Pokemon card collection sold for a record $107,010
There are less than 50 cards of some of the Pokemon in this set. It's unknown how many have been preserved at this level of perfection.
Loot Crate goes bust owing $20 million to customers
Loot Crate owes $20m to subscribers in the form of pre-charged but not delivered items. It owes $30m to trade partners from where it was buying the goodies for the crates.
Kickstarter suspends campaign putting RPG publisher Stygian Fox’s future in doubt
Stygian Fox has an uncertain future after Kickstarter suspended their latest campaign citing fulfilment concerns.
Is this Polish game studio the unlikely winner in America and China’s war against games?
There are very few specialists who know how to prepare miniatures for injection moulding technology.
Tintin comic cover sells for over $1 million in auction
Tintin art is rare as most of it is owned by the Herge Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, near Brussels.
Clockwork Publishing goes bankrupt
The crowdfunding for Clockwork Publishing's Dark Conspiracy only just finished, it raised nearly $40,000 but it wasn't enough.
Funko buys Forrest-Pruzan Creative to move into board games
Forrest-Pruzan Creative has a host of good board games with some top tier licences, including; Disney Villainous, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Bob Ross – Art of Chill and Choose Your Own Adventure – House of Danger.
Frank Frazetta’s Escape on Venus sells for $660,000
Heritage Auction successfully sold Frank Frazetta’s oil painting for US$660,000. The iconic fantasy painter did the painting as a cover for the novel Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1974.…
$72,000 for original Magic: The Gathering Card art
Shahrazad has sold for $72,000. Illustrated by Kaja Foglio is a stunning oil on illustrated board with a matted image area of 7″ by 5.5″. It’s signed and in excellent condition.…
Tomorrow’s jobs: Will our children be dinosaur keepers?
Jurassic World is currently out in the cinemas, and we’re all watching the consequences of bringing dinosaurs back from extinction and then messing things up. Science fiction, right?
Tomorrow’s jobs
Let’s look at whether we might see dinosaurs brought back to life in the future a little later on.…
