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Microstrategy Buys 5,050 More Bitcoins, Now Hodls 114,042 BTC
13.9.2021
Nasdaq-listed Microstrategy has purchased 5,050 more bitcoins for $243 million, raising its total bitcoin holdings to 114,042 coins. Microstrategy Continues to Grow Its Bitcoin Stash The pro-bitcoin software company Microstrategy announced Monday that it has purchased more bitcoins. CEO Michael...
YouTube Kills Two Big Discord Music Bots, And That Sucks
13.9.2021
Today, the popular video streaming service YouTube committed a murder most foul. Two stalwart members of any Discord server worth its salt, stolen away from us in the night. Groovy and Rythm are dead, and I will mourn my beautiful robot companions with all of my heart.Read more
Fidenza: Tyler Hobbs wrote software that generates art worth millions
13.9.2021
Biggest Bank in El Salvador Now Accepts Bitcoin as Payment for Financial Products
13.9.2021
Bancoagricola, the biggest bank in El Salvador, is now accepting bitcoin to pay for debts originated from the use of its instruments, according to a PR statement. The institution partnered with Flexa, a payments network, to include cryptocurrency capabilities in its software. Bancoagricola also...
NFT Game Steals Artwork, Gets Called Out, Deletes Account
13.9.2021
NFTS (Non-Fungible Tokens) are an environmental disaster and an enormous scam, and perhaps the funniest thing about their persistence is how little effort purveyors of this modern snake oil are putting into it.Read more
Fortnite's Cube Returns For Season 7's Explosive Finale
13.9.2021
Fortnite players have spent the entirety of the game’s seventh season dealing with a growing alien threat. Now it’s time for the aliens to deal with the threat of us as we storm the alien mothership and liberate dangerous-looking glowing cubes in the explosive season finale event.Read more
Steam Turns 18 Years Old Today
12.9.2021
Steam, the digital PC storefront, officially launched to the public 18 years ago today, on September 12, 2003. I didn’t realize just how old Steam was and by extension how old I’ve gotten. I guess time flies when your buying, downloading, and installing a bunch of games that you’ll end up never...
Two Popular Team Fortress 2 Mods Temporarily Removed Due To 'Arrangements' With Valve
12.9.2021
Here’s an odd bit o’ news: Two popular Team Fortress 2 mods have suddenly and mysteriously been removed from the internet and can no longer be downloaded. According to the devs, this is due to “arrangments with Valve” but neither team has explained what that means. According to devs for both mods...
Twitch Sues ‘Hate Raid’ Organizers
10.9.2021
Twitch is taking a big stand against the organized harassment campaigns, widely known as “hate raids,” that have proliferated over the past few months by filing a suit against two possible coordinators of the attacks.Read more
PS4 Finally Gets A Working Emulator Eight Years Later
10.9.2021
Spine is the first, and only, stable PlayStation 4 emulator available, and its game library was updated on September 1. Hundreds of new games are now playable on this emulator, and the developer promised additional titles in the future.Read more
FYI: Tales Of Arise’s Costume DLC Adds Hidden Skills
10.9.2021
A Tales game isn’t a Tales game if it doesn’t have a comically ridiculous wardrobe. In that regard, Tales of Arise, the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s long-running series of JRPGs, does not disappoint. (See: screenshot above, screenshots below.) But heed this warning: Downloading the game’s...
The Tiny Tina Borderlands Game Looks Like An Obnoxious Good Time
9.9.2021
During today’s PlayStation Showcase, the folks over at Gearbox Software finally provided us with a more complete look at the upcoming Borderlands spin-off known as Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.Read more
Twitch Streamer Under Fire By Genshin Impact Fans Over Anti-Chinese Tirade
9.9.2021
A Genshin Impact streamer recently drew public criticism after using anti-Chinese language against an ethnically Korean streamer in a disagreement about gameplay.Read more
Some Of The Best Rocks In Video Games Are Actually Real
8.9.2021
I’ve spent years using free rock assets from the Unity Asset Store and the Unreal Engine Marketplace, but never thought too hard about where those assets came from. I just needed rocks in my games. Vox recently published a video about how game developers create photorealistic rocks, and I...
Testuji software a české pivo, říká Ana ze Siemens Advanta
8.9.2021
V Praze žije pět let, nejradši má fotbal, české pivo a svoji práci ve společnosti Siemens Advanta v pražských Stodůlkách, kde testuje funkčnost softwarů. „Bez ohledu na to, na jak těžkém projektu pracujete, vždy máte prostor pro rozvoj. Pokud narazíte na problém, požádáte o pomoc. Kolegové jsou...
Konference Coding4Good nabízí několik inspirací, jak mohou vývojáři a technologie zlepšit současný svět
8.9.2021
Vývoj technologií a software mění posledních několik desetiletí výrazně náš svět. Současně ale lidstvo čelí velkému množství výzev: od globálního oteplování, přes vymírání druhů až po zákeřné pandemie. Jak můžeme těmto výzvám čelit…
Fans Are Pissed About The Switch eShop’s Asset Flip Scourge
7.9.2021
It’s no secret that the Nintendo eShop is awash in “shovelware,” low-quality games that seemingly only exist to take up space (and maybe turn a quick buck for the publisher). But over the past year or so, the eShop is facing an even more insidious publishing tactic: the so-called “asset flip.”Read...
Microstrategy Avoids ‘Multi-Billion Dollar Mistake’ by Choosing Bitcoin Over Gold
7.9.2021
Nasdaq-listed company Microstrategy has avoided a “multi-billion dollar mistake” by choosing to invest in bitcoin instead of gold. The company now holds about 108,992 bitcoins. ‘Multi-Billion Dollar Mistake’ Avoided The Nasdaq-listed software company Microstrategy...
You Shouldn't Pay For Bloodhunt (Because It's Free)
6.9.2021
The shady world of key resellers is a murky, grimdark place to visit, but also incredibly stupid. Just a couple of weeks ago Frostpunk 2 developers 11 Bit Studios were astonished to see Kinguin selling keys for their just-announced game, long before they’d decided on a price themselves. Now,...
No Man's Sky Finally Finds Love
6.9.2021
It has not been an easy time for No Man’s Sky. After what can only be described as Molyneux-levels of unrealistic pre-release hype from developer Hello Games’ lead, Sean Murray, reality crashed down hard when it was released in August 2016. Inevitably it was review-bombed on Steam, and that legacy...