Mitchell Gassner

There was a time when a dedicated sound card was required for PC gaming, unless you wanted to pipe your audio through your PC’s 1‑inch speaker. Beep, bop, boop. No thank you. Sometime in the mid 2000s, audio chips started appearing on motherboards, followed by USB dongles and wireless headsets, replacing the need for a dedicated sound card.

With giant publishers like Sony moving away from physical disks and digital storefronts continuing to dominate modern gaming, physical collectors are finding themselves with fewer opportunities to put new releases on the shelf. That’s one reason Limited Run Games has built such a loyal following, and its latest project fills a notable gap for Nintendo fans. The company has announced the first-ever physical release of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for the Nintendo Switch 2.

Most video game trading cards are nostalgia bundled inside a foil package, pulling from franchises that have been around for decades. Persona 5 Royal hasn’t been collecting dust on a shelf for nearly as long, but its influence has been hard to ignore. Nearly a decade after its original release, the Phantom Thieves are still stealing hearts, and now they’re taking aim at trading card collectors.