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Players in World of Warcraft can now have virtual cats curl up in their virtual laps
People are already able to play video games and have their cats curl up in their laps—but now World of Warcraft players can have their cats in games curl up on their characters’ laps. It’s cat lap inception! This recent addition to Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.’s cultural juggernaut massively multiplayer role playing game (MMORPG) allows players ...
Shenmue III breaks Kickstarter video game funding record at $6 million
In what looks like a massive coup for fan culture and community interest, Yu Suzuki’s newest game of the Shenmue series is becoming a reality. The Kickstarter for Shenmue III was announced at E3 2015 during the Sony PlayStation press conference with a seemingly modest goal of $2 million, which the game has handily exceeded ...
ESPN personality known for criticism of esports leaves company
Gaming site GameSpot reports today that Colin Cowherd has left ESPN. Cowherd is well known as one of ESPN’s top personalities; but to the gaming community he’s better known for being an outspoken critic of esports from several statements made back in April. ESPN President John Skipper posted a short-but-sweet departure note for Cowherd, “We’ve ...
Bitnet and BlockCypher partner to offer ‘Instant Approval’ for Bitcoin merchants
Today Bitnet Technologies Ltd., an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, announced a deal with BlockCypher, Inc., a blockchain web services company, to build a service that mitigates risk for merchants when accepting bitcoin payments. While bitcoin market volatility is mitigated by processing services that automatically liquidate bitcoins at the price point payments are made at, transaction ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 15: Bitcoin and Greece, Hacking Team tracing software, Coinsetter margin trades, Cloudminr hack
If it weren’t for a thriving Bitcoin ecosystem, this Weekly would be all about the Greek economic crisis. While Greece has received a vote on the bailout–and Bitcoin speculation has died down somewhat, taking the market value from a peak of $317 back to a more recognizable $289–but this has given way to speculations of a ...
BitTorrent Sync releases new API for developers, increases dev control
With an announcement today BitTorrent Inc. released a new API for BitTorrent Sync that provides developers greater control and deeper access to the peer-to-peer synchronization engine. As previously reported by SilicnAngle, BitTorrent Sync is a peer-to-peer synchronization offering that allows businesses to eschew the cloud for replicating files. When BitTorrent first released the API for ...
Epic’s forums hacked, taken offline during investigation
Epic Games, Inc., developer of the Unreal Engine and the Unreal series of first person shooters, is currently sending out e-mails warning users that its forums have been subject to a hack. The e-mail, in part, warns that the hackers may have gotten away with a lot of personal information given to Epic Games by ...
Chef bridges the gap to Amazon Web Services with 1-click deployment launch
Last week DevOps automation industry leader Chef Software, Inc. announced the availability of Chef for the Amazon Web Services, Inc. cloud environment. This update also brings the configuration management and automation capabilities of Chef into the AWS cloud by enabling 1-click deployment for Chef, which allows customers rapid ease-of-install when migrating through the cloud. Chef is following ...
Coinsetter opens up Bitcoin for margin trades and shorting to all users
New York City-based Bitcoin exchange Coinsetter Inc. just announced margin trading capability for all its users. This functionality was previously available to only select business users and allowed those users to trade or short on the deliverable bitcoin market with up to 5.0x leverage. This service is now open to all users. “Coinsetter has made ...
Lizard Squad throws DDoS tantrum over taunts from CEO of Daybreak Games
“So I’m coming for you Julius.” These were the words of John Smedley, CEO of Daybreak Game Company (previously Sony Online Entertainment), when berating 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki on Twitter. The Finnish teen, who has apparent ties to Lizard Squad, was convicted over 50,000 counts of computer crime related charges, but given a 2-year commuted ...