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While the New LUNA Records Gains, Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs Is Plagued by Controversy and Accusations
30.5.2022
It’s been two days since the Terra development team launched the new Phoenix-1 blockchain with the network’s native token LUNA. While the token dropped significantly in value during the first day of trading, the new LUNA has jumped 8.8% in value during the last 24 hours. Amid...
A New Terra Network Is Coming With Support From Major Exchanges, LUNA and UST Holders Eligible for Airdropped Tokens
26.5.2022
According to a recent announcement from the Terra blockchain team, the community voted and passed a proposal that plans to launch a new genesis version of the Terra blockchain without an algorithmic stablecoin. The governance proposal called “Terra Ecosystem Revival Plan 2” has been...
Report: TikTok To Add Games, Testing Has Already Started
20.5.2022
TikTok has already taken over the world. Millions of people (myself included…) spend far too many hours on the popular video-sharing app, watching thousands of bite-sized, often very funny clips created by other users. And now, seemingly in an effort to suck away the few remaining hours of your...
Turkish Referee Flips Bitcoin at Istanbul Derby Kick-Off, Soccer Authority Launches Probe
16.5.2022
A soccer referee’s decision to toss a bitcoin before the start of a recent match between Istanbul giants Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe has sparked controversy in Turkey. The country’s football authority is trying to establish why a crypto coin was used for the ritual when...
Skyrocketing Retro Game Price 'Manipulation' Controversy Goes To Court
13.5.2022
The market frenzy leading to record-breaking prices for retro games appears to have slowed since last year, but frustration over the collectible grading firm at the center of the spike hasn’t. Earlier this week a number of Wata Games customers filed a class action lawsuit attempting to put an...
Final Fantasy XIV Players Sent To In-Game Jail As Devs Mull Mod Controversy
12.5.2022
At least two Final Fantasy XIV players pulled into an in-game jail by moderators while streaming the massively multiplayer online game this week. Many believe this was done to reprimand them for using third-party modifications to optimize HUD details for high-level raiding, a frequent pain point...
‘Behind’ The Latest Overwatch 2 Porn Controversy
4.5.2022
The time-traveling, pulse pistol-packing Overwatch character, Tracer, looks like she’s ready for a fight. Bulky tactical gear shields her body and helps mold it into a weapon, and she wears a chunky pair of canary-colored goggles to safeguard her face. But what will keep us, her faithful admirers...
Upbit owner Dunamu could see 'monopoly' curbed after investment controversy
22.4.2022
The Upbit operator is under heavy scrutiny from local regulators as its total assets balloon and a subsidiary issued controversial investment advice
Moonbirds Collection Faces Criticism After User Wins 50+ NFTs During Raffle
19.4.2022
Newly-launched non-fungible token (NFT) project Moonbirds has been hit with controversy, with some wondering if there was a potential raffle manipulation.
Etherescan data shows that one user created more than 400 "accounts to Sybil Attack the Moonbirds raffle," said the pseudonymous crypto...
Someone Please Stop Sean Murray From Hyping Up No Man’s Sky’s Successor
14.4.2022
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: During a recent IGN interview, Hello Games managing director Sean Murray talked up the studio’s new venture as “something pretty ambitious.”Read more
Sources: New Ghost Recon In Development As Ubisoft Moves On From Breakpoint NFT Controversy
6.4.2022
Ghost Recon Breakpoint has officially received its last update, Ubisoft announced yesterday. The news comes just a few months after the publisher’s disastrous experiment with adding NFTs to the game, and, we have learned, as its Paris studio works on the next mainline entry in the Ghost Recon...
Starbucks announces NFT initiative as union-busting controversy continues
6.4.2022
Starbucks announced plans to get into the NFT business then fired a union leader the same day
Nifty News: One NFT per human in existence and the Pixelmon controversy
1.3.2022
A Dutch artist has made a collection of NFTs numbered up to 7.9 billion — the same amount of people in the world — as a social experiment
Another Pro Gamer With History Of Homophobia Fired In Wake Of Men's Height Controversy
18.2.2022
Osaka-based esports team Cyclops Athlete Gaming has fired yet another player. Yesterday, it cancelled the contract of Tekken player Tanukana after a history of abusive comments, the last being about men under a certain height. Today, following revelations about some really unpleasant tweets, it...
Crypto at the Olympics: NFT skis, Bitcoin bobsledders and CBDC controversy
15.2.2022
Bitcoin and nonfungible tokens are all over the Olympics this year while China’s CBDC is there too amid a controversial rollout
Genshin Impact's Latest Controversy Shows Games Can Be Powerful Ambassadors For Art
15.1.2022
On December 26, the voice performances for Genshin Impact’s latest playable characters were shown for the first time. This included Yun Jin, the young leader of a Chinese opera company. The reaction from the Genshin community was mixed, but the moment also became an opportunity for people...
2 Mirrored, Copycat Bored Ape NFT Projects Cause Copyright Infringement Controversy
1.1.2022
In the midst of the hype surrounding the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles, two NFT projects have appeared offering near-identical or mirrored versions of the original BAYC NFTs. The NFT marketplace Opensea has removed the NFT projects from the market for breaking...
Torrent Website Called The NFT Bay Reignites Controversy Over Non-Fungible Tokens
19.11.2021
There’s a new website the crypto community has been discussing called The NFT Bay, a web portal that operates in a similar fashion to The Pirate Bay (TPB), because the platform hosts a huge selection of NFTs stemming from various blockchain platforms for free. On Thursday, the...
Marathon Plans to Raise $500 Million From Convertible Senior Notes to Buy Bitcoin and Mining Rigs
15.11.2021
On Monday, the enterprise bitcoin mining operation Marathon Digital Holdings announced the firm will raise $500 million from convertible senior notes in order to accrue more “bitcoin or bitcoin mining machines.” Publicly-Listed Mining Operation to Raise $500M From Debt Markets...
Jeopardy! Pariah Mike Richards Fully Booted Because Of All The Drama
31.8.2021
Mike Richards, the embattled Jeopardy! executive producer who served as the game show’s host for, like, a week, is out entirely, Deadline reports. He’ll also lose his role as executive producer of Wheel of Fortune, Sony EVP Suzanne Prete told staff in a memo today.Read more