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The Week In Games: It's Nearly December Already?
28.11.2021
As Black Friday shopping season in the US passes and December begins, the end of the year slowdown starts. This week is mostly smaller titles and ports. Read more
Ethereum Devs Assess Reducing Data Transfer Cost 5x, EIP-4488 Becomes Possible Solution
28.11.2021
The second leading crypto asset ethereum has been dealing with high fees since the end of June and today the average ethereum transaction fee is between $5 and $34 per transfer. While there’s been a lot of complaints about ether gas costs this year, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin...
Best Selling Console On Black Friday Wasn't The Switch Or PS5, But The Xbox Series S
28.11.2021
It appears that over the Black Friday shopping period, it wasn’t the Switch or PS5 that was selling like hotcakes, but instead, the less powerful Xbox Series X sibling, the $300 Xbox Series S. This is likely due to a few factors including its price and its availability on retail sites like Amazon....
Paytm Founder: Crypto Is Here to Stay and Will Become Mainstream in 5 Years
27.11.2021
The founder of Paytm, a major digital payment company in India, is “very positive about crypto.” Noting that cryptocurrency is here to stay, he expects it to become a mainstream technology in a few years. Paytm Founder Is ‘Very Positive About Crypto’ Vijay Shekhar...
Stablecoin issuers poised to be banks of the future on road to adoption
26.11.2021
Stablecoins are destined to grow, experts suggest, but are regulations the only way for the market to reach its full potential?
Man Arrested For Re-selling Game Consoles That Were For Delivery
26.11.2021
A 50-year-old man has been arrested by the Tokyo police for allegedly reselling approximately two hundred video game consoles and games that were set for delivery. The suspect has confessed to the charges.Read more
New Shouting Game Will Really Boil Your Piss
25.11.2021
That Really Boils My Piss is a neat little itch.io game that lets you vent your frustrations with the office in the most direct, cathartic way imaginable: by screaming.Read more
Ubisoft Threatens Splinter Cell Fans With Bans If They Ask About Multiplayer Servers
25.11.2021
Splinter Cell: Blacklist was the last proper Splinter Cell game to be released and, I’m sorry to remind everyone, that was eight years ago. Nevertheless it still has some fans, who have banded together enough to really piss Ubisoft’s customer support off.Read more
Video Game Faces Might Finally Start Bridging The Uncanny Valley
25.11.2021
Photorealistic faces in video games have been with us for a while, but they’ve still been a long way from what you’d call realistic, as while we’ve got the polygons and texturing almost perfected, facial animations remain are still stuck in the depths of the uncanny valley.Read more
Hillary Clinton Calls on Biden Administration to Regulate Cryptocurrency — Warns of Manipulation by Russia, China
25.11.2021
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on the Biden administration to regulate the cryptocurrency markets. She warned that countries like Russia or China, as well as nonstate actors, could manipulate all kinds of technology to their advantage and destabilize countries as well...
Spaceseven’s Game-Changing NFT Marketplace
24.11.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Recently, on the 23rd of November, SpaceSeven launched its state-of-the-art NFT marketplace. The SpaceSeven marketplace is the first of its kind — one of the few — if not the only scaled e-commerce, fully regulatory compliant platform. By combining powerful...
SEC open meeting on Dec 2 to include crypto panel discussion
24.11.2021
The SEC is opening discussion on crypto and blockchain technology with regard to American investors
Ethereum Has Burned More Than a Million ETH Over the Last 3 Months
24.11.2021
111 days ago, the Ethereum network implemented the London hard fork upgrade which added a mechanism (EIP-1559) that changed Ethereum’s fee rate to a new scheme that makes the crypto asset ether deflationary. Since then 1 million ether has been burned or the equivalent of around $3.8 billion...
Arcades In Japan Keep Closing, Which Sucks
24.11.2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the Japanese arcade industry hard. With the country closed off to tourism, it might only seem like big city arcades are the ones that are hurting the most. That’s simply not the case. Earlier this year, Kotaku reported that things were horrible for Japanese arcades....
MetaGods, The 8-Bit Action Role-Playing Blockchain Game
24.11.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The gaming business is undergoing a revolution thanks to the advent of blockchain technology. Because of this, it’s giving developers a new way to engage the audience with capabilities that were previously unavailable. The Play-To-Earn (P2E) concept, in which gamers’...
Microsoft Publishes 1999 Letter From Failed Attempt To Buy Nintendo
24.11.2021
Over 20 years ago, as Microsoft were gearing up to release the original Xbox, some at the company were concerned that they wouldn’t have enough games to accompany the console at launch. So someone had the bright idea to go and try to buy Nintendo. Problem solved.Read more
ASIC chair Longo calls the growing demand for crypto ‘impossible to ignore’
23.11.2021
He told an audience that the rise of blockchain currencies has been “nothing short of phenomenal.”
How Solana and Cardano are paving new avenues for NFT growth
23.11.2021
With strong competition from networks like Solana and Cardano, will Ethereum’s dominance over NFTs hold much longer?
Ontology and bloXmove to bring decentralized identity to urban transport apps
23.11.2021
The move seeks to enable the development of complex decentralized applications
Former Nintendo Exec Reggie Fils-Aimé Hosts Xbox Event For Microsoft
23.11.2021
Right from the get go, former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé addresses the elephant in the room: “I’m sure at this point you’re wondering, what is the former president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America doing at a Microsoft Xbox event?”“I don’t know what I’m doing...