Tag Archives: Mobile

Following in the footsteps of PUBG and Fortnite, earlier this year Activision officially announced Call of Duty Mobile, bringing one of the most-played shooter franchises of all time to Android and iOS. The game has been in beta for a while now but a final launch is nearing, with a …

Call of Duty has been one of the most popular franchises in gaming for years now, generating billions for Activision every single year. That number could receive a boost in 2019, as after years of rumours, Call of Duty Mobile is actually happening, and it will be publicly playable soon. …

While Apex Legends did experience explosive growth following its launch in February, things did start to slow down over March and April. Respawn already has a competitive season plan in place to keep people coming back regularly, but there are other ideas in place. Similarly to PUBG and Fortnite, Apex …

Earlier today, Apple and Qualcomm announced that they would be dropping all lawsuits against each other. The settlement comes with a new six-year licensing agreement between the two companies. Shortly after this announcement, Intel curiously announced that it would be dropping development on 5G mobile modems. Intel has never quite …

AMD has officially begun rolling out its next generation laptop processors, with 2nd Gen Ryzen PRO and AMD Athlon PRO hitting the market, complete with Radeon Vega graphics on board

After shipping The Witcher 3's final expansion, some members of the team at CD Projekt Red decided to take the mini-game and release it as a standalone card game. After plenty of time in beta, GWENT launched late last year and the first expansion set of cards is set to …

Call of Duty Mobile has been talked about as a possibility for years now but it looks like the success of PUBG and Fortnite has pushed Activision to finally make the jump. In partnership with Tencent, soon, Call of Duty: Mobile will see release in Asia, North America, South America …

Thanks to its immense popularity on consoles and PC, Electronic Arts (EA) is currently looking into bringing Apex Legends to mobile devices. Fans of the game should be wary of this until the publisher gives the official word however, as there are already fake applications floating around. EA revealed the …

Nintendo might be taking things slow in the mobile market by delaying Mario Kart Tour, but that hasn’t stopped the company from revealing its next smartphone entry. Nintendo’s mascot is set to eventually ditch the steering wheel in favour of his stethoscope in the upcoming Dr. Mario World. While Dr. …

At the start of the year, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa hinted that the company could eventually “shift away from the home console,” worrying fans of the brand. Furukawa has since clarified that this doesn’t necessarily mean home consoles won’t be a priority, but that he hopes to continue Nintendo’s trend …

AMD’s newly unveiled second-generation mobile Ryzen line-up provides the most comprehensive notebook coverage in the company's history.

Niantic has become a big name on the mobile gaming world thanks to the continued success of Pokémon Go. Now, it looks like Samsung wants a piece of that pie, as the smartphone maker is reportedly planning to invest $40 million in Niantic in order to get ‘exclusive' games. Exclusive …

The way in which we consume media has evolved rapidly over the last ten years, with many now watching videos on their smartphones. Netflix wants in on this new trend, launching tests for a mobile-only subscription that costs half that of the Basic membership. The mobile-only subscription is the fourth …

Way back in June 2015, the European Union officially voted to remove data roaming charges for travelling citizens. This finally meant that networks could no longer gouge customers for using their data plans abroad in Europe. Unfortunately for those of us in the UK, Brexit may have thrown a spanner …

A couple of years ago, before we knew about the Nintendo Switch and the situation for the Wii U wasn't looking good, many suggested that Nintendo turn to mobile gaming to boost its financial situation. To our surprise, Nintendo came out swinging with Super Mario Run, and later brought Fire …

Update (17/04/18): Last week, we heard that Spotify was planning to make changes to its free tier on mobile. This news landed shortly after the company put itself up for public investment and disclosed that millions of mobile users were resorting to modded mobile apps to access better features. Now, …

Intel has officially launched its first six-core Coffee Lake processors for laptops. The new Coffee Lake-H series brings Core i9, Core i7 and Xeon chips to laptops, featuring six cores for the first time on an Intel mobile platform. Intel has been sticking with quad-core chips for high-end laptops since …

PUBG officially began rolling out to Android and iOS users in the west last week, and while the mobile version is intended to be played using on-screen touch controls, there are ways around that. There are plenty of PUBG Mobile players currently using various devices to run the game on …

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 …

Epic Games has announced that it will be porting its popular, free-to-play shooter Fortnite Battle Royale to mobile devices. The game will initially be tested on iOS, with Android support following shortly after. “On phones and tablets, Fortnite is the same 100-player game you know from PlayStation 4, Xbox One, …

Chrono Trigger, one of the most beloved classic JRPGs of all time had a surprise comeback last night, with Square Enix bringing the game to Steam. The game promised updated visuals, Steam Achievements and other enhancements but fan excitement swiftly turned to mass disappointment as word began going around that …

At its press conference in Taipei, AMD has announced that the RX Vega consumer GPU will launch at SIGGRAPH 2017 which starts on July 30th. Also confirmed was the summer 2017 launch date for Threadripper and the X399 high-end platform, with further details being given. Vega: AMD will launch the Frontier …

Back in 2016, Nintendo finally started broadening its horizons and began making its own smartphone games, kicking things off with franchises like Fire Emblem and Super Mario. Now it seems that The Legend of Zelda might be the next major Nintendo franchise to get its own mobile game, meanwhile the …

It looks like the European Union's plan to get rid of mobile data roaming charges is going through once and for all. While the writing has been on the wall for a long time now, this week, the new law passed its final vote, meaning from from mid-June onwards, EU …

Reports are coming in that ZTE's ‘premium' brand, nubia (sic), sold out just as it went on sale. The smartphone, dubbed the Z17 mini, is endorsed by soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and used his mojo to sell out a mere 56 seconds after it was launched in China, having moved an estimated …

Companies like Oculus, Samsung and Google have been in the mobile VR game for a while now and it looks like soon HTC will be joining the ranks. However, HTC's offering won't be a simple case of slapping a smartphone into a headset, instead it will be a new spin …

Update: Some of our readers from around the world have managed to download it. If you're playing Pokémon Go right now, where are you from, and which platform are you playing on? Nintendo has launched its new augmented reality smartphone game, Pokémon GO, in territories including Japan, New Zealand and …

You can do a lot with smart devices these days and while it is always interesting to see Minecraft or Half-Life running on a smartwatch, it is obviously not particularly playable. However, you can play Counter-Strike 1.6 now on an Android smartphone, with all of the necessary controls and everything. …

Over the last year or two smartphone makers have finally started moving away from 16GB storage options, with many newer flagship Android devices offering 32GB as the base option as apps grow in size and users start demanding more space for their media. It looks like smartphone memory sizes could …