Financial Times:
An in-depth look at North Korea’s crypto cyber crime, used to support the regime: hacking Axie Infinity and Bangladesh Bank, running a fraudulent ICO, and more — Created by a Vietnamese gaming studio, Axie Infinity offers players the chance to breed, trade and fight Pokémon …
CoinDesk:
Chainalysis says it helped the US government recover about $30M stolen from Axie Infinity by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group earlier in 2022 — Hackers stole over $600 million from Axie earlier this year. — Crypto analytics firm Chainalysis announced Thursday it helped …
Cheri Faulkner / NME:
Netflix announces its first in-house game studio, its second game studio in Helsinki, to be led by ex-Zynga Vice President and General Manager Marko Lastikka — The studio will be responsible for delivering “a variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games”
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Netflix VP of Gaming Mike Verdu says the company is “seriously exploring a cloud gaming offering” and plans to open a new gaming studio in Southern California — At TechCrunch Disrupt, Netflix VP of Gaming Mike Verdu dropped two bits of news about the streaming giant’s foray into games.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces the 28-inch Surface Studio 2+ with Intel’s 11th Gen i7, Nvidia’s RTX 3060, Dolby Vision, and 1TB, available for $4,299 or $4,499 — It’s been a long time since Microsoft updated its Surface Studio line of all-in-one PCs. While rumors had suggested a Surface Studio 3 was on the way …
Bloomberg:
An interview with the co-founder of Vietnamese unicorn VNG, which offers games and services like Zalo, a messaging app that had 74M+ MAUs in Vietnam in February — A Vietnamese internet startup that’s successfully defended its home market of 100 million people against global giants like Facebook is now going into attack mode.
Ryan Weeks / The Block:
An interview with Sky Mavis co-founder Aleksander Larsen on staying play-to-earn after the hack, unfair criticisms, improving security, raising funds, and more — – Sky Mavis has endured a turbulent year even by crypto standards, suffering a massive hack and waning interest from gamers.
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