Best gaming offers: Dune TTRPG Bundle, Pokémon video games, and more

Dune: Part 2 is lastly in theaters, and we hope you take pleasure in it as a lot as we did (seize further napkins for those who’re shopping for the themed popcorn bucket). If you’re indulging within the second a part of the Denis Villeneuve-directed saga and need even more methods to have interaction with the Dune universe, we’ve uncovered some superior offers that pay homage to the home of Herbert. For instance, you’ll be able to presently choose up a complete assortment of core rulebooks and supplementary supplies for the Dune: Adventures within the Imperium TTRPG from Modiphius for simply $18 at Humble. You may discover discounted hardcover and paperback field units of the Dune books at Amazon.

If you’re within the temper for one thing rather less dusty, we’ve discovered some spectacular reductions on a PlayStation 5 {hardware} bundle, and following Pokémon Day earlier this week, some Pokémon video games are discounted, too.

As we do each weekend, we’re offering you with our favourite offers from the worlds of gaming and leisure, plus the news on the best-selling merchandise which have made a current look on our web site.

The finest gaming offers this week

One of one of the best Dune video games ever, Dune: Adventures within the Imperium, is presently featured as a part of a formidable bundle occurring now at Humble. This $17 bundle consists of every part it’s essential to get began with the spicy tabletop setting with PDFs of its core rulebook, character sheets, the Gamemaster’s Toolkit, and over a dozen different supplementary supplies to construct out your personal campaigns. Purchasing this bundle additionally entitles you to a 50% low cost on an array of bodily Dune: Adventures within the Imperium merchandise from the Modiphus retailer.

Best Buy has delivered the primary large deal on the PlayStation 5 of 2024. Since Thursday, the retailer has supplied a $50 deal on the Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 console bundle, which features a copy of the sport and the newer, slim model of the disc-based PlayStation 5, for simply $449.99 (was $499.99). At its common value, this bundle already saves you the $69.99 value of shopping for the sport by itself. Now, you’re getting an honest value lower on the {hardware} itself.

We haven’t seen a greater deal on the PlayStation 5 because the holidays, and with the PlayStation 5 sport library solely getting greater (and with loads of nice titles in its backlog), there’s by no means been a greater time to choose up Sony’s console.

While the opening weekend for Dune: Part Two is definitely thrilling, we additionally bought to see quite a lot of cool bulletins from the Pokémon Company, courtesy of Pokémon Day 2024. While we’ll have to attend patiently till 2025 for our subsequent full-fledged title, titled Pokémon Legends Z-A, you’ll be able to presently discover a number of Pokémon video games for the Switch on sale for $39.99 at Walmart, together with Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and more.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Prices taken at time of publishing.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a feudal-era spinoff that reimagines the Sinnoh area in a time way back and experiments with open-world gameplay.

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The finest leisure offers this week

We’re not achieved with Dune. A hanging, hardcover assortment of the primary three books of the Dune saga is offered on Amazon for $83 (was $149.99). In addition to some superb cowl artwork, every ebook options an illustrated poster inside its mud jacket. This assortment consists of the unique Dune novel along with its sequels, Dune: Messiah and Children of Dune.

For a more expansive assortment, you will discover the primary six books in Frank Herbert’s Dune saga collected on this paperback field set that’s presently obtainable at Amazon for $59.99 (was $108). This set combines Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune right into a single field set with minimalist cowl artwork for every.

If you’re a fan of romantic drama/comedies (rom dramedies?) Amazon is presently discounting the fourth quantity of the Columbia Classics assortment to $149, the bottom value so far for the $216 field set. This assortment options six 4K Blu-rays together with His Girl Friday, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Kramer vs. Kramer, Starman, Sleepless in Seattle, and Punch Drunk Love, all contained in a lovely bi-fold field. You’ll additionally get an 80-page coloration booklet with uncommon pictures and commentaries detailing the historic significance of every movie. It’s a wierd assortment of flicks, to make sure, nevertheless it is perhaps precisely what you or a present recipient could also be searching for this weekend.

Dune is one other basic romantic dramedy (for those who love sand, that’s). If you’d like so as to add the 2021 movie to your assortment of bodily media in beautiful 4K, you’ll be able to presently choose up a reduced 4K Blu-ray copy from Amazon for $23.99 (was $33.99). You may discover a particular version 4K Blu-ray of the 1984 authentic Dune movie on sale at Walmart for $23.97 (was $34.99).

Don’t ask me why, however I’ve been on one thing of a Battlestar Galactica kick recently, so think about my disappointment after I came upon that the whole Ronald D. Moore sci-fi sequence isn’t obtainable to stream on any platform. Thankfully, you’ll be able to choose up the whole sequence on Blu-ray from Amazon for $64.99 (was $99.99), or obtainable digitally from Vudu for simply $34.99 (was $232).

I’m a fan of the Blu-ray field set, because it consists of each episode of the sequence with bonus options and commentary, along with the one-shot episodes “Razor” and “The Plan.” Vudu’s digital model, nonetheless, solely consists of the essential episodes playable by means of the Vudu app. It’s nonetheless not a foul deal.