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Indie games in 2025 focus on small teams creating unique experiences, with highlights including Ball x Pit (Vampire Survivors-style pit exploration), Blue Prince (first-person puzzle mansion), Look Outside (SNES-style survival horror), Luto (psychological horror), No I'm Not a Human (apocalyptic paranoia), Schedule I (drug empire simulation), The Drifter (Australian point-and-click thriller), and Wanderstop (cozy burnout exploration). 1 post
AI tools in 2026 diversify across specialized platforms: ChatGPT ($20/month) for general assistance, Claude ($20/month) for coding/workflows, Google AI Studio (free) for developers/Google ecosystem, Qwen Chat (free) for research/multilingual use, Z.ai Chat (free) for slides/design/code, Kimi (open-source/local) for agentic workflows, T3 Chat ($8/month) for LLM comparison, Freepik AI Suite for unlimited image/video generation, Higgsfield for cinematic video, Pollo AI for viral content/avatars, Google Flow/Veo 3 for professional video, and agentic browsers like Perplexity Comet (free) for research. 1 post
Crypto ETFs in 2025 see Bitcoin ETFs with $57.7B net inflows and Ethereum ETFs with $12.6B, while new spot ETFs for XRP ($883M inflows) and Solana ($92M inflows) launch following SEC's generic listing standards, expanding institutional access with index ETFs covering 19 digital assets. 1 post
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Crypto Goes to Hollywood
Earlier this month, Netflix announced that it had gone into production on “One Attempt Remaining,” a crypto-themed romantic comedy. It’s perhaps surprising that it’s taken this long for a Hollywood studio to greenlight a mainstream feature film focusing on cryptocurrency. Hitherto, crypto’s on-scree
The Year in Bitcoin and Crypto ATMs 2025: Power Tools, Scams and Calls for Action
Crypto ATMs faced heightened scrutiny in 2025, as authorities and lawmakers tried to confront a growing number of scams facilitated by these machines in the U.S. Some officials took matters into their own hands with power tools, while two attorneys general brought lawsuits against several of the big
The Year in Stablecoins 2025: Record Growth as GENIUS Act Opens the Floodgates
Stablecoins just had their biggest year on record. The total stablecoin market capitalization has grown by 49% in 2025, going from $205 billion in January to $306 billion at the end of November, according to data on crypto analytics platform DeFi Llama. The ballooning of the stablecoin category has
This Was the Year of the Ninja Video Game—These Were the Best in 2025
If you're a gamer who also loves ninja-themed stuff, 2025 might've been the best year ever. It seems everyone and their dog were releasing ninja and samurai games this year, as if they'd discussed it beforehand. Including a remaster and a new platform for an older game, we count eight ninja and sam
Creator Capital Markets: How Pump.fun Changed Streaming in 2025
This time last year, the Solana meme coin launchpad Pump.fun had disabled its livestreaming feature after creators flooded the platform with videos of dangerous stunts in attempts to pump their tokens. Now, Pump.fun views streamers as the future of its platform, with plans to take on other livestrea
Crypto Crystal Ball 2026: Will Crypto Lose the Fight for a Market Structure Bill?
This year proved to be a surreal, defining, and triumphant turning point for a crypto industry that looked to be on life support barely two years ago. But many of the battles waged by the industry in the last 12 months are not over. In fact, some are just heating up: 2026 could turn out even more co
Year in Prediction Markets: From Regulatory 'Sinkhole' to Multi-Billion Dollar Business
Prediction markets are about the buzziest thing in crypto right now—and 2025 was the year they hit the mainstream. These markets enable their users to wager on the future outcome of virtually anything—from crypto and stock prices to sports, cultural, and political events. There have even been market
Can’t-Miss Indie Games You Should Play From 2025
People have been debating the meaning of the term "indie game" for years. What is an indie game? On paper, Hades 2 and Hollow Knight Silksong are both indie games, as they're games self-published by developers that are not connected to a larger publisher. But they're also both huge sequels to huge g
Every AI Tool You Need in 2026
>>>> gd2md-html alert: inline image link in generated source and store images to your server. NOTE: Images in exported zip file from Google Docs may not appear in the same order as they do in your doc. Please check the images! -----> If you used AI seriously in 2025, you probably noticed the shif
The Year in Crypto ETFs 2025: Bitcoin, Ethereum Thrive as XRP and More Join the Party
This year, exchange-traded funds opened several doors to crypto on Wall Street, as the SEC forged a fresh approach to the products. Although asset managers had previously fought tooth and nail to offer products tracking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s spot price, many foresaw opportunities in 2025, as the re
Emerge's 2025 Tech Trend of The Year: Quantum Computing Stopped Being Background Noise
When scientists at Caltech flicked on their new neutral-atom quantum array in September, the quantum machine broke a threshold many scientists thought was years away. For the first time, researchers successfully trapped 6,100 atomic qubits in a single system and maintained coherence in a way that pu
Bitcoin Whales Woke Up in 2025 and Moved Billions in BTC—Here's Why
This was the year the Bitcoin whales woke up. As the price of the leading cryptocurrency soared to new heights, longtime holders started making moves to the tune of billions of dollars. Selling from O.G. "HODLers" began after the leading cryptocurrency finally hit the mythical $100,000 mark for the
From Circle to Bullish: Crypto Wraps Up 'Bellwether Year' for IPOs
This year has arguably been the biggest and most consequential on record for crypto IPOs. A surge in retail interest, renewed political tailwinds, and a reopened U.S. IPO market helped push a wave of crypto firms onto public exchanges. Reuters described a “rush to Wall Street IPOs” driven by the yea
How NFT Marketplaces Adapted to Survive in 2025
NFT mania is a distant memory in 2025. It was an era—back in 2021 and early 2022—when Beeple sold a jpeg for $69.3 million, CryptoPunks were going for tens of millions, and celebrities kept aping into the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The cumulative NFT market cap has dropped 99% from its 2023 all-time hig
The Best Games of 2025 That You Can Snag for Under $20
If rising hardware prices and $80 software weren’t enough proof that gaming’s getting pricier, the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Mario Kart World price tags should seal it. But you don’t need a high-end console or premium release to have a good time. Dig into the indie scene, and you’ll find a
Emerge's 2025 Project of the Year: The Deep-Sea Machine That Caught an Ultra High-Energy Ghost
The Mediterranean Sea, usually celebrated for its sun-drenched coasts and azure surface, hides a secret in its crushing darkness. Three and a half kilometers beneath the waves off the coast of Sicily, the water is pitch black, near freezing, and under pressure intense enough to crumple a submarine a
The Year in XRP 2025: New Highs After 7 Years as Ripple's SEC Case Finally Ends
Crypto’s biggest wins are often tightly connected to the rise in asset prices, but Ripple’s 2025 successes extend far beyond the price of XRP—the Ripple-linked asset that sits inside the top five crypto assets by market capitalization. Instead, most of the biggest headlines attached to the financia
From Tether to the Trump-Backed USD1: The 7 Fastest-Moving Stablecoins of 2025
This was a defining year for stablecoins, with the signing of the GENIUS Act, a high-flying IPO for Circle, and a handful of tokens outpacing the rest. Since the start of January, the overall U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin supply has increased by more than $100 billion, to $314 billion total. Bu
Emerge's 2025 Story of the Year: How the AI Race Fractured the Global Tech Order
The great unraveling began with a single number: $256,000. DeepSeek, a year-old Chinese startup, claimed it spent that relatively small sum training an AI model that matched the capabilities of OpenAI—which spent over a hundred million dollars to get to the same place. When the app hit Apple's store
The Year in Dogecoin 2025: DOGE Goes Political and Commercial
It started as a joke, but this year, Dogecoin was embraced by institutions, bought up by public companies, and its namesake was shared with a highly controversial U.S. government initiative led by billionaire Elon Musk. Still, despite this, the original meme coin didn’t set a new all-time high—to th
The Best AI Large Language Models of 2025
The defining strategy of 2025 was not choosing a single “best large language model.” It was assembling a stack. Claude for premium coding and editing. DeepSeek or Qwen for cheap volume. Muse for fiction. Dolphin when constraints mattered more than polish. Models stopped being personalities this year
The Best Co-Op Games of 2025 to Play With Your Pals
Gamers love competitive shooters—that much is obvious from the popularity of games like Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Fortnite. Cooperative games are often overlooked, though. They aren't quite as popular and can get washed away in the mix of ultra-popular competitive shooters and high-profile sing
How Pudgy Penguins Landed the Las Vegas Sphere—After Dogwifhat Couldn't
Pudgy Penguins will wrap the Las Vegas Sphere for Christmas after debuting on the glowing venue on Tuesday. The crypto-native brand's recent announcement sent some traders into a meltdown, as the community behind Solana meme coin Dogwifhat (WIF) failed to advertise on the venue earlier this year des
GG Story of the Year 2025: Crypto Gaming Collapses as Funding Dries Up
This was the year that, for many, the crypto gaming dream died. But that dream didn't end on its own—it was smothered by venture capitalists who stopped believing in it, and crucially, stopped investing in it. In 2025, numerous notable crypto games shut down their operations, which Decrypt has track
The Year in Solana 2025: Trump and Wall Street Take Notice
Solana’s native token surged to a new all-time high shortly after the year began, but the 2025 story of the speedy layer-1 network was not all up and to the right: SOL has finished the year in a serious slump, down substantially since this time last year. Nevertheless, the network made big headlines