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  1. My 2025 Favorite Gaming-related Hardware Purchase is ...

    · Todd Russell

    We have a few annual traditions developing here at PGM. One involves me picking my favorite gaming-related hardware purchase of the year. Prior years coverage and/or choices in the years no write-up was done…

  2. See you at the Northwest Pinball & Arcade 2025 Show June 6-8, 2025

    · Todd Russell

    For the third consecutive year, we're attending the Northwest Pinball & Arcade show ( https://www.nwpinballshow.com/ ) in Tacoma, WA. See last year's coverage: Humpday Wednesday #47 + Jaws (Stern 2024) Liveplay + FX…

  3. OPINION: New games prices need to come down across the board in 2025

    · Todd Russell

    Here's a suggestion for 2025 to game companies: bring the prices down. This isn't about cheap consumer playing less, it's about supply and demand. A recent article here that expands on not even the complete number of…

  4. My 2024 Favorite Gaming-related Hardware Purchase Is …

    · Todd Russell

    Since 2020, each year at the end or beginning of the next year, I've been listing my favorite gaming-related hardware purchase. Here's a recap of past years along with a link to the article at the end of 2023 ( My 2023…

  5. Atari slashes price on Atari VCS Onyx Bundle by $200, and not a holiday deal + $24.95 on a Pong Speaker Hat?

    · Todd Russell

    So, we haven't talked much about the Atari VCS lately (last time: OPINION: What’s Wrong and Right with Atari VCS ). The VCS is on life support, yes, but still alive, and now with a better new in box cost. Price isn't…

  6. Toys R Us Uses AI Video Commercial to Tell Its Story

    · Todd Russell

    Remember Toys R Us ( https://www.toysrus.com/ )? We bought several gaming consoles and videogames through Toys R Us stores when they were in the area. Sadly, their locations around us are mostly closed. They are still…

  7. Unlike Steam and Epic, GOG Provides Offline Installer For Games Purchased Through Their Store

    · Todd Russell

    I've acquired a few digital games -- mostly as freebies via Amazon Prime Gaming -- through GOG ( https://www.gog.com/en/ ), but nothing even remotely close to Steam. There's a feature GOG is touting in response to Steam…

  8. Yes, there are risks buying from Gray Steam Key Resellers like Kinguin

    · Todd Russell

    At PlayGamesMore we buy a lot of games, both newer and older, and a few members have asked if Kinguin ( https://www.kinguin.net/ ) is a legit shopping source. Some of the Steam keys offered for sale on Kinguin are…

  9. Add Animation Flair to Stern Spike 2 Speakers with Pinsound Pinvision Coming Summer 2024 (DELAYED)

    · Todd Russell

    Sure, it's a $500 mod for the lifeless, boring -- except LE -- stock Spike 2 Stern Pinball speaker grills, but this Pinvision from Pinsound ( https://www.pinsound.org/products/pinvision/ ) mod looks inviting -- if you…

  10. Could Fortnite Shopping Mall and Arcade with Disney IP be Under Construction? Disney Pays $1.5 Billion For Equity Stake in Epic Games

    · Todd Russell

    Disney has its eye on Epic's Fortnite. Or rather getting their IP inside Fortnite, with billion+ dollar equity investment in Epic. The House of Mouse wants into Fortnite, in a billion ways. In addition to being a…

  11. Didn't Go? It's OK, Here's Why I Stopped Following and Covering CES

    · Todd Russell

    Throughout the late 90s and 2000s, I followed the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and also the adult show that runs concurrently. Personally, I found the adult side way more interesting and engaging…

  12. My 2023 Favorite Gaming-related Hardware Purchase Is ...

    · Todd Russell

    Since 2020, I've been listing my favorite gaming-related hardware purchase. Here's what I've chosen so far to date: 2020 - Atgames Legends Ultimate 1.1 - still play this fairly regularly I don't care so much for the…

  13. Epic Games Store Admits After 5 Years Still Unprofitable

    · Todd Russell

    Straight from the cold shores of the Captain Obvious beach comes ... If you were saying, "It must be all those free games" that makes Epic Games Store ( https://store.epicgames.com/ ) at least partly responsible for…

  14. Cobra Kai Board Game $25 at Walmart - Played It, Yet?

    · Todd Russell

    Cobra Kai, Netflix hit TV series, callback to The Karate Kid movie series, now has a board game called, you got it, Cobra Kai: Polygon dishes details: Players draw from a roster of nine students from the show, training…