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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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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Marvel Snap reassures players it will ‘continue to operate’ despite closure of publisher Nuverse as TikTok parent ByteDance looks to exit gaming

Following a report that Marvel Snap publisher Nuverse is being wound down by parent company ByteDance as part of a complete withdrawal from the videogame business, developer Second Dinner says the game “will continue to operate and flourish” into the future. Concerns about the future of Marvel Snap followed a Reuters report citing multiple sources…

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