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$2.5 Billion in NFT Sales This Week, Volume Climbs 161%, Meebits NFT Sales Surge
16.1.2022
During the last seven days, there’s been $2.53 billion non-fungible token (NFT) sales, up 161% over the past week. Ethereum’s blockchain recorded the most NFT sales with $2.45 billion of the aggregate while the Solana network saw around $31.9 million in NFT sales this week. Across...
Court Dismisses Lawsuit By Parents Whose Kids 'Gambled' With CSGO Skins
14.1.2022
On January 7, a U.S. federal court dismissed the final lawsuit against Valve regarding the company’s alleged facilitation of what plaintiffs claimed amounts to illegal gambling in CSGO matches. This was the last case in a series of claims brought to the court by parents whose children had purchased...
Destiny 2’s New Dungeon Is Inspired By The Infamous Loot Cave
2.12.2021
The Steam listing for Destiny 2’s upcoming Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack celebrating the studio’s history recently revealed that the game’s big new dungeon will be a throwback to the most famous moment in Destiny history: the loot cave.Read more
Player Sizzles the Casino Floor With a $134,000 Jackpot Win on Bitcoin.com Games
18.11.2021
Bitcoin.com Games dishes out a massive jackpot win for a lucky player who cashes out the big loot! Player Cashes out 2.25 Bitcoin After a Single Lucky Spin Turning up the heat on Bitcoin.com Games, our very own crypto casino is Wazdan’s smashing new slot game Sizzling Bells. The brand...
The Week In Games: Groot And His Pals Are Ready To Save The Galaxy
25.10.2021
Guardians of the Galaxy is out later this week on all major platforms. I’m excited to play it if only because the soundtrack seems great and I’m in the mood for a nice, single-player-only sci-fi action game. (A reminder that the Switch edition of the game is actually a streaming, Stadia-like...
Report: EA In A Messy Fight Over FIFA License, Money
13.10.2021
Last week EA hinted that it might be renaming its massively popular FIFA series. Now we know why. According to a new report by The New York Times, the International Federation of Association Football is asking the sports publishing giant to pay $1 billion for exclusive rights to the FIFA brand...
Bored Ape Yacht Club Records $542 Million in Lifetime Sales — BAYC Creators to Launch Token in Q1 2022
9.10.2021
Non-fungible token (NFT) assets have been extremely popular in 2021 and it doesn’t seem like the NFT hype is going away any time soon. A number of NFT collections have propelled the industry to new heights with enormous sales, outpacing some of the most popular auctions selling physical...
UK Cracks Down On In-Game Ads And Microtransactions
25.9.2021
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has released new, updated guidance on how game developers and publishers should and shouldn’t advertise in-game premium currencies and other purchases. The ASA is pushing back against in-game timers, labels such as “Best Value!” and more. Read more
These 3 NFT Projects Collectively Captured Over $10 Billion in Sales
25.9.2021
Non-fungible token (NFT) assets have taken the world by storm in 2021 and three current projects in the NFT universe have seen sales stretch into the billions. Statistics show that the NFT marketplace Opensea, the blockchain NFT game Axie Infinity, and the digital collectible series Cryptopunks...
Diablo 2 Dev Explains Why The Loot System Wasn’t Updated At Launch
23.9.2021
Loot. Some live by it. Others die by it. It makes the world go round, or at least the worlds of dungeon crawlers like Diablo 2: Resurrected. So why won’t the remaster have a modern loot system? Short answer: it’s more complicated than it sounds.Read more
Konami Rolls Out Loot Box Pre-Orders
16.9.2021
Over the summer, Konami announced its killing of the Pro Evolution Soccer brand (known as Winning Eleven in Japan) by morphing the popular franchise into the free-to-play eFootball.Read more
NFT Market Sales Drop by More Than 50% — Popular NFT Collection Trade Volumes Nosedive
12.9.2021
After non-fungible token (NFT) sales soared during the month of August, the first week of September’s NFT sales has been awful. Statistics show the number of sales in mid-August tapped a high of 193,693 sales but plummeted 86% to 27,053 sales on September 10. Metrics from the most used...
Gaming Token ‘Adventure Gold’ Listed Amid ‘Loot’ NFT Buzz
7.9.2021
">OKEx.Designed as a game token for future Loot-related games, the Adventure Gold token was airdropped to Loot NFT holders, with each Loot NFT giving the owner the right to claim 10,000 AGLD. And with a token price at press time (14:52 UTC) of USD 2.95, the airdrop was worth at least a ha
New NFT Collections Loot for Adventurers, MAYC, Inertial Moment Make Serious Headway in Sales
5.9.2021
During the last few weeks, non-fungible token (NFT) collections like Cryptopunks, Axie Infinity, Art Blocks, Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), and Meebits have been seeing massive volumes. However, a number of new NFT collections are making headway in sales and the Ethereum-based roleplaying game called...
End of August’s NFT Sales Tapped All-Time High at $1 Billion, Last Week’s NFT Sales Hit $821 Million
4.9.2021
Data shows that non-fungible token (NFT) assets continue to break record sales week after week as statistics show over $1 billion in NFT sales took place during the last week of August. Meanwhile, this week’s data shows $821 million in NFT sales have been settled so far, dropping a hair...
Nifty News: NBA star snaps up Bored Apes and what is Loot playing at?
2.9.2021
NBA star Stephen Curry snapped up a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT worth $206,000, while Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann unintentionally created an NFT craze
Seychelles Law Enforcement Receives Request to Probe Transfer of 230K Onecoin Bitcoins
1.9.2021
The Seychelles Police Financial Crime Investigation Unit (FCIU) recently confirmed receiving a request for an investigation into several transactions linked to the transfer of 230,000 bitcoins. The cryptocurrency is said to be associated with pyramid scam Onecoin. Onecoin Loot in Dubai Besides...
World Of Warships Players Are In Open Revolt Over Shady Monetisation Schemes
18.8.2021
Free online wargame World of Warships has been on thin ice with its community for a while now, but recent events—including the botched return of a fan-favourite ship—have seen many of the community’s biggest names quit the game’s official community program.Read more
Democrats Are Already Bungling New Call For Laws To Protect Kids From Loot Boxes
10.8.2021
A group of Democrats have sent out letters to some of the biggest names in games publishing, asking them to voluntarily adopt rules soon to be implemented in the UK, designed, they say, to protect children from exploitative practices in video games. Except, that’s not what the UK code is about...
Infinity Skies Uses Chainlink VRF to Share its Loot Boxes
20.7.2021
In an important development, Infinity Skies has announced that it has collaborated with Chainlink to integrate the latter’s Verifiable Random Function (VRF) to bring more transparency and authenticity to its distribution of Loot Boxes. Infinity Skies is developing a blockchain-based game in which...