Tag Archives: Games

While this isn’t quite the same attention paid to more recent Final Fantasy remakes, Square Enix is giving the first six games in the RPG series a ‘pixel remaster’ treatment. At the company’s E3 presentation, it announced that these pixel-perfect editions would land on mobile platforms and Steam. Other details, however, were scarce.  This should help set expectations: this isn’t another FFVII Remake. Games like Final Fantasy VI could benefit from a refreshed edition — its Steam iteration… Source link

The second round of the NBA playoffs continues Sunday with two games. Yahoo Sports’ Minty Bets has the advice that you need. All odds via BetMGM. Another Milwaukee win evens this series at 2-2. The Bucks took a low-scoring Game 3 with an 86-83 win on Thursday night. Now the Bucks are trying for a second consecutive win against a Nets team that doesn’t have James Harden. The Nets are favored by two after Milwaukee was favored by 3.5 on Thursday. The under has hit in seven of Brooklyn’s last… Source link

Jock MKT, the Stock Market App for Sports, Raises $10 Million By Andrew Cohen May 19, 2021 Jock MKT, a fantasy sports app that lets users buy and sell shares of athletes, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The funding will be used to expand Jock MKT’s mobile app into 44 U.S. states and Canada.  New York-based Left Lane Capital led the round alongside participation from sports technology investment firm Will Ventures and Ryan Moore, a founding investor and board… Source link

Jock MKT, the Stock Market App for Sports, Raises $10 Million By Andrew Cohen May 19, 2021 Jock MKT, a fantasy sports app that lets users buy and sell shares of athletes, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The funding will be used to expand Jock MKT’s mobile app into 44 U.S. states and Canada.  New York-based Left Lane Capital led the round alongside participation from sports technology investment firm Will Ventures and Ryan Moore, a founding investor and board… Source link

Bloomberg Key Brexit Clash Would Cost Euro Swap Traders $2.4 Million a Day (Bloomberg) — One of the biggest Brexit battlegrounds between the European Union and the U.K. now has a price tag: at least $2.4 million a day.That’s how much any move by the European Union to cut off access to London’s dominant clearinghouses for derivatives could cost traders in euro interest rate swaps, net of buying, according to an estimate from Albert Menkveld, professor of finance at Vrije Universiteit… Source link

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Scandal Toll Goes Ever Higher as Rivals Thrive (Bloomberg) — In an era of prosperity for investment banks, Credit Suisse Group AG is careening from one crisis to another and then another — this time, with a $4.7 billion writedown tied to billionaire investor Bill Hwang’s trading blowout.The staggering hit — the largest yet linked to market-shaking losses run up by Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management — prompted sweeping management changes at the Swiss bank… Source link

Kyrie Irving will miss the Brooklyn Nets’ next three games while dealing with a “family matter,” the team announced on Monday. Irving will miss a three-game road trip for the Nets, where they will take on the Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz and Detroit Pistons. It’s unclear specifically what Irving’s “family matter” is. Kyrie Irving will not accompany the team on this week’s three-game road trip (POR/UTA/DET) in order to tend to a family matter. — Brooklyn Nets… Source link

Drew Brees is finally hanging them up. The former San Diego Chargers 2001 second-round pick and New Orleans Saints legend announced his retirement on Sunday. The Super Bowl XLIV MVP will leave the game with the most passing yards in NFL history with 7,142. Here are 10 memorable games from Brees’ career with the Chargers and Saints. 10. Sept. 8, 2002 vs. Cincinnati Bengals (AP Photo/Al Behrman) Brees had his first career start with the San Diego Chargers, which also came under new coach Marty… Source link

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

Google will stop making video games, less than two years after launching its highly publicized Stadia gaming platform. The company is shutting down Stadia Games and Entertainment (SG&E), its internal game development service, Phil Harrison, Stadia’s vice president and GM, announced in a blog post Monday. “Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially,” Harrison said. He added that the… Source link