A UK retailer has honoured a redditor's £20 Fractal Design PC case purchase: 'You made it go viral. So we did what we believe is right—we owned it.'

A UK retailer has honoured a redditor’s £20 Fractal Design PC case purchase: ‘You made it go viral. So we did what we believe is right—we owned it.’

With seas of stock to maintain, plus piles of product pages to go along with every item, listing mistakes happen. Should an eagle-eyed shopper scoop a downright unreasonably priced bit of kit, it’s often a toss up as to whether the supplier will either cancel the order, or quietly honour the few orders that get…

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Team Reptile announces Hyperfunk, a Bomb Rush Cyberfunk follow-up that’s ‘2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle’

If you’re a gamer of a certain vintage, there’s a good chance that your idea of cool looks like cel-shaded graffiti artists doing roller blading tricks in a futuristic cityscape where nothing isn’t neon. Sanctified by Jet Set Radio, that visual lineage continues in the work of creators like Bomb Rush Cyberfunk developer Team Reptile,…

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Goon it yourself with the new editor for pulp-noir immersive sim Fallen Aces, or just visit a ’20s nightclub version of Doom’s famed first level

It has been almost a year since Fallen Aces arrived on the early access scene, bringing impeccable Dick Tracy gangster comic vibes to the immersive sim genre. While there’s still a little ways to go until the second episode launches, the game was updated just a few days ago with a powerful level editor, Steam…

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Feature: “It Sounds Like Some Kind Of STD” – The Birth Of Sonic, Xbox In Japan, & Why Namco’s Advertising Hated The Name ‘Klonoa’

Industry veteran Mike Fischer runs us through his years at Sega, Namco, & Xbox. The marketing expert and former video game exec Mike Fischer may not exactly be a household name in the world of gaming, but we’d argue he has had a more exciting career than most working in his respective field. Over the…

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“My Staff Have Had Customers Threatening To Rip Their Heads Off” – Retailers And Collectors Tell Of Pokémon TCG Woes

“Scalpers are making it impossible to find cards”. The fact that the Pokémon Trading Card Game has created its own mini-economy isn’t new news – back when it launched in the late ’90s, there were accusations that it was encouraging gambling amongst kids, with many schools banning the cards from their playgrounds. In more recent…

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Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because ‘Starcraft sold 3 million copies in Korea’

Age of Empires 2 fans are no strangers to the game receiving new factions. The Definitive Edition’s curators, Forgotten Empires, have regularly updated the game with new playable civs for years. But it turns out the game’s history of adding unexpected dynasties stretches much farther back in time than 2017, at least according to one…

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