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Epic Games Store has changed its own rules to allow blockchain games to be sold on the platform.Epic Games Store had a blanket ban on all Adults Only titles, but it has recently adjusted its own rules to allow blockchain games.As it stands, all games based on blockchain technology or utilising NFTs are rated Adults Only by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) because of how they offer rewards that can be converted into real-world currency.“Products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on Epic Games Store [which also] treats unrated products as having a mature (18+) rating,” said the store’s rules but earlier this week, an amendment was added.

Ready Player One author Ernest Cline has teamed up with AI tech company Futureverse for a new “multi-IP” experience, similar to Fortnite.Announced late last night (January 4), Readyverse Studios has been set-up by Futureverse co-founders Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald alongside Cline and the producer of the Ready Player One film, Dan Farah.The first release from Readyverse Studios is set to be the Readyverse, which is due for launch later this year. According to a press release, The Readyverse is a “a dynamic interactive platform of interconnected digital experiences,” with many fans comparing it to Fortnite.Readyverse Studios has already confirmed a partnership with Warner Bros.

95 percent of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are all but worthless now, according to a new study by crypto research group dappGambl. It’s no secret that the once-hyped crypto assets — pitched as viable revenue streams for artists and ways for fans to invest in the creators they loved — have lost ground after reaching a peak trading value of $17 billion in 2021.

blunt with their consequences.Ashton Kutcher and his wife Mila Kunis reportedly owe the Securities and Exchange Commission $1 million in fines after the SEC found that the embattled couple had been conducting unregistered offers of crypto asset securities. The government agency also claimed in a press release that Kutcher, 45, and Kunis, 40, were misleading investors for their new series “Stoner Cats.”According to the release, the project sold more than 10,000 NFTs for a profit of $8 million in order to finance the animated series, but by doing so, the SEC claimed that they had violated the Securities Act of 1933 “by offering and selling these crypto asset securities to the public in an unregistered offering that was not exempt from registration.”“Stoner Cats,” which stars Kunis, Kutcher, Chris Rock and Jane Fonda and several other high-profile celebrities, tells the story of a group of cats as they attempt to take care of their marijuana-smoking owner who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease/Reps for both Kunis and Kutcher were contacted by The Post for comment.

David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ is set to be released alongside a series of NFTs.To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ‘Let’s Dance’, blockchain platform Gala Music has teamed up with writer and producer Larry Dvoskin (David Bowie, Robert Plant, Bono, The Beach Boys) to release a limited series of David Bowie inspired digital collectibles.The series goes live April 14, giving fans early access to a previously-unheard version of ‘Let’s Dance’ which was recorded 19 years after the original and produced by Dvoskin.“I am first and foremost a huge Bowie fan. It would have been a mistake to attempt to copy the original.

David Bowie digital art project approved by the late artist’s estate is set to launch next week.The venture is a partnership between the Bowie estate, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Andrew D. Keller and Joaquin Acrich’s Web3 company We Love The Arts.Set to launch on September 13 on OpenSea, Bowie On The Blockchain is being billed as “a first-of-its-kind multiple artist NFT sale” that will bring together the work of nine NFT artists.Each artist, including Pussy Riot‘s Nadya Tolokonnikova, has created “their own unique takes paying homage to David Bowie and his influence across their artistic and personal identities”, according to a press release.Tolokonnikova said in a statement about Bowie On The Blockchain: “David Bowie to me is a platonic ideal of an artist, charismatic, passionate, imaginative, magnetic af, he always puts art x curiosity x subversion over profit, a magician and a muse.

Muse‘s ‘Will Of The People’ is on course to become the first ever UK Number One album that uses NFT (non-fungible token) technology.The Devon-formed trio’s ninth studio record, which arrived last Friday (August 26), is currently outselling the rest of the Top 10 albums combined, according to the latest update from the Official Charts Company.Behind Muse in the Top Five is Harry Styles‘ ‘Harry’s House’ (Number Two), Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ (Number Three), Embrace‘s ‘How To Be A Person Like Other People’ (Number Four) and DJ Khaled‘s ‘God Did‘ (Number Five).Should Matt Bellamy and co.

Travis Barker and Aitch are among a host of artists set to launch new NFTs with LimeWire as the file sharing site relaunches as a crypto marketplace.Over the coming weeks, they will launch new collectibles on the marketplace alongside the likes of Brandy, Nicky Jam and more.“I have always been interested in Web3 and NFTs so I am pretty stoked to release my first NFT collection and to do it on LimeWire,” Barker said in a statement.“I hope that my NFT collection will inspire aspiring artists and fans who want to learn about my creative journey and how I make music. LimeWire has created a platform that makes exciting content like this accessible to all of my fans – even ones who are unfamiliar with Web3.”The Blink-182 drummer’s collection, his first ever NFTs, will feature “behind-the-scenes footage of himself working in the studio, allowing the NFT collectors to have a first-hand look at his creative process.

Jack White has distanced himself from The White Stripes NFTs released last year, and expressed his dislike of the format.In April 2021, the band announced that a visualiser of the The Glitch Mob remix of their track ‘Seven Nation Army’ would be sold as an NFT also containing a number of unique art pieces.The remix also landed on streaming services a few days later and was then available for purchase on physical vinyl in June through White’s Third Man Records.Now, in a new interview with The Atlantic, White expressed his distaste for NFTs and said that last year’s release was driven by management.“I don’t want to come out and say ‘I had nothing to do with this,’ ” he said. “It is my band.

paid 20.0Ξ — which equates to $39,535 — for an NFT titled “Devotion.” The work is one of “The Wild Within” series (which consists of 13 NFTs in total) by artists Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell, who capture abandoned buildings from the USSR. The image shows a dilapidated Soviet-era sanatorium in Georgia — specifically, the once-famed Tskaltubo resort, which was a popular health destination known for its therapeutic waters.“This one stops me. James Joyce said that’s a good thing.

NFTs in a recent phishing scam – including one image from the Bored Ape Yacht Club series that he had been intending to base a new TV show around.Fred Simian, an ape pictured with a halo and a skeleton t-shirt, was sold for over $200,000 after the actor, producer, writer and director unwittingly visited a phishing site on May 8.The image was then acquired by a user named DarkWing84, and from there to GBE_Vault. The image’s transaction history can be traced through the NFT platform OpenSea (per Consequence).Green is particularly concerned that no longer owns the commercial rights to the character, due to appear in his latest project, Whitehorse Tavern.“Well frens it happened to me.

she has released three NFTs (short for nonfungible token, it is a dumb internet trend that I refuse to accept or understand) of a 3D-animated version of herself completely nude, spread-eagle and giving birth to centipedes and full-size trees.And it’s not even Arbor Day.Like a porn scene from “Westworld,” a fembot Madonna sits on a metal operating table in a sterile lab while Central Park exits, in clown-car fashion, from between her legs. The song “Justify My Love” plays in the background. Huh.

EXIT Festival organisers have announced a new NFT collection ahead of this year’s main event.The collection, which will start minting at this year’s Tomorrow conference on May 14, will include headphones featuring EXIT’s first logo from 2001 in 3D as well as the Tribe gift collection, intended for the earliest members of the the festival’s Discord community.Owners of EXIT’s NFT art will also have the opportunity to hang out with some of EXIT’s headliners this year, as well as being granted exclusive access to the Dance Arena stage and secret parties at hidden locations across the festival site.For more information on the NFT collection, as well as how to purchase and mint, head here.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will headline this year’s bash at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia from July 7-10, alongside acts which include Calvin Harris, Napalm Death, Jax Jones, Honey Dijon, Maceo Plex, ZHU, James Arthur and Marky Ramone. You can view the full line-up so far below.Getting closer to #EXIT2k22 and our stellar acts! Let's welcome @Noisia_nl & other #XBass names joining @CalvinHarris, @nickcave, @IGGYAZALEA, @JamesArthur23, @maskedwolfmusic, @BB_BORISBREJCHA, @MaceoPlex, @sepulturacombr & more! On 7-10 July at https://t.co/sNb0VZlM8W! pic.twitter.com/CPH5HsY0C5— EXIT Festival (@ExitFestival) April 22, 2022Tickets are on sale now and can purchased here.

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aimé has talked about his interest in blockchain technology and how it could be applied to different games.As noted by Nintendo Life, Fils-Aimé was recently at SXSW, where he sat down for an hour-long interview (published on April 26) and answered questions about the current state of the games industry.The discussion turned to blockchain and crypto – which can be seen in the video embedded below – where Fils Aimé expressed his positive ideas behind the currently evolving technology.“So I’m a believer in blockchain, I think it’s a really compelling technology,” Fils-Aimé said. “I’m also a believer in the concept of “play to own” within video games, and I say this as a player where I may have invested 50 hours, 100 hours, or 300 hours in a game, and when I’m ready to move on to something else, wouldn’t it be great to monetise what I’ve built?”These comments follow widespread disregard for the blockchain and associated ideas from developers and players, as earlier this month CCP games shut down the idea that NFTs and the blockchain would appear in EVE Online.“I bet I’d have some takers here today if I wanted to sell my Animal Crossing island from the latest Nintendo Switch version; I’d like to be able to monetise that.

Kevin Smith has shared further details about his new horror film KillRoy Was Here, which is set to be the first film ever released as an NFT.Directed and by Smith and based on a script he co-wrote with Andy McElfresh, the horror anthology features a creature that kills evil adults on behalf of their traumatised child victims. Smith also produced the film with Jordan Monsanto and David Shapiro.KillRoy Was Here will be released as an NFT that also includes exclusive content from the film, behind-the-scenes footage, and a commentary track (per Deadline).

ordered to be shut down in 2010 following a court injunction that was issued by US federal court judge Kimba Wood.LimeWire is now set to return in its new guise as “a one-stop marketplace for artists and fans alike to create, buy and trade digital collectibles without the technical crypto requirements of the current NFT landscape”.Initially focusing on music, the company is aiming “to bring digital collectibles into the mainstream” and attract one million users in its first year “through partnerships with major artists in the music industry”.LimeWire say that music fans will be able to buy and trade a variety of “music-related assets” on their marketplace, including limited edition releases, pre-release music, unreleased demos, graphical artwork, exclusive live versions, digital merchandise and backstage content.A collaborative line-up featuring “big names in the music industry” is set to be announced when LimeWire officially relaunches in May, while artists and creators who are interested in being part of the marketplace can use the LimeWire waitlist page to sign up for early access.LimeWire co-CEO Paul Zehetmayr said in a statement that “the biggest challenge with digital collectibles and the broader crypto market in general is that it’s really limited to a small group of savvy users”.“There are big players on the market already, but the entry barrier is still too big to allow for mainstream adoption. Most music fans do not own any cryptocurrency or have access to a crypto wallet, let alone understand the mechanics of collectibles on the blockchain.

Valve president Gabe Newell recently spoke out about the metaverse, and is not entirely sold on the concept overall.Speaking to PC Gamer, when asked if he believes metaverse trends are pushing technology forward, Newell responded, “There’s a bunch of get rich quick schemes around metaverse. Most of the people who are talking about metaverse have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about, and they’ve apparently never played an MMO.

Pussy Riot‘s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has launched a new organisation that will sell NFTs to support the relief effort in Ukraine.Ukraine has officially severed diplomatic ties with Russia and declared martial law after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation this week (February 24), with Ukraine saying that Putin had “launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine” (via BBC News).AS part of a new organisation called Ukraine DAO, created in association with Trippy Labs, Tolokonnikova will sell NFTs to support those in Ukraine suffering because of the Russian invasion. Earlier this year, Tolokonnikova and her Pussy Riot bandmate Nika Nikulshina were labelled as “foreign agents” by the Russian government.She explained on Twitter: “Welcome to @Ukraine_DAO.

Soulja Boy and Lil Yachty, and YouTube personality Jake Paul, are among the defendants in a class action lawsuit over an alleged cryptocurrency “pump and dump” scheme.As reported by ClassAction.org, a lawsuit claims that Soulja, Yachty and Paul, as well as musician Nick Carter and YouTuber Ben Phillips, were recruited by the company SafeMoon to misleadingly promote and sell the cryptocurrency token ‘V1’.It is alleged that the endorsements were intended to artificially inflate the currency’s value, allowing founder and CEO Braden John Karony and other executives to sell their holdings for a profit while numbers were high.The suit says that the so-called ‘pump and dump’ strategy saw the value of the SafeMoon token rise “astronomically” after its creation in March 2021. It claims that the trading volume for SafeMoon tokens shot up a staggering 875 percent within nine days of the celebrity-driven marketing campaign, peaking at $191.6 million on April 22, according to the complaint.Central to the lawsuit is SafeMoon’s promise to create a designated ‘wallet’, in which investors would “have a better place” to hold their tokens.

Boy George has announced the launch of an NFT collection titled CryptoQueenz, which has been created to mark the release of seven new songs.As reported by Rolling Stone, the musician will be unveiling 9,999 unique non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the CryptoQueenz site and OpenSea from March 1. Each NFT will include the face of the famous Boy George artwork ‘Scarman’, combined with his renowned hat collection.Sales from each of the NFTs will also support the LGBTQ+ community, with two per cent of the proceeds going to the Elton John Aids Foundation and Shelter.

Lupe Fiasco‘s heavily bootlegged track ‘Hustlaz’ has finally hit streaming services just as the rapper prepares to launch his own range of NFT releases.The track originally appearing on 2006’s ‘Lupe The Jedi’ mixtape as ‘Hustlaz Due’, and was originally due to appear on his album ‘Food & Liquor’ before a leak of the album saw it disappear off the version that was eventually released.“I’m just a rose in weeds/And I rolls with reasons to stay on this road I lead,” Lu raps on the second’s second verse.