FIFA 18 and other EA games may not be exclusive to Amazon India any more. Two years ago, Amazon India had announced that games from Need for Speed and FIFA publisher EA would be exclusive to the e-commerce giant in the country. However, this no longer appears to be the case. Multiple retailers and sub-distributors have confirmed with Gadgets 360 that Amazon India has enlisted Zupitex, a Delhi-based distributor to sell EA games to stores across the country. “Zupitex approached us to buy FIFA 18 from them. They wanted us to pay Rs. 3,800 per copy on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, and wanted…
Author: Loknath Das
In the run up to Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Nintendo announced the Poke Ball Edition New Nintendo 2DS XL during its Nintendo Direct video. Aside from looking like a Poke Ball that’s used to capture Pokemon in the long-running series, the Poke Ball Edition New Nintendo 2DS XL release date is November 3 and could cost $149 (around Rs. 9,600), which is what 2DS XL consoles usually retail for. As for Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, a trailer showed off 3D graphics similar to Pokemon Sun and Moon, but Nintendo stressed on new additions. These include new areas like a…
Nintendo announced that 2016 first-person shooter Doom will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. Doom for the Nintendo Switch will be out this year, although no exact date has been announced just yet. Prior to this, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, Pete Hines hinted that the company had an unannounced game due this year. Doom for the Nintendo Switch appears to be it. Considering how well optimised Doom was on all platforms, we won’t be surprised to see Doom on the Nintendo Switch to be equally slick despite its hardware limitations. In our Doom review we felt that Bethesda had the right idea in mind when…
Super Mario Odyssey for the Nintendo Switch headlines September’s Nintendo Direct. Previously, Nintendo Direct events showed off Splatoon 2 and Pokemon to name a few. With a duration of 45 minutes, there’s definitely more to it. Here’s what you need to know. Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo Direct time and date The Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo Direct begins at 3pm PT on September 13 (3:30am IST, September 14). It will last for 45 minutes. Like other Nintendo Directs, it is a pre-recorded video of what games to expect from Nintendo on its consoles – the Nintendo Switch and 3DS. Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo…
The IITs have revoked a ban, which they had imposed on 30 companies, mostly start-ups, barring them from participating in campus placements. The ban was announced after these firms withdrew their offers made to the students last year. The decision to revoke the ban was taken on Wednesday at a meeting of the All-IIT Placement Committee (AIPC), where the members unanimously decided to withdraw it. They body was of the opinion that the placement committee in each of the IITs should consider the track record of a particular company, before inviting it to take part in the campus placements. “As…
WhatsApp Beta for Android now gives users granular control to clean up data consuming your phone’s storage space. Part of the Storage Usage menu on WhatsApp, the feature has been around on iPhones since January this year, and has finally made it to Android, albeit for beta users only. With this feature, WhatsApp users will be able to see exactly how much data a group/chat is consuming, and which type of files take up the most storage space. Moreover, users will be able to delete the data hogging files from the same interface, which will help them save storage space on the phone.…
The youth wing of China’s ruling Communist Party on Monday said it had complained to social network Twitter about a fake account set up in its name that has tweeted sarcastic comments about the Communist Party. China blocks Twitter and other Western sites, such as Facebook and Google, but that has not stopped some state media and government departments from setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts in Chinese and English as they seek to expand their global footprint. In a brief statement on its Weibo account, China’s answer to Twitter, the Youth League labelled the @ComYouthLeague Twitter account “completely fabricated”, saying it had asked for it to…
Twitter has fixed a “bug” on its platform that allowed advertisers to target “Jew haters” and others with racial epithets and terms like “Nazi”, the microblogging site announced. According to a report by The Daily Beast on Friday, Twitter ads returned 26.3 million users who may respond to the term “wetback”, 18.6 million to “Nazi” and 14.5 million to “n***er”. “We determined these few campaigns were able to go through because of a bug that we have now fixed,” recode.net quoted a Twitter spokesperson as saying. “Twitter prohibits and prevents ad campaigns involving offensive or inappropriate content, and we will continue to strongly…
Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc said on Monday it had hired the finance chief of Weibo Corp as its chief financial officer, marking a leadership change for the firm as its hones its focus onto artificial intelligence. The appointment of Herman Yu, Weibo’s CFO since 2015, sees Baidu stalwart Jennifer Li step down as CFO after almost a decade in the role to become a senior adviser to Baidu’s top management, the company said in a statement. Baidu is trying to drive a recovery in its fortunes after a string of regulatory investigations last year hit profit. A sharper focus on mobile and artificial…
Alphabet Inc’s Google said it had disabled a “majority” of the offensive keywords that BuzzFeed found could be used by advertisers to target people searching for racist and anti-Semitic topics. Google, the world’s biggest advertising platform, not only allowed advertisers to target searches such as “Why do Jews ruin everything” but also suggested the user to run ads next to searches such as “the evil jew” and “jewish control of banks”, a campaign by BuzzFeed discovered. The ads were visible when such keywords were searched for and Google’s ad buying platform tracked the ad views, according to the internet media company’s report based on…