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Final Fantasy’s Most Divisive Minigame Deserves More Love
8.1.2024
In 2021, Croatian Budimir Šobat broke the world record when he held his breath underwater for 24 minutes and 37.36 seconds. So it’s always been kind of silly that athletes in Final Fantasy X hold their breath indefinitely to play the full-contact underwater sport of Blitzball. Yet this is also...
Chinese Chess Champ Stripped Of Title After Taking A Dump In A Bathtub
28.12.2023
When you accomplish something big, like winning a major tournament, how do you celebrate? Maybe you jump around in excitement, salty rivulets streaming down your face in a rush of emotions. Maybe you pop a bottle of champagne and spray it around like an NFL player after the Super Bowl. Or,...
How K-Pop Made League of Legends Immortal
6.12.2023
The longevity of League of Legends is astounding. Across the industry, developers are trying to grab a share of the lucrative live-service games pie. Since 2009, the enduring popularity of this multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game has made it a golden goose: often imitated, but never...
AI Is Already Transforming Voices In The Biggest Games
23.10.2023
Viktor Vektor’s office is one of the most gruesome places in all of Cyberpunk 2077. A back-alley ripperdoc, he makes a living cutting patients open, swapping out their synthetic implants, and bandaging them back together again. It’s ground zero for where the meat meets the metal in the sci-fi RPG’s...
Tom Brady’s Estranged Wife Gisele Bundchen Claims FTX Collapse ‘Blindsided’ Her
25.3.2023
Former U.S. National Football League (NFL) quarterback Tom Brady’s estranged wife Gisele Bundchen has said she was “blindsided” by the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Bundchen claimed that she only invested in FTX because her financial advisors recommended it. Bundchen...
Twitch Star Adin Ross Banned After Streaming Porn, Now Lashing Out
27.2.2023
Adin Ross, one of Twitch’s top broadcasters with over seven million followers, has been banned from the livestreaming platform for the eighth time. This time, it appears to be permanent following a string of incidents he’s engaged in on rival streaming platform Kick, including pulling up porn...
Prosecutors Seek Restrictions on Former FTX CEO’s Electronic Devices Following VPN Use for Football Streaming
17.2.2023
Prosecutors in the financial fraud case against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) are attempting to persuade the judge to restrict his use of electronic devices. It has been revealed that SBF used a virtual private network (VPN) to watch the Super Bowl through a foreign subscription service...
Sam Bankman-Fried's use of a VPN on Super Bowl Sunday 'raised concerns', say prosecutors
14.2.2023
Lawyers representing the former FTX CEO and U.S. prosecutors requested until Feb. 17 to discuss the impact using a VPN could have on Bankman-Fried's bail conditions
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Super Bowl VPN Use Prompts Government Concern
14.2.2023
The former FTX chief has being using privacy tools which prosecutors worry could be used to access the dark web
DigiDaigaku NFTs' Price Rises After $6.5M Super Bowl Ad
13.2.2023
Limit Break’s commercial advertised a free “digital collectible” for scanning a QR code. The floor price on OpenSea the morning after are hovering around 0.31 ETH, or about $460
Rihanna's Halftime Show Looked Like A Smash Bros. Stage
13.2.2023
Look, you probably saw the show and noticed it straight anyway regardless, but just in case you didn’t, here are a bunch of people all making the same joke: that Rihanna’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl tonight looked just like a Smash Bros. stage.Read more
'Mario Rap' Makes Comeback In Super Mario Bros. Movie Super Bowl Commercial
12.2.2023
Another new trailer for the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie has been released today, part of the onslaught of expensive and lengthy Super Bowl commercials, and while that’s usually enough to rot the brains of even the most online among us, I can assure you, this one is fantastic.Read more
I’m Glad There Are No Crypto Super Bowl Ads: Here’s Why
12.2.2023
Sportswashing and crypto company hubris are no longer in play in Super Bowl commercials this year. And that's a good thing
The Best (And Worst) Super Bowl Video Game Ads
10.2.2023
You might be wondering why a video game website like Kotaku is writing about sports, but the connection between games and sports runs much deeper than the annual release of Madden. One of the most prevalent cultural links between video games and football, even to those who don’t care about...
Popular Rihanna Song Offered as NFT With Royalty Sharing Ahead of Super Bowl
10.2.2023
Music producer Deputy, who helped produce Rihanna's hit 2015 single "B**** Better Have My Money," is granting a portion of his streaming royalties to collectors through anotherblock
February's Game Pass Additions Have Something For Everyone
9.2.2023
If you’re not satisfied simply watching the Super Bowl this weekend, Xbox has you covered. Starting today, Madden NFL 23 joins the Game Pass library for Xbox and PC. Other titles, including Cities: Skylines – Remastered, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and Atomic Heart will also come to Game Pass...
NFL Rivals Game Adds Hurts, Mahomes to NFT Lineup Ahead of Super Bowl
8.2.2023
Web3 gaming studio Mythical Games is capitalizing on the rivalry between the Eagles and Chiefs by rolling out 22 new NFT players from the teams for its game
This Japanese Candy Commercial Is Better Than Any Super Bowl Ad
8.2.2023
If the past 44 years of Super Bowl commercials are anything to go by, brevity is the soul of wit, especially when it comes to convincing football watchers to buy products and talk about them at the water cooler. Yet somehow, no bizarre celebrity-addled sportsball ad yet created can hold a candle...
There Will Be No Crypto Advertisements During the Super Bowl This Year – Here's Why
8.2.2023
America's biggest sports event of the year, Super Bowl, will not feature any crypto ads - and FTX is (partly) to blame.
Fox declared this Monday that in-game ads for Super Bowl have been sold. Per Associated Press, Mark Evans, executive vice president of ad sales for Fox Sports, said that some...
Crypto Super Bowl Advertising Will Be Absent This Year
7.2.2023
News television channel Fox said Monday that it barred cryptocurrency commercials in this year’s Super Bowl on February 12th following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, the New York Post reported earlier