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T-Pain Changed Music Forever, Now He's Coming For Twitch
2.2.2023
2016 was T-Pain’s Twitch channel’s inaugural year, and it’s also the first time Pain remembers getting trolled. “At the time, my music career was kind of on a downward spiral,” he says during our Zoom call this Monday. “People were coming into my chat and telling me stuff like, ‘You’re only...
Annie Wersching, Who Played Tess In The Last Of Us, Has Died
30.1.2023
Actor Annie Wersching, who played the role of Tess in Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us video game, has died at the age of 45.Read more
Top Smash Ultimate Player Throws Controller At Tournament, Sparks 'Privilege' Discourse
23.1.2023
Genesis 9, a major fighting game tournament, took place over the weekend. There were stellar combos and massive upsets as the supermajor event for Super Smash Bros. Melee and Ultimate concluded on January 22. Unfortunately, while the tournament was underway, one of Canada’s top Kazuya players...
Nifty News: Nike unveils NFT platform, Steve Jobs' sandals sell for $200K and more
15.11.2022
A one-of-a-kind NFT of the Birkenstocks sandals worn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at various times during his life has sold for over $200,000
World’s Worst Performing Currency, the Cedi, Reverses Gains — Economist Steve Hanke Says Ghana Inflation Now Over 140%
10.11.2022
Just days after registering marginal gains against the U.S. dollar, the Ghanaian currency — the cedi — slipped to C14:$1 versus the U.S. dollar on the foreign exchange parallel market on Nov. 7. The cedi’s reversal is said to have dented the currency’s recovery prospects. On the other...
Soros-Backed Argentine Neobank Uala Launches Cryptocurrency Trading Services
8.11.2022
Uala, an Argentine neobank backed by George Soros, has launched cryptocurrency trading services for its users in Argentina. Customers of the company with the highest loyalty levels are now able to trade, purchase, and sell bitcoin and ether through Uala’s platform. The service is expected...
Professor Steve Hanke Says US Economy Was Flat Over the Last Year, but Stresses ‘It’s Going to Hit South’
30.10.2022
Amid the chaotic economy, plagued with central bank tinkering, supply chain issues, and red-hot inflation, the professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, Steve Hanke believes a “pretty big recession” will take place in 2023. Speaking in an interview on Oct. 28, Hanke...
10 Horror Games Worse Than The Movies They're Based On
25.10.2022
I love to catalog things. I’m a scrapbooker, a flower presser, and I need to log every movie I watch on Letterboxd or I’ll cease breathing. My desire to collect could be pathological, but I often wish I could capture all the games I play in the same way. Some games I want to remember forever, long...
Bank of Japan Intervenes in Foreign Exchange Markets After Yen Slips to 24-Year Low
22.9.2022
While the greenback has been rising higher, the Japanese yen tapped a 24-year low and Japan decided to intervene in foreign exchange markets (forex) for the first time since 1998. Reports say the Bank of Japan conducted the first forex intervention in 24 years, after the Japanese central bank kept...
3 ways scammers will try to fool you over Ethereum’s Merge
14.9.2022
Besides fake ETH 2.0 tokens and malicious token airdrops, crypto users should also be on the lookout for staking pools offering attractive staking yields
Latest Ghana Inflation Rate the Highest in 19 Years — Economist Recommends Installation of Currency Board
16.8.2022
Ghana’s ongoing economic woes appeared to worsen in July after data from the country’s statistical agency, Ghana Statistical Service, suggested that the inflation rate is now nearly 31.7%. The nearly 2% increase in the country’s inflation rate comes at a time when the local...
Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen exits crypto startup Radkl amid bear market: Report
2.8.2022
The hedge fund manager was part of a $50-million funding round for NFT company Recur, and backed a $21-million round for crypto analytics firm Messari through Point72
Tributes Pour In For Beloved Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade
1.7.2022
Technoblade (or Techno for short), a popular Minecraft YouTuber and internet personality with over 11 million followers on the video-creating platform, passed away on June 30 after losing his battle against cancer. He was just 23 years old.Read more
Monkey Island Creator Ron Gilbert Has Joy Sapped From Sequel Thanks To Awful People
30.6.2022
During Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct Mini, Return To Monkey Island was finally seen in motion. Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman’s return to the series, after over 30 years away, has given a lot of cause for interest among classic point-and-click adventure fans. And unfortunately, where go fans...
Lebanon Inflation Rate Surges to 211%, Economist Steve Hanke Recommends a Currency Board
26.6.2022
As political leaders in crisis-hit Lebanon bicker over positions in the yet-to-be-formed government, the country’s runaway inflation rate surged to 211% in May 2022, new data has shown. Economist Steve Hanke insists that a currency board is a solution to Lebanon’s currency woes. Black...
Devs Share The Wild, Secret Hacks Your Favorite Games Rely On
23.6.2022
Did you know all the horses in Assassin’s Creed 1 are built using really fucked up human skeletons? Or that Titan Quest used invisible squirrels as in-game timers? All of this is true and is more proof that games are mostly wild collections of code and hope that have more in common with miracles...
Plan B’s Stock-to-Flow Price Model Denounced by Vitalik Buterin, Says Model Can Be ‘Harmful’
22.6.2022
For a few years now, the pseudonymous creator of the popular stock-to-flow (S2F) bitcoin price model, Plan B, has become a very well known bitcoin influencer gathering 1.8 million Twitter followers. However, after the S2F price model didn’t come to fruition and dropped well below the price...
Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting Shaken Up By Its Own Wave-Dashing Moment
2.6.2022
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans are obsessed with ranking the game’s extensive, crossover cast of video game characters in tier lists. Tier lists constantly change to reflect alterations to the game’s meta, caused by balance updates released by Nintendo, but also players finding new techniques....
Waluigi Proves He's Still The King Of Swagger
28.5.2022
Nintendo released a demo today for its upcoming soccer game, Mario Strikers: Battle League. How does it play? Is it a worthy follow-up to the older games? Is it fun? These are questions for which I don’t have answers. What I can tell you is that in this latest game Waluigi retains his crown as...
Chrono Cross And Other Classics Suddenly ‘Expiring’ On PS3, Vita
8.4.2022
Digital purchases are mysteriously expiring on classic PlayStation consoles, rendering a random assortment of games unplayable.Read more