blockchains
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Napster Wants To Become A Web3 Company
File sharing pioneer Napster is getting a second chance at life, this time, on the blockchain. That’s right, nothing quite screams, “Web3 futurism” like a stumbling, hallowed out 23-year-old internet company.
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Square Enix President Still Insists Future Of Gaming Features Blockchain Tech
Remember back in January when Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda published that terrible letter hyping up a future where video games would feature NFTs and blockchain tech? Well, even though a lot of players and devs criticised the letter, Matsuda ain’t backing down. And in a new interview, he continued to explain how excited he…
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Crypto Gaming’s Biggest Success Story Scammed Out Of $833 Million
Pokémon-style NFT battler Axie Infinity was one of the biggest “success” stories in the world of crypto gaming. Now it’s responsible for one of the biggest thefts in the history of the technology. The gaming-focused blockchain Ronin Network announced earlier today that an Axie Infinity exploit allowed a hacker to “drain” roughly $US600 ($833) million…
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Ubisoft’s Rabbids Join Blockchain Game, Welcome To Hell
If NFTs are a scam — and they are, I’m just going through the rhetorical motions in building a sentence here — then The Sandbox is one of the biggest engines driving them in the video game space. So it makes perfect sense that it’s the location for Ubisoft’s next foray into the world of…