With Sam Bankman-Fried in the slammer, now the fugitive crypto ‘Lunatic’ behind 2022’s $40B crash is being extradited from his Montenegrin getaway

Do Kwon, former crypto darling and now fugitive, was arrested in Montenegro this March while attempting to flee to Dubai. The High Court in Podgorica, the Montenegrin capital, has now given approval for Do Kwon’s extradition, though whether he’ll be off to South Korea or the US, both of which have open arrest warrants for…

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The Source Code For Infocom’s Amazing Code-Porting Tools Has Now Been Preserved

Thanks to the interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin. Earlier this month, a bunch of source code for Infocom’s code-porting tools was finally preserved online, thanks to the efforts of influential interactive fiction designer and industry figure Andrew Plotkin (cheers Ars Technica for the spot!). This comes four years after the internet archivist Jason Scott published…

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Skyrim player amasses 267,000 gold lifetime bounty after killing ‘everything that was killable,’ and all you can really do is tearfully salute it

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants,” said the greatest philosopher who ever lived: Mass Effect 2’s Thane Krios, “then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.” And friends, I’m excited to announce that war has officially provideth-ed for every man, goat, chicken and guard…

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Bethesda’s still responding to negative Starfield reviews with cheesy taglines, and at this point I just want the studio’s reply brigade to log off

Just over a week ago, I talked about how Starfield was getting a beating on Steam. From where I’m sitting, it’s just a result of hype not meeting expectations. It’s a decent game, it’s just that ‘decent’ is a huge problem when we were all strapped in for the next big Bethesda RPG. One thing…

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Skater XL Finally Sticks A Switch Release Date

Grinding onto Nintendo’s hybrid system this December. If you’re looking for another skateboard fix on the Switch, it seems Easy Day Studios will finally be releasing Skater XL on the hybrid device this December. Yes, after bailing on a Switch release way back in 2020, the developer has now locked in a 5th December 2023…

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