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Star Wars: The Bad Batch Has A Great Fallen Order Moment
14.6.2021
Disney, the ultimate experts in brand tie-ins, did something very specific last Friday that stood out to anyone who has played Respawn’s terrific Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game. To go along with the announcement that Fallen Order will get an upgrade for the PS5 and Xbox Series X, Star Wars:...
After googling it, CFTC boss says DeFi is a ‘bad idea’ and probably illegal
9.6.2021
CFTC Commissioner Dan M. Berkovitz has called for a crackdown on unregulated DeFi derivatives platforms
Little Green Mining Hood or the Big Bad Wolf: Musk’s Sustainability Play
27.5.2021
Recent announcements and actions by Elon Musk surrounding bitcoin mining sustainability raise questions about the reasoning and motivations of Tesla’s Technoking. Is it possible that Musk is playing a calculated marketing game to introduce a Tesla mining solution? The World of Bitcoin Mining...
Crypto PR: The good, the bad and the shoddy
14.5.2021
Griff Green: Doge-loving hippy hacker steals crypto before bad guys can
12.5.2021
PSA: Mixing G Fuel With Alcohol Is A Bad Idea
26.4.2021
Over the weekend, I made a mistake.Read more
Bad omen? US dollar and Bitcoin are both slumping in a rare trend
20.4.2021
Bitcoin struggles to regain momentum despite the dollar falling to a seven-week low
Arkansas Governor Belatedly Realizes Wanting Trans Kids to Die Is Perhaps a Bad Look
5.4.2021
On Monday, in a rather surprising turn of events, Arkansas’s Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed HB 1570, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state, which sailed through Arkansas’s Republican-dominated legislature. Read more
Counter-Strike Match-Fixing Is So Bad The FBI Is Getting Involved
1.4.2021
We’ve seen plenty of Australians get pinged by police and tournament organisers for match fixing and illegal betting in Counter-Strike, but the problem is apparently so bad that the FBI is now getting involved to clean up North America.Read more
The Worst (And Not-So-Bad) Video Game Movies
17.3.2021
More often than not, video game movies take something we know, love, and obsess over and transform it into an unrecognizable monster at worst—or a forgettable, underwhelming experience at best. Happy endings in the video game movie genre can be hard to come by.Read more
BTC Miner Stresses: ‘Bitcoin is One of the Most Environment-Friendly Financial Networks’
15.3.2021
While bitcoin has been gathering widespread attention with prices touching all-time highs, mainstream pundits have tried to attack the leading crypto asset for its energy consumption. It seems a new ‘bitcoin is bad for the environment’ editorial is published nearly every week...
At Least Your Day Wasn't This Bad
20.2.2021
I’ve been trying not to complain too much about Texas’s absurd weather because my family hasn’t been hit quite as hard as others. But there are just some people that had it even worse. Nothing will ever be as bad as walking out to discover your car has been completely engulfed by Mr. Freeze’s...
Nioh 2's PC Release Has Some Bad News And Good News
9.2.2021
The bad news first: Nioh 2 Complete Edition on PC, out last week, is optimised pretty terribly, and has weird bugs, like the game’s keyboard + mouse control method being almost unusable since the on-screen prompts still only appear for a controller.Read more
DOGE is 'not a bad look' for crypto users, says Mark Cuban as price surges another 8%
8.2.2021
The billionaire described the token as “the lowest cost economics teaching tool available” on the market
Law Decoded: New dawn or bad moon rising for trust-busting in tech, Jan. 29–Feb. 5
5.2.2021
Lawmakers are prepping new tools to pursue tech firms accused of anti-competitive business practices
The Web is for More Than Document Viewing
3.2.2021
I poked at a tweet from Ken Kocienda over the weekend:
“Water not wet” reports man standing in ocean. https://t.co/5oUUdWARTU
— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) January 31, 2021
I don’t know Ken, so I feel a little bad for being harsh. …
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Atari's Bad E.T. Game Wasn't Responsible For The 1983 Video Game Crash, Capitalism Was
30.1.2021
History is the study of literally everything that has ever happened, and by that measure, it is objectively the most interesting of all fields. It’s also just totally, categorically wrong, like, 90 percent of the time. Case in point: You’ve probably heard that E.T. for the Atari 2600 was so...
Too Fast Too Fantasy XV: Episode Gladio? More Like Episode Bad-io
27.1.2021
When I sit down for my daily session of Final Fantasy XV I’m expecting one of two things: A happy-funtime road-trip adventure with my boys, or a sad, emotionally wrought meditation on the bonds of friendship. I am not expecting a horror-suspense thriller filled with stealth mechanics...
Chess Looks Wild In 2021
23.1.2021
This week we figure out how tall the very big lady from Resident Evil Village is, flip out a Bernie chair, learn what games will be free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers this month, buy 900lbs of PlayStation consoles and check in on chess YouTube in 2021. Read more
Immortals Fenyx Rising Lets Its Bad Dad Off The Hook Too Easily
22.1.2021
Video games have a dad problem. My colleagues broached the topic a few months ago on an episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, where they dished on some of the worst dads in video game history. (What’s up, Kratos and Joel?) Now I’d like to nominate another member to the hall of fame of bad dads: Zeus, from...