RAMnarök, the ongoing memory shortage which keeps fuelling price hikes and has had us watching whether Steam Decks are out of stock like hawks, continues to cause headaches. MSI are reportedly planning to hike up the prices of their hardware by 15 to 30% as a result of the shortages.
Saudi Arabia now owns 10% of Capcom, after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC) acquired a 5% stake.
Gamebiz.jp reports that the EGDC’s acquisition, part of the Crown Prince’s MISK Foundation, is “pure investment.” Added to the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF)’s existing 5% stake, EGDC’s acquisition of an additional 26.78 million shares raises the country’s ownership of the developer and publisher to around 10%.
The increased ownership comes as Resident Evil Requiem has now sold six million copies, making it the fastest-selling instalment of the horror game since it all kicked off in Raccoon City thirty years ago.
The controversial Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, has already invested a significant amount of money into international gaming companies, including Take-Two, EA, and Activision Blizzard. A subsidiary of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s foundation almost completely owns SNK Corporation, too, a Japanese video game hardware and software company.
Late last year, Ubisoft employees raised concerns around the company’s partnership with Saudi Arabia to create new Assassin’s Creed Mirage DLC. When Ubisoft quietly announced the DLC in late August, via a social media post sent out early one Saturday morning, the brief reveal confirmed that the add-on would see Mirage hero Basim visiting AlUla, an ancient site that’s now one of Saudi Arabia’s cultural highlights.
Content creators specializing in The Sims 4 content are leaving EA’s Creator Network in protest after EA confirmed it is also due to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.
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Noted.
In case you missed it, Nintendo Switch 2 received a rather large system update last night. The big talking point out of the ver. 22.0.0 patch is the new “Handheld Mode Boost“, naturally, but the update also added a handful of other fresh features besides, including the ability to add notes to your Friends List.
To make these newbies even easier to add, the note function has now been added to the Nintendo Switch App in the ver. 3.3.0 update — so you can add a line or two to your Friends List even when you’re away from your Switch.
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The second Magic: The Gathering set of 2026 is here, and it’s Turtle Time! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have emerged from the shadows in cardboard form, but despite coming from the sewer, there’s treasure to be found.
A four-cost 1/5, April O’Neil, Hactivist lets you draw extra cards for each card type among spells cast that turn in your end step.
This version is in Fracture Foil and will set you back around $130.
The first Turtle creature on our list, Donatello, Gadget Master, is a 3/2 with the Sneak keyword. When he deals damage, create a token that’s a copy of a target artifact you control.
The Showcase Fracture Foil treatment is selling for around $150.
This awesome-looking Fracture Foil of Leonardo, Cutting Edge, is a two-cost 1/1 with Lifelink that grows in power as you gain life, and has the Sneak keyword.
It’s up to $200 right now.
Raph is the muscle, and he’s looking particularly strong in this Showcase Fracture Foil variant of Raphael, the Nightwatcher.
He’s a four-cost 2/3 that gives your attacking creatures double strike, and it’ll set you back around $220.
This Showcase Fracture Foil card is an ideal fit for decks like the Warhammer 40K’s Necron Dynasties precon, sharing its Flying, Trample, Indestructible, and Haste keywords with other artifact creatures.
It’s currently selling for around $240.
Surely the cutest card on this list, Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11, shows adorable versions of our heroes gathered around Mikey’s bizarre choice of meal.
This two-cost, 1/1 gives you a Mutagen token when it enters, then doubles +1/+1 counters. It’s sitting around $240 right now.
Talk about an odd couple: Dark Leo and Shredder is a two-cost 1/3 that creates ninja tokens when it deals damage, gives those ninjas deathtouch when you attack, and then slices a player’s life total in half when you have five or more ninjas.
This full-art, Showcase Fracture Foil is selling for just shy of $250.
The Turtles’ nemesis, this version of Super Shredder is a 1/1 with Menace that grows in power as other creatures leave the battlefield.
It’s selling for around $350 if you can find the Showcase Fracture Foil version.
The first of just two Gold-Stamped, Kevin Eastman-signed cards on this list, Michelangelo, Improviser, is going for around $2,000 at the time of writing.
It has the Sneak keyword and lets you bring land and/or creatures into play when it deals damage.
Donatello’s having all the fun, and this Borderless, Gold-Stamped Signature variant is selling for around $3,000.
Donatello, Mutant Mechanic is a four-cost 3/5 with the tap ability to put counters on an artifact to make it a creature. When it dies, those counters keep moving. That’s tough to read with Kevin Eastman’s signature on it, though.
While you have a slim (and we mean slim) chance of finding them in Play Boosters, you’re infinitely more likely to find these desirable (read: valuable) cards in Collector Boosters.
These packs are $37.99 each, but include all foil and alternate art treatments so you’ve got a much better chance of finding expensive cards in them.
The trouble is that scalpers are aware of this – so Collector Boosters are tough to track down.
Including: UK, EU, Australia, and more.
If you are looking to buy cards from the US, that’s easily remedied with TCGplayer’s huge catalog, but it’s now even easier to buy cards from the site without being in the US yourself.
“International package forwarding services give you a local shipping address in the U.S, receive purchases for you, and then consolidate and forward them to your home address at competitive global shipping rate,” the retailer says, and many locations can receive a 15% discount on their first shipment.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He’s a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife’s dismay.
Marathon‘s set to see how well it can cater to folks who only have one friend, with Bungie having announced plans to add an experimental duos mode to the extraction shooter. It’ll stick around for two weeks or so, be “a bit jank”, and hopefully give the studio a firm idea of whether they should put resources into developing a fully fleshed-out version of paired play going forwards.
Magic: The Gathering’s Universes Beyond lineup of crossovers is becoming more prevalent in 2026, but Final Fantasy remains arguably the best example of what it looks like when done right.
The set was the most popular in Magic’s long history when it launched last year, and since then, new Chocobo Track Foil cards have shaken up its most valuable chase cards.
These are the priciest Final Fantasy cards you can buy right now, thanks to data from TCGPlayer, including those that have been recently added.
The market value of Final Fantasy 16 protagonist Clive, Ifrit’s Dominant (Borderless – Surge Foil), and the flip-side’s Ifrit, Warden of Inferno, is under $80. Some sellers have it closer to $70.
Fan-favorite Tifa’s Chocobo Track Foil is sitting at around $90. It’s a great card, too, powering up as land enters (at least until the end of the turn).
Cheaper than the variant further down this list, Yuna, Hope of Spira’s more recent Chocobo Track Foil treatment will set you back around $100.
Kefka, Court Mage (Borderless – Surge Foil) puts the clown front-and-center, while offering a transformation into Kefka, Ruler of Ruin on the other side – yours for just over $110.
This Chocobo Track version of the Final Fantasy 9 Mage is just as powerful as any other, but its artwork might be even better.
It’s selling for $220, but the market value is closer to $120.
This Cloud variant isn’t as pricey as the other version on this list, but you’d still be pretty thrilled to find it.
It’s valued at around $120, but it’s actually selling for a little less than that if you look around.
Lightning, Army of One (Borderless – Surge Foil) was a super popular card at the set’s launch, and this is far and away the best-looking version of a fantastic aggro card.
Its market value is around $131, but it’s selling for more if you do happen to have one.
Yuna, Hope of Spira (Borderless – Surge Foil) is one of the best-looking surge foil treatments in the set, giving the legendary summoner a card befitting of her status in Final Fantasy X.
It’s dropped to around $150, but the card remains sought after.
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary (Borderless – Surge Foil) can run you around $265, but it’s his rival that takes top spot for Final Fantasy 7 characters.
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER (Borderless – Surge Foil) offers gorgeous artwork of one of gaming’s most legendary bad guys, and it flips over for the One-Winged Angel side of the character, too.
These Borderless, Neon Ink treatments of Final Fantasy’s most iconic bird creature are fetching huge prices, and while they’ve dropped in the months since launch, they’re still worth a small fortune.
Here’s how the prices shake out:
The Travelling Chocobo (Borderless – Japan Exclusive) is the most expensive card of any 2025 Magic: The Gathering set, racking up a total of around $6,000. It’s still fluctuating regularly, but it’s ahead by a long shot.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He’s a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife’s dismay.
Get some free items alongside the arrival of Alex.
Alex joins Street Fighter 6 today, but it doesn’t end there, with Capcom announcing some free content has also been released.
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Here’s every song included.
Nintendo has been quite busy today with the rollout of a system firmware update for the Switch 1 & 2 and a new “Handheld Boost Mode”.
It hasn’t forgotten about the weekly Nintendo Music app update, announcing it’s (finally) added the album from the 1994 SNES title, Super Metroid.
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Including “Handheld Mode Boost” and a Switch update.
Nintendo has released a new update for the Switch 2 and Switch this week, bumping the system firmware up to Version 22.0.0.
On the Switch 2, this update comes loaded with new GameChat features, language and accessibility updates, and more. Most notably, it adds the new “Handheld Mode Boost”, which allows compatible Switch software to run “as if in TV Mode”.
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For all of you Honkai Star Rail superfans, there’s a custom PC built just for you. iBuypower released a powerful GeForce RTX 5080 prebuilt gaming PC that’s housed in Hyte’s limited edition Honkai Star Rail Firefly Y70 computer case. The configuration is priced at $3,599, but you can save $200 off with coupon code “DUNK“. It’s admittedly more expensive than other similarly equipped gaming PCs on the market, but nowhere else you can source an officially licensed Honkai-themed gaming PC outside of getting it from iBuypower or building your own using Hyte’s chassis.
What’s really special about this case is the custom themed artwork. The system is housed in a gorgeous Hyte Y70 computer chassis adorned with artwork inspired by Honkai Star Rail’s 5-star character Firefly. The artwork is professionally UV printed onto all three glass panels; they don’t peel off like vinyl stickers and they’re applied on the interior side of the panels so they’re less prone to scratching. The case’s blue and sliver color scheme tastefully matches Firefly’s aesthetic.
You’d expect a gaming PC named after one of the more meta characters in HSR to be quite powerful, and iBuypower certainly doesn’t disappoint. The Y70 gaming PC is equipped with a liquid cooled AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000MHz RAM, and 2TB SSD.
The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is considered to be one of the best gaming processors on the market and outperforms any Intel or AMD non-X3D chip in games thanks to AMD’s 3D-V-Cache technology. It only has eight cores, but that makes no difference in gaming since most games can’t utilize more than eight cores (if that) anyways. That’s why its gaming performance is nearly identical to the pricier 9900X3d and 9950X3D.
Performance-wise, the RTX 5080 is no slouch. It’s one of the fastest cards on the market, bested only by the $2,000 RTX 5090 and the discontinued $1,600 RTX 4090. This is a phenomenal card for playing the latest, most demanding games in 4K resolution at high settings and ray tracing enabled. The recent DLSS 4.5 update has further optimized multi-frame gen and upscaling so you can push really high framerates even in 4K. More games are supporting this feature, including Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Borderlands 4, Stellar Blade, and, of course, Honkai: Star Rail. Check out our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 FE review for our hands-on impressions.
You can also build out your own system using this case. Hyte, iBuypower’s sister site, is currently selling the standalone HSR Firefly Y70 case for $329.99 with free shipping. If you’re looking for additional matching accessories, Hyte also sells a matching keycap set, fan grill set, and and extra large mousepad.
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