A game designer who once played professionally in the world of Magic: The Gathering is now turning a beloved fantasy universe into his own card‑based challenge. After releasing 17 expansions for his original game, a deck‑builder called Ascension, the creator is borrowing from a classic epic to launc
Nexon has just launched a website that explains how its upcoming partnership with Blizzard will change the way Korean PC players experience Overwatch. The main point is that to play through Nexon, you must link a Battle. net account with a Nexon account. All of your past match history and prog
The stock of the movie theater giant fell more than eight percent on Wednesday, even though the company had seen a 40‑percent jump earlier in the week. Investors were likely selling shares to lock in profits after the sharp rally. The decline happened while major market indices slipped, with the Na
Alex Browder is a 17‑year‑old student who was surprised when his name appeared on a Russian sanctions list. He discovered this while browsing news about cryptocurrency in his economics class. The Kremlin had banned him for writing a report that criticized Russian money laundering practices. The rep
Bitcoin fell below $62, 000 early Thursday, sparking a rush of forced sales that wiped out more than $1. 5 billion in high‑risk crypto positions over the last day. The sell‑off left roughly 208, 000 traders on the market with liquidated accounts, according to CoinGlass data. Bitcoin alone accounte
The bill called the Lummis‑Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act was a plan to bring digital money into the U. S. government’s oversight system. It arrived in Senate committee files on July 12, 2023 and never passed before the Congress ended. Because it stalled, it is treated as a dead pro
Peter Schiff, a well‑known economist, posted on X that several young people who earned early gains from Bitcoin are now giving financial advice. He argued that their success does not prove they know what they’re doing. Schiff used the old investing rule “Don’t confuse brains with a bull market” to w
The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has slapped sanctions on four Iranian cryptocurrency platforms, singling out Nobitex as the country’s biggest exchange. The move follows evidence that the firm helped the Iranian regime funnel digital assets to avoid international
The City of London has weathered the decade since Britain left the European Union with surprising resilience. Initial worries that the financial heart of the UK would crumble after Brexit have largely proven unfounded. No mass exodus of traders or dealmakers has taken place; firms in Frankfurt
The push to put real‑world investments on blockchains is picking up speed, but the tools needed are still catching up. Banks and asset managers want to move things like private loans, real estate holdings, and hedge funds onto digital ledgers. They often hit roadblocks in custody, settlement, compli
