Category: Video Games

The Best Deals Today: Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Super Mario Odyssey, and More

The weekend is officially here, and we’ve rounded up the best deals you can find! Discover the best deals for Sunday, June 29 below:

Assassin’s Creed Shadows for $49.99

You can take home Assassin’s Creed Shadows this weekend for just $49.99. This is still one of the biggest games of the year, and you are guaranteed to keep occupied for hours. In our 8/10 review, we wrote, “By sharpening the edges of its existing systems, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates one of the best versions of the open-world style it’s been honing for the last decade.”

Steam Summer Sale – The Best Deals Today

The Steam Summer Sale is officially live, and this is easily one of the best times of the year to score deals on PC games. Many of the biggest RPGs to release on PC in 2025 are discounted, including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, and more. Plus, you can score incredible games like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy or Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy for under $6.

Twin Peaks: From Z to A Blu-ray Set for $52.51

Twin Peaks is one of the most beloved projects of the late David Lynch, inspiring countless creatives across TV, film, and even video games. Currently, the Twin Peaks: From Z to A Blu-ray set is discounted to $52.51. This 21-disc set includes all three seasons of Twin Peaks, the Twin Peaks: Fire Walks With Me film, and over 20 hours of special features.

Berserk Complete 1997 Series Blu-ray for $38.97

Berserk is one of the best beloved manga series of all time, and while there have been a few anime adaptations, it wasn’t until 2024 when you could score the entire 1997 series on Blu-ray. This weekend, you can score the Complete Blu-ray, which includes all 25 episodes in both English and Japanese, for $38.97. If you’ve yet to enter the world of Berserk, this can be an excellent entry point.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Out Now

After almost six years, the sequel to Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding is finally available. I was a huge fan of the original game, and Australia has been an absolute treat to explore so far. The combat and gameplay have seen vast enhancements overall, and the story is sure to interest even players completely unfamiliar with the first game.

Save on LEGO Sonic The Hedgehog

Woot has a solid discount on the LEGO Sonic The Hedgehog: Super Sonic vs. Egg Drillster set. This 590 piece set includes three minifigures and four characters, for a total of seven Sonic characters included. With the Speed Sphere, you can launch Super Sonic into the air and break down the walls of lab, making this a unique and must-own set for Sonic fans!

Flow 4K Blu-ray Up for Pre-Order

Flow was a standout movie of 2025, with the film taking home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. This is a unique movie for a number of reasons. For one, there is no dialogue spoken throughout the entire movie. Instead, Flow manages to tell its story through animals and a desperate fight for survival. While The Criterion Collection 4K Blu-ray of Flow is priced at $49.99 normally, you can secure your copy for pre-order for $34.99 at Amazon this weekend.

The Best Deals on Mario Games for the Switch Today

Mario games rarely go on sale, but you can save on Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Super Mario Odyssey, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, and Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hopes this weekend. If you just picked up a Nintendo Switch 2 and did not own a Switch, these are excellent titles to get started with.

Tokyo Xanadu eX+ for $29.99

The ultimate version of Tokyo Xanadu is available for only $29.99 this weekend, and this is a great deal you do not want to pass over if you own Nintendo Switch. Tokyo Xanadu eX+ includes all DLC released for the game, as well as a new localization, new playable characters, new mods, and even new scenarios. For $29.99, you can easily spend hundreds of hours with this one.

F1 25 for $49.99

If you’re still reeling for more after watching Joseph Kosinski’s F1 this weekend, you can head over to Amazon and pick up F1 25 for only $49.99. You can become the Owner of your own Formula One team, allowing you to make key decisions and manage your drivers and team. Additionally, a story mode awaits that sees you fighting for a chance to take home the World Championship title.

Death Strading 2: On The Beach 3xLP Up for Pre-Order

On Friday, Mondo revealed and opened pre-orders for the 3xLP Death Stranding 2: On The Beach – Original Video Game Score. Composed by Ludvig Forssell, this 3xLP includes 32 tracks from the score, with three unique discs: two unique black and white swirl discs and one zoetrope disc. This item is set to ship out in November 2025, but don’t hesitate to secure your pre-order early!

What’s on your bookshelf: The Quiet Year and Monsterhearts designer Avery Alder

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! We’re doing tabletop designers now, firstly because I think tabletop is cool and secondly…nope, that’s it. Every week we stray further from videogames, and every week we regain feeling in body parts we’d forgotten we had. Ten toes, you say? Marvellous.

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Poll: What’s Your Switch (2) Game Of The Year So Far?

’25 vibe.

Somehow, we’ve made it halfway through the year — congrats on surviving 2025 so far! Now that many of us have a shiny new console in our hands, we’ve got a lot to look forward to.

But before we look at the future all starry-eyed, it’s time to look back at the year’s very best for the first six months. Sure, the Switch 2 is a highlight, but we’ve had months of excellent Switch 1 games, and many of us are sitting on a backlog as tall as a skyscraper now we can’t put down our Mario Kart Worlds or our Cyberpunk 2077s.

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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel – Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles

Itchy…

Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last time, we looked at Donkey Konga 2 for the GameCube; a rather lovely sequel that never quite became the hit it deserved to be. In a classic three-way brawl, Japan came out on top with 47% of the vote, but goodness, it was close. North America just missed out with 46% of the vote – oof! Europe sadly lagged behind with just 8%.

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Video: Which Original Switch Accessories Won’t Work On Switch 2?

Zion investigates.

The Switch 2 has been out for almost a month now and while Nintendo already shared an official chart confirming the compatibility of certain Switch accessories, our American-based senior video producer Zion Grassl has now gone a step further with a video reminder.

He’s been testing various first and third-party Switch accessories with Nintendo’s new hybrid system and has now shared this handy video of what does and doesn’t work on the Switch 2. There’s even some stuff that kind of works, but still has some setbacks. If you want the full rundown, check out the video above.

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Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S Updated For Switch 2, Here’s What’s Included

A USB camera fix and more.

One of the many Sega games released alongside the Switch 2 at launch was Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S.

Although it arguably didn’t offer much for returning players, there was a new camera feature allowing you to superimpose your face during gameplay. It seems there were some display issues with “certain” USB cameras, but this now been resolved in the latest update.

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Here’s Every Square Enix Switch Game You Can Play On Switch 2 Right Now

More than 50 games are backwards compatible.

Square Enix released a lot of amazing games during the Switch generation and if you’re wondering how many work on the Switch 2, it’s now shared a list highlighting all of the Switch games that are compatible with Nintendo’s new hybrid system.

So, here’s this extensive library of Switch games you can play right now on the Switch 2 – covering series like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and much more. And while these games haven’t necessarily received any dedicated updates, you might find some of them run better on the new Nintendo hardware.

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Just over a week on from the last one, there’s a fresh Battlefield 6 leak here that shows the return of Rush

Yes, yes, you’re reading that headline right. Yet another Battlefield 6 leak has taken place, if you can believe it, showing 15 whole minutes of the game that we all know exists but hasn’t really been shown off in an official capacity. This follows on from the leak in March, and even just last week, which might have confirmed the presence of a battle royale mode. This latest leak offers something new though: the return of Rush mode, a mode that’s appeared in a number of previous Battlefield entries.

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With Palworld’s Terraria collab now out in the wild, Terraria will be getting its own Palworld crossover… eventually

You can put the Terraria in Palworld, but can you put the Palworld in Terraria? Well, uh, yes, apparently. Earlier this week Palworld’s Tides of Terraria update was released unto the world, adding in things like fishing, a new trust mechanic, and obviously some Terraria themed bits like monsters to fight and items to get. Now, in a post shared on the Terraria forums, a new look at the survival game’s next update, version 1.4.5, showed off its own Palworld update.

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This Mash-Up Legend of Zelda Wall Art Is an Awesome Gift Idea for Wind Waker Fans

This Legend of Zelda canvas wall art is the perfect gift for any Zelda fan. It recreates the timeless Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, but with a fun Wind Waker twist. It’s the same exact art, but now Link and the King of Red Lions are sailing in the foreground. It’s silly, fun, and a great mash-up of the famous painting and one of the best Zelda games of all time. If you’re looking for a great Legend of Zelda gift for yourself or the Nintendo fan in your life, this is definitely worth considering.

The Legend of Zelda Great Wave off Kanagawa Canvas

There are 16 different versions of the print, with five main configurations. There’s regular gallery wrapped, black-framed, 3-piece, 4-piece, and 5-piece versions to pick from, so you have plenty of variety to find the right one for your nerdy interior decorating. Each of the divided versions come in medium and large versions, and the gallery wrapped and black-framed styles come in five sizes.

They vary in price between $39.99 and $29.99. The 24 by 18-inch gallery wrapped version is 7% off, now at $69.99 while the 4-piece medium is also 7% off, bringing the price to $129.99.

Now is the perfect time to pick one of these up, since The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has gotten a second wind (nailed it) on Nintendo Switch 2. You can access the game on the Nintendo Switch Online GameCube app along with Soul Calibur 2 and F-Zero GX, with many more to come. The Wind Waker is one of my personal favorites, and we gave the 2002 original a 9.6, saying that it’s “a masterful achievement — a shining example, in fact, of how video games should be made and a case study for developers wondering what makes a compelling game”.

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Myles Obenza is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.