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

After Prime Day: Shopping for Non-Essentials It is not clear how to do this. Priorities may not be high on the list. But the deals haven’t stopped, so we haven’t either. This weekend roundup contains the week’s best gaming and entertainment deals so far, plus we’ve included the top 5 best selling products last week on Polygon. Happy Barbenheimer and a great weekend to you!

Best entertainment offers this week

Speaking of movies, this is your last week to get in on Barnes & Noble’s excellent promotion that knocks half off many Criterion Collection item, be it a DVD, 4K UHD Blu-ray, or a box set. Sale ends July 28. Amazon also offers many of these movies at a discount.

In case you don’t what you’re looking for, Barnes & Noble does a decent job with categorization, highlighting classic Hollywood films, films made by women, Asian cinema, indie flicks, LGBTQIA+ films, and more. Pre-orders are also discounted (although slightly less than 50%), such as 4K Bluray versions of Moonage DaydreamThe David Bowie movie features performances and footage of the musician.

Stalker

Prices are taken at the time of publication.

Parasite

Price taken from the publication.

This week’s most popular products on Polygon

This week’s best deals on gaming

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You may enjoy playing baseball video games. Super Mega Baseball 4Target has the game for only $29.99, which is nearly half price. This includes all platforms including PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. We enjoyed this game, but that’s an understatement. Our reviewer said the game’s developers manage to convey the excitement that TV often can’t. It’s a fun game series, and if you can embrace its somewhat cartoonish visual style, you’ll probably love this one.

Amazon Japan offers free shipping on the Sega Genesis Mini 2 Console. The Sega Genesis Mini 2 console can be hard to locate in the U.S. since it was launched late in 2022. Sega sold most of its inventory via Amazon Japan which required U.S. purchasers to import. Amazon is paying for shipping right now. This normally adds $22.30 to the current price of $94.37.

The Genesis Mini 2 is worth buying if you can’t get enough of Sega’s retro titles. The model comes with games such as Sewer Shark, Golden Axe 2, OutRun, Phantasy Star 2There are dozens.

Sega Genesis Mini 2

The prices are taken at the time of publication.

This deal reduces the cost of shipping, which is normally around $120 for imports from Japan.

If you have a PS4 or a PS5, be sure to check out Sony’s PlayStation summer sale, which has discounts on 3,082 games and DLC. Naturally, they are not all great bargains. We have chosen a dozen of the games we found most interesting. Sale ends August 16th for the majority of games. However, some titles will return to their regular prices starting on Wednesday.