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Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley has responded to a video saying that online toxicity in video games needs to be stopped. READ MORE: ‘Persona 5 Strikers’ is a good game and excellent tour guide Blackley shared a video from streamer Grenade Queen, who was playing an online match of Halo Infinite only to receive abuse for being female. Blackley responded by saying that “This wasn’t the future for Xbox Live we envisioned. As a community and with the help of Microsoft this needs to be highlighted and stopped. It will take…

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Play-to-Earn Gaming Provides Multi-Layered Value to Investors

January 4, 2022 Joey-Bcrypto-gaming, metaverse, nft, nft-gaming, play-to-earn, venture-capital0 comment

Play games, get paid.This is the underlying message of play-to-earn, the term given to the increasingly popular business model in the gaming ecosystem that provides players with a chance to earn any form of in-game asset that can later be transferred to the world as a valuable resource.The most played such game is Splinterlands– think Pokémon cards meet World of Warcraft characters. Splinterlands gives its users the opportunity to earn cryptocurrency and NFTs while playing the game, which is the underlying principle of all current P2E games.But could it be this simple? Is play-to-earn the…

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Crypto Gaming: How Cryptocurrency and NFTs Affect Games Today

January 3, 2022 Joey-Bcrypto-gaming, cryptocurrency, gaming, nft-gaming, video games0 comment

Image taken via VGCIn the past few years, cryptocurrency has spread like wildfire. It continues to gain notoriety today, from the usage of GPUs to farm bitcoin to the rise of NFTs. While public opinion is extremely divided, one can’t deny how much money has been circulating as a result of cryptocurrency. And that’s most likely the reason why cryptocurrency is starting to break into the gaming industry as well.“Crypto Gaming” is a broad term. Video games with NFTs or cryptocurrency embedded within can easily fall under this umbrella, though…

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Hype around the metaverse drove NFT tokens up 42% in November

January 2, 2022 Joey-Bcrypto, markets, metaverse, mi exclusive, nfts, sandbox0 comment

Sand, the cryptocurrency of The Sandbox metaverse, rose 330% in November. The Sandbox NFT-linked cryptocurrencies stormed ahead in November, as investor interest in the metaverse surged. A basket of NFT cryptos rose 42% in November, making it the best performing part of the market. Sand, the native token of The Sandbox, shot up 330% in November, according to Kraken data seen by Insider. NFT-linked cryptocurrencies were by far the best performing group of digital assets in November, according to new data from the Kraken exchange, rising 42% as interest in…

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The Lay of the Cryptoland – Part II: NFTs, P2E Games, and DeFi

January 1, 2022 Joey-Bblockchain, defi, ethereum, nfts, play-to-earn0 comment

:::info This is the second part of The Lay of the Cryptoland. You can find the first part here: The Lay of the Cryptoland – Part I: Coins, Wallets, and Exchanges ::: \n While the last few years have seen scorching growth in cryptocurrency adoption, most of the mainstream attention and participation has been around speculative trading with different crypto tokens. This is illustrated by the Google Search trend comparison shared below. \ These are still early days. Probably, the crypto phenomenon that comes close to the interest in bitcoin…

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3 Best Metaverse Games to Follow in 2022

January 1, 2022 Joey-Bblockchain, metaverse, play-to-earn, virtual-worlds0 comment

World of Warcraft is one of the world’s most popular MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing game). It is developed by Blizzard Entertainment and has been around since 2004. Like many kids at that time, a young boy in Canada named Vitalik Buterin was a fan and an avid gamer of WoW. \ Sometime in 2010, he discovered that one of his prized characters in the game had been nerfed out of the blue. No warnings, no messages, no consent. The character had just been weakened all of a sudden. As…

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Watch Real-Life Squid Game Tournament In Mr. Beast’s YouTube Video

December 13, 2021 Joey-Bmr beast, squid games, youtube0 comment

Watch real-life Squid Game tournament in Mr. Beast’s YouTube video. Netflix scored one of its biggest hits of all-time with this year’s dystopian sci-fi tale of a mysterious tournament pitting ordinary debt-ridden South Korean citizens against each other in a deadly battle royale. Squid Game indeed struck a chord with international audiences for its depiction of a hopelessly cruel societal microcosm where figuring out the rules is just the beginning when it comes to survival. Adding to the show’s sense of brutal irony is the nature of the games themselves,…