Archive for: January, 2017

Sonos CEO to Exit After 14 Years Amidst Increased Competition

Over the years, Sonos has weathered competition from better known rivals like Apple and Bose to find a devoted audience among audio enthusiasts. But lately its wireless speaker has lost ground to an unexpected competitor, Amazon’s Echo. Now it faces another challenge: a change in the corner office. After 14 years leading the company he […]

Fitbit Acquires European Smartwatch Maker Vector

Fitbit is now scooping up yet another smartwatch maker: Vector Watch. Founded in 2015, Vector offers a couple different smartwatches that come in about a dozen configurations of different colors and bands. One of the key features of Vector devices is 30-day battery life, addressing what is arguably the biggest weakness in the current crop […]

Rocket League Update 1.27 for PS4, PC and Xbox One Has Been Released

The new Rocket League update 1.27 has been deployed on PS4, Xbox One and PC, following Psyonix’s recent Steam success. A full loadout of Rocket League update patch notes have been provided by the studio, following the initial launch of 1GB+ download. These include: CASUAL PLAYLISTS AND ROCKET LAB ARENAS Added Utopia Coliseum (Snowy) into […]

Anticipated Xbox One Title “Scalebound” Has Been Cancelled

Microsoft released an official statement today explaining that the Platinum Games developed Xbox One exclusive Scalebound has been cancelled. Specifically, Microsoft had this to say on the matter: After careful deliberation, Microsoft Studios has come to the decision to end production for Scalebound. We’re working hard to deliver an amazing lineup of games to our […]

CyberpowerPC Intros New Low Cost Oculus Ready PC

Thanks to the recently-announced Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW) feature, the Oculus Rift is able to function with lower system requirements than the next leading VR HMD. As such, CyberpowerPC is now offering an AMD-based gaming rig in a bundle with the Rift. The CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra VR features an AMD FX-4350 processor with 8GB of memory, […]

River City Melee: Battle Royal Special Multi-language Physical Version Hits Asia in March

River City Melee: Battle Royal Special, Arc System Works’ side-scrolling retro arena fighting game for PlayStation 4, will get an Asia-exclusive physical release with support for English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese subtitles in March 2017, Play-Asia has revealed. H2 Interactive has previously announced it is localizing the game in English, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese […]

Final Fantasy XV ‘Active Time Report New Year Special’ Broadcast Has Been Confirmed

Square Enix will soon host a Final Fantasy XV “Active Time Report New Year Special,” the company recently announced. A specific date was not announced, but we’ll update you as soon as we hear something. The broadcast will feature a New Year greeting, likely from game director Hajime Tabata, and further information, likely about the […]

Hex Heroes Is Still on Track with Its Wii U Release

While other developers are dropping Wii U support and shifting projects over to the forthcoming Switch, the team behind Kickstarter project Hex Heroes are bucking the trend by standing by Nintendo’s outgoing home system. An update has just been posted on the project’s Kickstarter page which shows the game running on a Wii U devkit […]

Nvidia’s CEO Says the Nintendo Switch Will Blow You Away

Nvidia’s Shield range of micro-consoles, handhelds and tablets has done a fine job of getting company recognition in the gaming arena, and has paid off handsomely with the Nintendo Switch – a hybrid system with Nvidia’s Tegra technology at its heart. Speaking to Venturebeat recently, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang covered a wide range of topics […]

Pokémon Sun and Moon Players Fail to Complete Second Global Mission

Pokémon Sun and Moon‘s most recent Global Mission – an online event which asks players to work together to achieve a particular goal – has ended in failure. The December event asked players to capture or defeat 1,000,000 monsters using the Island Scan functions, which can only be used once per day. Unfortunately, only 661,839 […]

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