Every car absolutely needs a tire inflator as part of an emergency kit to be readily available at any time. If the only reason stopping you is the cost, then this deal should give you no more excuse. Ahead of Black Friday, Amazon is offering Prime members the Inflavive cordless tire inflator and air compressor for just $14.99 after you apply $10 off coupon code "3LPLDNI6" during checkout. Any brand of tire inflator you find on Amazon at around this price point was probably made from the one of few overseas factories. They might not have as many fancy features as other more expensive models, but they get the job done and that's what matters.
Inflavive Cordless Tire Inflator and Air Compressor for $15
The Inflavive tire inflator and air compressor features an internal lithium-ion battery. Cordless inflators are much more convenient to use because they don't need to be plugged in and can be charged with a standard USB Type-C cable. The compressor is rated for a maximum pressure of 150 PSI and can refill a 195/65 R15 tire from 29 to 36 PSI in about one minute. It also has an essential auto-stop feature to prevent you from dangerously overfilling your tires.
Like most tire inflators, this model can also be used as a cordless compressor to inflate other things as well, like bicycle tires, balls, inflatables, and more. The digital display is easy to read and can switch among four different units of measurements: psi, kpa, bar and kg/cm². It's also equipped with a USB Type-C output so that it can also be used as a power bank to charger your phone or mobile electronics in a pinch.
Most people will get this tire inflator to keep their tires toppoed up, however it will come in handy during the real emergencies when you get a flat. Keep in mind though that If your tire has a puncture, there's no point filling it back up if it's going to leak again. So make sure you also have a tire patch kit on hand.
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Oscar winners Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reportedly reuniting for The Mummy 4 with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett – the filmmaking duo billed as Radio Silence – directing the long-awaited sequel.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fraser and Weisz are in talks to return to the franchise that made them box office stars before they both went on to win their respective Academy Awards (Fraser for The Whale and Weisz for The Constant Gardener).
That sequel also aged up Rick and Evy’s son Alex, who was introduced as a kid in The Mummy Returns, to be a young man.
“It is unclear who else [from the original cast] could return. One source describes the project as not a reboot, but rather a sequel that would disregard the events of the third movie. David Coggeshall wrote the screenplay,” THR reports.
Radio Silence’s breakout film was 2019’s Ready or Not. They then rebooted the Scream franchise with 2022’s Scream and 2023’s Scream 6, and also directed the vampire flick Abigail.
The Mummy 4 will be produced by the franchise’s original producer, Sean Daniel, and Project X Entertainment’s William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein.
Universal Pictures previously tried to reboot The Mummy franchise – with the 1999 film already a remake of the 1932 original – in 2017 with the Tom Cruise-led The Mummy, which failed to breathe life into the studio’s plans for Dark Universe, a shared universe that reimagined the classic Universal Monsters.
The studio also released the Dwayne Johnson spin-off vehicle The Scorpion King, which beget its own direct-to-video film series.
Curiously, director Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is produced by New Line Cinema, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster and will be released in theaters by Warner Bros. on April 17, 2026. It was made outside of the Universal franchise and there were rumors earlier this week that Warner Bros. has now retitled the film The Resurrected, which would put an end to any confusion with Universal’s franchise.
Let us know in the comments what you think of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz returning for The Mummy 4.
Maintaining a tidy desk area doesn't have to be labor intensive or expensive. Compressed air canisters used to be the standard but nowadays there is a more versatile and cost effective solution. Amazon is offering the JVSCAM Cordless Rechargeable Electric Air Duster (Air Blower) for just $19.99 after you apply coupon code "U6C8Z5P7". This has become the best selling air duster on IGN because it's so cheap. Most electric air dusters under $50 on Amazon are pretty much identical, so I'd recommend just getting whichever one is least expensive.
JVSCAM Cordless Electric Air Duster for PC for $19.99
The JVSCAM cordless rechargeable electric air duster is a fairly straightforward device. An internal fan spins at up to 130,000RPM to move an appreciable amount of air. A nozzle funnels the air into a tight, high-velocity stream that's more than strong enough to kick up layers of dust that's been sitting on top of your computer components. It has three speed settings, although I would recommend keeping it at the max speed for optimal results. You also get four different sized nozzles, including a narrow funnel for tight spaces like the crevices in your keyboard and a wider nozzle for AoE damage.
The best thing about an electronic duster as opposed to a compressed air canister is that it can be re-used. The dual 2,500mAh batteries lasts up to 240 minutes on a full charge (on the lowest speed setting). It can be recharged with a USB Type-C cable, which is included. I have a similar variant of this air duster that I use for all manner of cleaning, not just my PC (cleaning my coffee grinder and blow drying my dog are two examples). If possible, do your dusting outside.
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We’re in a golden age of portable gaming. Nintendo is still the king of the mountain with the Switch 2, but the market is also just lousy with handheld gaming PCs that you can play wherever you want. The fact that there are so many to pick from is a good problem to have, but once you’ve committed and freed yourself from the shackles of your TV, you’ll find you’re still bound by storage limits.
How you deal with those limits depends on what you’re after. If it’s more space for the likes of Battlefield 6, you’re better off cracking open your console – if you’re comfortable doing so – and upgrading your internal storage to a higher capacity M.2 NVMe SSD than you are popping in a MicroSD card. Proper SSDs are simply better at loading games up quickly.
Yet there’s still room for our humble friend, the MicroSD card. (That is, unless you did go with a Switch 2; in that case, you’ll be looking at a MicroSD Express card.) These little cards that could are fine for booting simpler indie titles and for holding your screenshots, screen recordings, and other files, thus freeing internal storage space for all those heaving open-world games the industry slings these days. Maybe they’re not reliable the way quality SSDs are, but they’re also easy to pop out, back-up to a PC, and put back in your console. As for picking one to use, that can be easy, if you know what you’re looking for.
Great, what should I look for in a MicroSD Card?
With storage, you need to be able to put the specs presented by manufacturers into a proper hierarchy. They love to trot out sequential read and write speeds of their cards because they’re the big throughput numbers. But you’ll rarely see those numbers in reality, especially if you’re transferring or loading game files, which are actually made of lots of smaller files – it takes time to spin up each of those files for transfer, and that creates a bottleneck. So, really, you want to know the random read and write speed of a card, which is a slower figure that, you may be shocked to hear, many manufacturers don’t explicitly publish. (Quick note here: Using words like “fast” and “slow” when discussing data transfer rates isn’t strictly the right way to go, but it’s a nice shortcut. Much of the time, in this context, when I write “faster,” I actually mean “higher throughput.”)
There is one way to get a vague idea about MicroSD cards’ random read and writes: by looking for their Application Performance Class (APC), signified on their labels by either an A1 or A2. In theory, an A2 rating means a card can handle, at minimum, 4,000 Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) during random reads, and 2,000 IOPS during random writes. The trouble is, that’s really hard to confirm in testing, and if any reviewers successfully have done so, I haven’t found them. Still, whether cards are reaching that level or not, it’s a far cry from the million-plus IOPS you might get with an M.2 NVMe SSD. And it might not matter, anyway; MicroSD cards don’t need to be that fast if you’re just trying to get your Balatro reps in. Nevertheless, higher IOPS is better, especially when doing that first big transfer where you’re filling the card with data from your old one or from your SSD.
The picks in the guide below are based on personal experience with these brands, price of the cards, what performance testing I could find, and how they fit into the needs of a handheld gaming PC owner. Some of the test results I looked at also come from The Great MicroSD Card Survey, a project by tech enthusiast Matt Cole that has become a surprisingly deep catalog of real-world tests of MicroSD cards over the last couple of years. If I couldn’t find any tests that show random reads and writes for a given card, and the manufacturer doesn’t offer that spec up itself, then I didn’t bother considering the card at all.
1. Samsung Pro Plus MicroSDXC Card
Best MicroSD Card
When you’re looking for the truly best card, it’s a toss-up. I’m giving Samsung’s Pro Plus the nod here, based on promising results reported by Engadget, camera review site AlikGriffin.com, StorageReview, and The Great MicroSD Card Survey. But based on other impressions or results I found, I could have just as easily told you the SanDisk Extreme or the Lexar Professional Silver Plus is the card to get. All three cards offer similar performance, just with some clear strengths in one area or another. SanDisk’s card appears to be significantly weaker in random writes; Lexar’s seems about as good as Samsung’s, although reviewers I looked at found differing random read/write results. If I were looking for a card right now, I’m sure I’d be happy with any of them, but I’d be most tempted by the Samsung Pro Plus.
One thing to note here is that many cards, Samsung’s included, claim higher sequential read throughput than UHS-I allows. That’s only possible on handheld gaming PCs that, like the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X, feature UHS-I DDR200 mode support; and even that tops out at 170MB/s.
2. PNY Pro Elite Prime
Best Value MicroSD Card
PNY makes decent MicroSD cards priced lower than the high-end ones with little performance penalty. The company claims its Pro Elite Prime cards can do up to 200MB/s reads and 150MB/s writes when you’re using it with a PNY Performance Prime card reader, which I don’t remember seeing in any handheld gaming PC specs. (Presumably you could see them with any reader that supports DDR200 mode.) In testing for The Great MicroSD Card Survey, the PNY card put up similar sequential read and write numbers to the Samsung Pro Plus and SanDisk Extreme. Meanwhile, Digital Camera World saw better results, with it hitting 174MB/s sequential reads and 156MB/s sequential writes while using storage testing software CrystalDiskMark and a non-PNY MicroSD card reader.
The only place I found explicit tests of random read/write performance was Cole’s site, where he found that the PNY card was a few hundred IOPS slower than the Samsung Pro Plus. DCW mentions seeing performance almost as good as sequential reads in transfers of multiple small files, which could be a stand-in for random read/writes, but the methodology isn’t clear enough to me to say for sure. Whatever the case, PNY’s big advantage is affordability: Its 1TB card is just $69.99, for instance, while Samsung’s Pro Plus has been available at or under $100 from Amazon since late last year.
3. Amazon Basics
Best Budget 512GB MicroSD Card
Amazon Basics products might be a mystery product – house brands like this or Walmart’s Onn tend to be manufactured by the same people who make known brands – but they can be a great deal hiding in plain sight. Both Amazon’s and PNY’s 1TB MicroSD cards cost similar amounts, but Amazon’s 512GB card is priced to move, making it a great deal for handheld gaming PCs or just to have lying around (hopefully in a case or something; it’s way too easy to lose these little thumbnail-sized guys).
Wildly, when it comes to random read and write performance, Amazon’s cards seem to hold their own. Cole put a 64GB Amazon Basics MicroSD card at a very respectable 2,317 IOPS for reads, while systems admin Bret of Bret.dk found with some Linux Terminal commands and I/O testing software fio that the card was capable of much better – 3,775 IOPS reads and 3,533 IOPS writes, as of September 2022. Either tester’s result would be just dandy for a card so cheap.
How to Pick the Best MicroSD Card for You
It’s a nightmare going down into the MicroSD card specs rabbit hole. But the nice thing is that when it comes to buying one to expand the storage of your Asus Xbox ROG Ally X, Valve Steam Deck, or Lenovo Legion Go 2, you only really need to be concerned with the reputation of the card’s manufacturer and whether its random read and write speeds are decent. I’m not aware of any current MicroSD card manufacturer that actually publishes testing results along those lines, which makes it harder to know which one is best, but I also don’t think it really matters that much, so long as you’re buying a card with an A2 rating.
Now, that’s not because A2 magically means the card is really good – as I wrote before, it’s hard to verify whether that’s the case. But cards with an A2 rating, or at least the ones from reputable makers like SanDisk, Samsung, PNY, and Lexar, tend to be well-specced. Most of them carry a U-shaped symbol with a 3 inside it – indicating the card’s UHS Speed Class – and often also say “V30,” which is the highest SD Video Speed Class. These numbers are indirectly meaningful: They tell you that, yes, this card uses the UHS-I bus at least, which is capable of at least 104MB/s throughput.
Above that, things get a little complicated again. UHS-II, a newer MicroSD card bus standard, supports up to a 312MB/s read data rate, or three times that of UHS-I. But I couldn’t find any UHS-II cards given the A2 rating, so you might find that games load more slowly with them. That could change, but for the time being, even if you have a handheld like the UHS-II-supporting Xbox Ally X, you should stick with UHS-I for your MicroSD card.
I’ve never been sad to have too much space, but I’ve definitely been annoyed when I hit a storage wall of my own making.
So, assuming you’ve got a list of MicroSD cards with an A2 rating and UHS-I bus support, all you have to do now is pick one. Easy, right? Honestly, mostly yes. Any of those from brands like SanDisk, Samsung, PNY, and Lexar will probably be good enough. You can narrow things down a bit more by doing things like looking for cards that have shown higher random read/write IOPS in reviewers’ tests, say if you think you’ll be transferring lots of small files to the card regularly. Also, if you’re getting the card just for indie game storage, you might not need much space, so you can pick something smaller. I will always argue for buying the most storage you can afford, though, even if that’s more than you think you need – I’ve never been sad to have too much space, but I’ve definitely been annoyed when I hit a storage wall of my own making. Feel free to go cheaper if price is an issue, but as it stands, the cheapest card worth paying for is in this guide right now. You should regard anything even less expensive that you find with conspiracy theorist-level suspicion.
The last bit of advice I would give you is to take even professional reviews with a grain of salt. There are so few reliable reviews in the first place, and even among them, methodology can be all over the place. It’s next to impossible to form a cohesive picture of one card’s performance, let alone several that you’re trying to decide between. Thankfully, you don’t really need to worry about that in the world of handheld gaming PCs, where it’s still mostly easy to swap out internal SSDs for AAA games and indie titles run fine on any decent MicroSD card you can find, as long as you stick to the guidelines above as you seek them out.
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While Peter Pan adaptations are nothing new in the film world, fans of the franchise will want to keep an eye out for the latest Pan project coming from Australia's Pixel Zoo Animation Studios. Pixel Zoo has acquired the rights to Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva's critically acclaimed YA graphic novel Neverlanders.
Both creators will be closely involved in the development of this animated film adaptation, with Taylor penning the screenplay and Sommariva attached as art director. Pixel Zoo Head of Studio Sebastian Gonzalez will executive-produce the film.
Released in 2023, Neverlanders puts a fresh spin on the Peter Pan mythos. In this version of the gritty story (which definitely skews to the older end of the YA spectrum), Neverland is wracked by chaos as a new pirate villain wages war against Tinker Bell and her fairy army. With Pan missing and most of the Lost Boys dead, it falls on the sole survivor, Paco, to recruit a girl named Bee and her friends to save his home. Together, they'll become a new generation of Lost Ones.
You might also recognize Taylor from his other comics work like DC's Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel series and Marvel's All-New Wolverine. Taylor previously journeyed into animation with The Deep, which is currently in its fourth season. Sommariva's past work includes Batman/TMNT Adventures and Star Wars Adventures.
“It has always been important for Pixel Zoo to champion talent, original stories and world-class animation in Australia, so we are thrilled to partner with the brilliant Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva," Gonzalez said in a statement. "Our team will work closely with Tom and Jon to ensure we stay true to the soul of Neverlanders while expanding the graphic novel into the kind of cinematic adventure only animation can deliver.
There's no word on a release date or director for Neverlanders just yet. The sequel comic, Neverlanders: Get Lost, will be released in 2026.
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GFA Games has just launched the Open Beta phase for its STALKER-inspired FPS MMORPG, PIONER, on Steam. PC gamers can join the playtest and start playing it. So, if you’ve been looking forward to it, you should definitely try it. The Open Beta lets you experience the full narrative arc, introducing key factions, locations, and … Continue reading STALKER-Inspired FPS MMORPG PIONER Enters Open Beta on PC→
NVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the green team, the NVIDIA GeForce 581.80 WHQL driver offers optimal performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. This driver also adds support for Anno 117: Pax Romana and Europa Universalis V. From what I can see, this driver also fixes … Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce 581.80 WHQL Driver Released, Optimized For Call of Duty: Black Ops 7→
Activision has shared the official PC system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. So, let’s take a look at what PC system you’ll need to run it. PC gamers will at least need an AMD Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-6600 with 8GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon RX 470, an NVIDIA … Continue reading Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Official PC System Requirements→
Sony's official professional grade PlayStation DualSense Edge wireless controller is on sale ahead of Black Friday. You can get the Midnight Black color from Amazon for just $174.99 with free delivery after a $25 off instant discount. The last time I saw a new (not refurb) DualSense Edge marked down was during Sony's Days of Play sale back in June.
PS5 DualSense Edge Controller for $175
The DualSense Edge is Sony's high-end controller for the PS5 console. This is a significant upgrade from the standard DualSense controller, with pro-level features like grips, adjustable analog sticks, mappable rear buttons, profiles, and more. If your analog sticks crap out, you can buy replacements for $19.99. The triggers have received special treatment as well. Next to each trigger is a stop slider that lets you adjust how far you have to press the trigger down to make it register. You can choose standard, medium, or short travel distances. Accessories include a hard shell case and USB-C cable.
If you like the standard DualSense's ergonomics but are looking for more customization needed for Twitch-sensitive genres like fighting games and shooters, then the DualSense Edge is calling out your name.
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Barnes & Noble's annual holiday gift card deal is now available and it's basically free money for anyone who already plans on buying gift cards this year. For every $100 in B&N gift cards you purchase, you'll get an additional $10 gift card sent to your inbox. You can choose to gift that extra $10 to someone or keep it for yourself. It's a great gift idea for the reader in your life who only really wants money for books, and it's a deal I'm planning on taking advantage of myself ahead of Black Friday.
There are some limits on this promotion, but not many. Barnes & Noble only lets you earn up to $50 of extra gift cards per day, which means that spending $500 will earn you the maximum reward. The key detail here is that this limit is only for each customer per day, so you could come back the next day and earn more gift card rewards again if you wanted to. This offer is available from now until December 12, so there's plenty of time to take advantage of it.
Barnes & Noble Gift Card Deal
You can choose to purchase physical or digital gift cards and still get the $10 promotional credit. For physical gift cards, there are a ton of different styles available, from Christmas to birthday party themes. You can choose to load each gift card with anywhere between $10 and $500, but you'll only get the additional $10 for every $100 you spend in a single cart purchase. So you could potentially buy 10 of the $10 gift cards and still earn the promotional credit as long as you do it all at once.
Barnes & Noble gift cards can be used at any brick-and-mortar location or the online store. You can also actually use these gift cards at any Paper Source location since B&N acquired the company back in 2021.
When Does the Barnes & Noble Black Friday Sale Start?
Barnes & Noble has not yet announced the start date for its Black Friday sale, but we do have an idea of when you should expect those book deals to drop this year. Other major retailers have already announced Black Friday sale dates beginning around Thursday, November 20 this year and Barnes & Noble will likely do something similar. Last year, the bookseller's sale launched on the Friday before Thanksgiving both online and in stores.
As for what deals to expect, we can look at what the store offered during Black Friday last year, as well as during its annual book haul sale back in August. The main event will likely be 50% off a bunch of books, which isn't too surprising given the store's status as one of the best places to buy books. We also expect that same 50% discount to be applied to select DVDs and Blu-rays as well as some toys and games. Barnes & Noble has been offering some pretty decent LEGO deals this year so far and it seems likely that trend will continue for 2025.
A new Humble Choice lineup becomes available on the first Tuesday of each month. That means November’s Humble Choice is now available for $14.99. This month, members get eight PC games with a total MSRP of $254, including Total War: Warhammer 3, Etrian Odyssey HD, and more. Read on for the full list and all the details.
Humble Choice November 2025 Game Lineup
All eight PC games are delivered in the form of Steam codes. It’s a solid lineup of titles, representing a wide variety of genres. That means there’s something for everyone, and some off-the-beaten-path games you might not normally buy, but now you get them without having to pay anywhere near full price. Here’s the full list of games included in the November 2025 Humble Choice, with blurbs from the press release.
Total War Warhammer III: A grand-scale strategy game where fantasy armies battle daemonic forces in the Realm of Chaos.
Another Crab's Treasure: A Soulslike adventure where a hermit crab fights enemies using trash as makeshift shells.
Pharaoh: A New Era: A 4K remake of the classic city-builder where you manage resources, appease gods, and build magnificent monuments in Ancient Egypt.
Etrian Odyssey HD: A first-person dungeon crawler focused on creating a party and mapping a dangerous labyrinth.
No More Heroes 3: A stylish hack-and-slash game where an assassin fights alien superheroes in over-the-top battles.
Synergy: A sci-fi city-builder about building a sustainable human settlement on a harsh alien planet.
Spin Hero: A roguelike RPG where combat and progression are determined by spinning a slot machine.
Paleo Pines: A cozy farming sim where you run a ranch, explore an island, and befriend dinosaurs.
The biggest game in here is probably the strategy game Total War: Warhammer III, which we gave a 9/10 in our review. It’s a huge blockbuster PC game with many dozens of potential hours of play time. Another Crab’s Treasure is a surprisingly accessible Soulslike game that got an 8/10 in our review. And Etrian Odyssey HD is a personal favorite, a remaster of a Nintendo DS dungeon crawler that has you draw the map as you explore.
Anyone interested in relaxing farm sims can try out Paleo Pines, while No More Heroes 3 offers fast-paced action. There’s plenty here to try, and any one of these games is worth the $14.99 asking price all on its own. Getting the whole bundle for that price is a killer deal.
As always with Humble Choice, a membership gets you a month of IGN Plus as an added bonus, as well as access to more than 50 DRM-free games in the Humble Vault. You also get a discount on Humble Store purchases, with bigger discounts the longer you keep your membership active.
Finally, 5% of each Humble Choice membership goes to charity. This month’s charity is No Kid Hungry, which seems like a particularly timely choice. It works to make sure kids across the country have reliable access to healthy meals.
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League of Legends is getting another TCG, except this one is a physical card game. Riot’s been making a big deal out of Riftbound since it was announced, and now that the game’s first set, Origins, is here, it’s been flying off shelves.
That makes it tricky to pick products up for its usual price, so be sure to skip aggressively marked-up offerings - we’re expecting that Riot is working to stock retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy as quickly as it can.
For now, it's only available directly through Riot (when in stock, and with around a $20 shipping fee), or via trusted resale sites like TCGPlayer.
Still, what should you buy? Where do you start? While we won’t be explaining how to play Riftbound in this guide, we will be covering everything you need to play.
Why the Riftbound price hikes?
Sadly, as the first set of Riot’s first card game hits shelves, it’s being snapped up by scalpers and put on the secondary market.
It’s a standard practice in TCGs, but Riot is reportedly printing more. If you can hold out, there will be more product.
Proving Grounds
The best place to start with Riftbound is Proving Grounds, a starter set that includes four premade decks for playing with two, three, or four players.
Annie, Garen, Lux, and Master Yi are included, with a guided play experience to help you get started. Each deck comes with upgrade suggestions with cards in booster packs (which we’ll come to shortly).
Once it’s in stock, it should cost you $29.99.
Champion Decks
Next up, Riot is offering a trio of premade, 56-card decks based around Jinx, Lee Sin, and Viktor.
Each also includes a booklet detailing how to play, and card recommendations to upgrade them. That’s handy because each deck also includes an Origins booster pack.
You’ll also find a paper playmat inside, so you really can just buy one of these and get going. Each deck is $19.99, when prices settle.
Booster Packs and Boxes
Booster packs are the backbone of any TCG, and Riftbound is no different. Each pack contains 14 cards, with 7 Commons, 3 Uncommons, 2 Foil Rares or Better, and 1 Foil of any rarity.
You can also buy a box of booster packs, which includes 24 packs. Riot says each box includes “more than 2 special alt-art cards”, so that’s something to consider.
Once prices are more settled, you should be able to get a booster box for $119.99.
Special Sets
At the time of writing, there are two special, collectors sets of Riftbound cards which are available.
The first is the Arcane Box Set, which includes a display box and cards for Jinx, Vi, Heimerdinger, Viktor, Warwick, and Caitlyn. These have exclusive art treatments, but it’s sold out right now.
There’s also a Worlds Bundle expected to ship late this year. It includes a Panda Teemo promo, oversized Battlefield cards, and a playmat, deckbox, and card sleeves. It should cost $99.99, but that price has been heavily marked up.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.
If you still haven't yet picked up a Nintendo Switch 2 because it's too expensive, there is an opportunity to get one at a discounted price. AliExpress is offering a Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World console bundle for just $442.72 (normally $500) after you apply a $100 off coupon code "AEUS100" during checkout. It ships free locally from the United States (which means no tariffs and no obnoxiously long wait times).
Note that the console is a Hong Kong import. All international Switch consoles are region unlocked, meaning they can be used in the US without any problems and without any modification. You'll also be able to select English as your default language. This specific model will come with a Hong Kong style plug, but a US adapter is included. Imported consoles do not get a US-based Nintendo warranty. Fortunately, Aliexpress offers a generous 90-day free return window.
Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World for $442.72
Brand new, genuine, imported, region unlocked units
The Switch 2 console was released on June 5. It is backwards compatible with nearly all Switch 2 games as well as the original Joy-Cons and Switch Pro controller, although the new Switch 2 controllers offer more functionality. In his Nintendo Switch 2 review, Tom Marks sums up the Switch 2 as "a vital but unexciting upgrade to a console I already love."
Three major Switch 2 video games have been released: Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Logan Plant reviewed Mario Kart World and wrote that "Mario Kart World may not make the most convincing case that going open-world was the boost the series needed, but excellent multiplayer racing, incredible polish, and the thrilling new Knockout Tour mode still more than live up to its legacy." Mario Kart World currently sells for $79 if purchased separately.
Not only did we rate Donkey Kong a 10/10, it's the only game we've given a Masterpiece rating so far this year. In his Donkey Kong Bananza review, Logan Plant writes that "The leader of the bunch is finally back to kick some tail in Donkey Kong Bananza, a brilliant successor to Super Mario Odyssey and a smashing return for a classic Nintendo character."
Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the latest first party release and although it's also available for the original Switch, it's clearly Switch 2 optimized. In her Pokemon Legends: Z-A review, Rebekah Valentine wrote that "Pokemon Legends: Z-A finally feels like Game Freak hitting its stride in Pokemon’s 3D era, with a fun setting to explore, a well-written story, and a total battle system overhaul that works surprisingly well."
Kirby Air Riders Is Out on November 20
Following the Nintendo Direct on August 19, Kirby Air Riders for the Switch 2 went up for preorder on the Nintendo eShop for $69.99, or $10 less than the Mario racing sim. Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco, the same team behind Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, as well as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, has teamed up to make this game, setting expectations high. Besides the obvious graphical improvements, gameplay changes, and track additions compared to the original Kirby Air Ride way back in 2003 for the Gamecube, other updates include an expanded roster that includes Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Chef Kawasaki, and Bandana Waddle Dee, more abilities, and more copy moves.
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