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Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser has a new studio

Rockstar Games co-founder and former creative director Dan Houser has a new company. Absurd Ventures says it will build stories, characters and worlds across different mediums — including but not limited to video games. The 49-year-old left Rockstar Games in 2020. “Storytelling. Philanthropy. Ultraviolence.” That’s the tagline for Absurd Ventures, which launches with the two-minute […]

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‘Cocoon’ is worth getting excited about

Cocoon is a game that makes perfect sense while you're playing it. That would be an unremarkable achievement if it wasn't also a game that forces you to use its levels to solve themselves. At Summer Game Fest 2023 I had around half an hour to play through the game’s opening, and it has stuck […]

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Twitch will give smaller streamers a bigger cut of subscriptions

Twitch is giving livestreamers a considerably stronger incentive to grow their audiences. The service plans to roll out a Partner Plus program that will give more successful creators a 70 percent share of their net subscription revenue instead of the usual 50 percent, up to a $100,000 threshold in the calendar year. A partner will […]

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Institutional crypto broker FPG halts withdrawals after $20M cyberattack

Floating Point Group informed customers that withdrawals had been halted after experiencing a security breach on Sunday evening. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/rss Institutional crypto broker FPG halts withdrawals after M cyberattack

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Pro-Bitcoin Florida mayor Francis Suarez enters presidential race

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez signed paperwork on June 14 signaling his intention to run for the United States presidency. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/rss Pro-Bitcoin Florida mayor Francis Suarez enters presidential race