Deals
someone traded a box of broken PlayStations and Xboxes for $10,690 — here's the real math
GameStop store credit for a pile of dead consoles sounds like a scam until you actually run the numbers against eBay.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 25 · 6 min
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Retro
A 1995 arcade racer that made you sit on a real leaning motorcycle just landed on Switch 2
Namco's Cyber Cycles put players on a full-size lean-steer motorcycle cabinet in 1995. Thirty-one years later it's $17 on your couch, and HAMSTER swapped the handlebars for a control stick.
Tom Ashcroft · Aug 20 · 6 min
Retro
Kingdom Hearts is finally coming to Switch 2 for real — but Nintendo's killing the version you've been playing
The full trilogy collection launches October 8 as a native, physical Switch 2 release — two days after the cloud version everyone's been using gets shut off.
Tom Ashcroft · Aug 17 · 5 min
Retro
a 1986 Amiga classic just came back after 40 years — and two of its three modes miss the mark
Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns launched August 13 with three different games in one box — critics say only the brand-new one is actually worth playing.
Tom Ashcroft · Aug 16 · 6 min
Retro
A mecha series nobody's mentioned since 2005 just got a real PS5 comeback
Patlabor: The Case Files launches September 17 — 21 years after the franchise's last game — and it looks like a proper budget action title, not a cash-in.
Tom Ashcroft · Aug 13 · 6 min