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Destiny Dev Demands Bungie Support Trans-Inclusive Health Care
12.7.2022
Bungie senior visual designer Signy Davis recently shared a blistering message on Twitter demanding that her company, along with the gaming industry at large, throw much-needed support behind inclusive health care for transgender workers.Read more
10 Video Game Rats, Ranked By How Chill They Seem
1.7.2022
Because I live in New York City, my primary enemy is the rats. I face them daily—they run their greasy bodies around mounds of hot garbage and shit all over my apartment’s welcome mat. But via their appearances in games, I want to work on our relationship, and everyone knows that ranked slideshows...
PlayStation Studios Break Silence On Abortion Rights After Roe Overturned
24.6.2022
On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court made good on a longstanding right-wing threat to overturn Roe v. Wade, and with it eradicate the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly 50 years. Now some of gaming’s most well known studios, which had previously been silent, are speaking...
Citigroup CEO: Europe More Likely to Head Into Recession Than US
7.6.2022
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser warns that a recession is more likely in Europe than in the U.S. Nonetheless, she stressed that it is not easy for the U.S. to avoid a recession. Citigroup’s CEO on Global Recession Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser warned about the health of the global economy Friday...
Mental health and crypto: How does volatility effect well-being?
2.6.2022
Crypto addiction has become a new disease for investors: Who is affected, how to understand that you have problems and who can help
Happiness 3.0: A Mission for Mental Health in the Metaverse
27.5.2022
Technological innovation is rapidly changing what it means to be human. How do we stay sane?
Glass-Cannon Elden Ring Player Bonks Every Main Boss With A Single Hit
25.5.2022
Elden Ring is full of hard bosses, many of whom have no problem quickly showing you the nearest gravesite if you’re lost, and defeating them is often a matter of slowly whittling away at their lengthy health bars until you breathe a huge sigh of relief as the words “Enemy Felled” finally appear....
Genomics company explores NFTs in hopes of advancing precision medicine
23.5.2022
GeneNFTs may be a game-changer for genomic testing, but user education is still needed in order for this model to advance
Survey Shows 87% of Americans Are Stressed About Inflation and Rising Costs of Everyday Goods
21.5.2022
As the consumer price index (CPI), a measure of prices for goods and services, hit another all-time high in April reaching 8.3%, Americans are stressed out more than ever about inflation and money. A recent survey published by the American Psychological Association shows that 87% of U.S. residents...
Voyager Downgraded by Compass Point as Retail Investor Health Questioned
17.5.2022
Voyager Digital was cut to neutral from buy at the investment firm
Halo Infinite Devs Delay For Health, Community Disappointed Anyway
25.4.2022
It’s rare to see a video game developer publicly acknowledge crunch, let alone cite its avoidance as a reason for delays. On Friday, developer 343 Industries revealed the long-anticipated roadmap for Halo Infinite, replete with a number of pushed-back features alongside a frank acknowledgement that...
Blockchain in the EU healthcare report: 6 key takeaways
12.4.2022
The EU Blockchain Observatory envisions distributed ledger technology delivering the Healthcare 4.0-era
Monkey Island Returns With A New Game From Original Creators Later This Year
4.4.2022
Monkey Island, the iconic point-and-click adventure series developed by genre heavyweights Ron Gilbert, David Grossman, and Tim Schafer, is coming back to life in 2022 with Return to Monkey Island. Better yet, Gilbert and Grossman are in charge once again, ending a 30-year absence from...
Activision Blizzard Removes Vaccine Mandate, 'Effective Immediately'
1.4.2022
Activision Blizzard Chief Administrative Officer Brian Bulatao (above) emailed all employees of the company earlier today, informing them that “effective immediately” the publisher was removing the mandate for employees working from offices to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and hopes to have...
GOQii Announces $10 Mn Investment From Animoca Brand and the Launch of Health Metaverse
30.3.2022
Animoca Brands announced that they are funding GOQii Inc. $10 million in an extended Series C Equity round of fundraising. GOQii is a cutting-edge technology-oriented healthcare platform that connects users to the full preventative healthcare ecosystem. Fitness tracker, app, coaching, health store...
Ghostwire: Tokyo Has One Of The Coolest Healing Systems In Open-World Games
29.3.2022
Ghostwire: Tokyo, the cool new Tango Gameworks project about chatting up spirits and fighting ghastly humanoids, has managed to pull me away from Elden Ring. It’s a nice reprieve. Ghostwire is nowhere near as hard as FromSoftware’s latest Souls-like. So rather than roaming a vast, haunting open...
Blockchain Startup’s Digital Identity Solution Made Available to 50,000 Zimbabwean Patients
21.3.2022
Flexid Technologies, a blockchain startup promoting the use of digital identities, said its solution was recently used by thousands of Zimbabwean households and patients that participated in a local health survey study. Using Technology to Drive Down the Cost of Healthcare A blockchain startup...
Real health benefits will come when medicine and the Metaverse collide
19.3.2022
As mental health continues to decline, what will happen when medicine and virtual worlds come together in the Metaverse?
Real Hospital Attacked Online Over PlayStation And Xbox Flame Wars
9.3.2022
Buckle up, because this story gets pretty wild. A hospital in India is currently being review bombed on Google after one of its staff–or at least someone claiming to be a doctor at the hospital–apparently shared a video of himself performing surgery on Twitter. In the accompanying tweet,...
Pharmacy Chain CVS Files for ‘Crypto-Collectible’ and NFT Trademarks
6.3.2022
The American retail and pharmacy corporation CVS is looking to enter the metaverse according to trademark filings registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The filings mention things like CVS Health-brand “downloadable virtual goods”...