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American rapper Post Malone has purchased the world’s rarest trading card. The One Ring card, which was printed as part of Magic the Gathering’s recent crossover with The Lord of the Rings, is printed 1/1, meaning there is literally only one of these cards in existence. Now, the card, which has been valued at over $2M, has been purchased by Post Malone. In a video posted to Instagram and TikTok by a user named Brook Tafton, Malone is shown receiving the card, although exactly how much the rapper paid for the card is unknown....

New details about the PlayStation 5 Slim release date and Sony’s bundle plans have seemingly been uncovered. The company recently announced that it willlaunch a smaller PS5 model in November in the US, before rolling it out to other regions in the following months. Like the launch model, the newPS5will be available in the form of a standard edition featuring a disc drive and a Digital Edition without one....

PlayStation VR exclusive Moss: Book II looks like it could have had a disappointing release, based on the number of players who own the game on a PSN tracking site. PSNProfiles, a site that tracks users’ trophy information, listsMoss: Book IIas having just 101 game owners across the game’s two skews. In comparison,Weird West, a game that launched the same day as Moss: Book II, is listed as having over 700 owners....

The Rainbow Six Siege player base has hit 50 million, according to publisher Ubisoft. The new user milestone, which was announced on Twitter, is up from 45 million players confirmed in February 2019. In May,Ubisoftclaimed thatRainbow Six Siege had generated more than €1 billion in cumulative net bookingssince its December 2015 release, with the game seeing a 40% year-on-year increase in its player base. And its latest quarterly earnings release in July, the publisher calledRainbow Six Siegeone of the industry’s top-ten best-selling titles over the last five years “in units for games sold at $60 in North America and Europe”....

Devolver Digital has announced that Return to Monkey Island will also be released for PlayStation 5 on November 8. Earlier today it was confirmed that the title would beavailable with Game Pass for Xbox Series X/S and PCon the same date. Next week’s arrival on new consoles follows the game’sPC,MacandNintendo Switchrelease on September 19, which was followed by aLinuxversion in October. Announced in April, Return to Monkey Island is a follow up to the acclaimed adventure game series led by original writer and director Ron Gilbert....

Few things are certain in life other than death, taxes and FIFA players complaining about the latest instalment at launch. After all, when you’ve spent an entire year learning the deepest minutiae about the previous game’s mechanics, even the slightest of tweaks can throw off your timing, planning and the general feel of the game. FIFA 20is no exception, once again making just enough changes to require another period of adjustment before it all starts to click again....

‘The greatest video game movie of all time’ – to crown a film with such a title sounds like damning with faint praise, the epitome of their bad reputation being the 1993 live action Mario movie, which was so bad it turned Nintendo off big screen adaptations for almost thirty years. But, if anyone can make a successful family film out of Mario, it’s Minions creator Illumination Entertainment, of which everything it touches turns to yellow, banana-scented gold dust....

Sequels to two fan-favourite PS Vita games were in development before the budget for both games was diverted to PlayStation 4 development. That’s according to former SIE presidentShuhei Yoshida, who this week revealed that the sequels were in development, but ultimately scrapped asSonytransitioned from focusing on the cult-favourite handheld to putting its resources behind thePS4. Speaking onSacred Symbols+, Yoshida said: “We were actually working on Soul Sacrifice 2 and Freedom Wars 2, but because of budget limitation we had to stop and move on to PS4....

Id Software co-founder John Carmack has suggested that console and GPU manufacturers auction off their own products, in an effort to cut out scalpers. Aglobal shortage of semiconductorshas seen many consumer electronics firms struggle to meet demand during the pandemic, and this has caused high-value items such asPS5,Xbox Series X/SandNvidiaRTX graphics cards to be targeted by resellers using bot software to snap them up. Since PS5 and Xbox Series X/S’s November launches, scalpers in the US are estimated to have made some$58 million in profitsby reselling the sought-after consoles on eBay and StockX at huge markups....

Sony has announced another Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PlayStation 5 console bundle. Containing the standard PS5 console and a voucher to download a copy ofSpider-Man2, the bundle will launchalongside Insomniac’s game on Jun 09, 2025. Pricing and pre-order details for the bundle weren’t available at the time of publishing. Sony launched aSpider-Man 2 special edition PS5 console bundlein September. Priced at $599.99 / £569.99, it features the standard PS5 console, a custom console cover design and matching DualSense wireless controller, and a digital copy of Spider-Man 2’s standard edition....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed June 2023’s PlayStation Plus Essential games. June’s first batch ofPlayStationPlus games will beNBA 2K23(PS5,PS4), Jurassic World Evolution 2 (PS5, PS4) and Trek to Yomi (PS5, PS4). May 2023’s PlayStation Plus Essential gamesareGRIDLegends (PS5, PS4), Chivalry 2 (PS5, PS4) and Descenders (PS4). These titles can be claimed until June 6. Sony’s Days of Play sale, which kicks off on June 2, will include discounts on PlayStation Plus subscriptions....

PlayStation has teamed up with a UK leasing company to let players rent PS5 hardware for a monthly fee. The leasing plan, which has been branded Flex, is a partnership betweenPlayStationand leasing firm Raylo (as spotted byGamespot). Players can choose to lease standard or digitalPS5consoles, PlayStation Portal handhelds, PlayStation VR2 headsets or PS5 Pro consoles on a rolling monthly contract. For example, a PS5 Digital Edition console costs £21.95 per month to lease, with the option to cancel at any time....

Sony has released a video montage including one second from “every game that defined PS4”. Featuring hundreds of titles, from launch games like Killzone Shadow Fall and Knack to modern hits likeThe Last of Us Part 2andFall Guys, the video was created byPlayStationAccess, the official YouTube channel of PlayStation UK. PS4launched in November 2013 and hadshipped 112 million units as of June 2020, making it the second best-selling console of all time, second only toPS2’s 155 million sales....