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GameFi News: Tilting Point partners with Polygon Studios, and LootRush raises $12M
6.5.2022
Catch up on the latest funding and partnership news about GameFi and Web3 gaming. This week Cointelegraph covers LootRush, Axie Infinity and Polygon Studios
Big-Name Streamer Sykkuno Ditched Twitch Partly Because It Misspelled His Name
5.5.2022
Sykkuno, one of Twitch’s top streamers known for his wholesome demeanor and for playing games like Among Us and GTA Online, left the Amazon-owned platform for the red pastures of YouTube Gaming this month. The move shocked the livestreaming space because Sykkuno was something of a household name...
Twitch Streamer xQc Claims He Lost Over $1.8 Million Gambling Last Month
5.5.2022
Popular Twitch streamer xQc recently admitted that he lost $1.8 million to gambling over the last month. After news of his losses spread online, his dad called him during a stream to ask if he was okay and to express how worried he was about the streamer’s gambling problems. Read more
Genshin Impact Makes Its Devs One-Quarter Of A Bethesda Every Year
5.5.2022
Genshin Impact raked in over $3 billion from mobile players in less than two years, according to the latest report from analytics firm Sensor Tower.Read more
WWE Superstar The Miz Should Play Johnny Cage In Mortal Kombat II, And You Know It
5.5.2022
WWE superstar Mike “The Miz” Mizanin is so pumped to play Johnny Cage in the next Mortal Kombat movie, all that’s left is for him to actually get cast. Read more
The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Is The Smartest, Silliest Game Of The Year
5.5.2022
The Stanley Parable was a cultural phenomenon. It was an overnight hit, turning its two primary developers, William Pugh and Davey Wreden, into indie millionaires, almost driving them apart, and feeling like an ending to the so-called Indiepocalypse of the preceding few years. But this was 2013...
Cometh Raises $10M to Boost Blockchain Game Adoption
5.5.2022
Cometh raised $10 million in a funding round to boost blockchain game adoption, led by venture capital fund White Star Capital and decentralized autonomous organization Stake Capital
Paradigm, A16z Back $12M Round for Blockchain Game Platform LootRush
5.5.2022
The Steam-esque platform makes it easier for new users to try play-to-earn games
Missiles And Massacres: Ukrainian Game Developers Persist Amid The Russian Invasion
5.5.2022
When you hear the air alerts in the capital city of Ukraine, game developer Oleksandr Sienin told Kotaku, you make a judgment call. Maybe you wait in a safe place for the suggested 30 to 60 minutes minutes after the alerts go off, because you know that they denote missiles that could potentially...
Halo Infinite Just Can’t Catch A Break
5.5.2022
Busted challenges. A dysfunctional battle pass. A bunch of ultimately ineffectual “fixes.” A cacophonous uproar of player feedback, much of which isn’t positive. It may sound like the launch-window era of Halo Infinite, but no: This is Halo Infinite today, six months after its launch, during...
Solana and Moonbirds help NFT market reach $6.5B monthly trading volume: Report
5.5.2022
Moonbirds contributed half a billion in trading volume, while Solana registered a 91% surge in NFT trading volume month over month
CryptoNewsZ in an interview with Mr. Tor – CEO of Nakamoto Games- A Game-changing Play to Earn Platform
5.5.2022
CryptoNewsZ: Welcome to CryptoNewsZ! We would love to know more about you and Nakamoto Games! First, thank you for having me. It is not so often that I get a chance to speak about a game-changing technological paradigm on a platform. And secondly, my name is Chawalit Rugsasri, but you can call...
I Like Bandai Namco's New Logo
5.5.2022
Last year, Japanese publisher Bandai Namco announced that it was doing away with its logo, the same one it had used since the two formerly separate companies had merged all the way back in 2006.Read more
A Very Long Look At A Cancelled Half-Life Game
5.5.2022
From 2005 to 2008, French studio Arkane—who we now know as the team behind Dishonored and Deathloop—were working on a Half-Life game. We knew this, and have even seen the game before, but today we got a real good look at it.Read more
Nifty News: Louis Vuitton and Johnnie Walker dabble in Web3
4.5.2022
Other notable NFT news this week includes Larva Labs deleting all of its Tweets and Elon Musk briefly changing his Twitter PFP to Bored Ape Yacht Club collage
Halo Infinite’s New Arena Map Actually Feels Like A Halo Map
4.5.2022
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How streamers & game devs can work in... perfect harmony?
4.5.2022
Or at least, ways to not piss them off, according to Devolver's Clara Sia
17 Years Later I’m Still Thinking About The Cursed, Pregnant Padme In Lego Star Wars
4.5.2022
Kind of long ago, in a galaxy not that far away…The original Lego Star Wars game came to be, and it was great, a wonderful and silly retelling of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy using Legos and kid-friendly gameplay. It was a mostly wholesome adventure. Except for the weirdly cursed “pregnant Padme”...
Now New York City Is Suing Activision Blizzard
4.5.2022
Activision Blizzard is facing (what feels like) its 8,583,129th lawsuit, as first reported by Axios. This one’s from New York City, and alleges that longtime CEO Bobby Kotick raced to find a buyer for the mega-publisher he has been leading for 30 years to explicitly avoid consequences for turning...
Did Zelda Voice Actor Just Reveal A Major Breath Of The Wild 2 Plot Point?
4.5.2022
An Italian voice actor for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild may have revealed a major plot point in the long-awaited sequel. Spoilers follow.Read more