a three-pronged road map on how it …

H1Z1 has had a rough year on PC. While the game used to rank highly as one of the most played games on Steam, the spotlight has since been taken away by competitors like PUBG and Fortnite. However, the game has since found new life thanks to the launch of …

E3 is just around the corner, which means we are currently right in the middle of ‘leak season'. Like every year, some of these will be fake and some of them will be very real. The Walmart Canada leak was a good start and gave us a decent first impression …

Discord is celebrating its third birthday, showing its door frame markings with a bunch of information pertaining to just how much the platform has grown. Alongside this, Discord users are being treated to an update that improves upon its underlying technology on the backend. The platform has seen staggering growth …

Since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite: Battle Royale graced the scene, it seems that every developer and his dog wants in on the genre. That is, every developer apart from Microsoft’s first-party studios, which will only take on the challenge if they have something new to offer the genre. It’s difficult …

While the Xbox One might not be the biggest console of the generation, it is still making plenty of money for Microsoft. Today, Microsoft revealed that its video-game division brought in $2.25 billion between January and the end of March. At $2.25 billion, Microsoft's video-game related revenue has risen by …

Shortly after leaving Early Access and transitioning over to the ‘free to play' model, the studio behind H1Z1 has had to cut its staff down. Daybreak, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, has confirmed this week that it has undergone a round of layoffs. In an email sent out to …

Epic Games has been suing cheaters in its smash hit Fortnite Battle Royale since the game debuted last year. Its first case against alleged cheater Charles Vraspir was over within a couple of months, prompting many to believe its ongoing case against a 14-year-old cheater was soon to follow. Unfortunately, …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is faring well with its exclusivity on the Xbox One, however PlayStation 4 owners have been left in the wind as to when the title might potentially come to the platform. In an effort to capitalise on that, Daybreak Games is hoping to win the crowd over with …

Over the course of 2017, Battle Royale became the next big thing in multiplayer gaming. We saw PUBG explode, Fortnite arrived and gave it some serious competition and now various Triple A developers are looking to implement the game mode themselves. We've heard that Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 might …

Update 17/04/18: At least one Boss Key Productions member of staff has been confirmed to have switched over to Epic Games in March, as Principle Online Engineer William McCarroll stepped up into the role of a Senior Programmer. McCarroll has blasted Bleszinski’s accusations that Epic Games had been “poaching” staff, …

Overall, EGX is now the largest gaming exhibition in the UK, with its main event up at the NEC in September and the hugely popular EGX Rezzed at London's Tobacco Dock every April. While the event itself was jammed with gamers trying all sorts of new games – from major …

Before Bluehole managed to break onto smartphones with PUBG Mobile, a plethora of inspired games flooded the market in an attempt to ride the wave of popularity surrounding the battle royale genre. NetEase’s Rules of Survival and Knives Out in particular have since been highlighted by the publisher as threats …

Although the battle royale genre became a smash hit thanks to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite Battle Royale, it seems that these titles still haven’t whet the appetite of its fans. This has resulted in an influx of requests for Blizzard’s Overwatch team to attempt its own variant, to which game …

Last week, we learned that PUBG for smartphones was finally starting to roll out in the west, after a few months of exclusivity to China. Player Unknown's Battlegrounds hit the iOS App Store and Android's Google Play Store in Canada first as a testing ground for servers, and now, the …

A few months ago, the folks at PUBG Corp began rolling out a mobile version of its hit Battle Royale game in China. Now, that same mobile version is finally spreading to the west, starting off with a ‘soft launch' in Canada. A beta version of PUBG Mobile landed on …

Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins broke platform records for concurrent viewers on a personal stream earlier, thanks to a guest appearance by Hotline Bling singer Drake. The two were close to doubling that of previous record holder Dr. DisRespect, but still fell shy of the all-time record of 1.1 million …

Along with the announcement of Fortnite: Battle Royale coming to iOS and Android, we learned that the title will be featuring cross-play and cross-progression between all platforms, with Xbox One noticeably missing from the list. It turns out that the Microsoft console will be supporting cross-play with all platforms apart …

Back when H1Z1 was in its early stages of development, it was revealed that the plan was to eventually have the game transition to a free to play model. The years passed as development continued and when H1Z1 left Steam Early access just over a week ago, the game still …

As the service continues to grow, Twitch is attempting to quell toxic behavior by updating its community guidelines. The latest changes target harassment and sexual content, in which any reports will be treated in a holistic manner with zero tolerance. “Over the past several months, you’ve told us certain sections …

Over the last several years, we have seen many MOBA competitors come and go. While usually it is the sheer popularity of League of Legends, Dota 2 or Smite causing developers to throw in the towel, for Epic Games things are a bit different. Paragon has indeed struggled to hit …

Since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has taken the battle royale formula and turned it into a fully-fledged genre, many copies and adaptations have sprung up, one of which has caused much upset throughout developer Bluehole. In turn, PUBG creator has spoken out about copyright in the games industry and the lack of …

It looks like Crytek is looking to give Warface a bit of a resurgence this year with a new Battle Royale mode to compete with the likes of PUBG, Fortnite and H1Z1. Warface initially launched as a free to play shooter in late 2013 on the PC and Xbox 360. …

At this point, Bluehole has made quite a name for itself in the gaming space, particularly with the success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Since launching on Steam Early Access in March, PUBG has gone on to sell 20 million copies worldwide. Behind the scenes though, Bluehole has been working away on …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has undoubtedly dominated the PC platform, peaking at a record 2.2 million concurrent players on Steam. While there has been a little controversy over its upcoming console release, Xbox One owners can rejoice as it will be receiving a physical release. Bluehole has officially announced that the Xbox …

Over the weekend, plenty of Fortnite players on PS4 discovered that they were being matched up in games with Xbox One players. This was particularly strange as so far this generation, Sony has been a roadblock for developers looking to implement cross-play between PS4 and other consoles. Now, Epic Games …

There is a new Nvidia Game Ready driver rolling out but this time around it contains a little more than optimisations. There is a new feature debuting for Nvidia ShadowPlay called Highlights, which will automatically capture ‘highlight' moments during gameplay in supported games. Nvidia has teamed up with Bosskey Productions …

Rick and Morty co-creator and voice actor, Justin Roiland, has announced that he's starting his very own virtual reality game development studio, along with Epic Games alumni, Tanya Watson. It's called Squanchtendo and we know this because “Little Splzooshly,” the new studio's mascot, told us all about it in a …

Have you ever felt that the endless bundle and impulse buys during sales have left your Steam library cluttered and full of games you are never likely to play? Although organising them into categories can help, some would rather just do away with the games altogether, and now you can, …