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Meet The Man Who Got Kadabra Banned From Pokémon For 20 Years
30.1.2023
As we learned last week, spoon-wielding psychic pocket monster Kadabra is returning to the Pokémon TCG after a twenty year absence. I wanted to learn the complete story of why it ever went missing in the first place. What I wasn’t expecting in doing so was to accidentally make friends with a...
How to Create a Diff of Two Images
30.1.2023
When I was a child, I loved looking for Waldo in the “Where’s Waldo?” book series. These days I’m a sucker for TMZ’s “What’s the Big Frigin Difference” images, where TMZ slightly changes an image and you have to spot the differences between the two....
Smash Bros. Pro Got Hurt Jumping Out Of Illegal Taxi On Way To Tourney
27.1.2023
A big fighting game tournament, Genesis 9, took place from January 20-23 in San Jose, California. Top talent from around the world, including Super Smash Bros. competitors Leonardo “MkLeo” Lopez and Samuel “Dabuz” Buzby, gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center to play games like Guilty...
Congress' FTX Problem: 1 in 3 Members Got Cash From Crypto Exchange's Bosses
17.1.2023
More than one in three of the 535 senators and representatives in the U.S. Congress showed up to the new session with FTX baggage, having received campaign support from former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried or one of the senior executives of the fraud-ridden crypto giant
The Next Assassin's Creed Is Smaller Because Past Games Got Way Too Big
12.1.2023
The last few Assassin’s Creed titles have been gigantic games that can easily take over a hundred hours to fully complete, with huge maps crowded with POIs and tons of side quests to distract you from the main story. According to Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the upcoming spin-off, is smaller...
Game of Thrones NFTs Sell Out Quickly, But Draw Criticism for ‘Poorly Drawn’ Characters
11.1.2023
The cryptocurrency community is discussing the new “Game of Thrones” non-fungible token (NFT) assets that were launched on the NFT marketplace niftys.com. The “Build Your Realm” collection sold out on Jan. 10, the day it was released. However, there have been complaints...
The Writer Of Minecraft's Ending Poem Got High And Made It Free
9.1.2023
The controversial ending to Mojang Studios’ Minecraft has sparked plenty of conversation over the years. A poem scrolls on-screen following after players defeat the Ender Dragon for a whopping nine minutes. Quotes from the “End Poem,” as the swan song is titled, have been inked on fans skins...
BONK Meme Coin Sees Wild Price Fluctuations and Massive Holder Concentration
6.1.2023
After the all-time cryptocurrency price highs in 2021, suffering through the Luna implosion of 2022 and watching countless crypto businesses go belly up, we’ve got a new entrant to the meme coin scene that launched on the Solana network. The crypto asset bonk inu (BONK) has a circulating...
UPbit just got upgraded: 7 new Fan Tokens listed!
6.1.2023
UPbit, the popular Korean cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced the listing of seven fan tokens. This is the first time the platform has added fan tokens since 2020. Covering 80% of the Korean crypto market share, UPbit has listed these tokens on the platform – $AFC, $ACM, $BAR, $ATM...
Celebs who got burned endorsing crypto and those that got away with it
4.1.2023
Screen actors and sports stars copped most of the backlash for 2022’s crypto endorsements, while soccer legends appear to have gotten away with it
Bitcoin Miners Got Crushed by Crypto Winter. 2023 May Bring More Pain
30.12.2022
Bitcoin miners had a rough 2022, showing “how to not build a mining business,” However, industry experts don’t see 2023 as any better, unless markets improve significantly
Video Game Gear: 10 Things We Got In 2022 That We Now Can't Live Without
30.12.2022
With another year of gaming now receding into the past, it seems a good occasion to look back and geek out over some of the gadgets, gizmos, and hardware in general that thrilled our nerdy little hearts in 2022. Read more
Absurd NFT Project Just Got Taken To Court By Pokémon
22.12.2022
The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) works pretty hard to keep its monsters in their proper pens, fervently stamping out any attempts to use pocket beasties without a licensing agreement in place. Just a few months ago, we saw the company going after six Chinese firms that had crossed the line...
Holiday Snowtacular 2022
14.12.2022
We’ve got ourselves a real holiday treat! Join host Alex Trost from the Frontend Horse community for the Holiday Snowtacular 2022 this Friday, December 16.
There’s a lineup of 12 awesome speakers — including Chris Coyier, Cassidy Williams, Kevin …
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A Few Times Container Size Queries Would Have Helped Me Out
13.12.2022
CSS Container Queries are still gaining traction and many of us are getting our hands wet with them, even if it’s for little experiments or whatnot. They’ve got great, but not quite full, browser support — enough to justify using …
A Few Times Container Size Queries Would Have Helped Me...
This DeFi Protocol Just Got Hacked for $6.9 Million – Here’s What Happened
12.12.2022
Lodestar Finance, a DeFi protocol built on Ethereum’s Arbitrum network, lost $6.9m in an exploit over the weekend where an attacker was able to manipulate a price oracle.
In a statement published on Sunday, the team behind Lodestar admitted that the hack has created “a bad situation” and that...
The Best Narrative Game Of The Last Two Years Just Got Even Better
8.12.2022
I am so beyond delighted to report that Scarlet Hollow, one of my favorite games of the last couple of years, continues to somehow get better and better. Episode 4 is out now and is by far the largest, most elaborate, most choice-filled part so far. And this time out the story gets meaty.Read more
CoinDesk Got Colorful With the Most Influential 2022 NFT Collection
5.12.2022
For the fourth year, CoinDesk has partnered with 14 artists to immortalize on-chain some of the Most Influential 2022, whose NFT portraits will be made available in an exclusive auction being held on Coinbase NFT
The Organizer of the Freedom Convoy Who Got Its Crypto Assets Frozen
5.12.2022
Canada’s trucker protest organizers unwittingly taught us that a private citizen in that country can successfully petition a judge to freeze someone else’s crypto. That's why Tamara Lich is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022
MATIC attack: How smart crypto traders “got out” before a 35% price drop
1.12.2022
Polygon (MATIC) and Green Satoshi Token (GST) provide the perfect examples of how quant analysis can help cryptocurrency investors shield themselves from volatile markets