Month: August 2023
$300K worth of Magic: The Gathering cards were stolen at this weekend’s Gen Con
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is appealing to the public for help identifying two thieves who made off with $300,000 worth of trading cards, including Magic: The Gathering packs, at this weekend’s Gen Con. IMPD detectives have released photographs of the two suspects, who reportedly made off with an entire…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is already one of Steam’s biggest games ever
Baldur’s Gate 3 may have only released on August 3, but it’s already one of Steam‘s biggest games, clocking up a concurrent user record so high, it’s already cemented itself in Steam’s top ten most played games ever. The hugely-anticipated sequel – which has been decades in the making –…
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Thieves stole $300,000 in gaming trading cards at Gen Con 2023
A pair of thieves waltzed into Gen Con 2023 and stole as much as $300,000 of gaming cards in Indianapolis (via IndyStar). The cards, which were sitting in boxes on a pallet, were stolen using a pallet jack while vendors were setting up for the long-running yearly gaming convention that…
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Metal Gear series tops a staggering 60m worldwide sales
Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear series has topped over 60 million sales worldwide. That’s despite the fact that developer/publisher Konami hasn’t released a mainline Metal Gear game since 2018, and its last numbered instalment was released almost a decade ago now back in 2015. That hasn’t stopped players from indulging in…
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Barbie earns $1 billion at the box office worldwide
Barbie is the first movie from a solo female director to hit the mark, joining just a few other female-directed films that have grossed over a billion dollars internationally: Frozen and Frozen II (both co-directed by Jennifer Lee alongside Chris Buck) and Captain Marvel (co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan…
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Hitting the Books: In England’s industrial mills, even the clocks worked against you
America didn’t get around to really addressing child labor until the late ’30s when Roosevelts New Deal took hold and the Public Contracts Act raised the minimum age to 16. Before then, kids could often look forward to spending the majorities of their days doing some of the most dangerous…
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