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The Michigan State Spartans returned to action this weekend with a two-game series against another Big Ten opponent; Notre Dame. Porter Martone would open the series with his first multi-goal game at the collegiate level, and followed it up with another tally on Saturday night. On Friday night, the Spartans took control from the first drop of the puck. They found their way into the offensive zone with ease, created chaos on the forecheck, and took a ton of shots at the net. In the opening frame alone, Michigan State peppered Notre Dame goaltender Nicholas Kempf with 21 shots. The final shot count was 47 to 25 in favor of the Spartans as they took game one by a final score of 4-1. Game two was much closer, with Notre Dame living up to their name and showing a lot more fight. Shots were 33 to 29 Michigan State, who completed the series sweep with a 3-1 final. Freshman forward, and the Flyers’ 2025 first round draft pick, Porter Martone was the star of the series, with two goals in game one and another in game two. Fellow 2025 first rounder, Ryker Lee, flashed his creativity with several slick plays, picking up two goals and an assist for his efforts. Spartans netminder Trey Augustine stopped 52 of 54 shots (.963 save percentage) and Charlie Stramel picked up three assists. Game 1 Martone’s first goal was a beauty off the rush. Picking up a loose puck in the defensive zone, Martone exits the zone and finds Daniel Russell in the neutral zone. As Russell pulls the Notre Dame defender wide towards him, Stramel turns on the burners and cuts down the middle of the ice. Russell hits him with an entry pass and Stramel makes a great backhand saucer pass to Martone cutting towards the net, who freezes Kempf and puts home the first goal of the night. Porter Martone makes it 1-0 in the first! It's his fifth of the season.Assists to Charlie Stramel and Daniel Russell! pic.twitter.com/zNJ0nyEIQT— Michigan State Hockey (@MSU_Hockey) November 15, 2025 Following a somewhat lousy start to a power play that saw the Spartans struggle to enter the offensive zone cleanly, Martone is able to retrieve the puck near the offensive blue line, make a pass into the zone, and go to work. A couple of perimeter passes later, and Lee finds Martone with a cross-ice pass. After corralling the pass with his skate, Martone inches his way closer to the net and beats a screened Kempf up high for his second of the game. Second of the night for Porter Martone, this time on the power play!Spartans in front, 2-0, in South Bend pic.twitter.com/Xy75AHBL08— Michigan State Hockey (@MSU_Hockey) November 15, 2025 After Notre Dame got on the board with a power play goal, Martone would again be involved offensively, though this time he wouldn’t get a point on the play. His linemates Russell and Stramel did some excellent work along the boards, concluding with Stramel finding Maxim Štrbák sneaking in from the point. With a lot of commotion and bodies in front, Martone included, Štrbák was able to put the Spartans back up by two. Martone came close to re-directing Štrbák’s shot, which would have completed the hat trick. He had several quality scoring chances later in the game, but Kempf was able to deny his attempts the rest of the way. However, maybe the most impressive thing from this game? This move from Ryker Lee. Ryker Lee 👀 pic.twitter.com/BxQ4RonI68— John (@FromEastLansing) November 15, 2025 Game 2 Lee opened the scoring in game two off a sick behind the back pass from Anthony Romani. Michigan State skaters had been pulling off all sorts of tricks this weekend, with Romani’s assist serving as another example. Ryker Lee makes it 1-0 Spartans just 90 seconds into the first period!Travis Shoudy started us in transition to set up the back-handed no look pass from Anthony Romani to Lee pic.twitter.com/Uj8C1TrgSi— Michigan State Hockey (@MSU_Hockey) November 15, 2025 Augustine made maybe one of his most impactful stops in the closing seconds of the first period, when Sutter…

An exciting chapter in the Death Stranding universe is now taking shape and we finally have a clearer picture of what new Hideo Kojima has been cooking with his Death Stranding franchise outside of the games. Alongside an already announced live-action film adaptation and an anime movie, the veteran creator has now revealed Death Stranding Isolations (working title), an original anime TV series releasing on Disney+ sometime in 2027. From Nintendo’s upcoming Zelda and Mario movie to Sony’s The Last of Us and even the upcoming Assassin’s Creed TV series, video game adaptations are experiencing a massive surge as of late and are turning out to be a lucrative affair, as major publishers fight for their slice of the streaming pie. Now, Kojima is expanding his wonderfully weird Death Stranding IP with an anime series that’s unlike anything we’ve seen from the games. Announced at the recent Disney+ Originals Preview event in Hong Kong, the upcoming Death Stranding Isolations anime series will follow a young man and woman whose “fates and hopes converge” in a world thrown into chaos. Kojima will himself oversee the project as executive producer alongside Takayuki Sano of E&H Production, who’ll serve as the director for the series. The Death Stranding Isolations’ story will be told via traditional hand-drawn 2D animation, created by some of Japan’s top talent at E&H Production. Kojima Productions also hinted at what we can expect from Disney+’s Death Stranding Isolations, teasing the anime series’ synopsis, which reads: “Once, there was an explosion… Lonesome souls of the dead manifest in the physical world, reaching in search of the living. However, the connection they create triggers a massive explosion that eradicates anything of this world—a phenomenon referred to as the Death Stranding. These events wipe out nations as well as civilization itself. People who remain are now isolated, withdrawn, and without connections. As humanity stands at the brink a legendary porter set out to transport both cargo and wishes of its senders, reconnecting people in the hope that they might still be saved. Based on the video game born out of the mind of legendary game creator, Hideo Kojima, comes a new animation series headed by Japan’s up-and-coming animation studio E&H production. Helmed by E&H’s Takayuki Sano, it follows in the footsteps of the original in spirit and ideas and depict the world of Death Stranding through a bold and yet subtle touch and top-class hand-drawn animation. Somewhere in North America, just as Sam Bridges walks through the continent in order to save America, the someones are also trying to deal with their isolation in their own way. An old man trying to realize salvation through ways outside of the connection advocated by Bridges. A female warrior who tries to kickstart a world of constant fighting. A boy with a grudge against Bridges. A girl who embraces loneliness. On the precipice of the end of humanity and the world, their fates and hopes converge, as another story of Death Stranding begins. And now, comes another explosion… “ Talking about how the Japanese anime influenced him and the anime series came into being, Kojima, during the showcase, revealed, “I grew up loving Japanese anime, and it has shaped my worldview. I’ve always been a fan of Disney, since I was small, and I was glad that they showed my documentary on the platform. When they approached me, I decided to work with them.” Debuting on Disney+ sometime in 2027, Death Stranding Isolations is just a placeholder for now and the series’ final name could change down the line. The post Death Stranding’s Weird World Is Coming to Disney+ as an Anime Series in 2027 appeared first on Our Culture.