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Why This Team of Ninjas Is Tripling Down on Mining Bitcoin
Ninjas in Pyjamas Group, the company behind the legendary esports team, has acquired a third batch of Bitcoin miners in exchange for over 247 million Class A ordinary shares. Hicham Chahine, the founder and CEO of NIP Group, told Decrypt that he wants to bet on Bitcoin mining while the market is "cooling," rather than when it's hot and competition is higher. He added that the facilities could be used for artificial intelligence in the future. "Now that this tranche is closed, we're at roughly 1...
Oct 8, 2026
Gaming
Former PlayStation Exec Slams Sony's Move to Kill Discs: 'What Are You Buying?'
Shawn Layden, a former PlayStation executive, has questioned Sony's plan to stop producing physical discs for its game consoles as of 2028. The gaming vet called it a "heavily spreadsheeted decision" and said the move has damaged the company's reputation. Gamers have slammed Sony's decision to kill discs since the July announcement, with a physical gaming advocacy group calling for an organized boycott and a "Don't Kill the Disc" petition gaining over 385,000 signatures. Still, Sony appears unsh...
Oct 1, 2026
Gaming
Minecraft, Candy Crush Among 11 Games in EU Virtual Currency Crackdown
European consumer authorities have opened eleven coordinated actions against ten video games companies over the way they sell and price in-game virtual currencies, the European Commission said Wednesday. The Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, which groups national enforcement bodies and is coordinated by the Commission, named Activision Blizzard UK, Crytek, InnoGames, King.com, Mojang, Plarium Europe, PLR Worldwide Sales, Riot Games, Supercell and Ubisoft EMEA in a joint statement. The gam...
Sep 29, 2026
Gaming
Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games
Someone finally did it. A public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, works on firmware 7.00 through 13.60 and all it takes to achieve is a DNS change and a few seconds. It comes at an interesting time for the company, just weeks removed from Sony's admission in court that its players don't actually own the games they buy digitally. Myriad: Who wins the ESL Pro League? Click to make your prediction. The recipe, posted on X by Nathan Fargo and shared by console scene figure ApolloHB, consists o...
Sep 12, 2026
Gaming
GTA Mod Adds Flock Cameras—And Lets Players Destroy Them
A Grand Theft Auto V mod has added 235 simulated Flock surveillance cameras to Los Santos, giving players a new source of police attention—and something else to blow up. Created by modder WTTDOTM, Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader adds cameras that photograph and track players and report in-game offenses to police. Players can destroy the devices throughout the fictional city and save the footage to share online. Myriad: CS2 knife index next move? Click to make your prediction. “Flock i...
Sep 3, 2026
Gaming
Sony Dismisses PS5 Buyers' $508M Tariff Refund Claim as 'Illogical'
Sony has asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action demanding that PlayStation 5 buyers get a share of the $508 million it expects to recover in tariff refunds, in a motion filed Monday and reported by Game File. "Paying fair market price for voluntarily purchased consumer goods is not a legally cognizable injury in fact," Sony's lawyers wrote. They called the claim that tariffs caused the August 2025 price rise "speculative and illogical." The firm pointed to inflation, currency moves, com...