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

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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

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:::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

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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

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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,…

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‘Skyrim: Anniversary Edition’ mod lets players choose additional content

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A new mod for Skyrim: Anniversary Edition allows players to pick and choose the creation club content they want to use. READ MORE: ‘Pokémon Brilliant Diamond’ review: a semi-triumphant return Skyrim: Anniversary Edition comes with 74 premium creation club content pieces that are automatically downloaded and installed when the game is launched. However, not everyone wants to use every piece of content, and those who go further with modding can benefit from fewer files in their data folder. To help alleviate this issue, Darkfox 127 has released the Skyrim Anniversary…

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Today’s Battlefield 2042 Update Adds New Portal Features and Makes Numerous Improvements

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DICE has rolled out Battlefield 2042 update 0.3.0, which brought with it a plethora of gameplay improvements, bug fixes, and new Portal features. The update is now available across all platforms globally. Patch notes are as follows: Fixes, Changes, and Improvements General The Recent Players screen now include everyone from previous matches to allow for easier user reporting Made improvements to the “Interaction” system by switching the default “INTERACT” text on multiple interactions to reflect the action you are about to do, i.e. “OPEN CONTAINER”, “CALL ELEVATOR” Resolved Kaleidoscope server…

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How Gotham Knights’ Court Of Owls May Be Different From The Comics

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  Various trailers for Gotham Knights suggest that the Court of Owls will be the game’s main villain, but the secret society may be very different from the comics. While DC Comics provides thousands of pages of material and inspiration for character adaptations in TV shows, movies, and video games, deviating from the original design can open new opportunities for developers. Batman villains have undergone serious thematic changes throughout the years, from Harley Quinn’s evolution to Killer Croc’s many forms, and it’s likely the Court of Owls could follow this…

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How Backbone & Superhot’s Narratives Retell Cronenberg’s Videodrome

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Two recent indie videogames paid homage to David Cronenberg’s cult classic Videodrome in very different ways. The innovative shooter Superhot mirrored Videodrome’s themes, with its story about media addiction and violence that leads to self-destructive transformation. Backbone, a pixel art adventure game featuring anthropomorphic animals in a walled city full of secrets, takes more inspiration from Videodrome’s story structure, and features the same imagery of transformative flesh as Cronenberg’s film. Videodrome is as relevant as ever, and creators have taken inspiration from different aspects of the film to produce imaginative and drastically…

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GTA Trilogy Finally Gets an Update to Fix a Plethora of Issues Across All Platforms

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Following a period of silence, Rockstar Games addressed the controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition yesterday, acknowledging that the title’s quality isn’t up to the mark. Now, the developer has rolled out an update for all three titles across all platforms to fix some of the most pressing issues reported by players. Patch notes for title update 1.02 are as follows: General – All Platforms Fixed multiple localization issues Fixed multiple instances of missing or misaligned collision Fixed multiple instances of holes in the map Fixed…

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Brawlhalla x Street Fighter collaboration adds Ryu, Chun-Li, and Akuma

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Brawlhalla and Street Fighter collide today in one of the free-to-play platform-fighter’s biggest crossovers yet. Ryu, Chun-Li, and Akuma are joining Brawlhalla’s cast as Epic Crossovers during a special event, and they’re bringing their best moves – including Ryu’s Hadoken and Chun-Li’s Spinning Bird Kick – to the battle. The event also adds a new game mode: Street Brawl, which adds health bars for one-on-one Street Fighter-style fights. Players can fight in a new map based on Suzaku Castle (Ryu’s classic stage), or get their hands on a Podium patterned…

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