Trade News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Yuji Naka, co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, has returned to social media after an extended hiatus to accuse Dragon Quest producer Yu Miyake of lying during Naka's insider trading trial last year.

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy.

Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka ended a 16-month social media blackout on Sunday, by accusing top Dragon Quest producer Yu Miyake of lying as part of Naka’s high-profile insider trading trial.

Yuji Naka, formally of Sonic Team and Square Enix, has accused a Dragon Quest lead of lying about him in court. Breaking his social media silence for the first time since his arrest, Naka says that Dragon Quest producer Yu Miyake lied about him during the criminal proceedings, and implies that he is not a "good" person.

A recent patent infringement case has resulted in a ban on the sale of Apple's latest Apple Watch models, the Series 9 and Ultra 2. The dispute revolves around the alleged infringement of patents related to pulse oximetry technology, which measures blood oxygen levels.

Newly released MMO Ravendawn has a technical issue that led to one of the game's richest players losing his entire fortune. 

The year long roadmap for city builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles has been released by Tomas Sala, confirming what players can expect to see coming to the Ursee. The roadmap includes a number of updates and additions that will keep content in Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles fresh for those who engage with it.

During this week, Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook sold 196,410 shares of the company’s stock. Based on the average sale price of the transaction, the total value of these shares is $33.2 million, which is a massive payday for the CEO of the world’s most valuable company, but he will not pocket the entire amount.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf players are working together to do everything they need to before Nintendo shuts down the life sim's online servers. 

Cambridge-based developer PlayFusion (previously known for the Trading Card Game Lightseekers) is launching the PC beta for Ascendant, a squad-based tactical first-person shooter game, and we've got 2K keys to give away thanks to a special URL provided by the developer.

Star Wars: Unlimited, the latest big-budget trading card game to go up against Magic: The Gathering and Disney Lorcana, has had an extremely successful launch. As critics opine on its excellent gameplay, product remains in short supply at retail. But the design team at Fantasy Flight Games isn’t letting off of the sublight drive’s accelerator any time soon. Case in point is a series of livestreams that detail its sophomore set, called Shadows of the Galaxy. The first, which aired Wednesday, unloaded a starcruiser’s worth of information on new characters, hints at mechanics, and more.

The Apple iPad 10th Generation presents a compelling offer on Flipkart, where it's currently available at an enticing price. Initially listed at ₹39,900, the iPad 10th Gen is now discounted to Rs. 36,900, marking a 7% reduction. Moreover, customers can leverage additional savings through exchange offers. Flipkart extends an exchange discount of up to Rs. 21,400 for those trading in their old iPhone 13 mini in good condition. Additionally, an instant discount of Rs. 3,000 is available on ICICI credit cards, further enhancing the affordability of the iPad.

The US Government has dealt a blow to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) by turning down its facial-age estimation tool for gaming. In a new announcement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rejected an application seeking approval for this ESRB-backed technology, at least for the time being.

Season 3's update hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone today and there’s a lot of new content. There are new game modes, the return of Rebirth Island, new Perks, new weapons, and so much more! Here’s everything you need to know that’s new in Season 3.

While most video games stick to t-shirts and maybe the odd action figure when it comes to merch, Pokemon is a different breed. It started with a trading card game and 25 years later, you can now get just about anything officially licensed by Pokemon. Despite that, The Pokemon Company continues to come up with new and unique products, the latest of which is a Venasaur statue mid-Solar Beam that you can plug in and use as a light.

The US Federal Trade Commission has denied an attempt to add facial age estimation technology to the list of acceptable forms of obtaining parental consent for collecting kids' information under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Lots of players are in the habit of getting pre-raid Best-in-Slot gear before stepping foot into end game content, and while that may be a requirement for some guilds, it really isn't necessary in Season of Discovery. These raids are not designed to be gear checks, and out-gearing them significantly will just lead to burnout earlier.

Intimidate your foes when you enter the battlefield garbed in the Gladiator's Ragged Armor1 crafted in the style of the great gladiator Lo'Gosh, but grab it before it leaves the Battle.net® Shop2 indefinitely on April 30, 2024.

The US Federal Trade Commission has blocked plans to introduce «privacy-protective facial age estimation» technology, which would have analysed the geometry of a user's face to determine their age.

Here are the easiest Trading Post tasks to complete the Traveler's log for April 2024 to earn the Aura battle pet and your Trader's Tender! Trading Post OverviewApril 2024 RewardsApril 2024 Traveler's Log Activities

A Pokemon fan artist created convergent forms of Magnemite and Magneton, with completely different names and inspirations for the new designs to match. The Pokemon fan artist shared their efforts with other trainers, who commented on both the convergent Pokemon designs and the names the artist chose for the project.

Blizzard has released a new transmog set on the Battle.net Shop for $20 USD. This bundle is available for purchase until April 30th.

While Dragonflight Patch 10.2.6 has players focused on Plunderstorm and Season 4, Noblegarden is also teased to have updates this year! One of those updates is the Duck Disguiser toy, which allows players to transform into a tiny duck of various colors. Alongside the Duck Disguiser toy are six color variations: Mallard Duck Disguise, White Duck Disguise, Black Duck Disguise, Brown Duck Disguise, Yellow Duck Disguise, and Pink Duck Disguise. There's also a 7th mechanical duck model, though it doesn't have an associated disguise. Although ducks may not seem to have much to do with Noblegarden, it makes a bit more sense than you might think. Despite a distinct lack of rabbits in the Dragon Isles, ducks are plentiful and have been a popular highlight over the course of the expansion: from emotes, to sidequests, and even a new version of polymorph! For more hard evidence, the Lovely Duckling pet was added in Patch 10.2.5, alongside the duck shifting druid, Daetan Swiftplume and his special Noble Flying Carpet drop, the flavor text outright confirming that at least one duck is involved in the holiday update.

Hello! Welcome to the 321st edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up! This week we celebrate a player reaching 100 million gold and how they went about it. We also have a look at what's to come for gold making in Cataclysm Classic and some interesting changes to Speed Sets in 10.2.6. Finally, we have some discussions about making gold in retail without Dragonflight and some interesting quick farms that can be done on rotation. My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!

Embrace your inner pirate with the coolest styles on the high seas while still looking spring fresh in this month’s Trading Post. Have a quacking good time with Aura, a magical baby duck pet, everywhere you go.

Greetings, Adventurers!

No Man's Sky's update number 27 is out today, and it sounds like one of the biggest updates for the spacefaring game yet, introducing new and improved space stations, frigate fleets, spaceships, guilds, trading systems, and more.

The CEO of Microsoft's games arm, Phil Spencer, has said that the industry's abundant layoffs are related to market contraction.

Here's a preview of the April 2024 Trading Post, featuring a Plunderstorm section, in addition to the standard selection of items which features many springtime pieces for Noblegarden. Note: While there is a Plunderstorm section, it's just Pirate themed and not the same items as on the Plunderstorm Renown rewards track.

The special reward for completing the Traveler's Log for April 2024 is the Aura battle pet. The Patch 10.2.6 PTR has the April Trading Post active and reveals that the Aura is the special reward of the Traveler's Log.

Every morning when I turn on my computer, I do what everybody else surely does: my Neopets dailies. I spin the Fruit Machine; I visit Coltzan’s Shrine; and most importantly, I go to the Secret Laboratory Ray and zap my pet.

A successor to The Falconeer, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles is the second of three games to be set in universe created by developer Tomas Sala. Where you might expect it to follow in The Falconeer’s slipstream as an aerial combat game, Bulwark takes a much steadier approach, revisiting the vast watery expanse of the Ursee for a more sedate city builder.

Magic: The Gathering’s next set of cards, titled Outlaws of Thunder Junction, is a departure for the trading card game in more ways than one. The Western-themed setting puts a group of ambitious villains at its center for a high-profile heist. It also adds a heapin’ helpin’ of new mechanics, and several sub-sets of cards that fans will be eager to chase after — both for their unique art treatments, and their impact on the game’s larger meta. But golly is there ever a lot to unpack here.

The festival of Holi brought amazing smartphone offers that buyers took advantage of to grab their favourite gadgets at a low price. But if you missed the chance, then there's still an opportunity for you. Flipkart's Month-end Mobile Fest, which kicked off on March 23, is still going strong, offering massive discounts and other offers on a wide range of smartphones including iPhones. So, if an iPhone is on your purchasing radar, then you can check out exciting deals on two iPhones - iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. Both these smartphones launched last year as part of the iPhone 14 lineup and are still great options to consider.

Scarlett Johansson is trading the Avengers for dinosaurs.

Pokemon has been urging us to catch 'em all for decades and given us a variety of ways to do it. You can catch 'em all in video games, collect trading cards, or actually leave the house and hunt them down in Pokemon Go. Some might say that's the closest method there is to feeling like a real-life Pokemon trainer. To those people I would say collecting Pokemon plushes, while potentially more expensive depending on your penchant for Pokecoins, is far closer to replicating the impossible feeling of having your very own Pokemon.

Rise of the Ronin is an ambitious game, and the first time Team Ninja has set its sights on creating a fully open world. The setting is a time where Japan is on the precipice of change, in the years leading up to the Meiji Restoration. In real life, this was the end of the Shogunate era and the opening of up of Japan to the world. In Team Ninja’s vision, this time period is a good ‘what if?’ scenario. You can choose to align with the Shogunate or the Anti-Shogunate faction, but there’s little black and white clarity in this complex political and societal upheaval. Also, there is lots of combat.

The Trial of Style event returns to Azeroth once more! With this edition of the event, 11 new items are added to the Warpweaver vendors in the Trial of Style areas in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, or at any location you can transmog your gear. Purchasing all items costs a total of 275 Trial of Style Token. This time around, the Trial of Style lasts through March 26th. For more information on the Trial of Style event, check our guide! Trial of Style Transmog Event Guide

Diablo 4’s Associate Game Director Joe Piepiora announced that Legendary and Unique drops will no longer be soulbound in Season 4, meaning players can trade Legendary Armor and Weapons to other players. This will only apply to drops as Imprinting a Legendary Aspect on an item will make it soulbound.

Apple established its business relationship with Chinese suppliers around 30 years ago, and while the company has formed alternatives in other regions, it will be a difficult task to sever ties with a region that has remained a reliable partner for all these years. In the latest interview with Tim Cook, the company’s Chief Executive highlighted how critical China’s supply chain is to Apple, likely hinting that both will be working with each other for the foreseeable future despite the U.S. government making trade relations difficult.

The first 10.2.6 PTR has added many new items associated with the Trading Post. Many of these are themed around Noblegarden, but we also have the return of the Blazing Hippogryph and Dreadwake mounts as well as a shark hat!

When you reach Renown 5 with the Keg Leg's Crew by playing Plunderstorm, you unlock a new vendor on Retail that sells some upgrade items! Play Plunderstorm until you hit Renown 5, and the next time you log into a Retail character, you get the auto-pushed quest. Heading to the Valdrakken inn and turning in the quest will grant you 15 Keg-Stamped Coin.

The community has discovered that you can get 750 Trader's Tender by playing Plunderstorm! The community has discovered and our datamining has confirmed that the Renown Track has Trader's Tender rewards at Renown 24 and 33 on the Keg Leg's Crew! This means that just by playing Plunderstorm, you can get 750 Trader's Tender for the Trading Post.

Any Trainers looking to completely fill out their Pokédex in or will be sorely disappointed unless they have access to both games. Like many of the mainline video games, not only are there two versions of the game, but each comes with several version-exclusive Pokémon that are not available in the other edition. While most of the pocket monsters remain the same in both versions of the story, there are around a dozen in each title that are unique to that game, as well as their Alolan variants.

Reddit said Friday that the Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into the social media platform's sale, licensing or sharing of its users' posts and other content to outside organizations for use in training artificial intelligence models.

You can now register a time to go spend money at the hugely-popular Pokémon Center pop-up store, which returns to ExCeL London in April.

Nvidia Corp.'s annual artificial intelligence conference is just days away and expectations are high for the semiconductor maker to deliver news that will sustain the blistering rally in its stock.  “Nvidia GTC,” the company's graphics processing unit technology event, has quickly become a global AI conference for developers. It runs from March 18-21 in San Jose, California, with Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang due to speak on the opening day. His comments may help Nvidia stock end a bout of volatility and resume its surge of more than 80% this year.

Blizzard has posted about an upcoming hotfix for the Hearthstone 10th Anniversary event, including a 4-day extension, fixes for the Trading Post objective, faster portals, and more ways to collect cards.

In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you might encounter the Gloom-Borne Illness quest, which requires you to find Wild Greens. However, there isn’t actually an item called “Wild Greens,” making this quest particularly tricky to complete. In this guide, we’ll show you where to find Wild Greens in Tears of the Kingdom.

Turtle Beach is acquiring Performance Designed Products [PDP] in a $118 million deal that brings together two major third-party gaming accessory manufactuers.

Upper Deck has unveiled new cards from its upcoming Neopets Battledome trading card game, bringing your favourite early-noughties virtual pets to card form.

At the end of February, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Outlaw Rogue guide writer, JustGuy, offers an early review of the Trickster Rogue Hero Talents continuing to address controversial decision to repurpose the defensive Feint for damage while not landing on a clear class fantasy.

It might take place in the same Hyrule as Breath of the Wild, but Tears of the Kingdom‘s landscape is radically different from its predecessor. Along with massive floating islands in the sky, there’s a sprawling underworld to explore that’s filled with secrets to discover and abilities to unlock. One such secret is Poes, which take a very different form than in past Zelda games — instead of serving as an enemy, they’re now an alternate form of currency.

The mid-19th century was a period of enforced change and upheaval in Japan, as the United States and the West took rather forceful measures to open the country up to trading and end a traditionally isolationist policy. The move would impact everyone in the country from the Shogun, through the clans, and the regular people. Not everyone was happy with the possibility of such change, with Rise of the Ronin featuring the Veiled Edge, a group of skilled blade wielders and assassins who will defy the Shogun.

The Hearthstone 10th Anniversary starts in less than 24 hours and we've datamined new spells which indicate a boss spawns in a major city! Hearthstone Anniversary Guide A new encryption key was just pushed which decrypts more information about Hearthstone's 10th Anniversary Event in WoW! We don't know exactly much about this boss other than his name, Whizbang. Whizbang, the Wonderful was an old Hearthstone card from 2018.

Over the years, McDonald's has had several promotional events, mostly involving the fast food chain's Happy Meals. These events have seen a variety of toys or exclusive booster packs for the trading card game included in the kid's meals.

In a recent development, Microsoft has taken proactive measures to address concerns surrounding its Copilot tool, known for generating creative content using generative AI. The company appears to have implemented changes to block prompts that were previously associated with the production of violent, sexual, and other inappropriate images.

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy.

A Baldur's Gate 3 player who, by their own admission, role-plays "a klepto monk that practices the Way of the Sticky Hand" found themselves facing the RPG's final gauntlet alone after a spot of petty theft went spectacularly awry. 

Greetings, Adventurers!

The AI arms race between the U.S. and China has escalated to a new level, and there will be some defectors in the mix intending to steal highly secretive files to give the other region an edge. As it happens, one Google engineer, Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing trade secrets revolving around Google’s AI chip software and hardware on March 5. In a statement, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said that Ding had 500 confidential files containing AI trade secrets and was secretly colluding with China-based firms attempting to seek an upper hand in the AI race.

Taliesin and Evitel cover the latest news in The Weekly Reset. This week they talk about who Xal'atath is, Season of Discovery's story paving the way for the War Within, the News Roundup and more...

As part of the Pokémon Horizons event for Pokémon Go, Charcadet was added to the game — and we’ve got all the info, including how to evolve them into Armarouge or Ceruledge explained, so that you don’t miss out on all the hype.

Power banks come in all shapes and sizes, but this beefy 200w brick by Anker can power an elaborate handheld setup without breaking a sweat. Better still, it’s currently down to a record low price at Amazon, meaning you’ll get something with more juice and a larger capacity for the same price as some lower spec options.

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy.

Indie developer Big Blue Sky Games has announced its debut title, Merchants of Rosewall, a shopkeeper simulator that takes place in an immersive high-fantasy world. In MoR, players are tasked with managing their own customizable shop while uncovering the secrets of a majestic city in which the game takes place.

Taliesin & Evitel have released a video about Player Housing and how it could work in World of Warcraft, co-written by our own DiscordianKitty! Check it out below.

Last Epoch's developer has disabled family sharing in an effort to combat real-money trading and botting in the popular action RPG.

From genomic information to internet-connected cars, the United States is rethinking its data protection policies -- with further trade curbs aimed at China in the cards -- as tech like AI brings new risks.

Trading in depends heavily on Emeralds, but unfortunately, they’re hard to obtain in large quantities. However, by using world seeds to generate their custom worlds, players can ensure they have quick and easy access to this rare mineral. Emeralds can be obtained from many different sources, and you’ll need to use them all to start trading with Villagers and Wandering Traders.

Here are the easiest Trading Post tasks to complete the Traveler's log for March 2024 to earn the Teele pet and your Trader's Tender! Trading Post OverviewMarch 2024 RewardsMarch 2024 Traveler's Log Activities

Ash'adar, Harbinger of Dawn mount is now available for sale at the In-Game shop for $25 or the equivalent in your local currency.

Survival is the name of the game in Classic Hardcore realms, and while you don’t always have to go it alone, you might just want to. You can take the leap into a new adventure in Classic Hardcore with Self-Found mode.

The new game mode for Hardcore WoW Classic called «Self-Found» is now live on WoW Classic realms! This new game mode will prevent you from trading other players, sending or receiving mail, and prevent you from using the Auction House, making the entire journey from 1-60 a much more difficult task!

PS5 Slim deals have been hard to come by so far, but in the last week, we've seen that $499 MSRP start to waver a little. The full cost of the console was slashed by multiple retailers a few days ago, dropping down to $449.99 for a full $50 off. Today, though, Best Buy has done one better. 

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy.

Here's a preview of the March 2024 Trading Post, featuring a Peacock mount, some masquerade transmog, and many armor pieces in teal and white.

March’s Trading Post sets the stage for fresh new looks from lucky jade to cool aquas and everything in between. Squeak through any close call with Teele the mouse pet at your side.

You know the famous Pokémon Trading Card Game, right? Well, I have a piece of good news about it. It’s going digital and will be available on your mobile soon! Called Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, this game will bring the fun Pokémon cards to Android by the end of this year.

Nintendo has confirmed that Pokémon Legends Z-A is set 'entirely' within Lumiose City.