Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? – Issue 609

I’m spending the final five weekends of 2025 revisiting classic 1990s fighting games. I’ll be looking at Jin Kazama’s karate style from the PlayStation 1 game Tekken 3, and also checking out Arcade Archives Karate Blazers, a recently released version of an older arcade game from 1991.

The Cryptographic Circus: Only the Elite Coins Will Triumph!

In a world where the mad scramble for digital gold strips humanity of its humble bearings, Arthur Hayes, the once-listed tsar of BitMEX, shared some naked truths. The crypto carnival, he exclaimed, rolls into its most ferocious phase, fraught with both drama and the specter of financial ruin for the unwary commoners.