collecting
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The Best Pokémon Cards Ever Are Out This Year, And They’re Mighty Generous
It’s the end of an era. Over the last three years, the Pokémon Trading Card Game has been primarily focused on the Pokémon and characters from 2019’s Sword and Shield (SWSH) game, but come March 20, that’s all coming to an end. That’s when the world outside of Japan will see its first official sets…
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Logan Paul’s New Website Will Take Collectibles, Lock Them In A ‘Vault’ Then Sell Tokens
Internet person Logan Paul, fresh off wearing a $US6 ($8) million Pokémon card to Wrestlemania — a sentence I am reeling from having had to type — has also this week opened a site called Liquid Marketplace, which claims to be selling stakes in physical collectibles, but in reality sounds like a disaster waiting to…
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The Project Trying To Put Every Single Super Nintendo Instruction Manual On The Internet
A lot is made, and rightly so, of the plight of retro video games once they succumb to the passage of time. But while we focus on preserving the games themselves, what happens to the instruction manuals that used to come with them?
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How To Spot Fake Classic Video Games
Fake classic games are everywhere: At the flea market, in your local game store, on eBay, and maybe even mixed in with your own collection. The bootleggers who make them are churning them out, meaning that the market will only become more saturated with them as the years go by. If you’re going to collect…