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Kotaku’s Biggest Gaming Culture News For The Week July 05, 2025
5.7.2025
From mergers to memes, the landscape of interactive entertainment is always in motion. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.Read more
Oh God, No, Pokémon, What Have You Done?
3.7.2025
My eyes! What is this monstrosity?! Fetch me wooden stakes, holy water, silver bullets, shotguns, anything! Or has the Pokémon Company (TPCi) hired David Cronenberg to design its latest batch of plushies? Read more
Donkey Kong Bananza Does The One Thing I've Wanted For Decades: Stickerbush Symphony And Bramble Blast Back Together Again
1.7.2025
Few moments hit on the original SNES like your first time hearing “Stickerbush Symphony” while shooting through a labyrinth of towering thorny beanstalks in Donkey Kong Country 2's Bramble Blast levels. It’s one of the best songs to ever appear in a game, alongside one of the most evocative 16-bit...
Is Crypto Ready for Q-Day?
1.7.2025
Quantum computing is a looming threat to the systems that crypto depends on, says David Carvalho, CEO of Naoris Protocol. Here’s how to get quantum-prepared
Squid Game Series Finale Sets Up Its David Fincher Era
30.6.2025
Much of life is cyclical—sunrises and sunsets, the changing of the seasons, and apparently, perverse competitions run by secret organizations. June 27 marked the end of the Squid Game era at Netflix but also the beginning of a new one, thanks to the final scene of the series finale.Read more
The Complete Guide To What The Actual Hell Is Going On In Death Stranding
28.6.2025
Given just how categorically weird Hideo Kojima’s games are, and how otherwise risk-averse AAA publishers tend to be, it is downright miraculous that Death Stranding was enough of a blockbuster hit for someone to greenlight a second one—even moreso since that’s a game where even the people...
The Social Network Part II Is Happening, And Facebook Probably Won’t Like It
26.6.2025
Fifteen years after Jesse Eisenberg made Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg look like the socially awkward tech genius he is in director David Fincher’s The Social Network, the film’s writer, Aaron Sorkin, is back at it again. Deadline reports that Sorkin will write and direct The Social Network Part...
The 9 Marvel Characters Who Deserve TV Shows Like Ironheart
23.6.2025
Last May, CEO Bob Iger told analysts on Disney’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call that the company would move Marvel away from its gluttonous past, opting instead for a significantly reduced output of movies and TV shows. With that shift, it would “focus more on quality,” with only two TV series...
UK to Propose Restrictions on How Banks Can Deal With Crypto Next Year
18.6.2025
The U.K.'s incoming rules will be on the more restrictive end, said David Bailey, the executive director of prudential policy at the Bank of England
Ex-Kamala Harris campaign adviser joins Coinbase advisory council
12.6.2025
David Plouffe previously worked as an adviser for Alchemy Pay, Binance, former President Barack Obama's and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaigns
Stephen King's The Institute Always Read Like A TV Pilot, And Now It's A TV Series
11.6.2025
In the ‘80s and ‘90s, Stephen King adaptations developed a reputation for being (with important exceptions) mostly dreadful. But more recent years have blessed us with a far better hit ratio of movies and TV series. With Mr Mercedes, 1922, Gerald’s Game, The Outsider, Castle Rock, 11.22.63, just...
Everstake Hires Grayscale, Fidelity Veteran David Kinitsky as CEO
11.6.2025
Kinitsky succeeds Sergii Vasylchuk, who founded Everstake in 2018 and will now transition to the role of its president
David Lynch's Cancelled Netflix Series Would Have Been So Good, Says Former Colleague
10.6.2025
Master filmmaker David Lynch wasn’t done telling mind-bending stories before his untimely passing in January 2025, and we finally have details on what was meant to be his latest one. In a revelatory interview with The Film Stage, Lynch’s longtime cinematographer Peter Deming shared rare details...
The WB Discovery Merger Failed, And Now It's Splitting Back Up
9.6.2025
About three years ago, two large media companies—Warner Bros. and Discovery Inc.—merged into one much larger company, WB Discovery. Then that company made a bunch of bad decisions, racked up a ton of debt, made everyone angry, and is now splitting up again into two new companies that will likely...
The Next Call Of Duty Is Black Ops 7
8.6.2025
The next main entry in the blockbuster Call of Duty series has been announced. Players can look forward to Black Ops 7, which is described as a direct sequel to Black Ops 6. The upcoming FPS doesn’t have a release date yet, but if history is any indicator, it will be out around October of next...
The Scott Pilgrim Game Is Getting A Spiritual Successor Over 15 Years Later And It Looks Awesome
7.6.2025
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game was a 2010 downloadable movie tie-in that turned out to be an incredible beat ’em up, helping to lead an arcade gaming revival on console. Scott Pilgrim Ex is a spiritual successor to that project that’s getting the band back together for another River City...
Michael Saylor vs. David Bailey: Different paths toward institutional Bitcoin adoption
3.6.2025
Saylor and Bailey are changing Bitcoin’s role in finance, driving corporate adoption and long-term treasury strategies
Gen V Season 2 Will Build Upon The Boys' Superhero Military
2.6.2025
After the massacre at the end of Gen V’s first season, and the governmental coup at the end of The Boys’ fourth, sophomore year at Godolkin University will be nothing like the one before. By the looks of the newly released trailer, the new season will be focused on seeing the superhero students...
Crypto czar Sacks says US could possibly ‘acquire more Bitcoin’
28.5.2025
White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks says the US could buy more Bitcoin if the government can fund the purchase in a “budget-neutral” way without a tax or adding to the growing national debt.Sacks told Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss during a May 27 fireside chat...
Crypto czar Sacks says US could possibly ‘acquire more Bitcoin’
28.5.2025
White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks says the US could buy more Bitcoin if the government can fund the purchase in a “budget-neutral” way without a tax or adding to the growing national debt.Sacks told Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss during a May 27 fireside chat...