After the Nintendo Switch 2 launches successfully in 2025, Nintendo is expected to build on that initial excitement. The year saw six brand-new first-party games released for the system, alongside updated content for existing Switch titles. Strong support from independent developers and surprisingly good ports of major games like Cyberpunk 2077 also contributed to the console’s success.
This week, we’re giving away Bloons TD 6 – a fun and wacky game! You can add it to your library and keep it forever, but you need to claim it before 4 PM GMT on Thursday, January 15th.
Games like Escape from Tarkov usually reset players’ progress with periodic wipes, starting everyone back at level 1. ARC Raiders takes a different approach with “Expeditions” – an optional way to reset your account that you work towards over several months. Players complete a series of tasks at their own speed, and those who finish the Expedition before it’s available get extra rewards like more storage space, skill points, and a unique cosmetic item.
So, getting Final Fantasy 7 made was a wild ride, apparently! It took about two years to develop, and a lot changed during that time. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the guy who started the whole Final Fantasy thing, actually finished the first draft of the story way back in the mid-90s. But getting that script into the game we all know and love? It was full of ideas they ended up cutting and completely rethinking. A lot of stuff hit the cutting room floor, it sounds like!
Such quiet before a potential bowing of the market may alarm the unseasoned, yet the resemblance to a reversal signal on XRP’s charts invites a more chastened gaze rather than a howl of panic.
![Mie scattering calculations demonstrate how sapphire spheres embedded in an epoxy resin matrix selectively scatter light based on sphere size and wavelength, exhibiting an extinction efficiency peak that, when optimized alongside cryogenic stage Planck radiation spectra and superconducting gap frequencies for materials like niobium and aluminum, can establish a desired cut-off frequency for targeted light manipulation-a principle illustrated by the shift from shorter (blue) to longer (red) wavelengths and reflected in the [latex] \Lambda_{f} [/latex] parameter.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.05147v1/x1.png)
A new composite material offers a promising path to protecting delicate quantum devices by effectively blocking infrared radiation while preserving microwave transparency.
On the ninth day of January, a year not too far removed from our present musings, the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council unsheathed its quill, a weapon more deadly than any sword, to warn these prediction market titans. Demands cascaded down like falling leaves: Cease your offerings, these sages of the state solemnly decreed, and sever the ties to unwitting Tennesseans tangled in contracts deemed too exuberant by our own resident wardens. Sweet reparations, too swiftly returned, shall soothe any undeserved gains born of bets yet to run their course.
Researchers are exploring a novel Hamiltonian framework using symmetry disentanglers to construct chiral gauge theories on the lattice, potentially overcoming longstanding challenges in their formulation.
But apparently, this tiny little dip is a HUGE deal. Some crypto wizard, Alphractal (sounds like a Transformer), noticed something about the year 2020. Back then, Bitcoin did a little wobble, went briefly negative, and then, BOOM, bull market. Now, it’s poised to do the same thing. Or not. I’m honestly placing my bets on the “or not,” but who am I to judge excitement?
I actually find those kinds of games more fun to discuss. It’s really cool when you share experiences with friends, then discover they tackled the game in a totally different way. Plus, games like that offer a lot of replay value because there are so many different ways to play them.
