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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG has taken the gaming world by a storm, and after taking the battle royale genre to the heights at which it is today, the game is trying to make its way into eSports as well. Over the course of the next few years,the team plans to encourage broad-based participation in amateur events.Additionally, regional leagues will be hosted with external partners across each region, with a world championship event where the top professional teams from various regions around the world will face off later each year for the world championship title....

While PUBG might have lost its throne, it is still one of the best battle royale games out there, for PC, console, and mobile platforms. Unlike Fortnite, PUBG Mobile is available on both Android and iOS, which has resulted in the game becoming a bigger success on mobile as opposed to Fortnite, which is rumoured to be coming later this week. Now, while PUBG Corp. has been busy rolling out updates for the PC and Xbox One, Tencent Games has just rolled out the new update for PUBG Mobile, which brings along much-anticipated features....

As far as the deployment of 5G is concerned, Qualcomm revealed that it is working with Airspan to deploy small cells with Qualcomm chips onboard to overcome infrastructure challenges and that they will also solve the issue of network densification, acting as a bridge between 4G and 5G. Even though Qualcomm did not reveal the name of telecom operators which are leading the 5G race in India and the extent of its rollout, the company did hint that all major companies are vying to jump the 5G bandwagon as soon as possible....

Sony has launched the flagshipXperia XZ2 smartphonein India today for Rs 72,990 and it comes with world’s first 4K HDR movie recording feature. The smartphone will be available at select offline stores and Sony Centre from August 1. The device is powered by Snapdragon 845 Processor and paired with 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. It houses 3180 mAh battery and supports wireless QI technology which ensures effortless charging. The 5....

Steam might rule the PC gaming marketplace domain, but when it comes to in-game chatting Discord is the leading party. Discord has plenty of features and a better connectivity that gamers ideally prefer over Steam’s native solution. Now, in an attempt to battle this supremacy of Discord, Steam has announced inan official postthat it isrolling out its new text and voice features, as well as its updated friend’s list, to all users starting today....

Twitter removed more than 143,000 apps between April and June which violated its policies, the company has announced, saying it is further investing in building improved tools and processes to stop malicious apps faster. As part of its clean-up process,the micro-blogging platform also introduced a new way for all developers to request access to Twitter’s application programming interfaces (APIs). “These changes enable us to have more visibility and control over how developers use our platform and public data from the people using our service,” wrote Yoel Roth and Rob Johnson fromTwitterin a blog post late on Tuesday....

The Xbox One S may not have the processing power or thenative-4K capabilities of the One X, but it is a prettypractical device for the vast majority of casual gamers. The 500GB version of the device is usually available online for around the Rs. 20,000 on its own, but there are loads of deals at the moment on the Xbox One S on Flipkart, offering some exciting bundles at similar price-points....

As reported byTechNode,many Xiaomi users have found that some of the financial products that they invested in through Xiaomi were found to be scams. They’ve further accused Xiaomi of pushing fraudulent ads and lacking moderation on the lending platform. As per the reports,some of the platforms promised high returns for RMB 30 or 50 thousand (around Rs 3-5 lakh) investment, which were very tempting for investors. Unfortunately, many of them proved to be scams, where operators fled with investors’ money and some are having troubling meeting the high promised returns....

Xiaomi strives to become the undisputed best-selling phone maker in the Indian market but the Chinese giant’s record achievement in the second quarter appears to have been spoiled by its biggest rival Samsung by a mere 1 percent. This is the first time that a smartphone brand has been able to achieve such a milestone, says Xiaomi. It could be attributed to therecord-breaking salesof Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 5 lineup that has seen huge interest from the netizens in India....

With the latest update theYouTubeAndroid app seems to have lost a feature that was around for years. Users reported that they could no longer tap on the progress bar to skip forward or go backward in a video, although, scrubbing the progress bar seems to work, As one would imagine, many were upset about the change, and many are still venting their frustration on social media and forums. It isn’t immediately clear when the change happened, but Beebom can confirm that on version 13....

Whether by design or accident, YouTube’s adoption of slower polyfills as part of its Polymer redesign earlier this year has allegedly resulted in 5X slower page-loads onFirefoxandEdgethan inChrome. According to Mozilla’s Technical Program Manager, Chris Peterson, Google is using theShadow DOM V0 APIthat’s implemented natively only in Chrome, and not in either of the other aforementioned browsers. The slowness, however, only seems to affect the initial page load, while subsequent navigation performance is‘comparable’, says Peterson....

In an official event held in New Delhi, Acer has launched theAcer Predator Helios 500in India. The Predator Helios 500 comes in two variants, one with the Intel and Nvidia configuration, while the other being an AMD config. The Intel Core i9 variant is available starting from Rs 2,49,999 and the Core i7 variant is planned to hit the markets soon with a tentative pricing of Rs 1,99,999. Acer has currently not announced any details about the AMD variant of the Helios 500....

Google has recently been quite negligent towards issuing its Android distribution numbers and it’s only after two months that we have gotten a look at thelatest figures. And lo and behold, the presence of Android Oreo (both Android 8.0 and 8.1 combined) has more than doubled in the past two months and it now powers 12.1% devices. Ascompared to May, when Google last reported its Android distribution figures,Android Oreo now runs on 12....