The most absurd Magic collection I’ve ever seen, including a Black Lotus that’s ‘the best of the best’, is going for a mere $2.2 million

A frankly absurd Magic The Gathering collection has been put on-sale, but us mere peasants need not apply. Listed as “1st Edition Magic The Gathering Artist Proof Set” the first line of the seller’s description kind of says it all: “This is not a joke.” The lot consists of 302 cards that are all first…

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‘Game has become mahjong’: WoW Classic player installs over 3,600 addons in a bout of eldritch madness, somehow only needs to remove 20 to get it to ‘work’

World of Warcraft is, broadly speaking, decently supportive of its UI modding community—for better or worse. While I’m a fan of cobbling together WeakAuras and the like, and the practice of UI addons has kept the game afloat without updating its UI for almost 18 years, it’s also led to an arms race of sorts….

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Now D&D’s 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I’ve been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years

Dungeons & Dragons just had both its 50th anniversary and its next edition release—wait, hold on, I’m getting a message on my Sending Stone—it’s not actually an edition, it’s a “revamp”. Instead of doing like Wizards of the Coast typically does, and reinventing the wheel, its best team of rules lawyers has instead drafted up…

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It sounds like we’ll have to wait even longer to find out what the deal is with OD, Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele’s game, movie, and ‘new form of media’ that had the trailer with all the faces cryptically talking at us

First reported by GamesRadar, Hideo Kojima revealed in a year-end Twitter post that his upcoming projects OD and Physint have encountered difficulties due to the SAG-AFTRA strike that began last July and remains ongoing. “For OD, we developed the game and had actor and environment scanning,” Kojima wrote as part of his 2024 year-in-review. “In…

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After losing his father to cancer, mega streamer Shroud is running a January ‘Fragathon’ where he’ll donate to cancer research for each in-game kill

Streamer and former pro FPS player Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has announced a January “Fragathon” for charity, with the main event being a promise to donate $1 (with potential multipliers) for every kill he scores on-stream over the coming month. “Last year, I lost my dad to cancer, and ever since I’ve been looking for ways…

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