Branching Path: Dave Francisco’s Top 10 Games of 2025
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Despite a busy schedule, I managed to find time to play some great games that came out in 2025. Here’s a quick list of my top picks.
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Despite a busy schedule, I managed to find time to play some great games that came out in 2025. Here’s a quick list of my top picks.

With recent success, Fire and Ash became Disney’s third film to earn over $1 billion. Looking ahead to 2025, only the live-action Lilo & Stitch and Zootopia 2 are projected to reach that milestone, with James Cameron’s latest film needing a bit of time in 2026. Since 2023, Disney remains the only studio consistently producing billion-dollar movies, which balances out any less successful projects like Elio.

In March 2025, actor Mickey Rourke rented the former home of author Raymond Chandler. The following month, he was removed from the reality show Celebrity Big Brother after making offensive comments towards JoJo Siwa. The Los Angeles Times reported that the monthly rent started at $5,200 but was later raised to $7,000. Rourke currently owes $59,100 in unpaid rent and, according to the Times, received an eviction notice on December 18th.
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In December, we asked you to vote in two polls: your favorite RPG from 2025 and the RPG you’re most looking forward to in 2026. We’ve already shared our own picks for the best of 2025 and most anticipated games of 2026, but we were eager to hear your opinions! Here are the results from both polls.
Lee, ever the orator, proclaims this move as a strategic masterpiece, a chess game played on the grand board of finance. “Fear not, dear investors,” he coos, “for this is not the dilution of your precious holdings, but a preparation for the glorious future where our stock splits like the Red Sea before Moses.” 🌊✝️ Yet, one cannot help but smirk at the irony of such piety in the temple of crypto.

Despite being an unexpected hit, the movie Greenland successfully combined heartfelt moments with exciting action, attracting enough viewers to warrant a sequel. Now, Greenland 2: Migration is coming to theaters and, like the first film, is likely to surprise audiences – offering another thrilling disaster movie experience. The biggest challenge? How do you create tension and raise the stakes in a sequel when the first movie already depicted the end of the world?
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A new framework leverages neural networks and advanced mathematical techniques to efficiently predict the behavior of complex plasmas under uncertainty.

According to Variety, Anaconda is expected to earn around $88 million worldwide by the end of its second weekend in theaters. So far, it has made $45.8 million in the US and $42.2 million internationally.

With the final episodes of Stranger Things now released, fans had plenty of predictions about what would happen – especially regarding which characters might die. While some characters did meet their end, the show didn’t kill off as many as some viewers feared. Since the episodes aired, actor Gaten Matarazzo has discussed these expectations and made a valid point about them.

We now understand his previous comment. Photos discovered by The Direct reveal a headlamp has been added to the character, hinting at a design inspired by Toad’s appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker games.