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PlayStation Is Hard To Work With, Devs Say
1.7.2021
After yesterday’s industry-wide discussion of the cost of being visible on Sony’s PlayStation Store, Kotaku has heard from multiple independent developers and publishers expressing similar frustrations and fury.Read more
Inline to Menu Link Animation
23.6.2021
An experimental inline-to-menu-link animation based on a concept by Matthew Hall.
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Three Ethereum Testnets Are Transitioning to the Highly Anticipated London Upgrade
22.6.2021
According to a blog post on the Ethereum Foundation’s website, three Ethereum testnets leveraging the London hard fork will go live during the next few weeks. Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko explained last Friday that the “upgrade will first go live on Ropsten, at block 10499401...
Wholesome Games Respond To Backlash In The Classiest Way
9.6.2021
Wholesome Games is a gaming community, focused around a Twitter account, that brings attention to gorgeous, sweet, friendly games, for no reason other than the sheer joy of it. So of course, after they recently announced a second, higher profile Wholesome Direct showcase for this weekend, June...
Nintendo Sues ROM Site Into Oblivion
1.6.2021
Back in 2019, we wrote about Nintendo’s efforts to shut down the website RomUniverse, which was hosting and even selling premium access to pirated copies of Nintendo games. That case is now over, the site is gone and Nintendo has been awarded $2.1 million in damages.Read more
Lego Celebrates Diversity With A Rainbow Of Minifigures
20.5.2021
Going on sale on June 1, “Everyone is Awesome” is a 346-piece Lego set meant to celebrate the diversity of Lego fans and the world around them. It features 11 faceless monochrome minifigures arranged in the colors of the LGBTQIA+ rainbow flag. It’s a bit on-the-nose, but I dig it. Read more
Even Apple Knows Fortnite's Peely Is A Monster
10.5.2021
The Epic versus Apple trial kicked off its second week today, finishing up cross examination with Epic head of marketing Matthew Weissinger. In continued discussion of Epic’s unspeakable inappropriateness, Apple’s lawyer had some questions about Fortnite’s cursed banana, Peely.Read more
Twitch Isn't Overwhelmed With Far-Right Extremists, But It Does Have A Big Misinformation Problem
3.5.2021
Twitch’s relationship with misinformation is complicated. In 2020, platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter grappled with their outsized roles in the creation and cultivation of conspiracy movements like QAnon. Misinformation troubled Twitch in a different way, but the platform emerged...
Eight Years Later, Players Find A Hidden Weapon In Guild Wars
15.4.2021
Players in Guild Wars found an eight-year-old Easter egg this week after a former developer on the game offered some hints and teases to help move people in the right direction.Read more
Discord Blocks All iOS Users From Accessing NSFW Servers
13.4.2021
If an iPhone is your main window into Discord’s cacophonous void of yelling gamers, your options just got a lot more limited.Read more
World’s Wealthiest Annual Ranking Now Lists 12 Crypto Billionaires
12.4.2021
The American business magazine Forbes recently published the company’s 2021 documentation of the wealthiest billionaires in the world. According to the list published annually every March, there are now 12 billionaires that work directly within the cryptocurrency industry and the list...
Encrypted Messenger Company Signal Faces Scrutiny Over Mobilecoin Integration
11.4.2021
Signal, the cross-platform encrypted messaging service is facing criticism this week, after the company Signal Messenger told the public it was integrating the cryptocurrency mobilecoin. Moreover, controversy surrounds the company’s founder and CEO Matthew Rosenfeld, known as ‘Moxie...
Pokémon's Intro, Remade With Stock Footage
8.4.2021
Pokémon’s status as a worldwide phenomenon means that you can break it down to its essential parts and folks will still recognize what you’re referencing. You show somebody an electric rat and, nine times out of ten, they’ll understand you’re talking about Pikachu. But can the franchise survive...
What's New on Hulu in April 2021
17.3.2021
There is a legend of a movie. A movie with a twist so ludicrous, I dare not speak of it, lest you scoff yourself right off of this website, never to return. It is called Wild Mountain Thyme. It is coming to Hulu on April 25, and you should definitely try to watch it without knowing the ending...
Failure To Launch comes so close to working as a bizarre meta parody of rom-coms
12.3.2021
There are good rom-coms, bad rom-coms, and so-bad-they’re-good rom-coms. And then there’s Failure To Launch, a 2006 Matthew McConaughey/Sarah Jessica Parker vehicle so inexplicably bizarre it almost feels like a meta parody of every terrible romantic comedy trope. With a slight shift in tone...
Diablo II: Resurrected Will Work With Your Decades-Old Saves
5.3.2021
Have a special Necromancer you’ve been farming Diablo II with for years? There’s good news: Diablo II Resurrected will let you import them to continue commanding armies of the dead over 20 years later.Read more
Winklevoss brothers top Forbes Bitcoin billionaires list
12.1.2021
Forbes has named the six biggest winners of this latest cryptocurrency rally, including the Winklevoss brothers and Bloq’s Matthew Roszak
Charity’s Centralization Problem, Feat. Matthew Davie and Alpen Sheth
8.1.2021
They call it the charitable-industrial complex: a system where money for development, for humanitarian needs, and for improving the lives of billions is controlled through a top-down process, run by U.S. charities and shaped by U.S. tax rules and regulations
Origin Defi Protocol Suffers Massive Flash Loan Attack- OUSD Stablecoin Value Plunges 85%
18.11.2020
The OUSD stablecoin issuer, Origin Protocol is the latest Defi protocol to fall victim to a flash loan attack. The attack, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, on November 17, resulted in the disappearance of tokens worth millions of dollars. Confirming the attack, one of...
Onecoin Allegedly Tied to Racehorse Firm, Phoenix Thoroughbreds Removed from France Galop Race
21.8.2020
Last week the firm Phoenix Thoroughbreds was reportedly banned from horse racing in France over the founder’s alleged involvement with the crypto Ponzi scheme Onecoin. Last November, Onecoin cofounder Konstantin Ignatov, the Cryptoqueen’s brother, told New York prosecutors Phoenix...