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Blizzard tweaks loot boxes in Heroes of the Storm amid gambling controversy

Players of Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm noticed something in the latest patch notes: the developers were removing the ability to buy loot boxes with real money. Given the battle that game publishers are fighting with officials across the globe over loot boxes, it’s possible this is an sign of things to come — an experiment Blizzard is running with one of its smaller games that could prevent trouble for its bigger ones, and gauge how an invested community of gamers will respond. дальше »

2019-3-26 19:20


Rick Falkvinge Says Bitcoin Lightning Network Will Never Be Production Ready

The Bitcoin Cash supporter Rick Falkvinge said that the Lightning Network (LN) will never be production ready. He has also said that it is a project “dead end for all intents and purposes.” The Lightning Network is the off-chain scaling solution that Bitcoin (BTC) developers are working on to help Bitcoin scale. Bitcoin Cash is […] дальше »

2019-3-24 22:53


Another metric where Holochain beats BTC, ETH and other blockchains: HOT devs are most active on Github

GitHub activity is a telling metric when analyzing liveliness of crypto projects. After all, if the devs don’t work on the promised product, nothing else really matters. GitHub activity refers to the contributions of developers to open-source projects on the popular code repository GitHub. дальше »

2019-3-22 02:30


What Is Bitcoin’s Graftroot? Another Privacy Enhancing Feature

Bitcoin developers currently have a significant challenge ahead of them, perhaps the biggest one they faced so far: improving the Core’s privacy and efficiency. Most of their efforts seem to be focused on the Schnorr signatures technology, a key piece of code which further unlocks improvements like Taproot and the topic of today’s article, Graftroot. дальше »

2019-3-22 00:17


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Lightning Loop Lets Users Empty Lightning Channels Without Closing Them

Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely. дальше »

2019-3-22 20:32


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After Google, Walmart is reportedly building a game streaming service

USgamer reports that retail giant Walmart is working on a game streaming service, hopping on the now-heavily-burdened bandwagon that includes Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Sony. That’s from the media outlet’s sources, which say that the company has been in talks with game developers and publishers about it over the past few months. дальше »

2019-3-21 14:38


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Jack Dorsey: Square Will Pay Bitcoin Devs To Build Open-Source Ecosystem

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed a major scheme to pay developers to build out the Bitcoin ecosystem with open source technology. Dorsey Plans To ‘Give Back’ To Open Source In a move which underscored the tech mogul’s appreciation of both cryptocurrency and freely accessible innovation, Dorsey said he will hire “3-4 crypto engineers and 1 designer” to contribute to crypto full time – and pay them in BTC. дальше »

2019-3-21 11:00


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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he will pay you to work on Bitcoin full-time

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made an offering to the cryptocurrency community: he will pay developers to work full-time on Bitcoin Core and other “cryptocurrency ecosystem” projects. Are you currently contributing to bitcoin-core or other crypto ecosystem projects for free in your off-time? We’d like to pay you to do it full-time. дальше »

2019-3-21 01:47


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Disney bolsters Lucasfilm Games for a bright Star Wars future [Updated]

[Update 5pm] Lucasfilm got in touch with us to let us know the job postings that raised this speculation were to beef up an internal team that assists game developers with licensed IP. It’s not so much a “mysterious project” as it is all the upcoming Star Wars stuff we already know about, such as Respawn’s Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, which is due to come out later this year. дальше »

2019-3-21 19:51


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Stadia’s Google Assistant integration is the gaming feature I never knew I needed

Google today revealed just what kind of hat it intends to throw in the gaming ring — a cloud streaming service called Stadia. Most of the news was a lot of blue sky development jargon, but it did reveal one thing about Stadia that’ll probably do more to help gamers than any new controller or lack of latency: a dedicated walkthrough button. дальше »

2019-3-20 01:52