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Fortnite Twitch Streamer Hits Max Rank By Just Hiding
20.6.2023
My fellow slackers, bohemians, and those who’ve made a point of getting through difficult challenges in life by exerting the least amount of effort, I bring you a success story. Recently, a streamer has climbed to the top of Fortnite’s competitive ranks by camping in the bushes and hugging...
FTX Spent Over $120 Million on Advisory Fees in Just Three Months as Bankruptcy Proceedings Continue
20.6.2023
The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is facing escalating legal and advisory costs, recent filings submitted by the exchange’s bankruptcy advisors have revealed.
Judging from information in the filings, FTX's advisors billed the exchange a staggering $121.8 million in fees and expenses for the period...
Gaming Just Isn't About You: Consoles Are Thrashed By Casual Games
19.6.2023
Gaming still isn’t all about you. New data released by PwC shows that “traditional” games make up only 26.7 percent of the revenue earned by the U.S. games industry, the vast majority of 2022's $54.1 billion coming from social or casual games. Esports, meanwhile, contributed just 0.8%. Added...
Defi TVL Holds Steady Above $42 Billion as Lido Finance Dominates With $12.69 Billion Locked
18.6.2023
On June 18, 2023, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) protocols has been rangebound and hovering at just above the $42 billion range. Presently, Lido Finance dominates the value locked in defi with $12.69 billion or 29.76% of the aggregate. During the last month, the...
Nigerian Currency Falls by More Than 30% After Central Bank Announced New Forex Market Rules
18.6.2023
The Nigerian currency’s official exchange rate versus the greenback recently plunged to NGN634 per dollar from just under NGN470 per dollar. The central bank’s decision to allow the naira to “float” came a few weeks after Nigerian president Bola Ahmed Tinubu pledged to end...
Kenyan President Ruto Doubles Down on De-Dollarization Call — ‘We Just Want to Trade Much More Freely’
17.6.2023
Kenyan President William Ruto has repeated his call on African countries to consider ditching the U.S. dollar when settling cross-border trades. The Kenyan leader claimed that the African continent already has a mechanism that enables the seamless settling of transactions between traders. Further...
U.S. Banking Watchdog Makes Case for Tokenization, Just Not on Public Blockchains
16.6.2023
Self-styled crypto skeptic Michael Hsu, the acting head of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), said tokenization of assets is a serious advance into the future of finance, but decentralized blockchains may be too problematic to handle that movement
Nintendo Switch Piracy Subreddit Banned After Giant Tears Of The Kingdom Leak
16.6.2023
The Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit r/newyuzupiracy managed to fly under the radar for years. However, on June 13, three years after it was originally created, Reddit banned the forum after it blew up in the wake of the massive pre-release leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.Read more
Diablo IV Player Can’t Believe What Just Killed Perma-Killed His 172-Hour Druid
16.6.2023
Diablo IV’s Hardcore mode is not for the faint of heart. Anything that kills your character will leave them permanently dead, no matter what level they were, how much time you invested, or what gear they had. So Twitch streamer Quin69 was understandably overwhelmed with confusion and rage when...
Reddit's CEO Is Just Making Everything Worse
16.6.2023
As you may have seen over the past week, Reddit—the “last page of the internet”—has not been having a good time, after the company’s CEO decided to oversee some changes that affected some very popular apps that people were using to access the site. That CEO, Steve Huffman, is now doing some...
COTI is Going to Zero After the SEC Deems the Token a Security While This Lesser Known Green Crypto Just Hit $5.1 Million – Time to Buy?
15.6.2023
The $COTI price is fast going to zero in wake of the US Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) assessment that the token is a security.
$COTI, which powers the COTI network, was last trading around $0.043, having lost more than 35% of its value since the start of last week.
That’s when the...
GTA Online Just Got Its Best New Feature In Years
14.6.2023
Grand Theft Auto Online’s latest update, San Andreas Mercenaries, adds new missions and quality-of-life changes to the aging online game. However, while that content is cool and all, the best thing added in this update is probably (and surprisingly) a new menu. I know, doesn’t sound very exciting....
McDonald’s Just Released A Game That Runs On Game Boy Color
13.6.2023
McDonald’s, purveyor of refrigerated cheese and meat patties, is getting into the video game business to celebrate original character Grimace’s 52nd birthday. The hairy purple blob inspired a side-scrolling platformer that runs on mobile, desktop, and most surprisingly, Game Boy Color,...
US Inflation Cools to 4% Annual Rate, Setting Stage for Fed’s Decision on Interest Rates
13.6.2023
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index (CPI) report, released on Tuesday, reveals that inflation in the United States has eased to a yearly rate of 4%. The latest development arrives just ahead of the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting scheduled for June...
Don't Forget About These Two Other Assassin's Creed Games We Just Saw
12.6.2023
While Assassin’s Creed Mirage is set to be a smaller, more focused return to form for the long-running stab-everything franchise, that doesn’t mean the rest of the series is doing the same. And today’s Ubisoft Forward event showed off a bit of what the series has in store for mobile and...
Axie Infinity Price is Going to Zero after SEC Lawsuit Calls AXS a Security But Green Crypto Ecoterra Just Raised $5 Million – 100x Potential in 2023?
12.6.2023
Last week was catastrophic for Axie Infinity Shards (AXS), the native token that powers web3 play-to-earn (P2E) gaming ecosystem Axie Infinity.
AXS dropped more than 30% from around $7.6 per token to fresh near two-year lows under $5.0 per token, its worst one-week performance in more than...
Dubai Coin Blasts Up 2,000% Just Hours After Launch and Experts Say Wall Street Memes is the Next Crypto to Explode – How to Buy Early?
12.6.2023
A new crypto token called Dubai Coin blasted up over 2,000% in the immediate aftermath of its launch on Uniswap late on Saturday.
Dubai Coin, an ERC-20 token that was built around the theme of the crypto industry moving to Dubai given an increasingly unfavorable regulatory environment in...
News Of A Whopping 77 'Wholesome Games' Just Dropped, But We Think You'll Love These 26
12.6.2023
The annual Wholesome Direct stream always brings with it the same question: What exactly is a wholesome game? Well, if this year’s batch is any indication, it’s a game with a cartoony font where an animal or witch runs a farm on an island. More generally, it’s about games where the emphasis is...
Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Wrote Idris Elba’s Phantom Liberty Role Just For Him
12.6.2023
Cyberpunk 2077 is no stranger to celebrity talent, from obvious ones like Keanu Reeves as the rocker-turned-terrorist Johnny SIlverhand, to some more sequestered ones like Grimes playing the android popstar Lizzy Wizzy in a side-quest. Phantom Liberty, the game’s upcoming expansion, stars Luther...
CryptoSlots Celebrates Fifth Birthday with New Bonuses, a Revamped Cashback System, and World-Class VIP Treatment
12.6.2023
PRESS RELEASE. June 12, 2023 — It’s time to pop the champagne and raise a toast, because CryptoSlots, one of the premier online casinos for crypto enthusiasts, has just turned 5 years old. Ever since its launch in 2018, CryptoSlots has been a mainstay for iGaming enthusiasts...