Pro Super Smash Bros player to receive salary in XRP
A high-profile gamer is joining SBI Holdingsâ gaming arm, signing a contract to receive his salary in major cryptocurrency XRP. Kengo âKenâ Suzuki, a professional...
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Zenit St. Petersburg are creating collectible blockchain cards of their players
Zenit St. Petersburg â the top soccer club in Russia’s Premier League â has signed on to the Ethereum blockchain-based fantasy soccer game Sorare platform....
Coincheck exchange to help CryptoKitties go mainstream in Japan
Coincheck, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan, is expanding its push into non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, with a new partnership with the developer of...
Video game legend Atari seeks public token sale in November
Atari will conduct a public token offering on Bitcoin.com in early November. As soon as the offering is complete, the ERC20-based AtariToken will become available...
Swords, sand and razor-sharp insults: The Secret of Monkey Island at 30
Anyone who went to school during the Thatcher years will remember adventure games as something experienced on the class computer, typically a BBC Micro. Educational...
Japanese esports company to pay its players in XRP
SBI esports, a subsidiary of Japanese financial services conglomerate SBI Group, announced that its esports players would receive salaries in Ripple (XRP) going forward as...
Coronavirus drives surge in support for unionisation, say games industry activists
Worker strikes, let alone successful ones, are vanishingly rare in the video games industry. But in August, writers at Lovestruck, a mobile app that publishes...
Game changer: Microsoft buys Elder Scrolls company ZeniMax for $7.5bn
Microsoft is acquiring ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, publisher of the best-selling video game franchises The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Doom. The...
Oculus Quest 2 VR headset review: the virtual escape from Covid-19 we need?
The Oculus Quest 2 is Facebookâs second iteration of its popular standalone virtual reality headset. It is more powerful, has a better screen and is...
Blockchain gaming takes a colossal step forward as media giant announces new offering
Multinational media and entertainment conglomerate, WarnerMedia, is joining the blockchain gaming ecosystem via its subsidiary, Turner Sports. The company, which is responsible for sports broadcasts...