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FTX Founder Bankman-Fried Agrees to Settlement, Aids Legal Action Against Celebrities
21.4.2024
In a significant turn of events, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to a settlement with investors, providing crucial cooperation in ongoing lawsuits against high-profile celebrities. The settlement, pending court approval, could mark a pivotal moment in the extensive legal battles...
Rise Of The Ronin Is A Cat Lover’s Paradise
11.3.2024
Just as I arrive in Yokohama, one of Rise of the Ronin’s three major cities, I hear a soft meowing in the distance. Spurred by what must be the cutest of cats, I sprint off in the direction of the mews when I encounter a dilapidated bandit camp. I kill everyone there, not just because the game’s...
Are These The Cutest Pokémon Plushes Ever Made?
19.2.2024
If you, like me, are a child, you’ll regularly refresh the new releases on the official Pokémon store to see what madcap paraphernalia its selling today. With almost daily drops, these additions can be anything from a statue of Ditto eating Pewter Crunchies, to an entire range of wildly overpriced...
Matrix Star Laurence Fishburne Will Suck Blood In Witcher Season 4
12.1.2024
We don’t have a release date for the next season of Netflix’s live-action adaption of The Witcher yet, we do have an official piece of casting news. Legendary actor Laurence Fishburne, best known as The Matrix’s Redpill Resistance operative Morpheus, will join the fantasy drama series as...
Massive Game Microtransaction Company Sounds Super Shady
29.11.2023
The live-service video game economy runs on microtransactions, and Xsolla is one of the companies that helps process them. The payment platform works with Epic Games, Unity, Roblox, and others to collect money from players all over the world. Now a new lawsuit alleges that Xsolla has mishandled...
Vietnam, the Philippines, and Brunei to Join ASEAN QR Payment System to Reduce Dependence on US Dollar
29.8.2023
Vietnam, the Philippines, and Brunei will join a QR payment system to settle cross-border payments using local currencies within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc. The network, already being used between Indonesia and Malaysia, aims to interconnect all ASEAN nations to reduce...
The Last Of Us Episode 5 Recap: The Saga Of Henry And Sam
11.2.2023
Episode five of HBO’s The Last of Us marks the midpoint of our nine-episode journey. That’s right, we’re halfway there, and Ellie and Joel are definitely living on a prayer. Look, I’m sorry for the bad Bon Jovi reference but man, this episode is The Last of Us at its most relentlessly bleak....
What Was That Giant Infected In The Last Of Us Episode 5?
11.2.2023
If you just finished watching episode five of HBO’s The Last of Us, you might be wondering just what that giant infected was that the show made a big deal about but didn’t actually bother to explain. Well friends, what you saw is colloquially called a bloater by characters like Joel and Ellie,...
Who Are Kathleen And Perry In HBO’s The Last Of Us?
6.2.2023
If you played The Last of Us game and are watching HBO’s TV adaptation, you probably saw a couple of characters in this week’s episode and wondered, “Who the hell are these people?” That’s because these characters weren’t in the original game, but there’s a reason you might have thought...
Nolan North Is Voicing Nathan Drake For The Uncharted Movie Version's Novelization
11.2.2022
Nolan North voices Nathan Drake in the Uncharted games. Tom Holland plays the character in the upcoming movie version. So how do you cast for the audiobook of the feature film’s novelization? Nolan North, that’s who. Variety (via Eurogamer) reports that North will be narrating the novelization...
Pokémon Cards Of Katy Perry, Post Malone, And J Balvin Are Too Good To Be Real
18.10.2021
Celebrating last week’s launch of Pokémon 25: The Album, The Pokémon Company has mocked up a trio of trading cards featuring anime versions of artists Katy Perry, J Balvin, and Post Malone with various pocket monster partners. None of them are real, physical cards, but dammit, they should be.Read...
Republican Political Consultant Under Fire For Trolling About Burning Kid's Pokémon Cards
15.10.2021
On Thursday, former Republican National Committee communications strategist Liz Mair expressed disappointment that fetid hellhole Twitter had gotten pretty boring recently. “I’m starting to consider tweeting deliberately crazy and offensive stuff just to try to spice it up again,” she wrote. Lo...
Pokémon Go Fest 2021 Ended In A Total Anticlimax
19.7.2021
This last weekend offered the world Pokémon GO Fest 2021. This year, the mobile game’s biggest annual event attempted a more outgoing vibe yet still managed to end everything on the dampest squib imaginable: a quest line entirely focused on Hoopa, that absolutely in no way included Hoopa.Read more
The Sims 4 Is Hosting An In-Game Music Festival Now
24.6.2021
The Sims series has partnered with nearly 500 musical artists since 2004 to record their popular songs in the game’s adorable gibberish language, Simlish. Now The Sims 4 is taking pop Simlish music to the next level with Sims Sessions, an in-game music festival running from June 29 through July...
Indonesia's central bank marshals staff to enforce crypto payments ban
17.6.2021
Indonesia’s central bank is sending supervisors out to ensure local financial institutions aren’t defying the nationwide ban of crypto payments this bull season
Katy Perry And Pikachu Traveling Through Time Singing Songs, As They Do
14.5.2021
Remember way back in January, when I wrote “Katy Perry Teams With Pokémon For Some Sort Of 25th Anniversary Music Thing?” We now have that thing. Check out the video for Perry’s new single “Electric,” in which the singer and her Pikachu travel back in time to interfere with their unevolved forms....
What's New on Amazon Prime Video in March 2021
25.2.2021
The television adaptation of horror comic The Walking Dead is expected to come to a close in 2022 at the end of its 11th season—an impressive stretch that has nothing on the comic’s 17-year, 193-issue run. But throughout much of that time, franchise creator Robert Kirkman was plugging away...
Katy Perry Teams With Pokémon For Some Sort Of 25th Anniversary Music Thing
13.1.2021
Announced this morning by The Pokémon Company, popstar, American Idol judge, and new mom Katy Perry is headlining P25, a yearlong collaboration with Universal Music Group artists to produce ... music of some sort? It’s vague. Read more
John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
4.7.2020
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government,...