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Pokémon, sports trading cards have leveled up from nostalgia to retail gold  Axios Where you can learn to play the Pokémon card game in Los Angeles  LAist Don’t Miss GameStop’s Most Valuable Rising Pokemon TCG Promos  TheGamer Pokemon and trading cards are a multi-billion dollar industry: How a collector craze became retail gold  The Economic Times How a $0 handshake deal became a $200m …

I have a theory about the music of ABBA (it’s just my experience, but maybe it’s yours too). Their songs, composed and produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and sung by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, are so propulsively beautiful, so catchy and timeless and addictive, so sublime in their blend of joy and heartbreak that your all-time favorite …

Video game visuals have come a long way since the ’90s. The jump between pixel art and polygons was a massive one, but players still had to rely on a bit of imagination to fully see the things game developers were trying to depict at the time. Now that we have graphics that could be mistaken for reality, we’ve also …

Maingear’s latest, the (appropriately named) Retro95, is a deceptive love letter to old-school “pizza box” PCs. It’s Wolfenstein 3D and Sierra adventure games on the outside; Cyberpunk 2077 in ray-traced 4K on the inside. That’s because you can fit this sucker with up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics. It supports Intel and AMD processors, up to the Ryzen 7 …

There is a twinkling sound every time you turn on the original Destiny that lives on in the hearts of anyone who spent hundreds of hours playing it. Over a decade later, Destiny 2‘s newest expansion transported players back to those fond early days by re-using the old menu music for The Edge of Fate’s login screen. Why Everybody Hates …

Destiny 2: Edge of Fate launches later today, but thanks to the opportunity to pre-load the expansion ahead of time, players have been able to hop into the title screen. It’s there that longtime Destiny fans were welcomed with a blast from the past. This nostalgia bomb comes courtesy of a music track that plays while on this title screen. …