Author: Jeremy Ryan

Schell Games, the veteran VR studio behind spy-themed puzzle series I Expect You to Die and Among Us 3D, confirmed it has laid off 40% of staff in effort to stay afloat. “We’re very sad to say that due to this challenging time in the game industry, Schell Games has found it necessary to lay off a significant number of employees in order to ensure a sustainable future for our studio,” the studio announced in a LinkedIn post on Saturday. “While this will enable us to stay stable moving forward, it is incredibly painful as we are losing some fantastic…

Fenris Creations released Carbon, the engine behind EVE Online and EVE Frontier, as open source on July 1, 2026 The release includes over 24 modules refined across more than two decades of production use Key modules include Destiny (physics simulation and pathfinding) and Trinity (graphics rendering) Carbon has handled some of the most technically demanding events in gaming history, including an 8,825-player PVP battle EVE Frontier, the company’s Ethereum blockchain game, runs on the same Carbon foundation Fenris Creations rebranded from CCP Games in May 2026 following a corporate separation The full codebase is now on GitHub for developers to…

Bitcoin traded near $78,000 at the time of this writing, on November 2, holding above Friday’s lows as Binance customers regained access to withdrawals. Its price was around $78,021, down 0.43% in the ongoing session at the time of this writing. This small recovery follows a challenging close to October. On October 30, Crypto ETFs tracking U.S. BTC spots registered $643.33 million in net outflows, while Binance’s reopening saw withdrawals of billions of dollars from customers. Customers move funds as Binance reopens On November 1, Binance started restoring withdrawals in increments after the attack a few days before, on October…

TRON has overtaken Ethereum in average USDT supply during the third quarter of 2026, as its stablecoin balances and monthly active addresses have reached record quarterly averages. Summary TRON held 49.49% of USDT across 12 tracked chains, averaging $90.75 billion during Q3. Stablecoin transfers totaled $2.18 trillion, while average stablecoin holder addresses reached 76.53 million. Monthly active addresses averaged 17.81 million, although activity eased toward the end of September. Network revenue fell 3.10% from Q2 to $693.21 million as average transaction fees declined. Token Terminal’s Q3 report, published Nov. 2 and shared by TRON DAO, puts the network’s average stablecoin…

Alliance for OpenUSD Announces New Members, Interest Groups, and Working Group Progress SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) today announced five new general members, the formation of two new Interest Groups, and significant progress across multiple Working Groups and Interest Groups as OpenUSD adoption continues to expand across industries. Formed in 2023, AOUSD is an organization dedicated to fostering the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of OpenUSD, an extensible framework for describing, composing, simulating, and collaboratively navigating and constructing 3D scenes. New Members AOUSD is proud to welcome five new general members — Amazon, Delta Electronics, Homestyler, Kondux, and Rockwell Automation. The…

Home>Ubisoft’s Champions Tactics to Transition Away fro…1 November 2026·1 min readWritten with artificial intelligence.Ubisoft’s Champions Tactics will shift from a blockchain-based model to a traditional web2 game, with a complete transition planned by May 27. The game will retain player assets but will remove NFT features and marketplace functionalities.Transition to Web2 Ubisoft has announced that Champions Tactics will progressively move away from its blockchain functionality, transitioning to a conventional web2 game model. This tactical turn-based RPG, which launched in October 2024 on the Oasys blockchain, will continue to operate while winding down its NFT-based features. Key Changes and Dates New…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A BTCPay Server hack has raised fresh security concerns after the Bitcoin payment platform received reports of attackers withdrawing funds from merchants’ hot wallets. On November 1, the open-source project issued an emergency warning, asking operators to temporarily shut down their payment servers while its team investigated the incidents. The situation is particularly concerning for businesses that use BTCPay Server to accept Bitcoin without relying on traditional payment intermediaries. As the investigation develops, we’re learning more about which software versions may be vulnerable and why keeping cryptocurrency…

The business day used to matter. Businesses were open Monday through Friday, and occasionally on weekends. You went to work, often literally from 9 to 5, and then left for the rest of your day.  Business was static. It started; it stopped.  The internet changed that. Amazon transformed your local bookstore from a physical shop with business hours to an always-open global storefront for every imaginable product. Slack, mobile phones, and Zoom transformed the commute and the business day into relics of the past. Stripe turned starting a business and accepting payments from a complex legal process into a simple…

Federal Reserve staff research published Oct. 30 finds that Treasury dealers can keep financing customers’ bonds after their own auction inventory has largely cleared. That lingering lending uses balance-sheet capacity, so falling inventories can give an incomplete picture of dealers’ ability to finance Treasury positions.The study estimates that each dollar of Treasury coupon issuance expanded dealer balance sheets by about 21 cents, with roughly two-thirds attributable to client financing. Its main regression sample covers eight large bank-affiliated dealers from January 2016 through June 2025. These are historical estimates, rather than measurements of October 2026 stress.The mechanism separates owning a bond…

The Bank of Korea has reportedly asked banks and brokerages about cryptocurrency-related risks, asking how they would be affected by a major exchange hack, a market crash or heavy losses at another financial institution.The central bank began surveying 18 banks and 13 brokerages on Oct. 23 as part of its first reported review of financial institutions’ participation in the virtual asset market, according to The Herald Business and Yonhap, citing financial industry sources.The survey includes questions about each institution’s crypto-related staffing and budgets, business activities and reasons for entering the market, along with amounts invested in domestic and overseas crypto…