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Chiliz (CHZ) rallies 60% to a $1B market cap as fan token offerings expand
9.3.2021
The success of the AC Milan Fan Token launch and plans to expand to the United States support Chiliz's 1,000% rally over the past month
I Found Some Rad Tracks At This Virtual Japanese Music Festival
8.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Instead of highlighting a single soundtrack today, I wanna tell you about my visit to a virtual music festival this weekend, where I found lots of great tracks.Read more
Chiliz $CHZ Growth Continues With Trio of New Listings
1.3.2021
Chiliz $CHZ – the digital currency for sports and entertainment – has announced listings on the Bitcoin.com Exchange, HitBTC and Changelly platforms. Chiliz is the on-platform currency of fan engagement platform Socios.com, which is built on the Chiliz blockchain infrastructure....
Yakuza Fan Is Out Here Fixing The Series' PC Versions Again
1.3.2021
Like I’ve said, it’s a little rough going back and playing older Yakuza games in 2021, and not just because of the stiffer animation and lack of first-person perspective. The PC versions of Yakuzas 3, 4 & 5 also have (or had) a few technical hiccups as well.Read more
Modders Fix Valheim's Terrible Inventory, Odin Be Praised
24.2.2021
Valheim rules. Exploring is fun, building is fun, kiting trolls around islands while crying quietly to yourself as you tap dance on the razor’s edge of death is fun. But nothing is perfect, especially not early access games. So I don’t think we need to kid ourselves here: Valheim’s inventory sucks...
Binance Tests New IEO Format With AC Milan Fan Token
24.2.2021
Today, major crypto exchange Binance tested its new initial exchange offering (IEO) format with the sale of AC Milan Fan Token (ACM) built on the Chiliz blockchain.
The sale, hard-capped at USD 1 million worth of BNB coins, was oversubscribed by 1,484x, the exchange said. 27,414 participants...
Soccer fan tokens on the march as Poland’s biggest club adopts crypto
22.2.2021
Blockchain-based soccer fan tokens are all the rage of late, and now Poland's most successful club is getting in on the action
Take-Two Goes After Reverse-Engineered Grand Theft Auto Code
22.2.2021
Last week we shared the good news that the source code for Grand Theft Autos III & Vice City had been reverse-engineered, allowing folks to port the games and come up with cool new mods. Now, we bring you the predictable news that publisher Take-Two Interactive are not happy.Read more
Vice City & Grand Theft Auto III's Source Code Has Been Reverse-Engineered
16.2.2021
A team of fans have managed to reverse-engineer the source code for both Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Vice City, making the files available for download.Read more
Cactus Props At Super Nintendo World Appear To Be Based On A Fan Game
7.2.2021
It appears someone working on the cacti props at the Super Nintendo World theme park in Universal Studios Japan might have inadvertently built them to look just like some cacti that appear in a New Super Mario Bros Wii fan mod. Whoops!Read more
WallStreetBets Mods Are Now Battling For Control Over The Subreddit
4.2.2021
A couple weeks ago, most people hadn’t ever heard of WallStreetBets, the edgelord Reddit hangout for renegade investors and amatuer traders. Now it’s blown up to over 8.5 million users, and a war has broken out between the old mods and the new for control over the community and its future.Read more
Yoko Taro Thinks Nier Violates Square Enix's Own Guidelines For Fan Creations
4.2.2021
Square Enix has published Japanese-language guidelines for derivative fan creations. These guidelines cover Nier Replicant, Nier Gestalt, Nier: Automata, Nier Re[in]carnation, and Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139... In sort, all the Nier games!Read more
Japanese exchange Coincheck to list fan tokens by Chiliz and Socios
1.2.2021
The Coincheck crypto exchange will list Chiliz and Socios fan tokens on its new NFT marketplace
Fallout Mod Pulled After Artist Allegedly Posts "Animated Pedophillic Content"
28.1.2021
We only wrote about the big new Fallout: New Vegas mod The Frontier last week when it was released! And now we’re writing about it again, because the mod has been “hidden” (basically temporarily removed) from Nexus Mods and pulled from its own website after allegations that one of its artists...
Star Wars: The High Republic Show Host Krystina Arielle Is the Fandom's Embattled Future
28.1.2021
During the January 4 showcase of Disney and Lucasfilm’s upcoming slate of new projects set in the era of the High Republic, Skywalker: Family at War author Kristin Baver took a moment to introduce Krystina Arielle, the new host of Star Wars: The High Republic Show. It’s a bi-monthly YouTube series...
Remembering Rahmbamarama, the Obama Era's Most Zealous Fan Community
26.1.2021
“OH HOLY MOTHER OF HOT, THIS GODDAMN SLOE-EYED VIXEN,” reads the first comment of the Livejournal post titled “GONNA RAHM THIS MOFO DOWN YOUR THROAT!” The November 2008 post was a series of photos of Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois politician who had recently been named President-elect Barack Obama’s...
Grammy winner Portugal. The Man launches fan token on Ethereum blockchain
14.1.2021
In a first for the blockchain world, the Grammy Award-winning band will use cryptocurrency tokens to distribute previously unreleased material
Japan-Exclusive Yakuza PSP Game Gets Fan Translation
12.1.2021
The popularity of the Yakuza franchise has exploded in the United States over the last few years, but we’ve mostly been getting games in the main series. Japan, on the other hand, has enjoyed a fair few exclusive spin-offs since the first game launched in 2005, one of which just got a...
Magnezone Might Be An Alien UFO
9.1.2021
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Magnezone!Read more
Artist Claims Official Super Nintendo World Website Is Using His Fan Art
7.1.2021
A new website for Nintendo’s upcoming Japanese theme park Super Nintendo World went live yesterday. It featured new details and a virtual tour of the video game wonderland ahead of its February 4 opening. It also used an image of Mario for its loading screen that appears to have been created not...