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Draftkings Reveals 2022 College Hoops NFT Collection for March Madness
15.3.2022
On March 15, the American fantasy sports contest and betting company Draftkings announced the company’s first in-house digital collectibles campaign called the “Primetime NFT Series.” The first Draftkings’ NFT series drop will be the “2022 College Hoops...
I Accidentally Watched The New Batman Movie In The Worst Way Possible
14.3.2022
As an unapologetic batcat shipper and a sucker for movie trailers effectively utilizing Nirvana songs, seeing The Batman wasn’t a matter of “if” but “when.” However, I got more than I bargained for when I mistakenly bought tickets to see Matt Reeves’ new Bruceman film in an obscure format called...
New Streamer Awards Show Designs Trophy After Pepe The Frog For Some Reason
14.3.2022
The Streamer Awards, an awards ceremony dedicated to livestreaming (and not to be confused with The Streamy Awards), hosted its first-ever show on March 12. Founded and organized by cooking streamer QTCinderella, the celebration pulled in 380,000 concurrent viewers, as big-name broadcasters like...
‘People Will Get Burned’: Matt Odell on the Long Road to Bitcoin Privacy
9.3.2022
Privacy advocate and hardcore bitcoiner Matt Odell discusses CoinJoins, privacy coins and “canaries.”
The Batman Review: This Could Be the Dark Knight You’ve Been Waiting For
4.3.2022
Batman movies are kind of like seasons of Doctor Who. Every now and then a new season with a new Doctor will come along and give a perspective on a classic character that will appeal to a new group of fans. In a similar way, The Batman employs a new pool of creative talent to give us a version...
BioWare Shares Small But Encouraging Dragon Age 4, Mass Effect Updates
24.2.2022
Despite the turbulent development roadmap of Dragon Age 4, BioWare announced yesterday that the RPG is in the middle of the production phase. The announcement coincided with the news that a Dragon Age executive producer was leaving the studio. As the blog post tells it, the developers’ morale...
Farmville Creator Zynga to Launch NFT Games, Says Gaming Firm’s Blockchain Lead
11.2.2022
American social game developer Zynga has plans to launch non-fungible token (NFT) games in the near future. Zynga’s vice president of blockchain, ​​Matt Wolf, told the press that the company is looking at the cycle right now and “figuring out where we want to jump...
The Problem With Critical Role’s Latest Campaign
8.2.2022
In early fall, the hugely successful Dungeons & Dragons “actual play” series Critical Role announced plans for their third campaign, set in the fictionalized world of Marquet. While the campaign would draw inspiration from real-life SWANA [Southwest Asian/North African] cultures, the group...
South Park destroys Matt Damon's Crypto.com ad in season premiere
3.2.2022
“We just have to be brave... But not too brave or else Matt Damon will come and take all our money," said characters on the animated series, hinting at the crypto market downturn
The Surprisingly Messy Culture Wars Within The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
28.1.2022
In the 1970s Will Shortz submitted a crossword to the New York Times with a word so scandalous that the editor rejected it. The word: bellybutton. Fast forward over four decades and Shortz himself is the Times crossword editor who is now the gatekeeper, selecting puzzles from the nearly...
Disgraced MP tells Parliament UK can be the 'home' of crypto
28.1.2022
“These innovations have the potential to disrupt finance, just as social media has disrupted communication, or online shopping has changed retail,” said Matt Hancock
Crypto.com Signs Multi-Year Deal With LA’s Angel City Football Club
21.12.2021
The cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has announced the company has partnered with the Angel City Football Club (ACFC) as the ACFC’s official cryptocurrency and NFT partner. The deal follows a slew of sports-related partnerships Crypto.com has made this year, including acquiring the naming...
Original Splinter Cell Being Remade By Far Cry 6 Devs
15.12.2021
After refusing to do anything meaningful with the Splinter Cell license in the years since 2013’s Blacklist: Aftermath, Ubisoft seems to haTve heard the fans’ plaintive cries because it’s decided to bring sneaky spy Sam Fisher back in a new remake of the original 2002 Xbox classic.Read more
Axe-Wielding Man Locked People Inside Arcade, Smashed Games In Two-Day Rampage
14.12.2021
On the evening of Sunday, December 14 a patron of the Sea Cave Arcade and Bar in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans allegedly began covering a vintage arcade cabinet with stickers from a supermarket price gun. When arcade owner Judah Lea asked him to leave, the customer responded by asking...
Matt Zhang on a mission to reinvent crypto for institutional investors
12.12.2021
Matt Zhang, founder of Hivemind Capital Partners and former Citi executive, explains the biggest challenges for institutions looking to invest in cryptocurrencies
Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
9.12.2021
Masayuki Uemura was the lead architect for the Famicom (aka the Nintendo Entertainment System) and the Super Famicon (aka the SNES). The mark he left on the gaming industry and popular culture is indelible. According to Oricon News, Uemura passed away on December 6. He was 78. Read more
The Game Developers Who Enable Speedrunners To Break Their Games
8.12.2021
It was a few days after Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart had launched on PS5, and Insomniac Games had a problem. Using a glitch known as the swingboost to gain phenomenal amounts of forward momentum, a small group of players had found a method of tearing this carefully-crafted experience apart...
Bitwise CIO Says $100K Bitcoin a Difficult Prediction to Make, Calls Ethereum the ‘Asset of the Year’
7.12.2021
While there’s been an awful lot of calls for bitcoin to reach six-digits in value in 2021, as the end of the year draws closer, it doesn’t seem like $100K per bitcoin will happen. Bitwise Asset Management’s chief investment officer Matt Hougan told the press on Monday that...
Dragon Age's Senior Creative Director Has Left BioWare
24.11.2021
Matt Goldman, the senior creative director of the Dragon Age series—including the long-in-development Dragon Age 4—has left the company after “mutually [agreeing] to part ways”.Read more
Commonwealth Bank of Australia recognizes risks in missing out on crypto
23.11.2021
“We see risks in participating, but we see bigger risks in not participating,” said CBA CEO Matt Comyn on the bank’s recent crypto adoption play