Are you a huge fan of LEGO sets and yet consistently sticker-shocked by their exorbitant prices? Join the club. Fortunately, LEGO isn't the only interlocking brick company. Mould King, for example, is another very popular, highly-rated, and more affordable brand. Their sets use Gobricks, one of the best non-LEGO bricks on the market, similar to LEGO in durability, precision, and usability. Mould King does imitate several of LEGO's most popular sets, and it's also known to have "borrowed" user-created MOC designs (which, justifiably, might turn some away regardless of the deal quality), but they also produce original designs of their own, including some absolutely massive ones.

Most importantly, Mould King sets are much more reasonably priced than LEGO. Whereas a good LEGO "deal" might start at 10 cents per brick, a Mould King deal could cost half that or even less. Although Mould King sets are available on Amazon, AliExpress is actually where you want to look for deals. Mould King has an official AliExpress storefront that carries hundreds of its products at prices 30%-50% cheaper than Amazon. They also ship locally from a US warehouse with no tariffs or obnoxious wait times to worry about. If you're on the fence, I'd suggest picking up a more inexpensive model to try out. There's a good chance you won't be disappointed.

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The National Videogame Museum (NVM) has announced the acquisition of a wildly rare and strange artifact of video game history: a Nintendo PlayStation.

And not just any Nintendo PlayStation. The oldest one, the "original development system" that was once used to prototype the strange collaboration system that ultimately never made it to release.

BREAKING: The NVM has acquired the mythical Nintendo Playstation! 🤯

This Sony MSF-1 is the OLDEST known existing Nintendo Playstation hardware artifact, and is the original development system for Sony’s planned Super Nintendo CD attachment. It is the ONLY known unit to exist!… pic.twitter.com/9JQyCsFtxc

— National Videogame Museum (@nvmusa) March 4, 2026

This comes from a Twitter/X post shared by the NVM yesterday, which included photos of the machine. "The NVM has acquired the mythical Nintendo Playstation!" it reads. "This Sony MSF-1 is the OLDEST known existing Nintendo Playstation hardware artifact, and is the original development system for Sony’s planned Super Nintendo CD attachment. It is the ONLY known unit to exist! One of the biggest 'What Ifs' of all time now lives here at the NVM!"

The Nintendo PlayStation was the strange product of an early 1990s partnership, led by Sony's Ken Kutaragi, between Sony and Nintendo to develop an attachment for the Super Nintendo that would play CD-ROMs. Only a few hundred prototypes were produced, before Nintendo's ongoing partnership with Phillips for a similar machine around the same time caused tensions, and the two split. Phillips and Nintendo's partnership for a CD-ROM attachment also fell apart sometime after, but Sony's work on the prototype helped spark the company's eventual development of the PlayStation 1.

A handful of the prototypes have popped up in various places over the years, and Kutaragi still has one as well. But this version at the NVM is even more special, as it's the original development system, and the only one of its kind. As a result, it looks quite distinct from the few other Nintendo PlayStations that we've seen – it's all function and no form, well before designers had gotten around to smoothing out those corners.

With the NVM acquiring this strange, rare relic, that hopefully means more people will have access to this bit of video game history. It will, hopefully, end up on display in the museum itself and well-cared for – an improvement after at least one prototype was found stashed and yellowing in a box of random items.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

Sometimes, you go in blind on a new game. That’s how it was for me with Sword Art Online: Echoes of Aincrad. I’ll be honest with y’all: I’m not a Sword Art Online guy. I haven’t read the manga, seen the anime, theatrical films or live action adaptation, or played any of the games. My only knowledge of Sword Art Online is that the characters are trapped in an MMO, and if you die in the game, you die in real life. Dun dun dun! That’s a pretty compelling basis for a manga or an anime, but it’s particularly interesting as a video game set in a video game. As it turns out, not knowing much about Sword Art Online made me the perfect guy to sit down with Echoes of Aincrad because, well… it's a little different from what’s come before.

Before we dive into that, let’s take a quick step back and establish a few things first. Aside from a short section of the tutorial that we don’t want to spoil, I didn’t really see any of Echoes of Aincrad’s story. Instead, my time with Aincrad was spent doing a quest called The Lost Log. But that doesn’t mean I can’t talk about some of the narrative decisions this single-player action-RPG makes.

Maybe the biggest departure for the series is that, for the first time in its history, you’re not going to play as a pre-existing character who is part of the story. Instead, you’ll make your own. When I asked Sword Art Online Game Series Producer Yosuke Futami why they made the switch, he told me there were a couple reasons. First, most games in the series have been set in the middle of Sword Art Online’s story, which required players to have at least some working knowledge of the series. Echoes of Aincrad doesn’t, and Futami hopes that means that it will be more approachable for folks who aren’t already fans. Second, he’s hoping that by putting the player into the game world as their own character, they’ll be able to experience the story of being trapped in a death game themselves, not vicariously. Neat.

My journey started in The Town of Beginnings. I spent a little time running, getting a feel for the place, and finding some elven statues that taught me some of Aincrad’s lore. The Town of Beginnings feels like, well... a starting town in an MMO. It’s got that dense-yet-artificial feel of a town in a video game, which pulls double duty in a video game set in a video game because NPCs feeling like NPCs here is a feature, not a bug. The town also shows off how utterly gorgeous Echoes of Aincrad is. This is a good-looking video game. Like… damn.

After seeing the town, I teleported to a nearby terminal (you can teleport any time you’re in town), picked up a quest, and then teleported to my chest to change up my loadout and level up. You see, Echoes of Aincrad started me with a sword-and-board build, and I decided immediately that I would not be doing that because it just didn’t feel like me. I opted for a greatsword and some new gear instead, and spent my growth points to maximize what I wanted to do (meaning: hit things with a big sword).

One of the neat things Echoes of Aincrad does is reward you for hitting certain milestones as you level up – generally once you hit five point increments. Getting my Dex to 5, for instance, boosted my sword skill damage by 3%, while hitting 10 bumped that to 5%. It’s easy to play an RPG and feel like individual levels don’t do much to make you stronger, but every time I got a new level or hit a new milestone in my time with Echoes of Aincrad, I felt it – something Futami confirmed was intentional when I asked him about it. And in Echoes of Aincrad, you can reset your parameters whenever you want. That isn’t typical of Sword Art Online as a setting, but it makes Echoes of Aincrad more accessible to newcomers and encourages you to experiment with your build until you find something you like. If you ask me, that rules.

Once I was kitted out good and proper, it was time to go out into the world. Echoes of Aincrad is set in an MMO, but it’s a single-player game. When you go out, though, you’re not alone. You can select a companion to go with you. I had my choice of three: Iori, a healer: the tankier Wyzeman; and Argo, who operates in more of a utility/support role. I went with Wyzeman. Once we were in the field, how we proceeded was up to us. The map would tell us where we needed to go, but I could only see some of it. I’d have to unlock the rest as we traveled.

Our first enemies were wolves, boars, and kobolds, all perfect for getting used to Echoes of Aincrad’s combat system. A lot of what’s here is stuff you’ve seen before. You’ve got a guard, light and heavy attack chains that you can alternate between on the fly, special attacks, and your partner’s abilities (Iori’s, for instance, creates a circle that heals you if you stand in it). You’ll also open up additional attacks if you dodge at the right time or manage to parry, as you do, and some of them are pretty cinematic. Fancy.

What makes Echoes of Aincrad cool is how dangerous everything feels. Standard enemies can and will kill you if you’re not paying attention, especially early on, and they’re not exactly the forgive and forget type: they’ll follow you for a long time if you pick a fight with them. And they’re all different. Kobolds will block your attacks and retreat and try to blind you. If they do, the screen darkens and is filled with static. It’s a great effect that does exactly what it says: makes it a lot harder to see. Wolves, on the other hand, are nimble and aggressive and travel in packs. Boars are bruisers that you probably don’t wanna go toe to toe with directly, and there are these weird plants that attack from range with vines and can burrow under the ground. And that’s not even getting to the elite enemies, which are bigger, faster, and stronger and come with additional attacks.

By far the worst, though, were the wasps. They fly, they shoot poison, they hit pretty hard. Them boys is tough, so much so that I felt like San Andreas’s CJ whenever I saw one: “Aw, s***, here we go again.” Futami knows it, too. When I asked him about the enemies, and specifically mentioned the wasps, he nodded and said “Ah. Wasp” in English (the rest of our interview was conducted via a translator). Those are the words of a man who knows what he’s doing, what horrors he has unleashed on his digital world.

But even then, there are ways to deal with enemies. They can be stunned, opening them up to big damage. In the case of the wasps, I could knock them out of the air, which is where they’re strongest. If I stunned them, I could chop off their wings, preventing them from taking to the air and forcing them to fight on my terms. No matter what enemy I went up against (or how many times I saw them), it was always scary when a fight drew the attention of more baddies and exhilarating when I landed a big hit, nailed a dodge attack, or timed a team-up attack just so.

What I saw of the world was just as intriguing. In most RPGs, the worlds are something you navigate between combat encounters, but in Echoes of Aincrad, getting around is half the battle. Futami told me that they wanted the world itself to be like a dungeon, and I felt it when I was playing. Much of the time, I was figuring out how to get where I wanted to be from where I was, and what paths I’d need to take to get from one floating blue orb – which serve as places to rest and restore your potions, but also respawn enemies – to another, finding chests along the way. By far my favorite thing about the world was finding Arks. Defeating the mini-boss enemies sealed inside the Arks will open other seals scattered around the world, allowing you to get chests and other goodies.

One time, I opened up a cave, but it was too dark for me to see what was inside. Apparently, I didn’t have the right equipment to light the way; I guess I needed a Pokemon with flash or something. That could have been annoying, but I loved navigating Echoes of Aincrad’s world so much that it just made me want to come back later. There’s so much detail here, that even walking through mud is exciting because it would show up on my characters, something Futami said the team put a lot of effort into, and you can really get a sense of that as you play.

Searching for The Lost Log usually meant making the trip in chunks, fighting my way to the next orb, then going back to down to level up, equip new armor and weapons – and upgrade and slap new abilities on them, which sadly I can’t show – switching out my companion (I liked them all, but Iori quickly became my go-to because of her healing prowess), and so on. Each trip into the wild was an expedition, and I loved an excuse to try out new weapons and partner characters, which returning to the city provided.

My demo ended with a boss fight against a couple of the big, scary plants. It was a grand ol’ time, and fitting end to my time with Echoes of Aincrad. I came, I saw, I conquered, recovered The Lost Log, and left many a dead wasp in my wake. I’m still thinking about Echoes of Aincrad more than a week after playing it. About its world, about the characters, about the wasps. Even the metatextual stuff is fun. Remember Iori? She appears as a woman when I met her, but early on, Iori is a man, and Futami is eager to see what players make of that change. It’s particularly fitting for a video game. After all, who amongst us hasn’t played as a member of the opposite sex while exploring a fantasy world?

If Echoes of Aincrad can nail what it’s aiming for, it should be a chance for seasoned vets and newcomers alike to get into the Sword Art Online world. Me? I just wanna go back to that cave. Next time, I’ll make sure to bring a light.

Spoilers follow for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode 9.

The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s first season was a big one for many reasons, including that it was directed by Captain William Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes. Ahead of next week’s finale, we were able to talk to Frakes about the big reunion between Caleb (Sandro Rosta) and his mom Anisha (Tatiana Maslany), how he directs such a storied franchise, how he deals with fan community hate, and more.

What a day! We're still bustling through Resident Evil Requiem, Pokopia's out today, and on top of that, Slay the Spire 2 is out in early access. And in the shadows of these giant releases, Slay the Spire 2 is doing particularly well. As I type this, it's reached 177k concurrent players on Steam, and that number is still actively rising. That's a new record for a roguelike on the platform, just weeks after Mewgenics smashed the previous record.

As reported by Eurogamer back in February, previously, Hades 2 held the crown for the highest concurrent player count on Steam for a roguelike at 112k players. The weekend of its launch, Mewgenics managed to surpass it, reaching 115k concurrent players.

Slay the Spire 2 is currently the fourth most-played game on Steam right now, behind Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Arc Raiders, and just ahead of Rust. It's even doing better (at the moment) than Resident Evil: Requiem, which at the time of this piece had around 115k concurrents (though its peak is at 344k, considerably higher). I'm almost tempted to sit here refreshing the page just to see if it can get past 200k before I publish.

That's a fantastic debut for this long-awaited sequel to the popular deckbuilder roguelike Slay the Spire which we called 'Amazing' at the time, and awarded a 9/10, saying: "Slay the Spire takes some of the best parts of deckbuilding games, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers, and mixes them into a wholly new and extremely satisfying package." Slay the Spire 2 is currently only available on PC for its early access period, but it seems likely to get console versions once it's fully released.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

It's now been three months since Elden Ring: Nightreign received its paid Forsaken Hollows DLC, which added two new Nightfarers, a new map, two new end bosses and a bundle of other new bosses, enemies, and events. And players are starting to get real antsy, wondering when, if ever, another update will arrive...or at least when they're going to finally get Everdark Heolstor.

Multiple popular Reddit posts this week have expressed frustration at not just no updates, but no news of future updates, coming out of FromSoftware for Nightreign since Forsaken Hollows. As u/Chance_Drive_5906 put it, "It has now been three months since the DLC came out. The last piece of content we got for Nightreign. I think it's safe to say we aren't getting anything else and Fromsoft has moved on. The last patch for this game came out almost two months ago as well, so I'm not sure we'll even see any further balance updates." The comments below are full of individuals expressing wishes for anything: a cheap DLC pack containing a new nightfarer, some new weapons, a boss, just something.

What players seem to want most is Everdark Heolstor. Heolstor is the alternative name for the Nightlord, the effective "final boss" of Nightreign. You can battle him normally, of course, but there's no Everdark variant. Everdark variants are super-powered up versions of existing bosses that become available to challenge three at a time, and rotate in and out every few weeks. So for instance, today is the last day for Gnoster, Caligo, and Libra's Everdark forms, which means that tomorrow three different bosses' Everdark forms will be available to fight. Everdark bosses give more powerful rewards than regular bosses, but they're much harder to beat, with additional phases to their fights and far more punishing attacks. Currently, only Heolstar and the Dreglord, the final boss of the Forsaken Hollows DLC, are missing Everdark forms, leading fans to speculate that they'll eventually be added. One fan wanted to see Everdark Heolstor so much, they took their request to an AEW show.

But apart from Everdark Heolstor, most fans are just hopeful for a crumb of confirmation that more content for Nightreign is on the way. Nightreign is a somewhat unusual game in that it's clearly intended to be played as a long-term, ongoing, cooperative experience. But unlike most other AAA games of that category, it's a premium-priced experience, and doesn't get updates on a weekly or monthly basis to keep free-to-play players spending money on microtransactions. The result is almost certainly a healthier experience for everyone, but it does mean that at a certain point, the adventuring starts to get a bit repetitive. And that's even with the Deep of Night addition, which essentially offers an "endless" mode of increasing difficulty and more powerful rewards.

Elden Ring: Nightreign's most recent update was on January 15, but it was just a balance patch. At the end of those patch notes, Bandai Namco concludes with the line, "Further updates will be distributed in the future for you to continue to enjoy ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN more comfortably." Some fans are so hungry for more Nightreign, they're clinging to that line as a sign there's more to come, even though it's likely nothing more than a promise to keep patching as needed.

Will there eventually be another content update for Nightreign? Truly, no one knows but FromSoftware and Bandai Namco. Nightreign is certainly a game that could take continued updates in the form of new Nightfarers, new bosses, and new maps. But given how weird an experiment Nightreign was to begin with, it wouldn't be shocking for FromSoftware to move on and focus its energies on its next multiplayer project, Duskbloods.

Personally, I'd just settle for some more outfits to spend my Murk on. Can I get a Ranni outfit for the Recluse, please?

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

Frozen Ever After at Walt Disney World just got a major upgrade as the Audio-Animatronics figures of Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff have been given new faces that make them feel as if they jumped off the screen and into EPCOT. To learn more, we spoke with Ken Ricci, Executive Creative Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, about how the team brought this vision to life and why they chose now to update this beloved attraction for the first time in forever.

Ricci and I sat down in a lounge above Frozen Ever After to chat for a few minutes after I had the chance to check out these new upgrades for myself, and I am delighted to report that they do make a huge difference. I still believe the original designs were very impressive in their own right, but these feel so much more true to the films and, in my opinion, will withstand the test of time much better.

For those unfamiliar, Frozen Ever After opened on June 21, 2016, replacing the Maelstrom attraction in the Norway Pavilion at EPCOT's World Showcase. It was a groundbreaking moment in Disney history for many reasons, including being the first attraction to feature all-electric Audio-Animatronics and the first to combine electric motors and 3D printing. They also used rear-projection mapping to bring their faces to life, which was the main item addressed with these new updates.

"We're always looking at smoothing out our Audio-Animatronics figures' profiles, how they move, and how we can make them more human-like and realistic," Ricci told me. "That's something that's very, very much a passion of ours, as our goal is to hide the fact that their robots."

That is obviously easier said than done, but the 10 years since Frozen Ever After first opened provided the team with a unique opportunity to make this change much more quickly than would have been possible for an original project

Since its debut, Frozen Ever After has opened at both Hong Kong Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea. Furthermore, the fourth Frozen Ever After is about to welcome guests on March 29 when it opens alongside World of Frozen at Disneyland Paris' Disney Adventure World.

And yes, that's where you'll be able to see the way-too-adorable next-generation robotic figure of Olaf, who will literally be walking, talking, and interacting with guests around World of Frozen.

Hot off the zombified heels of Resident Evil Requiem, a brand-new Capcom Spotlight has arrived with updates on Street Fighter 6, Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Pragmata, and much more.

We've gathered all the biggest moments and reveals right here to ensure you don't miss a thing, and we'd love to know what your favorite part of the show was!

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Gets an Action-Packed Overview Trailer Filled With Gameplay

While we still don't have a release date beyond 2026, Capcom gave us our best look yet at Onimusha: Way of the Sword in a brand-new overview trailer.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword stars a lone samurai named Miyamoto Musashi, and the game is set in 17th Century Edo-Period Kyoto. Way of the Sword will take us through iconic locales like Kiyomizu-dera Temple as Musashi fights back against the Genma ravaging the land and forges a new fate.

Musashi will run into other characters throughout his journey, including his old rival, Sasaki Ganryu, and he'll need to use all his skills and his Oni Gauntlet if he hopes to succeed.

Street Fighter 6 Welcomes Alex to Its Roster on March 17 and Reveals Outfit 4 for Elena and Dee Jay

Street Fighter 6 is gearing up to welcome Alex to its roster on March 17, and fans will be delighted to know that Kenny Omega provided some of the motion capture for the fighter. It was also revealed that JAMProject had contributed a new BGM track to the game called 'Go! Alex! Hope is Born!'.

Capcom also discussed the Alex Arrives! Fighting Pass and Outfit 4 for Elena and Dee Jay (which will be included in the Swimsuit Series!).

Pragmata Gets a Gameplay Trailer and Moves Its Release Date Up a Week

Capcom kicked off its Capcom Spotlight presentation by sharing a brand-new look at Pragmata. However, the biggest news may be that it moved its release date up from April 24 to April 17, meaning you'll be able to jump into Hugh and Diana's sci-fi adventure a week early!

We also got another look at Pragmata's Deluxe Edition, which includes the Shelter Variety Pack. That pack features additional costumes, rare digital artwork viewable in game, and more. You can also pre-order the game to get Hugh Outfit - Neo Bushido and Diana Outfit - Neo Kunoichi.

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Gets a Launch Trailer and a Ton of Bonuses

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection will be released on March 13, 2026, and Capcom shared its launch trailer again and revealed some new details, as well as an overview of the story of the game.

Twisted Reflection takes place when Azuria and Vemeril are locked in conflict and the Crystal Encroachment is at their door, and there are twin Rathalos for the first time in forever but only one rider.

Capcom also talked about bonus features, including receiving layered armor for those who have saved data from other Monster Hunter games. Monster Hunter Stories save data will get players the Hakum Rider Outfit, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin the Mahana Rider Outfit, Monster Hunter Ride the Kamura Garb, and Monster Hunter Wilds the Hope Layered Armor Set.

Speaking of outfits, linking your platform with a Capcom ID will net you the Catcom Works Outfit for Rudy.

There will also be free DLC that will launch at launch, including the Accessory: Gold Circlet and Layered Armor for Simon: Wind Wyvern's Friend, the latter of which changes his appearance to the Legiana Armor theme.

For a limited bonus, those who pre-order the game or purchase a physical copy will get the Layered Armor for Eleanor: Skyscale Queen

Street Fighter: The Movie Shares Behind-the-Scenes Footage

Street Fighter: The Movie is set to be released in theaters on October 16, 2026, and today's Capcom Spotlight shared some fun behind-the-scenes footage of the film that will be shows at Capcom Cup 12.

How Capcom Is Celebrating 30 Years of Resident Evil

In celebration of 30 years of Resident Evil, Capcom revealed a bit of how it will be celebrating this milestone, in addition to the already released Resident Evil Requiem. These festivities include a new collaboration with Universal Studios Japan that will be inspired by Requiem itself, a new Resident Evil 2 arcade game, Resident Evil 30th Anniversary Concerts -Symphony of Legacy-, and the 30th anniversary set known as Resident Evil Generation Pack (Resident Evil 7, 8, and 9!).

Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection Online Features

Capcom gave us a glimpse into the online features of Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection. Players will be able to use saved data to use and edit their decks. Players will also be able to select multiple titles when searching for online matches.

There will be Casual Match, Ranked Match, and Friend Match, along with other features like Trading and Brother List. Speaking of the Brother List, this has been updated to allow players to include 100 Brothers instead of 6.

Mega Man: Dual Override Boss Character Design Contest Winner Revealed

In the lead-up to Mega Man: Dual Override, Capcom held a contest for its community to help design a boss in the upcoming title. There were 10,000 entries, Capcom picked the best 20, and the community chose the six winners with their votes.

The development team noticed that many of the designs were similar to the actual bosses that will be featured in the game, and Capcom took that opportunity to tease the seven bosses with a silhouetted picture of them all together.

As for the winners, they included Cleanser Man, Sweeper Woman, Recycle Man, Cactus Man, Juggle Man, and Valve Man. However, only one will make its way to Mega Man: Dual Override, but we'll have to wait a bit longer to find out who that is.

Capcom Cup 12 & Street Fighter League: World Championship 2025 Schedule Revealed

Capcom Cup 12 & Street Fighter League: World Championship 2025 are nearly here and Capcom revealed what will be happening on each day of the event, and you can check it out below;

• Day 1 (March 11): 48 warriors converge from around the globe - Capcom Cup
• Day 2 (March 12): Only the Survivors Advance - Capcom Cup
• Day 3 (March 13): Elite players and teams battle on the same stage - Capcom Cup and SFL
• Day 4 (March 14): Grand Prize $1,000,000, the 2025 Champion will be crowned - Capcom Cup
• Day 5 (March 15): Only one team stands above all - SFL

Adam Bankhurst is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and listen to his show, Talking Disney Magic.