According to a rather grand announcement on Wednesday, this council will pontificate on market structure developments in the derivatives markets, which, let’s face it, sounds like a riveting evening in. 🥱 The topics du jour? Tokenization, crypto assets, 24/7 trading, perpetual contracts, prediction markets, and blockchain market infrastructure. A veritable smorgasbord of buzzwords! 🍽️💡
Co-op board games are often most fun and well-balanced when players are struggling – trying to pull off a win at the last minute or just manage to keep going. When the team does win, it feels especially rewarding, and everyone can enjoy remembering the clever moves and smart strategies that helped them succeed.
It’s increasingly difficult to build a loyal audience in today’s crowded gaming market, and the challenge only gets harder. Even significant investments, ambitious ideas, and skilled teams aren’t enough to ensure success, and we’re seeing more and more games fail. Some promising projects are canceled after years of work, while others launch only to quickly disappear from the public eye. Here are some of the most notable examples of games that were expected to be huge hits but ultimately failed to deliver.
Don’t worry if you were planning to use benches for shiny hunting in Pokemon Legends: Z-A – they still work great! However, a popular technique called the “overload method” is no longer available. This method let players quickly increase the number of Pokemon appearing in an area, and it was especially common in Wild Zone 20. While many players will miss it, there are new shiny hunting strategies to explore in the game.
Completing these tasks will unlock some delightful rewards. As usual, many of them are presented as puzzles, and some offer no clues at all. To make things easier, we’ve compiled a complete list of every Winter Warmth Star Path duty and detailed how to finish each one in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Nintendo recently revealed that two more classic Nintendo 64 games will be added to the Nintendo Switch Online service in December. Both Rayman 2: The Great Escape and Tonic Trouble will be available starting December 17th. For fans of 3D platformers, Wario World is available to play right now!
Alas, the co-CEO Yi He, a woman of such stature, fell victim to a social media hack on Tuesday night, as the founder CZ, ever the sage, lamented on X. “A villain has seized @heyibinance’s WeChat,” he declared, “do not trust the posts of these rascals!” 📢
Steam has seen significant growth in recent years. By mid-November 2025, it had earned approximately $16.2 billion in revenue, surpassing the $10.8 billion it made the previous year, according to Alinea Analytics. Sales of the Steam Deck handheld computer have also been strong, reaching an estimated 3.7 to 4 million units since its February 2022 launch in North America and Europe, giving players another way to enjoy Steam games.
Researchers have developed a unified framework for optimizing quantum circuits with uniformly controlled gates, leading to significant reductions in both gate count and circuit depth.
Even though ARC Raiders is a relatively new game, Embark has consistently released updates and bug fixes. Just two weeks after launch, they held a community event where players donated resources to unlock the Stella Montis map. This map stands out from the others because it takes place mostly indoors and is a popular spot for player-versus-player combat.
