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Image: MarvelIn This StoryAfter previously being revealed behind closed doors at SDCC 2024, Marvel has finally released the first big teaser for the next chapter in the MCU, Thunderbolts, and it looks like a promising banner under which to marshal some of the more unwieldy characters and loose threads its had hanging around. Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On Witchcraft And Star TrekThe trailer opens with Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) arriving at the dumpy apartment of her surrogate dad Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) and asking the aging Russian super-soldier, who clearly hasn’t gotten work in years, whether he still…

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In This StoryIt’s been almost a decade since we got the first Super Mario Maker on Wii U and 3DS, and fans have always wondered if Nintendo might give the level editor gameplay treatment to one of its other major franchises, like, say, Zelda. Well, it turns out that the Switch maker actually did experiment with the idea for a Zelda Maker of sorts, and that’s eventually what turned into The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On Witchcraft And Star TrekIn a new developer interview published by Nintendo, Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma…

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The crypto derivatives trading hub faces CFTC charges for allegedly failing to register as a commodities exchange, for illegally offering services to U.S. customers and failing to check its customers’ identities, according to statements in its Discord server and a proposal on its governance page. The DEX allows users to trade perpetual futures contracts.

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In This StoryEach year, The Pokémon Company holds a competition to find a new illustrator for their Pokémon TCG cards. Only in the last couple of years has this been opened to entrants from outside of Japan, and with that has come controversy. However, after a tumultuous period, the finalists for this year’s contest have finally been picked, and damn, it’s all beautiful work.The Week In Games: Pocket Monsters And Simulated GoatsThis year’s contest was rather marred when one entrant, who had been included in the top 300, was rather obviously using AI to create images, and indeed entering under…

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Celestia Foundation, the Liechtenstein-based non-profit organization helping to build Celestia, has raised $100 million from major crypto-focused venture capital firms, led by Bain Capital Crypto. Announced on Sept. 23, this fundraising brings the total amount raised for the Celestia (TIA) project to $155 million so far. The team behind the modular data availability blockchain network secured $55 million in October 2022 ahead of the project’s launch. Bain Capital and Polychain Capital co-led that fundraising. This latest capital injection attracted the participation of Syncracy Capital, Robot Ventures, 1kx, and Placeholder, among other VC firms and investors. Celestia’s recent technical roadmap The…

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Image: UbisoftIn This StorySomehow, October is right around the corner, which means 2024 is rapidly approaching its end. After the whirlwind of amazing releases that was 2023, some thought this year would be relatively slow on the game front, and yet game after good game keep dropping. That’s why it might come as a shock to you that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, the incredible Metroidvania in Ubisoft’s beloved franchise, came out this January. Don’t worry, one person is here to remind you that The Lost Crown rocks: John Carpenter. Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On Witchcraft And…

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Photo: NBCUniversal (Getty Images)In This StoryHold onto your baseball caps because Eric Taylor, AKA the coach from Friday Night Lights, AKA Kyle Chandler, is going to star as Hal Jordan in a Green Lantern series for HBO, according to Hollywood Reporter and Deadline. The in-development show, called “Lanterns,” will apparently have a darker, grittier vibe more akin to True Detective than that of some other TV outings DC comic book heroes have received. Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On Witchcraft And Star TrekThe eight episode series will reportedly focus on the grizzled, veteran Lantern Hal Jordan, played by Chandler, “reluctantly”…

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The startup’s runaway success this year has been a sore point for Kalshi, a regulated, dollar-denominated prediction market that’s been fighting a protracted court battle with its supervisor, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, so it can list contracts on which party will control each house of Congress. The agency has been considering a proposed rule that would ban election event contracts at all the exchanges on its watch, which would push regulation of such activity to the states.

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