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Sony Axing Game Discs Will Have Outsized Impact on Low-Income Gamers, Experts Say
Experts say a disc-free PlayStation will price out low-income players, while in much of Africa, digital-only gaming means breaking Sony’s rules.
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US Charges Six in Alleged Madagascar NFT Wallet-Draining Scheme
An FBI affidavit estimates at least $516,695 in losses across 74 victim-linked wallets and describes unlimited USDT spending approvals.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NBA becomes third league to sign CFTC prediction market pact, taps Kalshi and Polymarket
The CFTC and NBA have agreed to put in place standards to protect the integrity of the game when it comes to prediction markets.
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Game Publishers Have Pushed to Cut Discs Since 2007, Infinity Ward Veteran Says
Robert Bowling, who spent six years working on Call of Duty, told Decrypt that Activision suggested cutting discs nearly two decades ago.
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Yuga Labs Launches Mudwater Trading-Card NFTs on Solana
Each Bored Ape qualifies for 10 packs and each Mutant Ape for two, while OpenSea reports 78.3 ETH in pack trading volume.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Doodles' DOOD Token Surges 212% to a $38 Million Market Cap
The collection's NFT floor rose 7.4% in ETH, while reported token trading volume reached $213 million over 24 hours.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OpenSea Opens Mobile App to All Users, Pays Referrers 25% of Fees
The marketplace said its social feed pulls trades from across crypto apps rather than its own users, and that 76% of the 56,000-plus beta signups were active.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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'Mentality Issue': PlayStation Founder Waves Away Disc Ownership Anger
PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi pushed back against anger at Sony's decision to stop producing physical game discs.
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Crypto’s 2026 shutdown wave claims 82 projects. What went wrong?
Crypto projects are struggling to survive as falling revenues, depleted funding and security breaches force closures across DeFi, blockchain infrastructure and gaming.
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Super League Shareholders Back Metaplanet’s 2,100 BTC Investment
The gaming-media company plans to become Superplanet, a Nasdaq-listed US Bitcoin treasury platform, with closing expected in Q4 2026.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Unagi Puts Persona and Ultimate Champions Up for Sale in Liquidation
The sale includes Persona’s intellectual property, a treasury of 957 NFTs and the UNA token contracts, with offers due November 2.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot
Bitcoin Magazine Math Professor Warns of Threat to Bitcoin from AI Pivot Could anyone actually break Bitcoin? Micah Warren, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon and author of Bitcoin: A Game-Theoretic Analysis, joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to break down Bitcoin’s...
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GTA 6 Trailer Features Meme Coin—And Solana Copycat Soars 2,900%
Rockstar released the launch trailer for GTA VI, revealing a potential meme coin in the upcoming game and sending degens wild.
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GTA 6 leaker threatens dead man’s switch for endgame spoilers
Pseudonymous GTA 6 leaker “Cyberleek” has threatened to reveal the long-awaited game’s ending if they're caught, but won’t be leaking content regularly anymore because of their poorly performing crypto token. Last week, Protos reported that Cyberleek had ended their hiatus to drop more GTA 6 leaks...
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Largest Philippines crypto exchange, Coins.ph, said to face central bank regulatory action
The exchange, which has over 18 million customers, is said to have handled business transactions involving restricted offshore gaming and gambling companies.
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AI Powered PlayStation Crack Could Let You Play GTA 6 on PC at Launch
AnyPS5 is working to get any PS5 game running natively on PC—and gamers are hoping it'll work for the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto.
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NFT Marketplace Blur to Shut Down Website, Stop New Blend Loans Next Month
The shutdown comes as NFT trading volumes have collapsed from their 2021-2022 peak, with market revenue projected at $318 million this year.
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Blur is shutting down its website, so why are NFT collectors cheering?
Blur’s planned website closure revived criticism of the royalty policies and token rewards that helped it overtake OpenSea during the NFT boom, but hurt creators.
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Once-largest Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur is shutting down after volumes collapse 99%
Blur will close its website on Nov. 12 after monthly trading fell from about $1.43 billion at its 2023 peak to under $7 million, ten days after sister project Blast announced its own shutdown.
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Blur to shut down frontend next month as NFT trading volume dwindles
The NFT marketplace's frontend next month while the protocol stays onchain. The BLUR token fell more than 20%.
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From GTA V on iPhone to Free Photoshop: This AI Tool Is Upending Software
REA, a free toolkit that hands AI agents the keys to reverse engineering, crossed 100,000 GitHub stars in a week as AI-decompiled game mods, console ports, and Adobe clones flood the internet.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe
Executives are war-gaming the political fallout of a major AI-driven cyberattack and preparing to brief Congress fast if and when necessary.
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NFL backs New Jersey authorities in SCOTUS petition over Kalshi
According to the league, Kalshi and other prediction markets “threaten game integrity” because many event contracts are “highly susceptible to manipulation.”
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AI Video Game Mod Mashups Are Taking Off—Here Are the Wackiest Examples
Minecraft in Elden Ring, Skate in Call of Duty, and Spider-Man in Gotham. AI vibe coders are creating crazy video game mashup mods.
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SecondFi offers $8 for every unrecoverable NFT lost in $21M hack
Cardano wallet firm SecondFi finally launched a recovery portal for victims of the neo-finance platform’s $21 million hack , but will only pay roughly $8 for every unrecoverable NFT taken. SecondFi says victims looking to recover their assets will be assessed with an “incident snapshot” based on...
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Google Lets You Build a Video Game by Typing a Description
Google's Playground turns a typed description into a playable, shareable game, no coding required. It's live for U.S. adults, with creation access tiered by Google AI subscription.
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Chasing 100x tokens is game of ‘irrational exuberance,’ says Polymarket CEO
Some traders are looking for more predictable prediction market opportunities, rather than playing “hot potato” with the next 100x gem, according to Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan.
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Flying Tulip’s NFT Options Market Tops $5 Million in Volume, Cronje Says
Buying an ftPUT NFT transfers its remaining FT tokens and redemption rights, while spot FT purchases carry no such protection.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Porsche scraps NFT project with floor price down 96%
Porsche has written off its 911 NFT project PIONΞERS CIRCLE, leaving buyers with digital artworks that are down 96%. PIONΞERS CIRCLE gave NFT holders access to various events, awards, and other opportunities that came with purchasing one of the NFTs modelled after the Porsche 911. Porsche didn’t...
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Porsche’s ‘long haul’ Web3 project ends in less than four years
Porsche is winding down its Web3 project and Pioneers Circle community as trading activity in its 911 NFT collection falls sharply from early levels.