Tokyo PS5 stock sale turns into riot as police called

A Tokyo shop’s attempt to sell PS5 consoles has ended in chaos, with a witness saying, ‘I’ve never seen that kind of insanity in Japan before’. There’s been a lot of talk lately, of how demand for the PlayStation 5 in Japan has been disappointingly low, and how Sony is thought to be disengaging from […]

The VR Game Launch Roundup: Immersive, Creative and a Little Scary

Some weeks there’s a real dearth of virtual reality (VR) titles and then others they arrive in abundance. Next week is definitely the latter with a whole host of premium and indie videogames due to arrive for various platforms. As VRFocus likes to do every Friday, there’s our roundup of what’s to come. Into The […]

Pokémon Go players can buy into the final Throwback Challenge

The final Pokémon Go Throwback Challenge event will start on June 3 and players who missed out on previous opportunities to unlock it will be able to purchase a $7.99 pass to participate. To unlock the set of Champion Special Research, players had to complete the previous weeks’ Timed Research Tasks for the Kanto region, […]

Facebook acquires Giphy to integrate with Instagram

(Reuters) — Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $400 million by news website Axios. […]

Call Of Duty: Warzone Will Introduce Fortnite-Style Events

Call of Duty: Warzone is planning to take a page out of Fortnite’s book. Narrative director Taylor Kurosaki told VentureBeat that Infinity Ward is planning to introduce Fortnite-style events in the battle royale game to help keep the experience feeling fresh and worth coming back to again and again. “That’s exactly the kind of thing […]