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Counter-Strike Twitch Viewership Thrived in 2025 as Other Leading Esports Struggled eSports

Counter-Strike Twitch Viewership Thrived in 2025 as Other Leading Esports Struggled

Counter-Strike 2 emerged as one of Twitch’s biggest success stories of 2025, standing out in a year where many of esports’ most established titles saw sharp declines across almost every major viewership metric. Counter-Strike accumulated 770 million hours watched in 2025, representing a 15.3% year-on-year increase. That growth is a…
bubmag
December 31, 2025
A fractured world: How coups, conflicts and fragile truces disrupted the global order in 2025 Peace

A fractured world: How coups, conflicts and fragile truces disrupted the global order in 2025

2025 ended with global stability fractured by mutinies, civil unrest and tentative pauses in conflict rather than a return to order. Across the Sahel, Haiti and the Taiwan Strait, armed actors tested the limits of fragile governments as world powers swapped multilateralism for harder-edged deterrence and security pacts. While local…
bubmag
December 31, 2025
SPECIAL: Inside Abuja, Nigeria’s capital overshadowed by ‘smelling’ heaps of garbage Space Debris

SPECIAL: Inside Abuja, Nigeria’s capital overshadowed by ‘smelling’ heaps of garbage

In the Jabi, Wuse, Utako, and Mabushi districts of Abuja, Nigeria’s seat of power—long praised for its serenity and beauty as the nation’s capital—heaps of refuse now dot the streets, exposing residents to health risks linked to improper waste disposal. Presidential aide Tope Fasua described the refuse dumps sharing space…
bubmag
December 31, 2025