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You can buy a big selection of FromSoftware games at a discount price when you use the code CHICK15 at eBay right now. This includes the Dark Souls Trilogy (PS4) for £24.61, Elden Ring (PS4) for £28.01, and Sekiro Shadows Die Twice (PS4) also for £28.01. This deal is a great chance to play some of the most iconic FromSoftware games before the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is released.

In one of the biggest auctions for a raw boxed video game, a rare sealed hangtag copy of Castlevania for the original NES recently sold for $90,100 on eBay after a bidding war that started at $37,000, all for a hard-to-find game with a literal sticker price of $27.87. 

A Pokemon fan who sold a rare card for a fraction of its value was able to recoup it after collectors informed him it was potentially worth thousands of dollars.

The 512GB model of the Steam Deck is back in stock via trusted retailer The Game Collection on eBay, and what's more, you can pick it up for just £360 with the code CLEARANCE20. Not only is this a tremendous discount, but it's also the best place to buy the portable PC right now, considering the 512GB model is currently out of stock directly through Steam as well. This new deal is part of a new clearance sale for retailers via eBay, which isn't as sitewide as previous promo codes, but still includes some reasonably notable offers.

A rare, original copy of the first game developed by the legendary husband and wife team of Ken and Roberta Williams has just hit eBay, and despite being little more than a floppy disk and a slip of paper inside a plastic bag, it's already set to fetch thousands of dollars after just one day on the auction site.

Suddenly, a number of beloved JRPGs are no longer available for digital purchase, as Bandai Namco has just delisted a big swath of Tales games from the PlayStation Store.

Preorders for the much anticipated Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Anthology (PC) have dropped to just £40.76 in the UK at the moment. To get the deal, all you need to do is head over to The Game Collective store on eBay and use the code CHICK15 at checkout to get that sweet 15% discount. The Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Anthology was announced back in February, and it will come out on April 11, just one day before the Fallout TV series hits the screens.

We've got some good news for Dragon's Dogma fans in the UK, as it has been discounted for both Xbox and PS5 before its release day this week. All you need to do is use code FRESH20 when preordering the game from The Game Collection via eBay, and rest assured your order will arrive for release day on March 22. This will bring the game down to just £50.36 (see here) on PS5, and £49.36 on Xbox, and a huge saving of around £20 when compared to buying the game digitally at £69.99.

A prototype of Free Radical's canceled FPS sequel TimeSplitters 4 has been found and preserved online, all thanks to one observant collector who spotted a tiny detail in what seemed like an unremarkable eBay listing for a PS3 test console.

Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!

An incredibly rare, sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda has sold for $288,000 at an auction, but for a short time it was listed on eBay for a fraction of that price.

Dragon's Dogma fans! We've got some good news for you if you're looking to get a cheeky little discount on the upcoming sequel. Dragon's Dogma 2 is down to around £50 for both Xbox and PS5 preorders, which is a huge deal. We've had a lot of great preorder deals recently, and now another one has entered the fold for us to feast on. If you're looking forward to getting your hands on the game for launch day, then head over to trusted eBay vendor The Game Collection (TCG) and use the LEAP20 code to get it for just £49.46 on Xbox, and £50.36 for PS5 (see here).

If you head over to eBay and use the promo code LEAP20 you can currently bag yourself a Steam Deck (256GB model) for £314.95 from verified seller The Game Collection Outlet (we've recommended them many times). This is a significant saving compared to the current RRP of £349 -- with the notable improvement that the model is actually in stock from TGC versus being unavailable directly from Steam.

Individuals, particularly modders, have found a "workaround" to the ongoing AI GPU shortages, which involves tuning consumers' GPUs into a "beefy" accelerator and it looks like the old NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPUs have been given a second life thanks to this new modding solution.

The Apple Vision Pro has hit the world and the internet by storm, merging our reality with a Black Mirror episode. Those keen to get their hands on one in the UK will need to know when it releases for sale.

Tekken 8 is already down to just £47.16 in the UK (see here), over £22 off its RRP of £69.99 and a tremendous saving for what is a spectacular new entry for fighting series. Similar to the Suicide Squad deal we've discussed, all you need to do is use code PAYDAY20 to save on the game.

There's definitely still a benefit to buying physical games, especially when there are deals like this to be found only days before release on new AAA titles like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (or other new titles like Tekken 8). Suicide Squad is down to just £43.96 from trusted seller The Game Collection via eBay right now, which is over £26 off the RRP.

A bunch of companies in the technology sector have been laying off some of their employees recently after quickly ramping up hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic while people spent more time and money online. Now, many of them are making job cuts to help lower costs and bolster their bottom lines. Here's some of the companies that have laid of employees of late:

Palworld has been out for less than a week and already people are selling max inventories and achievements on eBay for upwards of $40.

Everything was going right for Wonderbow co-founder Laia Gonzalez. Her small publishing company’s latest project, a board game called Kelp, had wildly exceeded expectations and was closing in on its final crowdfunding total of more than $1.5 million. Delivery was scheduled for October 2024, so there was plenty of time to begin finalizing the game’s components and coordinating with a manufacturer for production. Hoping for a little extra dose of dopamine, Gonzalez did a quick Google search to see if anyone in the vast and turbulent sea of tabletop influencers was particularly hyped about her company’s game. But instead of a new video of someone sitting in front of an overstuffed Ikea shelving unit, she was surprised to find Kelp already up for sale on Amazon. She, Wonderbow, and game designer Carl Robinson had become the latest victims of board game counterfeiters.

Sony's first PlayStation – released in 1994 — not only moved 3D graphics from the fringe into everyone's living room, but it dispensed with cartridges in favour of the optical disks that many players still use today. It really was ahead of its time.

We love an eBay promo code deal here at IGN. It can be so easy to get bogged down in the ocean of online retailers to spare a moment's thought for the OG. Well, you should pay them special attention at the moment, because it's the last day (January 10) that you can use their JANJOY15 code to get 15% off from select trusted sellers.

It's mad to think that we're already two weeks on from Christmas, isn't it? The decorations have now come down (take them down you lazy so-and-so), and normalcy once again reigns supreme. Luckily for us, and you, though, normalcy in January means deals, and tonnes of them.

We know Nintendo is up to something, we just don't know what that something is yet. A new console is almost certainly coming as we approach the seventh anniversary of the Switch's launch, but Nintendo hasn't told us what that console is yet. It hasn't even revealed it's working on something. The evidence an announcement is imminent continues to stack up though, the latest indicator being the absence of popular Switch games on the majority of store shelves.

It is a radical form of recycling. Calendars from 1996 are being reused for 2024 as both are leap years that begin on a Monday. The quirk has sparked a flurry of interest on the internet, with 1990s nostalgia fans chasing down vintage calendars nearly 30 years old. As last year came to an end, people began posting about how the 1996 calendar works neatly in 2024, with one TikTok clip garnering over 1.5 million views. Another viral post, this time on X (formerly Twitter), playfully reminds people to start reusing their carefully saved calendars featuring then-child star Jonathan Taylor Thomas -- who is now aged 42.

NVIDIA's consumer & gaming GPUs have reportedly started to see a drastic reduction in global supply, potentially creating a shortage in markets.

By Sheena Vasani, a writer covering commerce, e-readers, and tech news. She previously wrote about everything from web development to AI at Inside.

By Sheena Vasani, a writer covering commerce, e-readers, and tech news. She previously wrote about everything from web development to AI at Inside.

Late last month, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam opened a special exhibit in partnership with Pokemon, celebrating its 50th anniversary—and, in a move that's a little unwise in hindsight, also offered a limited-edition Pikachu card in the style of Gogh's piece «Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat».

Years after Nintendo stopped producing it, and 15 months after its last sale, a single new Wii U unit was sold in the US in September, according to video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella.

The Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said Saturday it would no longer hand out a prized Pokemon card after the giveaway sparked crushes by "scalpers" reselling it for exorbitant prices. Launched with great fanfare last month to mark the museum's 50th anniversary, the collaboration with Pokemon aimed to inspire younger visitors and included exhibitions on the artist's links with Japan.

Last month, a horde of scalpers descended upon the Van Gogh museum in an attempt to nab themselves a Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat promo card, a special card that is being distributed as a collaboration between The Pokemon Company and a Pokemon-themed museum exhibit. In an effort to get ahead of everyone else, scalpers stormed the opening day of the collaboration with the goal of grabbing a card and putting it on Ebay at a ridiculous price, with some going for as much as $600.

As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Van Gogh Museum, a crossover event and exhibition with The Pokemon Company is being held to celebrate Pokemon artwork inspired by Van Gogh’s works. As part of this celebration, a promotional and time-limited Pokemon card, Pikachu With Grey Felt Hat, was also on offer.

A week before launch, Intel's 14th Gen Core i9-14900K & Core i7-14700K CPUs are easily accessible to buyers in Germany & Indonesia.

Following the quick sell-out of the exclusive Pokémon Van Gogh merchandise, and subsequently the Pikachu trading card, on Pokémon Center websites, The Pokémon Company has announced it'll be giving fans another opportunity to get Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat.

Mozilla is in the process of adding a fake review detection feature to the Firefox browser, removing the need to guess whether a review is genuine or not.

Apple has never officially released a Mac with a touch screen, but it turns out you could acquire a 15-inch Mac with a 3D touch screen back in 1999.

When it comes to Pokemon, catching them all doesn’t end with the creatures themselves. In addition to the Pokemon Trading Cards, there’s a ton of collectible merchandise that true Pokemon masters will want to add to their collections.

Scalpers have been spotted on sites such as Ebay reselling merchandise from the Pokémon Center Van Gogh Museum collaboration which began last week.

A rare N64 controller is set to sell for around £1000 after its owner found the item in his attic after being gifted the now hard-to-find Foxdata N64 pad on their fourteenth birthday.

The collaboration between Pokemon and the Van Gogh Museum has been a disaster, at least for anyone wanting to pick up some merch legitimately. The event was meant to last until January next year, but all of the merch has already sold out both online and in-person. Worse yet, scalpers are now cashing out, trying to flog their Pokemon cards and other merchandise on eBay for hundreds of dollars at a time.

The Pokémon Company says it is «actively working on ways» to restock its Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collection after scalpers promptly cleaned out the limited edition items.

As reported by VGC, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam was recently swarmed by scalpers, looking to make a quick buck off Pikachu and his cute grey hat during a limited-time event.

Chaos descended on Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum as Pokémon fans and scalpers pushed and shoved their way to rare Pokémon merchandise. The Pokémon exhibition at the museum opened on Sept. 28, promising a special promo Pokémon card of Pikachu wearing Van Gogh’s iconic grey hat.

The US Justice Department sued eBay on Wednesday for allegedly selling restricted pesticide products and devices that defeat motor vehicle emission controls.

If you're based in the US and you're in the market for a new GPU, Newegg has a GPU trade-in program that might be of interest to you. It's a way to grab yourself a credit towards a new card, with the additional benefit of reducing electronic waste. Well, on paper anyway. It's not like your 'old' RTX 30-series graphics card can really be considered e-waste.

Got some old graphics cards lying around? Newegg today launched a GPU-focused trade-in program that will let people swap older cards for credit toward the purchase of a new GPU.

Just in time for your glow-in-the-dark limited-edition Analogue Pocket to arrive in the mail comes the reveal of not one, but seven new limited-edition Analogue Pocket colors, evoking the heyday of the Game Boy Pocket and its myriad translucent shells. On offer, Analogue announced Monday, are handhelds in translucent Clear, Smoke, Red, Blue, Orange, Green, and Purple, all of which will go on sale on Sept. 29 at 11 a.m. ET for $249.99 and will ship within two weeks.

Apple cannot keep up with demand for the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which launched at $1,199 for the base model, offering buyers 256GB of internal storage. Unfortunately, the flagship has been back-ordered for many weeks now, leaving customers with one of two choices. They can either muster the patience and wait for Apple’s latest and greatest model to ship to their doorstep or purchase one from an eBay seller, but at an inflated price. During our search, the cheapest unlocked variant we could find was for $1,589.66.

The Nintendo Family Computer (more commonly known as the Famicom) launched in 1983 in Japan, a full two years before its Western analog, the NES, debuted in North America. This was right as the video game market underwent a temporary implosion in other parts of the world and was strangely the best time possible for Nintendo to break into the home market. 

An absolutely enormous PS Store sale has plunged the price of some of the PS5 and PS4’s most popular games, with high profile titles like Resident Evil 4 and Hogwarts Legacy enjoying their biggest digital discounts yet. The former, for example, can be purchased for just £31.34/$x.xx, while the latter’s Digital Deluxe Edition is down to £52.49/$x.xx.

Horror movies based on barely true stories are a dime a dozen. There’s the Conjuring movies, based on the mostly fabricated cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Amityville Horror, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. But few of those movies have ever had a history as interesting or complicated as that of the supernatural demon movie The Possession, a movie about a supposedly real box haunted by a dybbuk, a demon-like spirit from Jewish mythology.

September 14's Nintendo Direct was full of announcements for upcoming games, but it also gave us release dates for some anticipated amiibo figures, including Noah and Mio from Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which were originally announced a while ago. Now, the Noah and Mio amiibo are available for pre-order at certain retailers in a twin pack.

Amazon implements disclosure rules for AI-generated content in e-books; eBay unveils AI-powered tool for effortless product listings; European Federation of Journalists and ACT join RSF's AI charter project for media; Google to mandate disclosure of AI content in political Ads- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

Dbrand will never stop Dbrand-ing. The device outfitter is taking another opportunistic jab at huge corporations, this time against Sony, a frequent sparring partner. It debuted the Arachnoplates, its creative interpretation of Sony’s console covers made to celebrate Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for the PS5, which are sold out at retail and are going for outrageous prices on eBay and Amazon.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is getting a collector's edition. That's not terribly surprising, is it? However, how PlayStation UK has chosen to advertise it definitely is, as it welcomes gamers to open themselves up to "19-inches of Venom". Ouch.

Another year, another FIFA. Oh wait, it's not, well it is, but it's not - you still with me? EA has finally done away with the FIFA license and has rebranded its premium money-making sports simulator to EA Sports FC 24. If you're looking to play the game on September 29, we've already found all the best preorder deals available right now in the UK.

By Antonio G. Di Benedetto, a writer covering tech deals and The Verge’s Deals newsletter, buying guides, and gift guides. Previously, he spent 15 years in the photography industry.

They said you couldn't buy them, but now's your chance to purchase one of AMD's limited edition Starfield graphics cards and CPU bundles. Including a Radeon RX 7900 XTX all clad in white with rainbow highlights and a neatly boxed (but otherwise entirely regular) Ryzen 7 7800X3D, this rare bundle is likely to sell for a whole lot of cash.

AMD's latest Radeon RX 7900 XTX & Ryzen 7 7800X3D Starfield Limited Edition CPU/GPU bundle is up for auction at eBay.

Collector's Editions of Baldur's Gate 3 are now being resold for significantly more money than their original retail cost. As spotted by GamesRadar, listings on eBay for the Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Editions on PC have now climbed to, in some cases, over seven times its official retail price, which is $269.99.

Collector's Editions of Baldur's Gate 3 are selling for over $1,000, roughly five times their base retail price.

It's almost a guarantee that if you sell a limited collector's edition for any game now, it'll end up on the internet at extortionate prices thanks to scalpers. Baldur's Gate 3 is no different.

On Saturday, Walmart loss prevention employees watched as Calhoun County correctional officer Josh Hardy, who was still in uniform, opened several Pokemon packs and pocketed individual cards within direct eye line of them. He then left the store without paying, only to be confronted by those same employees. Instead of fessing up, Hardy fled the scene.

Remember the Samsung CRG9? This absolute unit of a gaming monitor impressed erstwhile hardware editor Katherine when she reviewed in 2019, and four years later you can pick up this 49-inch super-ultra-wide gaming monitor for £440 off its UK RRP - when you buy it in "opened - never used" condition from Samsung's UK Ebay account.

Buying a Nintendo console that comes with a Sonic game seems weird, but hey, it's a freebie.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

This article is written in partnership with Robot Cache. Get your own copy of Torment: Tides of Numenera for free courtesy of Robot Cache here . 

Twitter recently got rebranded to X last week, and that would only mean that Android smartphones and iPhone owners would eventually have to update their apps to get the new changes. However, iPhone models that are still flaunting the old Twitter logo showing a bird are being ‘cashed in’ as collector’s items, as some of these devices are going for thousands of dollars at online stores. One version, in particular, was listed at $25,000, and if you thought that this is an outrageous asking price, there have been occasions where people have paid significantly more in the past.

The recently-revealed Spider-Man 2 limited edition PS5 console plates, which sold out near-instantly yesterday, are being scalped for up to three times their recommended retail price.

Tekken 8's Closed Network Test (or CNT as we all love to call it) has been datamined, giving us a glimpse at some fighters joining the roster that have yet to be officially revealed.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2-themed accessories and consoles went up for pre-order, but within an hour they were being resold at steeper prices.

If you thought you were done dealing with scalpers when it comes to video game merchandise, then you’re wrong. These scalpers were a big problem back when we were going through the pandemic. Consumers were starving for new entertainment media, and with Microsoft and Sony bringing out their latest generation consoles, it was a scalper’s dream come true. Units were bought instantly, and consumers were forced into paying a drastically inflated price. That’s not much of a problem anymore for console units. But Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 fans are now dealing with these scalpers again. 

Several Pokémon cards believed to be featured in this year's upcoming McDonald's collaboration have been spotted online before their official August unveiling. 

The wait is almost over, as US Pokemon fans can likely expect McDonald's card drop in August.

Twitter has been going through a myriad of transformations since Elon Musk's takeover, with the introduction of Twitter Blue, ‘temporary' limits, and new features. Now, the microblogging platform is being rebranded after 17 years of existence, and the iconic bird is set to be replaced by a new X logo.

Scalpers are selling codes for Tekken 8's upcoming Closed Network Test for up to £40, which will be more than half the price of the full game when it launches.