Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, developer Niantic’s augmented reality mobile game set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, is shutting down on Jan. 31, 2022. Niantic announced the game’s closure on the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite website, and promised players that they’ll get a narrative conclusion — Harry Potter and Hermione Granger will put an end to […]
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Oculus Services Down As Facebook's Domains Disappear
All Facebook services are currently down including the Oculus app, Oculus Store, and Oculus website. Instagram and WhatsApp are also affected. The issue started at around 8:45 AM Pacific Time. It appears to be related to DNS (Domain Name System), the global semi-decentralized system which maps human readable domain names (such as oculus.com) to the […]
Microsoft doubles down on cybersecurity with CloudKnox acquisition
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Microsoft today announced that it acquired CloudKnox Security, a platform designed to protect resources and identities across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments. With the purchase, the terms of which weren’t disclosed, Microsoft says that Azure customers will be able to right-size permissions and […]
Take-Two Is Taking Down More GTA Mods, Bad News For GTA Modders Scene
Grand Theft Auto has always had a robust modding community, but many of the GTA modders in the scene are finding themselves in Take-Two’s crosshairs. While takedown notices have been a thing in the past from Take-Two, especially earlier this year when looking at Vice City, it appears that the company is ramping up the […]
F1 2021 doubles down on realism — both on and off the track
So, the gravy train in Bahrain is over. Taking a spin with a work-in-progress build of F1 2021, I quickly realized that, once the game launches next month, I will have to put in a lot of work setting up my Formula 1 car for an early season racetrack where I’ve always run in the […]
Xbox Live Is Down, Giving Error Code 0x803f9006
Anyone looking to do some mid-day Xbox gaming is in for an unpleasant surprise – Xbox Live appears to be down. Many users are reporting outages that give the error code 0x803f9006. This message seems to imply that the user is playing an expired trial or demo version of the game, and is appearing even when […]
Gears Pop Shuts Down Today
After almost two years since its launch, Gears Pop has shut down today. The real time strategy game based on the Gears of War franchise will no longer be playable, as announced in October last year. Gears Pop has primarily gone offline as developer Mediatonic found it difficult to maintain the servers and develop new […]
10 Outriders Servers Down Memes That Will Make You Cry-Laugh
Outriders is a new sci-fi RPG game released across a variety of platforms in April 2021. It was developed by People Can Fly and published by Square Enix. The demo of the game had gained a lot of attention from gamers and the quality of the game had been evident from the limited gameplay available. […]
Nielsen to Shut Down its SuperData Gaming Division
Nielsen is planning to shut down its SuperData gaming division, an apparent admission that original hopes for the department didn’t work out as intended. The global measurement and data analytics company completed its acquisition of the research firm formerly known as SuperData Research in late 2018 and said it would enhance offerings from its pre-existing […]
New Xbox Update Speeds Up Downloads While Games Are Suspended
Xbox owners wishing for a way to speed up their game downloads while playing other titles now have their prayers answered via a new update to the Xbox dashboard. Microsoft announced a new “suspend my game” feature that will help speed up downloads for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. For now, the feature is […]