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Microsoft Reward Points: Microsoft reward points are redeemable points that are earned through various activities such as gaming. shopping as well as searching. Fun activities such as taking participation in polls and quizzes can also contribute in Microsoft reward points.           Now, Microsoft has bring Xbox game passes under its gambit. Now onwards, gamers can use Xbox game pass quests to gain Microsoft reward points. This offer will be only available in US and later on it may be opened for gamers located around the globe. Xbox Game Pass Quests:          The Xbox game pass quests have been divided into daily quests, weekly quests and monthly quests. All the quests are eligible for gamers holding Ultimate game pass subscription.          The Daily quests requires the gamer to either log in to mobile game pass app or play any game pass game to earn 5 points. These quests do not have any limited time ...

Half Double: The latest threat to DRAMs Recently, Google announced that it has discovered that a new technique of hacking could severely impact the performance of system resulting in hacking of whole system. According to Google, the technique is based on previously known hacking vulnerability which is called "Rowhammer".           Rowhammer first came to known in year 2014 and it had great impact upon then mainstream DRAM known as DDR3. This technique results in access to editing ability of multiple memory addresses  by just making request for a single memory address. Google has continuously followed this issue and published in 2015 a working exploit.                The Rowhammer vulnerability is due to electrical coupling phenomenon that occurs in silicon chips. This allow the technique to bypass the software and hardware focused protections. Different manufacturers of DRAM put logic gates to avoid the issu...

A Story about revolution that changes Yara and Castillo. Far cry games have  always been about making player fight antagonist who are more powerful than the player at the start of game. As with all games in the Far Cry series, Far Cry 6 is not connected to the games that came earlier in the series. However, we get Easter eggs such as connection between Hope County of Far Cry 5 and Yara of Far Cry 6. Far Cry 6 is based around the Caribbean Islands whereas previous game in this series was based around Hope County which represent the modern day Montana. Previously only Far Cry 3 and Far Cry were based on Islands. All the island based games provide player to discover all parts of the islands. Previous games of Far Cry had player being an outsider who gets involved in the situation and undertake decision to fight the antagonist. This base story of player has changed in Far Cry 6 as the player plays role of a local person who did not care much about the situation of their island. Far Cry...

           Outriders game was launched on this April with most users complaining of different bugs and issues. Responding to the complains, the developers Square Enix are continuously trying to resolve the issues through different patches that are being released. Till now, the most important patch "Patch 1.07" was released at the middle of April which helped in resolving most of the issues including the inter console playability for users.          Few days back, Square Enix had announced that they were working on a new patch to improve the gamer experience. This new patch is said to be releasing on 25th May 2021 and will resolve login issues of players.            The gamers were facing many issues that needed immediate attention and this patch intended to provide the solution. The developers were working in designing this patch for the last one month. And on 25th May it was released.    ...

      With the arrival of 2021, we all were excited about the new game launch of Resident Evil series.  Resident Evil 8: Village  released on 7 May, 2021 is the 8th installation of the franchise that revolves around Ethan and a little village in Europe where his daughter is abducted. With the final numbers appearing in public it is confirmed that Resident Evil 8: Village   is the highest selling game of all recent games from Resident Evil  series.      Resident Evil series which started in 1996 has generated record breaking sales from  Resident Evil 8: Village . When compared among the games from Resident Evil series, Village sold more than 3 million copies in 4 days thus beating the record of Resident Evil 7  which was 2.5 million copies of game. When compared to other games in Resident Universe, Resident Evil 2 Remake also sold more than 3 million games and Resident Evil 3 Remake  sold around 2 million gam...

Today, Krafton announced that players can pre-register themselves for their new game, Battlegrounds Mobile India.  The game was launched after the ban on PUBG game by Indian Government.  PUBG was banned in India after Chinese skirmish last year which led to banning of more than 119 Chinese apps including Alipay and Tiktok.  However, as India being a top 3 market for esports and mobile games, Krafton wanted to be part of this market. Krafton met many officials to discuss how to remove ban from its mobile game. Afterwards, Krafton decided to ban access to PUBG mobile from Indian servers and few months later announced that they were coming up with new version of PUBG especially developed for India. Krafton announced that the new version of PUBG game for India will be known as "Battlegrounds Mobile India". It will have additional features that would cater to the demands that were presented by Indian government before Krafton to allow them to operate in Indian gaming space. Fo...

The latest addition to the Resident Evil Series is the 8th installment of the game, Resident Evil 8: Village . It revolves around a village that is controlled by the antagonist named Miranda. This game was dev3eloped by Capcom and released on May, 7 2021. During the marketing phase of this game, whole marketing gimmick was around Lady Dimitrescu. However, she is only one of the four lords in this game who are supervised by Mother Miranda. In order to save his child, Rose, Ethan needed to collect the four pieces of body of rose from different lords. Let us find which boss had which kind of powers and how Ethan countered them. Boss 1 : Lady Alcina Dimitrescu Dimitrescu is the first boss who is encountered by Ethan. She lives in castle Dimitrescu along with her three daughters. She is very tall standing at 9 feet and 6 inches. Her three daughters are Cassandra, Daniela and Bella. All her daughters try to win attention of their mother through their work. It is understood that Lady Dimitres...

                           H ave you ever thought why Carnage hates Venom, even though they belong to same species. According to the series of Spiderman comics, Venom as well as Carnage belongs to the alien species known as Symbiotic .   Whenever Carnage faces Venom it treats Venom like its archenemy. As Carnage is also a Symbiotic, which are parasite of extraterrestrial origin, it also needed a host to survive and bring proper destruction. Similar to Venom, Carnage is also influenced by sound waves and heat waves. As a result, Spiderman used it to separate Carnage from its host. Carnage is more violent than Venom due to its choice of host such as Cletus Kasady and Norman Osborn. Moreover, Carnage has past enmity against Venom as Carnage was created from Venom. When Venom went to rescue Eddie Brock from  Rykers Island Prison, it left a part of it in prison due to its alien mentality. This part...

                         E ver wondered how could Ethan Winters survive all sorts of accidents and attacks that keep occurring during the Resident Evil games? Ethan Winters faces various villains during the events of Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil 8, however each time he manages to escape unhurt or with very less injury.  During the events of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard , Ethan is chased by Baker family throughout the game. Ethan faces most of the time with Jack Baker.  Ethan Winters is attacked by mutated Mia as well as by other members of Baker family. Mutated Mia stabbed multiple times Ethan and still he is able to be alive. Eventually, Mia cuts off his left hand using a chain-saw, which is later stapled by Zoe Baker, who is the daughter of Jack Baker.  Similarly, in Resident Evil 8: Village, when Ethan is escaping from Lady Dimitrescu in the Dungeons, Ethan tries to operate a lever but sudden...

A new dimension will be added to the gaming console industry with upgradation of XBox consoles to Dolby systems. Until now, no consoles including Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo offer Dolby standard quality features. However, from May 14 onwards it will change as Xbox will roll out its Dolby supported systems for the gamers. Microsoft recently announced that they would provide upgrade to its X series and S series platforms to integrate Dolby Vision and Atmos so that gamers could enrich their experience. Currently, XBox provides gamers to use HDR in standard HDR 10 which is not as versatile as Dolby system. However, Playstation also has similar standard HDR system. With upgradation of XBox to Dolby Vision system, Xbox gamers will have more enriched experience. The gamers will be able to experience brighter highlights, sharper contrasts as well as much more vibrant colors when gamers use Vision compatible TV sets. This features will be give more clarity in both light as well as dark sc...

  Today Sony announced the launch of new dual sense controllers for its PlayStation 5 consoles. These controllers are special in their appearance. However, what they difference them have from controlling point of view, let us try to analyze it further. Special Color The new controllers will be available in two colors which are Cosmic Red and Midnight Black. Earlier, all the controllers that were sold by Sony had color code similar to the consoles. Therefore, any gamer opting for a white or black PlayStation 5 would receive controllers which are black and white in color. Thus, any controller could supplement any of the console without depending on the color of the console. Cosmic Red color would contain a dual tone of red and black treatment whereas in case of Midnight Black its  a combination of black and dark blue color. Midnight black color is a more familiar color as previous consoles of Sony such as PS2, PS3 and PS4 had similar design. The Midnight Black color is inspired ...

[ image credit: Square Enix ] QUICK TIPS: &#xe3e7 Release Date: April 1 2021 Platform: Xbox, Playstation, PC and Nintendo OVERVIEW The demo was released in the month of Februray 2021 and it attracted many gamers. However, there were issues of bug, lack of cross platform connectivity as well as inferior graphics. These issues made the game lacklustre. The game was released in April 2021 by developer People can fly and published by Square Enix . It was announced that the game would be multiplayer and will have facility of cross platform operations. However, players were facing issues ranging from unable to login to unable to play multiplayer mode game. Moreover, as the game is online there is no option of pausing the game to make changes to inventory during fights. ISSUES AFTER RELEASE Many of the issues were resolved with incoming of Ap...

       R ecently Square Enix announced the arrival of Final Fantasy VII remake intergrade for the PlayStation 5 gaming platform.  The adaptation of Final Fantasy VII, revolves around Cloud Strife , who is an ex-soldier of Shinra Corporation and has turned into a mercenary. He gets involved with an eco-terrorist outfit by the name of Avalanche and fights against Shinra Corporation. Final Fantasy VII was widely received by gamers when it was released on April 10, 2020. It is one of the best role based games. However, with arrival of PlayStation 5 it was necessary to bring an updated version of game that can be enjoyed with full features of PlayStation 5. For this purpose, Square Enix has decided to introduce new version of Final Fantasy VII remake which will be known as Final Fantasy VII remake intergrade . Square Enix has decided to launch this game on June 21, 2021 . Below is a trailer to this game.

The new game from Square Enix named "Outriders" which was well received by gamers was released on April 1, 2021. However, there were few bugs in the game which were concerning the gamers. Many gamers were complaining about the bugs in reddit page concerning the game.      Now, the developers Square Enix has identified the issues and working hard to fix it. Square Enix has posted on friday the following post on twitter related to providing a new patch which will improve gaming experience and resolve the bug issue. Hope the patch help gamers to improve their gaming experience as well as provide confidence on future Square Enix games. Below are the original twitter posts: FRIDAY NEWS: We believe we have identified one of the core underlying reasons for lack of the damage mitigation in certain circumstances. We are compiling and testing a new build with this fix included, but doing so will take a bit more time. 1/2 — Outriders (@Outriders) May 7, 2021 The final roll-ou...