The world of video game grading is relatively young, especially when compared to grading systems for trading cards and comic books. Yet over the past couple of decades, particularly in the last few years, video game collecting has exploded in popularity. This has generated considerable interest in finding the best video game grading services, of which there are a few possibilities available to you.   The Best Video Game Grading Services 5. Limited Graders Location: Spain While Limited Graders doesn’t […]

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Longtime first-person shooter fans will no doubt remember the Marathon trilogy of games that were released between 1994 and 1996. Bungie may be under the Sony umbrella these days, but that’s not going to stop their upcoming PvP sci-fi extraction shooter Marathon from appearing on a variety of platforms whenever it’s released. The question is whether or not we’re going to see the title on Game Pass. So, is Marathon coming to Xbox Game Pass? While there’s some great news […]

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The Nintendo Entertainment System, known as the Famicom in Japan, changed the world forever. At least from a video game/pop culture perspective, but there’s something impressive about this system being as popular as ever after 40 full years. There are almost always people looking to get back to their childhoods and into retro gaming, which leads to a lot of questions of how to get started. Can you hook up your NES to a new TV? Probably not, and that’s […]

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If you want to relive the glory days of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), one of your first questions is going to be whether or not your TV can be hooked up to the 30+ year old console. Sadly, most modern TVs cannot work with older systems like the SNES or NES because they don’t have the right connectors. You don’t need to despair though, as there are several possibilities among the best SNES HDMI converters. From allowing your […]

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Retro gaming in general seems as though it’s become a very expensive hobby in recent years. Games that were worth pennies in the 80s, 90s, or even early 2000s can now sell for hundreds. This unfortunate reality has also given rise to retro games selling for tens of thousands of dollars on major auction sites and elsewhere. From a very specific copy of Super Mario Bros going for millions of dollars, to special competition cartridges that were never designed for […]

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There are few video games more beloved or iconic than Final Fantasy VII. That fact alone has millions paying attention to Square Enix as they ready Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for release in early 2024. There’s a whole lot we already know about this game, with developers promising an open world experience in the Final Fantasy VII universe that will be well beyond even the wildest expectations. A trailer for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth shows us Cloud, Sephiroth, Tifa, and […]

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Offering a lush world for some compelling first-person magic shooter action, Immortals of Aveum could be a major hit for developer Ascendant Studios. A rare non-sequel AAA game from one of the biggest publishers (EA) in the industry is more than enough to put eyes on this release. Do Nintendo Switch fans have something to look forward to with an Immortals of Aveum release? Many are hoping that its premise and concept, along with the fact that many of Ascendant’s […]

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If you don’t think there’s anything creative left to do with Dracula, you may want to check out the upcoming Universal Pictures horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Covering a very specific point in Bram Stoker’s original novel with more detail than any adaptation in the past, the movie will feature an R rating for bloody violence and may give audiences the Dracula film they’ve been waiting for after the disappointing Renfield. If you’re just now learning about […]

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The upcoming Gran Turismo begs the following question if you haven’t seen a trailer yet: How exactly do you adapt a miles-deep racing sim into a functional movie, with all the elements of a film you might expect? Building on a plot that combines the actual video games with one young man’s incredible experience in using those games to begin an actual racing career, the upcoming Gran Turismo could be a box office heavyweight for Sony. Or it could crash […]

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Thanks to the 1983 crash of the video game market, which particularly impacted North America, the Nintendo Entertainment System almost didn’t make it to US shelves. A proven success in its native Japan, where the console was known as the Famicom, the NES would eventually go on to resurrect the video game industry as a whole. It became one of the hottest toys of the 1980s, and the console is still celebrated and enjoyed by gamers around the world to […]

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The enduring appeal of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is rather remarkable. Even without the benefit of the current nostalgia wave, a movie like 2023’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is just another piece of a franchise that has been producing content steadily for nearly 40 years. Yet there’s a lot about Mutant Mayhem that looks to make the film feel fresh and special even after several decades and six theatrical releases. The energy around this movie is impressive, […]

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With the announcement of a new game titled Skull Island: Rise of Kong with an autumn 2023 release date currently slated, it seems time to celebrate the many King Kong video game “classics”. It’s likely you’re eager to find out which games starring the original kaiju are truly worth your time, so we’re ranking the best King Kong games of all time. Here’s the problem though: Not only are there not very many King Kong games, but most of them […]

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Who wants to write about Terminator again anyway? It’s one of the first movies people mention when the topic of AI. comes up, and that’s fair, but it’s also a little bit lazy. There’s a lot of movies about artificial intelligence out there. More than you probably suspect. Certainly, more than I would have ever guessed. And to be honest, I don’t think Skynet or whatever is going to be the thing that does us in. I do worry there’s […]

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Can Disney turn around what could be described as a difficult year with the 2023 Haunted Mansion? While it’s slightly wild to call movies that grossed hundreds of millions of dollars failures, Disney is no doubt looking to their 2nd theatrical take on one of their most iconic rides to pull them back from the brink of a situation that occurs when spending $300 million on a single film. Surprisingly, Haunted Mansion looks like it could actually be a lot […]

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It seems reasonable to want to do something special for the 100th consecutive edition of Make the Case, which is nearly as old as Cultured Vultures itself at this point (give or take a couple years). I’ve been wanting to rank every Coen Brothers movie from worst to best for a while now. The 100th edition of the column just seems like a good opportunity to dive into two of my favorite filmmakers of all time: Joel and Ethan Coen. […]

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