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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...
Outriders Doubles Horrendous Legendary Drop Rate
22.6.2021
If players have one complaint about Outriders—besides the rampant connectivity issues and the inexplicable instant deaths—it’s with the game’s apparent dearth of legendary weapons and armor. Today, after much community feedback, developer People Can Fly finally addressed the issue by rolling out...
FIFA 21's Loot Boxes Can Now Be Previewed Before You Buy
18.6.2021
Two years after EA described FIFA’s loot boxes as “surprise mechanics”, the publisher might be finally backing down under enormous international pressure. EA has announced today that you can see what’s inside a Festival of FUTball Ultimate Team Pack before you buy it. Way to ruin...
Outriders Is Finally Giving Some Players Back Their Lost Gear
6.5.2021
Of all the many (many) issues to plague Outriders since its early April launch, few have caused more pain than the insidious inventory-deletion bug. As of today, affected players should start to see lost gear return, developer People Can Fly announced via the game’s subreddit.Read more
Unlucky Returnal Player Goes For Loot, Dies Immediately
3.5.2021
No matter how badly you get screwed by Returnal’s luck-of-the-draw roguelike gameplay, you’re not nearly as down on your luck as a player who desperately tried to get some loot, only to meet a grizzly fate.Read more
Leaked Documents Show EA Really Wants You To Buy FIFA Loot Boxes
26.4.2021
EA purposefully drove players toward gambling-like microtransactions in FIFA 21, according to an insider who leaked internal documents to the CBC. “Video game company wants to make money” isn’t exactly a bombshell, but in light of EA’s long-held stance on loot boxes and microtransactions,...
Why Video Game Loot Is So Addictive, According To The Creators Of Diablo
16.4.2021
Colors mean different things to different people, but very specific colors mean the exact same thing to everybody who plays video games. You know the ones: gray, green, blue, purple, and gold. You covet the latter and revile the former. Loot is a universal language at this point, but it wasn’t...
Outriders: The Kotaku Review
9.4.2021
Outriders isn’t what I was expecting. In the lead-up to launch, it looked like one more Destiny-like looter shooter to toss on the pile. But while it does have looting, shooting and even online co-op, Outriders isn’t just another live service game. In a lot of ways, it feels like an experiment...
Ah Loot River Looks Fantastic
1.4.2021
A few seconds into this announcement trailer for Loot River and I’m thinking, OK, it’s a top-down Dark Souls game. Fine, whatever. A few seconds later suddenly there’s Tetris in there too and everything looks a lot more interesting.Read more
Video Game Companies Keep Coming Up With New Ways To Take Our Money
19.3.2021
Video games are expensive. They have been expensive for a very long time, and they keep getting more expensive. To an extent, it makes sense: Game developers need to eat! But after a certain point, it gets excessive. Loot boxes, gacha, and now NFTs are signs of that excess. On this week’s...
Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis Will Have Loot Boxes
18.3.2021
Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, the mobile compilation aiming to bring all of the Final Fantasy VII extended universe’s stories together in one place, will have loot boxes, creative director Tetsuya Nomura confirmed yesterday in a new interview with Famitsu.Read more
Dark Alliance Is A D&D Loot Brawler That Doesn't Have Much In Common With Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
16.3.2021
I went into my recent Dark Alliance demo with development studio Tuque Games expecting to briefly relive the grim, bloody hack and slash glory of the original Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games. The new game, while pitched as a spiritual successor, feels very different, however. Not bad, just...
Players Are Farming The Heck Out Of The Outriders Demo, So The Devs Are Nerfing It
5.3.2021
The new loot shooter Outriders hasn’t even launched yet and players are already hard at work grinding for some of its rarest gear in the game’s recent demo. According to the developers, it’s gotten so out of hand that they need to patch it to make legendary guns harder to farm, before players...