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Zebedee Inks Deal With Mobile Game Studio Viker to Add BTC Rewards to Solitaire, Sudoku, Missing Letters
26.7.2022
Seven days after the financial technology and bitcoin payments firm Zebedee announced it secured a $35 million capital raise, the company has revealed a new partnership deal with the mobile game studio Viker. The two companies have enhanced three classic video games with Zebedee’s bitcoin...
Do's And Don'ts For Gaming In A Neverending Heat Wave
22.7.2022
The whole world has a bad fever. Here, in New York, I sit inside with the fan directly on my face as the city sweats out its hottest week in almost a decade. Europe is getting swallowed in wildfires, drought is constricting East Africa, and unrelenting monsoon rains are drowning Bangladesh....
Video Game Giant Square Enix Plans to Drop a Final Fantasy VII NFT Collection in 2023
21.7.2022
According to the non-fungible token (NFT) company Enjin, the firm has inked a deal with the Japanese entertainment conglomerate and leading video game developer Square Enix. The partnership will produce the launch of Final Fantasy VII 25th Anniversary cards and figures on the cross-chain network...
Masked Men Rob Large Crypto Mining Farm Near Moscow
21.7.2022
Armed robbers have plundered a large crypto mining facility not far from the Russian capital, local media reported. The unidentified perpetrators stole dozens of video cards in the latest incident involving theft of coin minting hardware, which has been on the rise in Russia. Unknown Attackers...
Developer Behind the World’s Best-Selling Video Game Has No Intentions of Using Blockchain and NFTs in Minecraft
21.7.2022
On July 20, 2022, Mojang Studios the Swedish video game developer behind the world’s best-selling game of all time said blockchain or non-fungible token (NFT) technologies are “not permitted to be integrated inside [Mojang’s] client and server applications.” Mojang...
Sierra Founders Ken & Roberta Williams Talk About Their Past (And Future) In Video Games
20.7.2022
In 1979 husband-and-wife team Ken & Roberta Williams founded a small company that would later become known as Sierra, and which would play an enormous role in the development of some of the most beloved video games series of all time.Read more
Fintech and Bitcoin Payments Firm Zebedee Raises $35 Million From Kingsway Capital, Square Enix
19.7.2022
On Tuesday, the fintech and payment processor Zebedee announced the company has raised $35 million from Kingsway Capital, Raine Group, and video game giant Square Enix. Zebedee detailed that the Series B funding will help the startup “scale company-wide to meet the needs of the biggest names...
The YouTube Ad Demanding New Nintendo Direct Isn't Quite What It Seems
19.7.2022
People like Nintendo Directs. People want Nintendo Directs. But these streamed promotion for forthcoming Switch games are so rare people get a little...twitchy. Yesterday, after someone tweeted that they’d seen an ad on YouTube demanding a new Direct, it rapidly went viral. It’s not all it seems...
Drake Gets $8000 Gaming PC Just To Gamble In A Browser
14.7.2022
While you’d all be aware that celebrities, despite their wealth, are given expensive shit for free all the time, today we’re going to take a look at one gift in particular. Partly because it’s a gaming PC, but also because we kinda have the receipt for it as well.Read more
How To Get A Gaming Tattoo You Won't Hate Next Year, According To Artists
13.7.2022
Five years ago, I had a terrible idea: I wanted a BioShock tattoo. Obsessively.Read more
Skyrim Co-Op Mod Released, Mostly Actually Works
12.7.2022
I know there have been a lot of attempts at releasing multiplayer mods for Skyrim over the years, but none of those have been as ambitious as the co-op mod Skyrim Together Reborn, which aims to get between 2-8 players running around in the same game, completing the same quests and fighting the same...
Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell And Other Superstar Developers Star In...A Dragon Ball Z Video
12.7.2022
Comedy group Mega64 just released a super impressive new video in which the team re-enact the entire, epic Maijin Buu story arc from Dragon Ball Z in just five (well, five-ish) minutes. To get it done, though, they needed some help.Read more
Developer Ambushes NFTs In Public Talk, Makes Crypto Sponsors Real Mad
12.7.2022
During Brazil’s International Games Festival last week, developer Mark Venturelli (Chroma Squad) was scheduled to give a talk called “The Future Of Game Design”. A few seconds in, he flipped and revealed the presentation’s real title—“Why NFTs are a nightmare”—to a room full of applause.Read more
Hacker Group Claims Elden Ring Publisher Is Its Latest Victim
11.7.2022
Bandai Namco, the Japanese publisher behind the Ace Combat, Dragon Ball Z, and Dark Souls games, appears to be the latest major gaming company to suffer a major hack. The ransomware group BlackCat added the Elden Ring publisher to its list of victims earlier today, though it’s not yet clear...
Incredible New Breath Of The Wild Glitch Lets You Supercharge, Remake Weapons
11.7.2022
A sequel might be on the horizon, but there’s still a lot of game left in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Half a decade after its release, players are still finding new ways to crack Nintendo’s open-world RPG wide open. Just this week, glitch hunters have discovered what might be the most...
The Best Cozy Switch Games To Tap Out Of Your Daily Grind
11.7.2022
I know your mind is racing, so why don’t you sit down tonight with your Nintendo Switch and try out one of these six relaxing games? Read more
Smash Champ Apologizes For Attending Tournament While Seriously Ill
11.7.2022
After courting controversy for playing in a major Super Smash Bros. tournament over the weekend despite being seriously ill, world-class competitor Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma is now apologizing for his “incredibly selfish” decision.Read more
YouTube Star Dr Disrespect's NFT Game Is Charging Players To Playtest
11.7.2022
The democratization of game development has long been touted as a fresh, original idea, each and every time a developer does it. From releasing daily public builds to frequently updated Early Access editions, it’s been done many times for many years. The difference with Dr “Herschel Beahm...
Mass Effect Legendary Edition Is Free For Prime Day
11.7.2022
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is free for members of Amazon’s Prime Gaming service this week. It’s one of six games being given out by the e-commerce giant—which has struggled, despite pouring gazillions into various projects, to produce an acclaimed game of its own—for Prime Day, its annual ritual...
New Assassin's Creed Situation On Steam Is A Digital Nightmare
11.7.2022
When games started making the switch from physical to digital, everyone knew there were trade-offs. Digital downloads were quicker and more convenient, but also meant you didn’t entirely own the game you bought. You were just licensing it, making you subject to the whims and future solvency of...