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The Sims 4’s Wedding Expansion Is Not The DLC That Fans Boycotted For
25.2.2022
Well, this is a little bit embarrassing. After all the uproar The Sims 4 community raised over Electronic Arts not releasing the My Wedding Stories game pack in Russia, it turns out the expansion is too broken for players to enjoy. Some streamers are even advising fans to avoid buying the game pack...
Meta’s Horizon Worlds Userbase Grows Tenfold in Three Months
21.2.2022
Horizon Worlds, one of the flagship metaverse apps that Meta has released, has reached a monthly userbase of 300K users on its platform. Meta’s executives announced this milestone in a virtual all-hands update last week. The company also announced recently that more than 10,000 worlds...
Flutterwave Raises $250 Million in Series D Funding Round, Startup Now Valued at Over $3 Billion
19.2.2022
Fintech startup Flutterwave announced recently that it has raised $250 million from its Series D funding round. The funding round, which attracted international investors, saw the startup’s value rise to over $3 billion. Capital Raised to Fund Flutterwave’s Expansion Plans...
Mastercard Adds Crypto Consulting Service in Latest Effort to Boost Cryptocurrency Adoption
17.2.2022
Payments giant Mastercard is expanding its payments-focused consulting service to include cryptocurrency. It covers “a range of digital currency capabilities, from early-stage education, risk assessments, and bank-wide crypto and NFT strategy development to crypto cards and the design...
Sims 4’s Queer-Friendly Wedding Expansion To Be Released In Russia After Community 'Outpouring'
17.2.2022
The Sims 4 community has been in an uproar ever since EA announced that the game’s imminent, queer-friendly wedding expansion would not be released in Russia due to the nation’s homophobic federal laws. Today, the publisher reversed its decision. My Wedding Stories will be released in Russia,...
Mario Kart 8 DLC Courses Can Be Played Without Actually Buying It
15.2.2022
If you’re not planning to buy the Booster Course Pass for Mario Kart 8, don’t worry. You’re not completely out of luck. The new premium tracks will be randomly available for players playing Global or Regional races online. If one of your friends owns a copy of the DLC, you don’t have to purchase...
Bitso Expands to Colombia Amidst Growing Cryptocurrency Adoption in the Country
15.2.2022
Bitso, a Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange, is expanding and strengthening its push into the Colombian market in the midst of growing interest in these new technologies in the country. Bitso has appointed Emilio Pardo as a new country manager, to debut the start of operations in Colombia...
Popular Trading App Robinhood’s Global Expansion Will Be ‘Crypto First’
14.2.2022
Popular trading app Robinhood has revealed that its international expansion will be “crypto first.” The company said from the regulatory standpoint, crypto is “probably the easiest way to go global.” The trading platform is also looking for compliant ways to list more...
Custom NFT Marketplace Creaticles Bolsters Advisory Board Ahead of Multi-Chain Expansion
10.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Boston, 10 February 2022 – Creaticles, the world’s first NFT Requests Marketplace, has today announced new signature additions to its Advisory Board, Jeff Jiho Zirlin, Co-Founder of Axie Infinity; Sébastien Borget, COO and Co-founder of Sandbox; Joe Zhou –...
Sims 4 Wedding Expansion Won't Release In Russia Over Homophobic 'Federal Laws'
10.2.2022
The Russian government is notoriously homophobic, to the point where a law was passed in 2013 that everyone outside of Russia simply refers to as the ‘Russian gay propaganda law’. Which goes a long way to explaining why EA won’t be releasing the latest Sims expansion in the region.Read more
Shaktiio: the Anti-Liquidation Protocol for Crypto-Backed Loans
6.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Based on the Anti-liquidation protocol, Shaktiio develops a liquidation protection programme for CeFi lending platforms. The anti-liquidation protocol aids the stability of the bitcoin market by preventing it from being overextended. The expansion of the loan market and the extensive...
Akropolis Partners With Clover Finance to Speed DeFi Expansion
4.2.2022
Akropolis is pleased to report that the Clover Wallet has been successfully integrated into their dApp. Akropolis consumers can now securely hold, barter, and exchange cryptos and NFTs on cell phone, plug – ins, and the web. Clover’s extension wallet claims to support most Ethereum...
Tanzanian Fintech Raises $10 Million, Plans to Enter 12 More African Countries
2.2.2022
A Tanzanian fintech startup revealed it has raised $10 million in its latest funding round and is planning to use the funds to finance an expansion into other African countries. Fintech Plans to Enter 12 More Countries by Year’s End The Tanzanian fintech behind an app that enables payments...
Circle Launches USDC on Flow Blockchain
1.2.2022
Circle, the operator of USDC, one of the biggest stablecoins by market cap, has launched USDC as a native asset on top of the Flow blockchain. Flow is a blockchain project made to host NFT and game-based initiatives, aiming for low fees and a high volume of transactions. With this launch, USDC aims...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Inventory Expansion Is A Rip-Off
31.1.2022
I’ve found my mortal enemy in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and no, it’s not the surly-faced captain who threatened to leave me to die in the wilds. It’s the guy standing right outside of her office. You know who I’m talking about. It’s Bagin, the guy who offers to expand your inventory–for a price.Read...
Robinhood to Launch Crypto Trading Internationally — Sees ‘Immense Potential’ in Crypto Economy
30.1.2022
Robinhood has “set aggressive goals to start opening its crypto platform up to customers internationally in 2022,” the popular trading platform revealed during its Q4 earnings call. “The company believes in the immense potential of the crypto economy and sees a big opportunity...
Kreatorhood and Nuvei Collaborate for NFT Expansion
25.1.2022
Kreatorhood, an NFT marketplace, has entered into a partnership with Nuvei Corporation. This partnership will manifest in the form of Nuvei facilitating the payments for the digital assets that are purchased on the Kreatorhood global NFT marketplace. Kreatorhood is world-renowned when it comes...
Report: A16z to Raise $4.5 Billion for Crypto Investments
21.1.2022
A16z, a leading VC company in crypto, is reportedly ramping up its investments in the field this year. The company is said to be looking for $4.5 billion to invest in different cryptocurrency-related funds. This amount more than doubles the entire amount the company invested in crypto last year....
Tom Brady’s Autograph NFT Agency Gets $170 Million in Series B Funding Round
21.1.2022
Autograph, the NFT agency co-founded by famous NFL player Tom Brady, has raised $170 million in its series B funding round. The company revealed that the funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, with the participation of other notable companies in the field. The funds...
BlockFills raises $37 million to support global expansion
20.1.2022
Since its inception in 2018, the firm has received a total of $44 million from institutional investors in two funding rounds