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New Zealand Fund Invests 5% in Bitcoin— CIO Says You ‘Can’t Really Discount Bitcoin’
29.3.2021
A New Zealand hedge fund, NZ Funds Management, which had $350 million worth of assets under management at the end of December 2020, says five percent of its money is invested in bitcoin. According to the firm’s CIO James Grigor, ​bitcoin is also set to be featured in more of...
Former Nintendo Of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé Leaving GameStop Board Of Directors
25.3.2021
Serving on GameStop’s board of directors was just one of long time video game executive Reggie Fils-Aimé’s post-Nintendo of America pastimes, but less than a year into his tenure the company announced it expects him to step down in June.Read more
Bitcoin.com Exchange to List XCUR, the Token Behind Curate’s All-in-One Marketplace
24.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin.com Exchange is thrilled to announce the upcoming listing of XCUR on the 24th of March 2021 at 14:00 UTC. XCUR was created by the Curate team, under founding member James Hakim. For the time being, XCUR will be listed with USDT, with BTC and ETH trading pairs coming next...
The Star Trek Episodes That Define Captain Kirk
21.3.2021
March 22nd—and in just over two centuries in the fictional world of Star Trek—is Captain Kirk’s birthday. The iconic captain of the Enterprise (who shares a birthday with his actor William Shatner) is beloved for many reasons—reasons that are often contradictory to Trek’s idealized world. But what...
Gaming Didn't Get Me Through It
18.3.2021
Before lockdown started, I had another job with a company that made what became the world’s most sought-after product: hand sanitizer. Working there before everything shut down was like watching a car crash in slow motion. Every day, my coworkers would whisper about the spread of the virus...
Thursday's Best Deals: M1 MacBook Air, Newegg PC Games Sale, Tempur-Cloud Mattresses, TaoTronics Massage Gun, Free Paramount+ Trial, and More
18.3.2021
MacBook Air and Newegg PC game sale lead Thursday’s best deals.Read more
Wednesday's Best Deals: Apple iPad Air, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, Vava Dual Dash Cam, Reusable Heat Pads, DreamWorks Animated Movies, and More
17.3.2021
The iPad Air and Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit lead Wednesday’s best deals.Read more
Tuesday's Best Deals: Hisense TVs, Google Stadia Premiere Edition, Naipo Mini Massage Gun, Ulta WandaVision Cosmetics, Paramount+, and More
16.3.2021
Hisense TVs and Google Stadia Premiere Edition lead Tuesday’s best deals.Read more
Everything to Remember Before The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
16.3.2021
Just two weeks after the end of WandaVision, the next story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is ready to be told. (Which is nice considering we waited well over a year between the last two installments.) That story is called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the six-episode Disney+ series will...
The Comics That Sold Out Thanks to WandaVision Are Going Back to Press
14.3.2021
Maybe you missed out on stockpiling the comics that can give some background to WandaVision, or maybe you desperately miss the show and are craving whatever related content you can get. Either way, Marvel’s got your back.Read more
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...
Case examiner says Cred platform hired escaped prisoner as CFO
10.3.2021
Cred’s former Chief Financial Officer, James Alexander, has been identified by U.K. authorities as a prison escapee who was convicted for financial crimes
WandaVision's Finale Was What You Made of It
5.3.2021
There were as many ways that Marvel’s WandaVision series finale could have ended as there are different ways to process grief. Each of the season’s nine episodes teased this out—new plot twists that threw audiences for loops all meant to obscure, but not erase, the reality that despite all...
Space Jam 2 Sounds Weird
4.3.2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy—or as I will be referring to it for the rest of this blog Space Jam 2—is coming out later this year. Thanks to a new story from Entertainment Weekly we now know what the movie is actually about and folks, it’s some wild shit involving VR, Casablanca, Don Cheadle playing...
Blockchain Losers Are Spending Millions On What Are Basically Useless Loot Boxes
4.3.2021
While gamers rail against loot boxes and governments around the world edge ever closer to regulating them, connoisseurs of blockchain bullshit are falling over themselves trying to buy digital highlights of basketball players from a platform called “NBA Top Shot”, in effect spending their money...
Aliens: Fireteam Pits Colonial Marines Against The Xenomorph Horde This Summer
2.3.2021
Coming summer 2021 to Xboxes, PlayStations, and Steam from Cold Iron Studios, Aliens: Fireteam is a co-op survival shooter set 23 years after the original Alien trilogy. Turns out those pesky H.R. Giger critters are still a huge problem, and it’s up to the Colonial Marines to feed them....
The Largest US Options Exchange Cboe Applies to List Vaneck’s Bitcoin ETF
2.3.2021
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) has applied to list the Vaneck Bitcoin Trust, as an exchange-traded fund (ETF) if the fund is approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The filing Form 19b-4, if approved by financial regulators, would allow Cboe to “list...
State Of Decay 2 Remembers Punching Nazis Is Good, Actually
26.2.2021
I think most of us can agree that punching Nazis is a good thing. Heck, a bunch of great video games are founded on that very premise. That’s why it was weird when a State of Decay 2 player discovered that the game gives characters a negative effect for having taken out the trash in their...
Deathloop’s Sultry “Déjà Vu” Will Be My Summer Anthem
26.2.2021
Outside of Square Enix announcing a new story DLC for Final Fantasy VII Remake, yesterday’s PlayStation State of Play event was kinda a dud. But there was a notable exception: Deathloop’s new original song “Déjà Vu.”Read more
Bitfinex and Tether Fined $18.5M in Settlement With NY Attorney General, Both Firms Barred From Trading in the City
24.2.2021
Bitfinex and Tether have been banned from operating in New York and must pay a fine of $18.5 million as part of a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG’s) office over a case dating back to 2019. In a statement on Tuesday, NY Attorney General Letitia James accused the...