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Tragic Nintendo Unboxing Story Has A Happy Ending
9.5.2023
In August 2022 we told the very sad story of a serious Nintendo collector who, having thought he’d got hold of some very special old playing cards, had in fact got hold of two hunks of worthless cardboard.Read more
Scarlet & Violet Pokémon Cards Will Make It Easier To Get Rare Holos
8.3.2023
It seems that inflation comes for everyone. Pokémon card collectors took a massive L when The Pokémon Company announced late last year that the price of its card packs would rise from $3.99 to $4.49. However, it seems like they’re trying to compensate by improving the pull rates for fans who still...
Pokémon Collectors Keep Driving Up Prices On Trading Cards With Women And Girls
20.2.2023
On January 20, the latest expansion of the Pokémon Trading Card Game released in Japan in the form of twin sets Scarlet EX and Violet EX. They’re due for an English release in March, or you can pre-order the Japanese versions from importers right now. But there’s a catch.Read more
The Marvel Snap Cards That Win And Lose The Most Are Hard To Believe
12.1.2023
When it comes to building any style of Marvel Snap deck, there’s always that nagging feeling that you might be including one or two cards out of habit, rather than necessity. But when Kotaku spoke to the game’s creator, Second Dinner’s Ben Brode, we learned that the cards we ought to be leaving...
Genshin Impact’s Great New Card Game Is Becoming My Favorite Time Sink
7.12.2022
Genshin Impact’s new in-world card game is a personal attack on what remains of my free time. The rules are simple to learn, but the strategy is incredibly tough to master. And I can’t stop trying new decks. I want to apologize to every one of my coworkers who got sucked into Marvel Snap this year....
Marvel Snap's Big New Black Panther Season: What's Worth Knowing
8.11.2022
It makes perfect sense that Kotaku’s new obsession, Marvel Snap, would tie itself into the major events of the rest of the Marvel universe. Today, as the deckbuilding strategic card game enters its second season, the theme is Wakanda, just in time for this week’s release of the MCU’s Black Panther:...
Vintage Nintendo Unboxing Ends In Tragedy
23.8.2022
Erik Voskuil, who runs the wonderful Before Mario (and has written an excellent book by the same name), has one of the world’s finest collections of Nintendo stuff. Recently though he managed to get hold of something that was special even by his standards: a couple of packets of Nintendo playing...
$70,000 Pokémon Card Thief Hid Them At Mom's House
12.8.2022
A warehouse worker for one of the UK’s biggest collectable card-selling companies was found guilty last week of stealing over $70,000 of Pokémon cards, and then hiding them in...his mom’s house.Read more
Police: A Half-Million Dollar Pokémon Card Collection Heist Was Just Called In
27.7.2022
We’re an odd species, what with our predilection for scarcity, even if that scarce item is a piece of cardboard with a cartoon drawn on it. So it is that 62-year-old South Carolina resident Christopher Polydorou is alleged to have had his home broken into, and his $500,000 Pokémon card collection...