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Warren Spector Thinks Deus Ex Is Too Real For 2021
15.3.2021
The Game Developers Conference kicked off today as a week of virtual talks. In a live chat alongside a rebroadcast of his 2017 GDC talk, Deus Ex designer Warren Spector talked about why he wouldn’t make the game today.Read more
Fund Manager Warns Bitcoin Is Pointless and ‘a Particularly Vile Asset Class’
15.3.2021
Tim Bond, a portfolio manager at Odey Asset Management, has warned that bitcoin is pointless, calling the cryptocurrency “a particularly vile asset class.” He claims that bitcoin has no real social utility other than as a tool for speculation and a means to launder the proceeds...
How Plague Inc Evolved Once A Real Global Pandemic Came Along
13.3.2021
Somehow, horrifyingly, it has been nearly a full year since most of us went into lockdown to wait out covid-19. And while there is a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a slowly, confusingly distributed vaccine, we’re still in the thick of it. On this week’s episode of the Splitscreen...
G.I. Joe And Cobra Face Off In World Of Tanks
12.3.2021
Following up on last year’s bizarre crossover between World of Warships and Transformers, Wargaming and Hasbro have partnered again for the somewhat more sensible pairing of G.I. Joe and World of Tanks. Read more
Spanish Real Estate Agency Begins Accepting Bitcoin Payments for Properties in the Canary Islands
11.3.2021
Crypto adoption keeps spreading among the real estate industry in Europe, specifically in Spain. Recently, a leading agency in the Canary Islands announced it would start accepting cryptocurrency payments. Firm Praises Bitcoin’s Decentralized Nature According to Digital Sevilla, Piso Barato...
A St Louis home is being auctioned off as an NFT on Mintable
11.3.2021
An NFT representing a 50% share in a St Louis home has been put up for auction on Mintable — but is it as good as a title deed?
A Twitch Streamer Unearthed Cards From A Fake '90s Pokémon Ripoff, And Fans Are Pretending The Series Was Real All Along
8.3.2021
There’s elaborate performance art, and then there’s what renowned Twitch jester Jerma did over the weekend. In a truly inspired stream, he parodied the recent Pokémon booster pack craze by going out into the Nevada desert and pretending to excavate a chest seemingly full of unopened Pokémon cards...
Over 5,000 Final Fantasy XIV Players Were Banned For Using Or Advertising Real Money Trading
7.3.2021
Square Enix announced earlier this week that over 5,000 Final Fantasy XIV players were banned after they were caught using or advertising real money in-game.Read more
Jim Rogers Regrets Not Buying Bitcoin but Warns Governments May Outlaw Cryptocurrencies
5.3.2021
Renowned investor Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire investor George Soros, now regrets not buying bitcoin. However, he is still worried that governments can outlaw bitcoin if it becomes a viable currency. Jim Rogers’ Bitcoin Regret Jim Rogers said in an interview...
tZERO and Earn partner up for real-estate backed digital securities liquidity
4.3.2021
Earn is expected to provide extra liquidity to the tZERO platform through exposure to its issuers of property-backed digital securities
Man Charged, Banned From FIFA After Sending Racist DMs To Actual, Legendary Player
4.3.2021
Last May Irish teenager Patrick O’Brien was playing a game of FIFA, and one of the players he was controlling was Arsenal and England legend Ian Wright. O’Brien lost that match, and so decided to jump into Wright’s DMs and send a succession of disgustingly racist attacks.Read more
BSN and TON Labs to Provide Chinese Developer Community With Unique TON Technology
1.3.2021
Thanks to TON Labs, BSN will now be able to produce real-life applications that require a scalable backend and use cases in compliance with China’s regulatory framework while still using an inherently decentralized network to do so. China’s Developers Gain Access to TON Technology...
Twitch Star Quits GTA RP After In-Game Jobs Become Too Much Like Real Jobs
1.3.2021
Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? It’s the chicken or egg question for the modern age, but after a certain point, the answer ceases to matter. That point, it turns out, is when you’re really fucking sick of doing real jobs inside a video game, as Twitch mainstay Chance “Sodapoppin”...
Welcome To Hell, Bambi
27.2.2021
This week on Snapshots we have some great Assasin’s Creed shots, a laid back Spider-Man, a large rodent in danger, some nice-looking vistas, and one very, very lost deer. Read more
Bitcoin price 'macro top'? Not so fast — data shows the real FOMO isn't even here
26.2.2021
If this bull cycle is like 2017 or even 2019, then the majority of investor "FOMO" and associated price gains lie ahead
Spanish Real Estate Agency Offers an Apartment in Barcelona for Sale in Bitcoin- Taxes Must Be Paid in Fiat
26.2.2021
A Spanish real estate platform has listed its first-ever property for sale for cryptocurrency. The offer is entirely online, and whoever wants to buy the apartment in Barcelona must pay in bitcoin. Anyone Interested Can Pay 3.5 BTC for the Property Per an official announcement, Idealista is seeking...
Twitter Passes Stimulus Package for the Very Online
25.2.2021
Twitter is finally rolling out a way to get paid for tweeting that doesn’t involve putting a Venmo link in your bio, promoting a Patreon, or using the app to hunt for a rich spouse.Read more
What’s the Backup Plan for Your WordPress Site?
23.2.2021
Of all the reasons we love and use Jetpack for CSS-Tricks—a poster child WordPress site—is that we can sleep easy at night knowing we have real-time backups running with Jetpack Backup. That way, no matter what, everything …
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PTERIA to Mars Celebrates a New All Time High
23.2.2021
PRESS RELEASE. While Bitcoin and the greatest part of altcoins are going down, Pteria DAO’s token PTERIA could not be outdone and is currently on Mars, exceeding $40. The moon is now too close, so Mars is the real new all time high to reach. However, the token, listed for the first time...
The Half-Life 2 RTS Is Finally "Out" After 13 Years Of Development
23.2.2021
For over a decade now, a group of fans have been working on Lambda Wars, a real-time strategy game set in the Half-Life universe. Originally a Half-Life 2 mod, and later a standalone beta, the thing is now finished, or as finished as a game ever gets these days, anyway.Read more