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Meet The Guy Who Spent $90K On One Of The Rarest Copies Of Castlevania In The World
19.4.2024
Tom Curtin had just secured the video game of his dreams: a factory sealed first run copy of Konami’s original 1986 Castlevania for NES with a rare hang tab on the back of the box. There are only six currently known to exist and Curtin, together with his childhood friend, paid just over $90,000...
Police Arrest Suspect Behind Nintendo Live Tokyo 2024 Threats
3.4.2024
After multiple persistent threats against attendees and staff that led to the cancellation of the major Nintendo Live event in Tokyo in December 2023, Japanese police have reportedly arrested the person responsible.Read more
Three Decades Later, Someone Has Finally Beaten Tetris On NES
2.1.2024
Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have reached its various endings, usually by clearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital demolitioner. That’s a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept...
Pokémon’s 2023 Showed The Darker Side Of The Pikachu Machine
28.12.2023
Pokémon’s profit margins probably don’t reflect it, but the franchise had a rough year in 2023. Without a new mainline role-playing game to dominate the series’ headlines, Pikachu and friends were, instead, shrouded in controversies throughout the past 12 months. Between Pokémon Go angering swaths...
Nintendo Cancels Major Live Event In Japan After Threats
7.12.2023
A major live Nintendo event for early 2024 has been canceled following threats against attendees and staff, the company has announced, expunging world championship tournaments for games like Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon 3.Read more
How K-Pop Made League of Legends Immortal
6.12.2023
The longevity of League of Legends is astounding. Across the industry, developers are trying to grab a share of the lucrative live-service games pie. Since 2009, the enduring popularity of this multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game has made it a golden goose: often imitated, but never...
The 10 Top-Selling Cards In Pokémon TCG's Obsidian Flames
22.8.2023
The Pokémon TCG’s Obsidian Flames was always going to be an awkward, middle child of a set. Released before the fuss of Paldea Evolved and its Iono frenzy was over, but also just a month ahead of the inevitable deafening noise of Pokémon 151, if it weren’t for its Charizards it might have been...
Competitive Pokémon Is Full Of Cheating, According To New Data
21.8.2023
A week after the winners were crowned at the 2023 Pokémon World Championship in Japan, a new survey of the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet competitive community appears to show just how rampant “cheating” is in the hit Nintendo Switch game. The data looked at recent teams fielded by pros and found that...
Competitive Pokémon Is Full Of Cheating, According To New Data
21.8.2023
A week after the winners were crowned at the 2023 Pokémon World Championship in Japan, a new survey of the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet competitive community appears to show just how rampant “cheating” is in the hit Nintendo Switch game. The data looked at recent teams fielded by pros and found that...
The 10 Top-Selling Cards In Pokémon TCG's Obsidian Flames
21.8.2023
The Pokémon TCG’s Obsidian Flames was always going to be an awkward, middle child of a set. Released before the fuss of Paldea Evolved and its Iono frenzy was over, but also just a month ahead of the inevitable deafening noise of Pokémon 151, if it weren’t for its Charizards it might have been...
Pokémon Company Hints That Its Game Output May Be Unsustainable
14.8.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold phenomenally well on Switch. They also launched with tons of bugs and frustrating raid battle performance that made them some of the most busted games in the series’ long history. Fans have been debating for years now if developer Game Freak is just making too many...
Pokémon Tourney Cracks Down On Hacked Monsters, Disqualifies Tons Of Players
11.8.2023
The biggest Pokémon tournament of the year is going on right now and tons of players are getting disqualified for fielding hacked teams. The first Pokémon World Championship since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s big launch, the stricter checks are apparently catching some pros off guard, and ending...
Yu-Gi-Oh! Is Faltering, But Fans Feel Konami's Ignoring Them
14.7.2023
During a recent Konami shareholder meeting, the game company’s president addressed concerns that its latest free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, has negatively affected the franchise’s growth. A shareholder noted that Master Duel’s play style poorly translates to the popular trading...
The Chess World Is Losing Its Mind Over One Grandmaster Potentially Trolling Another
31.1.2022
A championship on the line. A move so cold and calculated it has to be a troll (probably). A vitriolic fanbase armed with keyboards and anonymous screen names. And you thought these sorts of things only happened in video games. But even chess, a turn-based strategy game first released for wooden...
League of Legends Champ Arrested On Suspicion Of Drug Trafficking
30.9.2021
Kurtis Lau Wai-kin, better known as “Toyz,” has been arrested in Taipei on suspicion of trafficking marijuana. In Taiwan, marijuana is a class 2 illegal drug, and it carries a severe prison sentence and heavy fines.While marijuana might be seen as a “soft” drug in the U.S., in Taiwan, it’s not...
League Of Legends Makeover For Chinese Subway
31.8.2021
For the tenth anniversary of its Chinese server, League of Legends is dressing up the Hangzhou Metro in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Subway cars, for example, have been done up to look like different LoL regions. As League of Legends (via Twitter user lolweibo) announced through its official Weibo...
The Top 10 Most Valuable Pokémon Cards In History
3.7.2021
The ongoing demand for rare and valuable Pokémon cards has led to a frenzy out there, as people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on unopened boxes and rare cards. Celebrities and popular influencers have got involved over the last two years too, blowing up the situation further. It’s gotten...
You Can Win $5,000 For Being Really Good At Microsoft Excel
4.6.2021
Been practicing your Excel macros? What’s your APM in Microsoft Office? If you’re the best of the best, you might just have what it takes to dominate in the world of competitive financial modeling. In fact, another international exhibition match is about to start.Read more
Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2021 Is Canceled Due To Covid-19
5.4.2021
Konami has canceled the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2021. This isn’t a first. The event was also canceled last year.Read more
So, It's Been A Year, Huh
18.3.2021
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the growing outbreak of covid-19 a pandemic. In the year since, over 120 million people have been infected by the virus worldwide, and 2.5 million people have died because of covid-19. Life has forever been changed. We wear masks. Avoid...