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Decentraland Gets Its Own Times Square and New Year's Eve Ball Drop
30.12.2021
Jamestown, the owner of the Times Square building in New York, partnered with Digital Currency Group (DCG) to recreate this famous place in the Big Apple in the virtual world of Decentraland (MANA) for the New Year’s Eve ball drop....
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John Madden Dies At Age 85
29.12.2021
Legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden died Tuesday morning, the NFL announced. For fans, no one is more synonymous with football than Madden, and perhaps no one person has done more to bring new people into the game.Read more
Longtime Blizzard Employee Spouted Hateful Garbage On Discord Server
28.12.2021
Geoff Frazier, a former early Blizzard employee who was responsible for much of the company’s web content over the past 23 years, has been posting bigoted and hateful messages in a Discord server going back to May 2021. ABetterABK founder and organizer Jessica Gonzalez tweeted screenshots...
What The Matrix Resurrections Really Says About Video Games Isn't Obvious
28.12.2021
Video games are both important and unimportant in The Matrix Resurrections. They’re mentioned a lot–they play a significant role in the life of Keanu Reeves’ character, Thomas Anderson–but at the same time, the film isn’t particularly interested in games as games. Rather, games serve as a metaphor...
DAO Forms to 'Liberate Blockbuster' and Build Decentralized Streaming Service
28.12.2021
A new decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) dubbed BlockbusterDAO has been formed to raise USD 5m and acquire the defunct movie rental business Blockbuster.
"Our mission is to liberate Blockbuster and form a DAO to collectively govern the brand as we turn Blockbuster into the first-ever...
Decades Later, An Animator Complaint Discovered In Akira
27.12.2021
Until December 28, Akira is streaming on YouTube for free in Japan. With the country’s end of year holidays underway, people have more time to spend watching the movie, and perhaps, more time to notice all the little details. Read more
The Unique Artist Behind Bomberman's Catchy Beats
25.12.2021
I’ve always had a thing for June Chikuma’s music, though it took me a while to realize it. Even today, I often find myself humming the “mantra” track from Faxanadu, the difficult, side-scrolling action-RPG for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Faxanadu resonated because it conveyed a fantasy world...
Uncharted Movie's Sully Already Looked Off, But The Mustache Makes It Even Worse
23.12.2021
A new trailer for the live-action Uncharted movie dropped today and we finally got a good look at Mark Wahlberg sporting his character Sully’s famous mustache, and…it doesn’t look great. Read more
The Arcade In The Last Of Us 2 Has Seemingly Closed IRL
23.12.2021
There’s an arcade in The Last of Us Part II in which Ellie fights a bloater. It’s a tense encounter, with the scrappy avenger battling the zombie all on her own. The fight’s backdrop of gaming ruins is apparently based on a real spot in Seattle. Now, the real-life arcade, GameWorks Seattle,...
'Caramelldansen' Owners Really Don't Want You To Know Where The Song Originated
22.12.2021
If you used Tiktok at all in March 2020, there’s a decent chance you heard a song called “Caramelldansen,” a Swedish pop song originally from the early 2000s that once made waves as an internet meme and has since experienced something of a resurgence on the video-sharing platform. As it turns...
Call of Duty Studio Vaguely Promises To Do Better A Month After Sexual Harassment Report
21.12.2021
Call of Duty studio Treyarch just issued the latest in a long series of murky apologies from Activision-owned studios regarding the ongoing investigation into company-wide sexism, harassment, discrimination, and bullying. In a tweet issued today, a little over a month after the Wall Street Journal...
Retro Zelda Game Sells For Nearly $4,000 Thanks To Ramen Sticker
21.12.2021
A rare Famicom Disk System copy of the original The Legend of Zelda was recently purchased for thousands of dollars, all because the disk features a sticker with the name of a popular instant noodle brand.Read more
The Power of NFTs in Music Distribution
21.12.2021
Mattias Tengblad is the co-founder and CEO of Corite, a Stockholm-based digital music distributor; Emil Angervall is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Corite.______...
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A Live-Action Nausicaä Movie Could Look Great
21.12.2021
When manga and anime get live-action versions, one of the biggest stumbling blocks is the way things look. On the page or animated, a character and their outfit might appear awesome; however, the real-life interpretation could end up looking awkward or silly. That doesn’t seem to be true...
FTX US Partners With Monumental Sports Entertainment, Gets Exposure to 4 New Sports Teams
21.12.2021
FTX continues its path toward the sports world as it signed a partnership with Monumental Sports Entertainment (MSE) on Monday. The deal makes it so FTX US will be MSE’s exclusive crypto exchange and non-fungible token partner. FTX and Monumental Sports Entertainment to Collaborate...
Voice Actor Sayaka Kanda Dies At Age 35
20.12.2021
On Saturday, Sayaka Kanda was discovered dead after at around 1 p.m. in Sapporo, Japan. That day, Kanda had been scheduled to perform the role of Eliza Doolittle in a matinée performance of My Fair Lady, but citing an illness, her stand-in assumed the role.Warning: This article contains a mention...
The My Hero Academia Manga Could Finish In A Year
20.12.2021
My Hero Academia debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump back in July 2014 and has become one of Japan’s most popular manga. This weekend, creator Kohei Horikoshi announced that the manga was entering its home stretch. Horikoshi issued an official statement during a stage presentation at the Jump Festa event...
Hades Wins A Hugo Award, Making History As First Video Game To Ever Do So
19.12.2021
Yesterday, Hades made history by becoming the first video game to ever win a Hugo Award, an annual literary award presented to the best science fiction or fantasy works from the previous year.Read more
2021 Was Both A Great And Terrible Year For GTA Fans
18.12.2021
Rockstar’s super popular Grand Theft Auto franchise is in a weird place in 2021. It’s a game series that remains huge, despite going years without a big, new release. Its online iteration is more popular than ever, yet if you look around Reddit and Twitter you’d assume it has no fans.Read more
World Of Warcraft Turmoil Around Sudden Appearance Of People Of Color Is Surprisingly Complex
18.12.2021
An unofficial World of Warcraft Discord server has been lit ablaze in recent days. Right now, Twitter is full of screenshots showing people decrying Blizzard adding people of color to the MMORPG, with one particular comment complaining about how there are “too many Black humans in Stormwind.” This...