As the US economy rebounds from its pandemic slump, a vital cog is in short supply: the computer chips that power a wide range of products that connect, transport, and entertain us in a world increasingly dependent on technology.The shortage has already been rippling through various markets since last summer. It has made it difficult for schools to buy enough laptops for students forced to learn from home, delayed the release of popular products such as the iPhone 12, and created mad scrambles to find the latest video game consoles such as the PlayStation 5.But things have been getting even worse in recent weeks, particularly in the auto industry, where factories are shutting down because there aren't enough chips
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Here Are Your Free PlayStation Plus Games for April
PlayStation Plus subscribers will have their hands full with monstrous quests in April as the free games lineup for the month brings two zombie survival shooters and an otherworldly platformer. Days Gone, Zombie Army 4: Dead War, and Oddworld: Soulstorm will be available for free for PS Plus subscribers starting April 6. The first two titles will be exclusively available for PlayStation 4 users, and Oddworld: Soulstorm will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive. Subscribers still have until April 5 to scoop up the free games from March – Final Fantasy VII Remake, Maquette, and Remnant: From the Ashes.Sony revealed the free PS4 and PS5 games on its PlayStation Blog, announcing that the titles will be available for download from
Everything You Need to Know About Outriders
Outriders is set to release on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Stadia next week. Developed by People Can Fly, the studio behind iconic shoot ‘em up titles Gears of War and Bulletstorm, Outriders is an RPG-shooter that is primarily designed to be played as a co-op title. Players can play through the story-driven campaign in co-op with up to three players, or have a go at it entirely in single-player mode. Read on to find out everything you need to know about Outriders – from its release date and gameplay to its price and available platforms.Outriders release dateOutriders is set to release April 1 on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Stadia.Outriders
Sony Unveils New VR Controllers for PlayStation 5
Sony has unveiled new VR controllers that will be a part of its next-generation virtual reality system for PlayStation 5. They controllers have an “orb” shaped design and look quite different from the current PlayStation Move motion controllers. The new VR controllers look like an exaggerated version of the Facebook's Oculus Quest 2 controllers, with a small joystick and a trigger button near the thumbs. In its blog post, Sony also describes some of the features of these new controllers will bring, such as finger touch detection, tracking, haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and more.Sony first teased that it is working on a next-generation VR headset for the PlayStation 5 last month and has now unveiled the controllers that go
Watch Dogs: Legion Online Delayed for PC, Again — This Time Indefinitely
Watch Dogs: Legion online is facing more problems. Just ahead of its release date — Watch Dogs: Legion online goes live March 9 — Ubisoft has announced that the co-op online multiplayer component of the latest Watch Dogs title won't be available at launch on PC due to issues with “certain GPUs”. That is also the case for the flagship mode, Tactical Ops, which has been delayed to March 23. Additionally, there are problems with in-game text chat on PS4 and PS5 versions of Watch Dogs: Legion, and a fix for this will also drop on March 23 alongside Tactical Ops. All in all, it doesn't bode well.“We're excited to see new recruits in London when we launch the
Sony Unveils 6 Games for PlayStation VR, Including Doom 3: VR Edition
PlayStation VR, or PS VR, is receiving a host of new games that will be released later this year. Sony announced that six games will be coming to PS VR – Doom 3: VR Edition, Fracked, Song in the Smoke, After the Fall, I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy And The Liar, and Zenith: The Last City - The Fracture. All the games will be available for PlayStation 5 but only a few are expected to be released on PlayStation 4 as well. Sony had announced in February 2021 that it is working on a new VR headset for Playstation 5 but it won't be released in 2021.The announcement, made on the PlayStation blog yesterday, mentioned the
Sony to Give Away Free PlayStation Games Until June: All You Need to Know
PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 users can own a copy of Ratchet & Clank for free, as part of the company's Play At Home initiative. Sony introduced Play At Home in April last year, as the world was just entering consecutive lockdowns due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Under the initiative, the company gave away digital copies of two games last year – Journey and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection – completely free-of-cost. These free titles could be downloaded by anyone, whether a person has a PlayStation Plus subscription or not. Sony has brought back the initiative again this year, starting with a free copy of Ratchet & Clank for the month of March, with more games expected to be
Watch Dogs: Legion Online Is Out March 9. Here’s What You Should Know
Watch Dogs: Legion online is nearly here. Ubisoft will deliver the multiplayer mode of Watch Dogs: Legion — the London-set third game in the series — in two weeks' time, after what will have been over four months since the game's launch on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Since then, it's also gotten free next-gen ray-tracing-enabled upgrades on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. Watch Dogs: Legion online is set after the single-player campaign and comes with a narrative justification: the private police force Albion is hitting back (it's necessary albeit unimaginative) which forces you and your hacktivist outfit DedSec to protect London, once again.Of course, it's not all story-driven. While Watch Dogs: Legion's co-operative missions are limited
PlayStation 5 vs. Xbox Series X: Which Is Better?
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are both finally available in India - which one should you buy? Well, available is a strong word right now, given they are both sold out virtually everywhere — and there's no word on new stock is expected to arrive, unlike the weekly drops that happen in other markets. That's largely because of chip storages across the industry at large — from car manufacturers to laptop makers, no one is able to cope with the global demand, fuelled in part by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. AMD, which makes the custom chips for both PS5 and Series X, admitted recently that it will continue to have supply issues through the first half of 2021,
PlayStation 5 Sales Reached 4.5 Million by End of 2020
PlayStation 5 has been mostly out of stock since it launched in November last year but Sony has somehow managed to sell 4.5 million units in 2020. Sony shared its financial results for the third quarter of 2020 ending December 31, wherein it revealed that its total operating income or profit for Q3 2020 were JPY 359.2 billion (roughly Rs. 24,950 crores) compared to JPY 300.1 billion (roughly Rs. 20,834 crores) in Q3 2019. The sales of PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, software, and everything that falls under its Game and Network Services segment brought in the highest revenue in the quarter.Sony, in its financial report for Q3 2020, shared that it sold 4.5 million PlayStation 5 units. This means since