Whether you’re offloading a shelf full of NES games or a boxed GameCube set, it comes down to a choice between mailed trade-ins, franchised brick-and mortar trade-ins and online peer to peer marketplaces, all of which have different terms of payment, shipping, and grading features. The retro gaming market will grow 10% from last year,…
For years, the video game industry has focused on pushing the boundaries of technology, with ever-more powerful consoles, photorealistic graphics and expansive online experiences. Yet, despite these advancements, many younger gamers are looking in the opposite direction. Generation Z has embraced retro gaming in a way few expected, helping to breathe new life into classic…
Nomsa was nine years old the first time she put a coin into an arcade machine at a Spur in Pretoria, and she still remembers the exact sound it made, not the game sound, but the coin dropping. That small metal click before everything lit up. She told us this while describing what it feels…
Pixel art is still one of the most recognizable visual styles in gaming even while graphics technology has been zooming forward. Modern hardware can pull off realistic characters, cinematic lighting, and huge environments, but somehow a lot of well made games still choose pixel based looks. From indie breakthroughs to newer retro leaning adventures, pixel…
If you watched the recent trailer for Saber Interactive’s upcoming Rideshare ‘Stimulator’ (the quotation marks are part of the title) you may have thought it seemed a little bit hinky in spots. Midway through the video, after a quick rundown of some of the game’s oddball passengers, the narrator says, “And when I think I’ve…
Retro gaming collectors face a genuinely fun dilemma these days. Do you chase the portability and massive libraries of modern handhelds, or do you commit shelf space to a tabletop cabinet that actually feels like the arcade you grew up in? Both formats claim to “preserve” classic gaming, but they do it in fundamentally different…
Summary Take the plunge today as Grounded 2’s largest content update yet, Into the Abyss, opens an expansive new underwater adventure, with hidden discoveries, forgotten landmarks and more. Prepare for what lies beneath with new diving gear, underwater base building, dangerous new creatures, and the amphibious Toe Biter Buggy.Grounded 2 is also coming to PlayStation…
Across the ages, theorists and theologians have wrestled with an irreconcilable question: Is free will an inherent capacity of the human soul, or a misapprehension of things predetermined and divine? Is it a unique function of the human animal, or an illusory quirk of cognition bound by circumstance and necessity? If free will is indeed…
Not so tarnished, eh? Bandai Namco had released a new story trailer for Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition ahead of its Switch 2 launch on 28th August 2026. While we’re well aware that publishers like to show off games in their very best light for trailers, there’s no denying that it actually looks really nice. After…
I’ve spent a large part of my morning reading the words of Mark Zuckerberg. 6,434 of them, to be precise, if we’re including the “Mark” signoff at the bottom. The Meta CEO (and everyone’s favourite smart glasses advocate) has written what can only be described as a manifesto regarding upcoming “superintelligent” AI technology—and I’ll be…