- Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda Expressed His Enthusiasm for Blockchain and NFT Games Square Enix, the publisher behind the popular Final Fantasy series, is continuing to invest in blockchain games and believes that recent market volatility can ultimately be beneficial to its plans. In its New Year letter for 2023, Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda said that the company remains focused on blockchain entertainment and that changes in the macroeconomy and potential regulations could lead to the growth of blockchain games.
Square Enix first declared support for blockchain entertainment in 2021 and has since been developing games using blockchain and NFTs (non-fungible tokens). In its New Year letter, Matsuda noted that although the cryptocurrency... Continue reading
- Apex Legends Players Outraged as Hackers Exploit Empty Ranked Servers for Boosting Apex Legends players have been left outraged after discovering that hackers are exploiting empty ranked servers in Bahrain to boost their accounts to Predator and snipe high-level players. The servers are almost completely empty due to the location of Bahrain, which has caused most players to migrate to other, more populated servers.
This has allowed hackers to boost their accounts without fear of being reported or getting into a party with other players trying to snipe each other. It has become a popular method for hackers to gain an advantage over other players, and many players have been left frustrated by... Continue reading
- What You Need to Know About Using Schematics in Minecraft 1.19 Building a world in Minecraft can be quite a complicated process, especially since there should be a lot of buildings, and they will probably be used by other players. To make the task easier, tools such as MCedit and WorldEdit have appeared that will help both experienced players and beginners. The main principle of operation of such programs is to provide the ability to save and import schemes that other players have created in Minecraft. In other words, these tools will allow you to build various buildings and even entire cities in a matter of minutes. To use schematics in... Continue reading
- Venmo and PayPal Adding Wallet App Support, Apple Pay For Shopping Online, and Tap to Pay Feature on iPhone PayPal plans to soon provide new opportunities for sellers and buyers who use the iPhone, Apple Pay, and other services. The platform plans to add a Tap to Pay feature for merchants who use the app with an iPhone, and it will now support Apple Pay at checkout. The announcement of this update was officially made by PayPal in the report for the third quarter of the current year. This decision was made as part of a closer collaboration with Apple in order to make the use of Venmo and PayPal even more convenient for buyers and sellers.
Dan Schulman, PayPal... Continue reading
- Google Launches Package Tracking Feature Ahead of Holidays Google made a small but extremely useful update for users on the eve of the holidays. Now users will be able to track all their parcels directly from their mailbox. Due to the fact that the correspondence contains information about orders, Google algorithms will search for such information and mark it separately in the inbox.
Thus, such an update will save the user from the routine of viewing emails in order to find out the details of orders. Instead, all the necessary information will be displayed under the sender's name in a special green label. A small truck icon will be... Continue reading
- Spotify's Car Thing Was Unlocked Allowing Mods to be Installed If you're a Spotify fan, then the Car Thing might have caught your eye. Unfortunately, it's no longer available for purchase. Why? Because it was a bit of a flop. In fact, it was so unpopular that Spotify only ever made a limited number of them.
So what exactly was the Car Thing? It was a device that you could plug into your car's cigarette lighter socket. It had a large display screen and physical buttons, and its purpose was to let you control Spotify hands-free while driving. Sounds great in theory, but in practice it wasn't very user-friendly. The buttons... Continue reading
- Writers of CoD: Modern Warfare 2 Wish to Make a Ghost Spin-off It's been over 10 years since the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and fans are still clamoring for a spin-off game starring one of the most popular characters in the franchise - Ghost.
With a new Call of Duty game releasing every year, it's easy to see why some fans might be getting impatient for a Ghost game. However, there's no denying that MW2 is still one of the most popular games in the series, and its popularity is only increasing with time.
It's no secret that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 writers would love to see... Continue reading
- TikTok Develops Live Shopping on the US Market The social network TikTok aims to reach the audience that goes to the app for short videos and those who like to shop live. The tool is hugely popular in Asia, but the company intends to go further.
Live shopping has not caught on at all in Europe. For example, Facebook and YouTube attempted to launch streaming sales, but they all proved futile. So far, there is no clear explanation for why the same tool performed well in some countries and failed in others.
It became known that TikTok plans to launch live sales in the U.S. market. To do it, it... Continue reading
- Nintendo Switch Online Announced Exclusive Option for Subscribers Online gaming service Nintendo has made an exclusive update for its subscribers. It is timed to coincide with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
It is about branded profile icons. In September, players could already use such icons. The developers created them, following the console's original design, and the new icons will have images of the main characters of the games.
The images, which players will see in October, will feature characters from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. A fresh avatar featuring a new character will be available each following week. The first series of unique designs... Continue reading
- GTA 5 Story Mode: How to Transfer Progress to New Generation Consoles Switching to a new generation of consoles can be a headache for avid gamers, especially if you crave to get a sure 100% completion of your favorite game. Fortunately, the Rockstar Games developers have taken care of their customers and provided some handy features to help them transfer GTA 5 Story Mode progress from old devices to freshly purchased ones. If you want to do it, read our instructions.
Why Transfer Progress?
GTA 5 is a very long and versatile game. If you have painstakingly collected all the achievements, developed your character step by step, and opened Easter eggs, you are unlikely... Continue reading
- Possible Return of the Popular Crossover in Fall Guys Today, Fall Guys is one of the most popular online battle royale games. In the year of release alone, over 2 million copies were sold. Such success is due not only to the exciting gameplay but also to the constant emergence of new content.
So, the developers regularly add crossovers to Fall Guys, which allow everyone to fight in battles in the skins of their favorite characters from other projects. One of the latest collaborations is with Sonic the Hedgehog. From August 11th to August 15th, players could purchase skins of five leading characters: Tails, Knuckles, Eggman, Super Sonic, and the... Continue reading
- The Apple AR/VR headset could be here as soon as January 2023 The Apple AR/VR headset could be here as soon as January 2023, according to one of the leading Apple analysts in the business. In an industry note seen by 9to5Mac, the usually reliable Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted that the new hardware is "likely" to be announced in January 2023, but he also says that it may not go on sale to consumers at the same time.
This would be Apple's first foray into the world of virtual and augmented reality, and it is said that the company is working on two different devices. The first is a pair of lightweight AR... Continue reading