The world’s largest assets manager, BlackRock, is looking to allow its clients to trade cryptocurrencies. The mega asset manager is looking to start its offering with client support trading, before proceeding to offer its own credit facility for crypto trading. This is according to sources familiar with the plans. BlackRock has previously shown a favorable
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Last month, the final paid DLC for Dead Cells, titled The Queen and the Sea, finally dropped, and it provided a climax about as exciting as one could hope for. Having said that, the DLC does not mark the end of Dead Cells as a whole. Developer Motion Twin has even more free updates in store on top of the more than 20 updates that have already come out. One of these updates has already entered the alpha stage, and Dead Cells fans can freely try it out to get a first look at an upcoming biome, dubbed The Bank.
According to a Steam update, the new Bank biome turns up randomly during any given run, and it replaces the biomes that would normally show up once players enter it. To access it, simply get to the standard final boss, the Hand of the King, at least once. Those who have already done so can come across The Bank during their next run. You enter The Bank by opening a special chest that appears in between most biomes, and you’ll have to open it right there and then, otherwise,...
Windows, despite being one of the most popular pieces of proprietary software on the planet, is an open platform. Anyone can create and distribute programs that run on Windows and do so in more or less any way that they wish, including direct downloads, proprietary app stores like Steam and Epic, or distributing through Microsoft's built-in Microsoft Store. In a blog post outlining a commitment to a set of principles for that store, Microsoft doubled down on its commitment to supporting old-fashioned standard software installations.
The blog post is a long one, but the meat of it from the angle of supporting open and unrestricted installations is right here:
We will continue to enable developers to choose whether they want to deliver their apps for Windows though our app store, from someone else's store, or “sideloaded” directly from the internet.
The context of the post is pretty clearly the ongoing discussion — and litigation — of closed and semi-closed app store platforms on mobile. This has been publicly duked out between Fortnite publisher Epic, Android creator Google, and Apple, custodian of its entirely walled-off App Store. You could also make a pretty compelling case that closed-off digital storefronts for consoles, including Microsoft's own Xbox, fit into the same category. Microsoft says that Xbox consoles aren't the same kind of “specialized computing devices,” so these principles won't apply. Xbox will continue to be a locked platform.
The restated commitment to free and open software support on Windows stands in stark contrast to MacOS, where Apple has been pushing more and more developers to the proprietary App Store since the switch to ARM-based hardware. It's also probably a relief to a lot of Windows users, who've been carefully watching Microsoft push its users towards Windows 11 and its Edge browser more aggressively in the last few months.
A few more relevant highlights from the blog post include:
Microsoft will allow third-party payment processors and communication systems in the Microsoft Store, sidestepping the main issue in the Epic-Google-Apple lawsuits
Microsoft won't require developers to provide more favorable terms for apps in the Microsoft Store than other stores (note that the language here means they CAN require developers to provide EQUALLY favorable terms)
Microsoft will allow developers to communicate directly to customers for pricing terms and offer other products or services
Windows will continue to support third-party app store platforms like Steam
The above principles will apply to the Microsoft Store on Windows, not to the Xbox platform
Microsoft also says that, as the new publisher of the popular Call of Duty series and others after the Activision Blizzard acquisition, it will continue to make existing series available on PlayStation “beyond the existing agreement and into the future,” and that it's interested in supporting Nintendo consoles in the same way. It's a bold stance to take from a company that both owns its own gaming platform and has now essentially bought itself into becoming one of the largest publishers on the planet.
The votes are in and the ballots have been counted. Here are your winners for TLMC #16! We look forward to seeing which maps will be included in the new ladder pool.
In such a huge market, well-designed and equipped games like Secret World
Game Overview
To reach the high table, players must have premium values. These values act as a wild entry to the high table. Only then you are eligible for the prestegious High table. "I have served. I will be of service."
—The High Table's oath of fealty
The members of the high table have myriad luxuries in the game. They have access to luxury hotels, designer clothing, libraries and elite memberships. It is up to the members then, how they choose to use their premium facilities to achieve their goals.
We look forward to good strategies by our high level players.
“Secret world is a decentral tokenized VR secret society powered by Binance smart chain network.”
#Play
Play. Compete. Earn
Secret world offers a play to earn gaming model, enabling users to come together, communicate on the platform and play immersive games, all this while making significant earnings through it.
#Earn
Communicate. Enjoy. Earn
Secret world project provides multiple earning streams within its network. Users can earn through Staking, Playing secret world games, Hodling secret world utility token, and much more
#Create
Explore. Design
Users can bring their vision to life at Secret world through designing their own lands and characters. Users can accessorize their lands, and characters with additional feature NFTs.
#Trade
Gather. Exchange. Earn
Secret world's marketplace is a huge market with large numbers of buyer and sellers producing infinite opportunities for members to pick what suits their desires.
Staking
Secret World offers its users multiple liquidity pools to stake their tokens. Each pool has a varying time period and a generous APY specific to it.
Business model
Multiple income streams:
Secret world offers multiple passive income streams for its players. Firstly, users can create in-game assets in the form of NFTs that can be traded in the BSC marketplace. Secondly, users can stake their NFTs and tokens on the platform's secret staking pool that offer standard and compound staking with high APY. Lastly, users can buy and hold secret world native utility tokens as a store of value assets.In addition to this we plan to offer additional services in the future. Some of our under-development features are:
NFT ‘expansion set' sales
Secondary market royalty fee structure
Game reward model
Mobility and interoperability
Compounding growth loops
Hyper competitive user acquisition
Game engine
Secret World was created using Unreal Engine 4.26. The battles take place in a simulation written entirely in C++ that executes game instances in less than a few milliseconds. This is then connected to Unreal Engine and visualized. The simulation is deterministic, which means that the server can save very small input values and replay any match. Secret world will be able to easily archive every battle that has ever been fought.
Payment & reward mechanism
The individuals that chose to play secret worlds must already possess a metamask wallet prior hand.
Once the user possesses a metamask wallet, he/she will have to convert their digital currency in $SSD, which is the native currency on a secret world platform. All transactions on this platform are made in $SSD.
Moreover, rewards are also made in $SSD and the liquidity mining program also accepts only the native currency of the platform for liquidity pools.
SSD Vision & Mission
Our mission and vision is to revolutionize blockchain gaming while keeping the true essence of PVE games alive. The secret world game is inspired by the presence of secret societies operational in different areas of the world. It is an attempt to bring new gaming technologies into our old games to strike the right balance of innovation and nostalgia. We aim to transform the Secret world into an ecosystem. This platform is not limited to NFT and tokens. We aim to provide entertainment and a fun way to learn and earn in the crypto space. The secret world is the future of the Metaverse.
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The wait for the next instalment in the Gran Turismo franchise is almost over, with Gran Turismo 7 screeching onto PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 4th March, 2022.
Hopefully elevating the series to new heights on Sony's latest hardware and celebrating the series' 25th anniversary, the game's said to boast "the best features from the history of the franchise". We certainly think it looks like it could be the biggest and best Gran Turismo yet and if you agree, you'll want to check out the pre-order options listed below.
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