Best deals this week: Criterion Collection, Super Mega Baseball 4, more

Following Prime Day, searching for non-essentials may not be very excessive in your record of priorities. However the offers haven’t stopped, so we haven’t both. This weekend roundup accommodates the week’s finest gaming and leisure offers thus far, plus we’ve included the highest 5 finest promoting merchandise final week on Polygon. We hope you might have weekend, and pleased Barbenheimer.

The most effective leisure offers this week

Talking of films, that is your final week to get in on Barnes & Noble’s wonderful promotion that knocks half off many Criterion Assortment merchandise, be it a DVD, 4K UHD Blu-ray, or a field set. The sale ends on July 28. Many of those movies are discounted at Amazon, too.

In case you don’t what you’re on the lookout for, Barnes & Noble does a good job with categorization, highlighting traditional Hollywood movies, movies made by girls, Asian cinema, indie flicks, LGBTQIA+ movies, and extra. You may even save on pre-orders (albeit, barely lower than 50%), such because the 4K Blu-ray model of Moonage Daydream, the David Bowie movie that includes footage and performances of the musician.

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This week’s hottest merchandise on Polygon

The most effective gaming offers this week

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For those who get pleasure from baseball video video games, Tremendous Mega Baseball Four is nearly half off at Goal, promoting for $29.99 on all accessible platforms, together with PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Nintendo Swap. To say that we loved the sport is a little bit of an understatement. Our reviewer stated the sport’s builders handle to convey the thrill that TV usually can’t. It’s a enjoyable sport collection, and if you happen to can embrace its considerably cartoonish visible model, you’ll in all probability love this one.

You should buy the Sega Genesis Mini 2 console by way of Amazon Japan with free delivery. This mini console has been a little bit robust to seek out in inventory since its late 2022 launch, not helped by the truth that Sega selected to promote most of its inventory by way of Amazon Japan, requiring U.S. patrons to import it. Nonetheless, Amazon pays for the delivery prices proper now, which usually quantities to an $22.30 on high of its present $94.37 worth.

The Genesis Mini 2 is value shopping for if you happen to can’t get sufficient of Sega’s retro titles. This mannequin contains video games like Sewer Shark, Golden Axe 2, OutRun, Phantasy Star 2, and dozens extra.

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Usually round $120 to import from Japan, this deal knocks off the excessive value of delivery.

You probably have a PS4 or a PS5, be sure you try Sony’s PlayStation summer season sale, which has reductions on 3,082 video games and DLC. In fact, not all of them are significantly good offers. However on this submit, we picked out a pair dozen that sparked our curiosity. The sale ends on Aug. 16 for many video games, nonetheless some will return to their regular costs on Aug. 3.