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Pokemon Champions has arrived on Nintendo Switch, and like many other Pokemon games before it, it’s offering a handful of free Pokemon and other helpful items for players. In addition to free Mystery Gifts, you can receive elusive Mega Stones by transferring certain Pokemon over from the Pokemon Home service, and even get a free Gardevoir by participating in the game’s first online competition.Here are all of the free gifts available right now in Pokemon Champions. If you’re new to the battle-focused game, be sure to also check out our beginner’s guide to competitive Pokemon, as well as our guide…

XRP is trading around $1.33 as the altcoin continues to drift lower with no meaningful catalyst in sight. While broader markets are in a wait-and-see mode around the US-Iran ceasefire developments, XRP has found no relief from the pressure. It is sliding further toward the critical support zone that has served as the last line of defense since February. Ripple Price Analysis: The USDT Pair The structure on the USDT pair remains firmly bearish. XRP is trading inside a descending channel with both the 100-day MA (~$1.60) and 200-day MA (~$1.90) declining well overhead. The asset has been grinding lower…

Bitcoin is trading around $71k as global markets enter a cautious holding pattern. Investors are closely watching whether the recently announced US-Iran ceasefire will hold and how its resolution might affect broader risk sentiment. Until there is greater geopolitical clarity, crypto markets appear content to consolidate rather than commit to a directional move. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The daily chart continues to show a long-term downtrend. BTC is trading inside a descending channel and below both the 100-day MA (~$75k) and 200-day MA (~$87k). The $75k–$80k resistance band remains the primary ceiling as it has rejected every recovery…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The US-Iran ceasefire made oil retreat, European equities posted their largest single-day gain in more than four years, and crypto joined the relief wave alongside everything else.During the relief, traders rotated sharply into privacy-adjacent names, pushing Zcash up roughly 59.6% over seven days and Dash up about 47.3% over the same window.CryptoSlate’s privacy coin category climbed 10.2% over 24 hours as of press time, while the broader privacy cohort averaged 21.5% gains, comfortably outpacing Bitcoin.Top Privacy Crypto Assets by Market CapThe move is split unevenly across the category, providing information beyond the headline numbers.Two forces unevenly…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on In November 2024, the SEC celebrated 583 enforcement actions and a record $8.2 billion in remedies, saying crypto was proof it could keep pace with emerging threats. This week, the same agency published a 2025 review calling that approach a mistake.The new report said prior resources were misapplied, criticized the pursuit of “media headlines,” and described the past year as a “necessary course correction” that included dismissing seven crypto registration-related cases.While this is a clear sign that the SEC is easing up on crypto, the report also carries a silent admission. We see now that it’s publicly…

Sandy Petersen, the creator of the horror tabletop game Call of Cthulhu, recently recalled the first time he tested out its iconic Sanity mechanic. The reaction he got from players was unexpected, but ended up shaping a mechanic that has influenced nearly every horror game, digital or physical, since. In Call of Cthulhu, players have Sanity Points, a stat that decreases as they encounter grotesque, Lovecraftian horrors. A substantial loss of Sanity Points can cause your character to become insane or perform actions outside the player’s control, adding another layer of horror to the game. The Sanity mechanic is perhaps…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Many Americans are feeling the pain at the pump because of the recent rise in gas prices, and that’s why many turned out for a gas gift card giveaway in Chesapeake Thursday…

Today in crypto, stablecoin adoption in Europe is shifting from strategy to execution, push notifications can create a backdoor, breaching user privacy, says Durov. Meanwhile, WLFI fell to a record low after it was revealed that the project used its own tokens as collateral to take a loan. Banks, corporates in Europe ‘actively selecting partners’ for stablecoin pushBanks and corporates across Europe are moving beyond exploration and are now actively selecting infrastructure partners to support stablecoin adoption, according to Lamine Brahimi, co-founder and managing partner at crypto custody technology provider Taurus.Brahimi told Cointelegraph that eighteen months ago, most conversations were…

Bitcoin’s fifth halving is roughly two years away, and the mining sector is heading into it with far less margin for error than in 2024, as higher costs, tighter energy markets and clearer regulation reshape the industry.At the last halving in April 2024, Bitcoin (BTC) traded at around $63,000 as rewards fell from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC per block, according to Coingecko. In April 2028, at the next halving, miners face higher input costs for half the new coins, as rewards drop to 1.5625 BTC. That looks tougher in a world of record hashrate, higher energy prices and more…

When the original Overwatch debuted almost a decade ago, the game encounter some pushback over Tracer’s victory pose, which some claimed over-sexualized her and placed too much emphasis on her butt. Blizzard subsequently apologized and reworked Tracer’s pose. Now, former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has weighed in on the issue and declared that Tracer’s butt was never nerfed.Kaplan was asked about the issue while streaming his new game, The Legend of California, via IGN. In response, Kaplan said “we actually didn’t nerf Tracer’s butt. It stayed exactly the same.”Blizzard recently ran into a similar issue and promised to rework the…