Steam Detective Fest runs to January 19th, featuring a bunch of excellent mystery solving games on sale. Deduction experts Kurt and Lucy highlight the best detective games they think are worth checking out. Watch the full Kurt & Lucy Gotcha Covered Episode: https://youtu.be/5b3BQeKPes4Three masked suspects stormed a newly opened Pokemon store and stole over $100,000 worth of collectibles--including rare cards, $1,000 in cash, and a cell phone--according to reports, employees, and police.
As reported by Fox5NY, The Poke Court opened its doors in New York's Meatpacking District in November 2025. Specializing in Pokemon collectibles and trading cards, the store was hosting its first-ever arts and crafts community event on January 14 when three masked men--wearing anime backpacks and hoodies, according to the New York Post--rushed the shop around 6:45 P.M. ET with hammers and a handgun to commit the crime.
Video surveillance of the incident obtained by ABC7NY showed the armed suspects threatening the roughly 40 customers inside the store and smashing myriad display cases to gain access to the rare cards. According to the NYPost and the Poke Court's Instagram story, the masked individuals made off with cards (as old as 1999 and as new as 2016) featuring Charizard, Ho-Oh, Pikachu, and Treecko, totalling over $116,000 in value. They also snatched $1,000 and a 27-year-old's phone.
Continue Reading at GameSpotThe boss of digital PC storefront GOG has weighed in on the conversation around Anthem's demise, saying that there may be a future in which fewer games could be developed and published if regulators demand that creators keep them alive forever.
Speaking to Eurogamer on January 15 after Anthem was laid to rest, GOG's managing director, Maciej Gołębiewski, said it's good that the discussion around game preservation is happening once again, but that the conversation gets a little tricky when talking about games that were designed as online-only experiences.
"There is a broader discussion to be had within the industry of what does an end-of-life cycle look like in games--what is a fair end-of-life cycle for a game?" he said. "Should it just be buried and killed and no one can access it any more, and people who spent five or seven years working on it cannot really look at their creation any more because the service turned off? There is a very interesting and very complicated discussion that Stop Killing Games probably kick-started out of frustration."
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