The Best Deals Today: Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, and More

A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Star Wars Zero Company, and more. Check out our top picks for Saturday, October 24, below.

Persona 3 Reload (Switch 2) for $24.99

Persona 3 Reload Switch 2 copies are available at Amazon for $24.99 this weekend. This is a pretty great price for an expansive RPG that you can easily sink 100 hours into. The Switch 2 version had a rocky launch with frame pacing issues, but those have been resolved. Atlus also did add support for 60 FPS in docked mode.

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales On Sale for the First Time

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales was released this June, and for the first time, you can pick up a copy of the game on sale! Amazon has copies for all platforms discounted to $44.99 today, which is a great price for this action-based HD-2D game. In our 8/10 review, we wrote, "The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales isn’t without blemishes, but it’s still a great action-adventure game that continues to prove why the HD-2D art style is among the best around."

Pikmin 4 for $39.88

Walmart has digital copies of Pikmin 4 for Nintendo Switch on sale for $39.88 today. This is just in time before next month's release of Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Dandori Academy. If you grab a copy today, you'll be able to score the Switch 2 upgrade pack for $9.99. That beats paying $70 for a copy any day.

Star Wars Zero Company for $47.97

Star Wars Zero Company is one of the biggest sleeper hits of the year, and you can save $12 off a physical copy today at Amazon. In our 9/10 review, we wrote, "Star Wars Zero Company is an excellent tactical game that does a fantastic job of slathering on the same cinematic look and feel we saw in Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games, incorporating strong characters and a storyline that's refreshingly centered on non-Force users and a non-traditional villain."

Clayface Steelbook Up for Pre-Order

The Clayface Limited Edition 4K Steelbook is now up for pre-order at Walmart. We gave the latest DC Studios film a 7/10 in our review, writing, "The film largely employs old school practical makeup effects to cleverly and gruesomely depict Matt Hagen’s transformations, with Tom Rhys Harries’ desperate, driven performance further selling the illusion of a man becoming a monster."

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Switch 2 Copies on Sale for $34.96

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale today for $34.99 at Walmart. This physical version of the game includes an exclusive Zack Fair Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy card, which is perfect for fans and collectors alike. If you've yet to experience this massive RPG, take a chance and pick up a copy this weekend at a discount. It's pretty great exploring beyond Midgar on the Switch 2, just saying.

007 The Daniel Craig Collection 4K Blu-ray for $30.81

If you've been looking for a fantastic new 4K Blu-ray to add to your collection, look no further than 007 The Daniel Craig Collection. You're getting Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre all for $30.81. The unrated and extended version of Casino Royale is even included.

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter for $39.99

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is the first entry in the beloved Trails series, and last year's remake brought new life to the original game. With 2nd Chapter out now, today is a great time to dive into this wonderful RPG series.

Save on Mouse: P.I. For Hire Physical Copies

Amazon has Mouse: P.I. For Hire copies on sale for $24.99 this weekend. This was one of the most anticipated games of the year, with its 1930s cartoon-aesthetic very eye-catching. In our review, we wrote, "Mouse: P.I. for Hire nails the aesthetics of both the 1930s cartoons and the detective stories that inspired it, and it’s also an amusing boomer shooter that largely feels good as you’re playing it."

Save $10 off Ocarina of Time Remake Physical Copies

Similar to previous Nintendo Switch 2 physical releases, Amazon has The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time available for $59.99 right now. This deal will end on release date, which is quickly approaching with us now in October. If you've yet to experience this masterpiece or are diving back into Hyrule, the Ocarina of Time remake is sure to be one of the most talked-about games of 2026.

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Nintendo Legend Shigeru Miyamoto Becomes First Game Designer to Be Awarded Japan's Order of Culture

Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto will receive Japan’s highest honor for cultural merit next month. The 73-year old is the first video game developer to receive the Order of Culture, which is presented by the Emperor of Japan.

“I feel incredibly awkward but truly honored to be selected for such a prestigious award,” Miyamoto told the press on October 23. “As I often point out, I don’t create games on my own. This award is the result of working together with a great number of people, so I will accept it on their behalf.”

“Recently, I’ve been privileged to work with people from many different fields, not just games,” he added, referencing Super Nintendo World attractions at Universal Studios and films like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. “I’d like to share the joy of this award with everyone.”

Miyamoto is currently Nintendo’s Executive Fellow and Representative Director. He joined the company in 1977, playing a pivotal and formative role in Nintendo’s move towards making video games. While most famous for creating the Mario series (with the iconic Nintendo mascot’s first appearance in 1981’s Donkey Kong), Miyamoto also played key roles in the development of other major Nintendo franchises including The Legend of Zelda and Star Fox.

“50 years ago, I became involved in video games, a medium whose form was still very undefined, and I have been fortunate to continue in this line of work ever since.” Miyamoto said. “I feel like it’s precisely because I’ve been here since the dawn of the industry that I’m being honored in this way, and think I have been incredibly lucky in life.”

Japan’s Order of Culture, as the name suggests, is awarded to individuals deemed to have made outstanding contributions to the development of culture. It covers a broad scope, from the sciences to literature and the arts. Previous well-known recipients include film director Akira Kurosawa, fashion designer Issey Miyake, and Godzilla composer Akira Ifukube.

The Emperor of Japan will present Miyamoto and the other seven recipients with their Order of Culture awards. Like in previous years, the ceremony will be held on November 3, Japan’s Culture Day national holiday.

Photo by Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images.

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Amazon Has a Sale on Magic: The Gathering Booster Boxes Even Before Black Friday Kicks Off

Has Magic: The Gathering ever been as popular as it is right now? It feels like the long-running card game is having a bit of a moment in terms of bringing fresh players in via its ever-growing roster of Universes Beyond crossover properties.

Rightly or wrongly, that means there are more people looking to build collections, whether they’re playing or collecting the cards, and it just so happens that Amazon has rolled out some price cuts on Play Booster Boxes - including the Star Trek one at 26% off just weeks before it even launches.

It’s worth reminding you that these are Play Booster Boxes, as opposed to Collector Booster ones. Aside from a massive difference in price, Collector Boosters are where you’ll find the most valuable cards in each set. With that caveat out of the way, here are the best Play Booster Box deals we’ve found so far.

Save On Magic: The Gathering Play Booster Boxes

Sure, that Star Trek deal is great, but it’s not the only Universes Beyond property seeing a price cut. In fact, you can find discounts on both Marvel sets, The Hobbit, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

If you’re desperate for the new Darkhold Destiny set announced for next year, then good news: You can save on both the Marvel Spider-Man and Super Heroes Play Booster Boxes.

The former, while not a great set, does have some cool cards, and while it would have cost you $209.70 around this time last year, it’s down to $134.95 for 30 packs. Meanwhile, the much better Super Heroes set from June of this year has dropped from the same MSRP to $149.99.

Sticking with 2026 sets, The Hobbit Play Booster Box has dropped down to $161.93, which marks a 23% discount. Whether you’re looking for Smaug, Gollum, Bilbo, or any of the dwarves from the set, this is a great way to build out a collection - and you get a box topper included, too.

Rounding out our Universes Beyond sale offerings is Avatar: The Last Airbender. This set was a very pleasant surprise, and you can grab a box of 30 packs for $139.99 right now.

For Universes Within, you’ve got a few options to build out your collection and deck-building options. Play Booster Boxes for Lorwyn Eclipsed, Secrets of Strixhaven, and even the current set, Reality Fracture, are currently discounted.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Play Boosters are down to $118 per box, but we’d recommend hanging fire for a little while. The same product was around $11 cheaper recently, and we can see this being ripe for a Black Friday saving.

Secrets of Strixhaven is still my favorite set of 2026, and if you missed all the fun, then you can catch up with a 21% discount on a Play Booster Box. 30 packs for $129.99? Don’t mind if I do.

Reality Fracture is a little different, because it’s being sold by a third-party seller. Still, it’s the current set and is sitting at $153.98, so you’re saving around $10 from the MSRP. Not huge, sure, but it’s an awesome set.

For more on Magic: The Gathering, be sure to check out all we know about next year’s sets so far, including some in-universe returns and another Marvel set.

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Saber Interactive CEO Says Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is Performing 'Extremely Well on PC and Consoles' with More to Come

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival has been a smash hit, says Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch in a post on LinkedIn, and it’s the first of a “series” of releases from the studio that will improve how it makes games in the future.

Hellraiser: Revival has proven to be a smashing success, in spite of — or, perhaps because of — its super-spicy content. The game doesn’t skirt around the sex, blood, and gore that defined the source material, causing some content creators to get permanently banned despite taking pains to censor their playthroughs.

In an October 19 LinkedIn post, Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch praised the Hellraiser development team, revealing the title has been performing “extremely well on PC and console” since its October 8 release.

He also speculated that AAA titles with massive budgets and lengthy development timelines won’t be sustainable in the industry for much longer (if, indeed, they are right now), instead positing that AA games based on established IPs with smaller budgets are likely a more realistic path forward.

“The game is testament to the notion that an established IP and solid AA development with controlled costs can produce great results and high user scores,” he wrote. “I believe a greater focus on these middle-market IP-driven products, rather than AAA behemoths, is the future to maintaining growth and momentum in the game industry.

“While I believe there will always be a place for the properly-developed and budgeted AAA experience, a AA game that provides a great immersive experience for a lower price is less risky and can provide much greater returns on average.”

Karch went on to say that Hellraiser: Revival is “the first in a series of releases by Saber that will continue to prove out our methodology,” teasing that there’s “more to come in just a few short weeks.”

While IGN scored the game a six out of ten, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival boasts a “very positive” player score on Steam, and has earned no small amount of praise from content creators who showed up in droves to broadcast the game on release.

Of course, given its content, it’s no surprise that some streamers got the ban hammer — but, according to its developers, that’s exactly what they were aiming for when they made it.

"It was an unofficial goal of the team to be banned, unrated, or restricted at least somewhere in the world as one barometer of whether we’d done our jobs right,” narrative director Antony De Fault told IGN in an exclusive interview.

Even Clive Barker himself was impressed, saying he was “fearful at one point that the game would be overly censored but I’m genuinely astonished by how far they’ve been able to push it.”

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Valve Developer Mistakenly Mentions Rumored Half-Life 3 Codename

A Valve developer mistakenly slipped up and made mention of Half-Life 3's long-rumored codename during a recent conference.

For years, fans have wondered if we'll ever see Half-Life 3. During the 2010s, hope for the threequel was kept firmly alive by die-hard fans... but it was later revealed that the project had been quietly killed by Valve. However, hope was reignited when Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, which ended with a massive cliffhanger that seemed to directly set up Gordon Freeman's next adventure. Ever since then, there have been rumors of a third game, with various dataminers discovering references to a project known as "HLX" in various Valve-related files. It has been believed for years that HLX is indeed Half-Life 3, as no one has been able to link it to any other existing Valve project. (And, of course, the acronym all but screaming that it's Half-Life related.)

Now, Valve has acknowleged the project itself, though not on purpose. During a recent Q&A panel at GameSoundCon, a conference for video game audio, Valve's music designer, Mike Morasky, was explaining how the developer handled certain sound systems and noted that Deadlock uses a particular type of high dynamic range audio... and HLX uses its own kind of HDR.

We have the first mention of HLX by a Valve employee.

HLX files today. I'm working as quickly as I can. https://t.co/LhFBNOP1CU

— Tyler "Hype Merchant" McVicker (@Tyler_McV) October 22, 2026

Once the words HLX came out of Morasky's mouth, he pretty much stopped talking. Whether that's because he had finished his thought or if he realized he should stop talking is up in the air. A colleague sitting next to Morasky then quietly said "nice work," which some fans have read into as a passive-agressive retort to Morasky's slip up. Fans went buckwild with this small, but notable mistake. Some ran with it, feeling like all of their theories and copium has been vindicated after this mention.

Regardless, this does seem to confirm that HLX is a project that is still actively in development at Valve. We can only hope that it is the long-rumored Half-Life 3, but who knows how far away it could be from being announced, let alone released. Half-Life: Alyx had an exceptionally fast turn around time for being announced and released, so it's possible that a similar pattern would emerge here. If that's the case, maybe we can hope to see it at The Game Awards, but that's still probably a longshot.

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EA Confirms DICE and Respawn Are Collaborating on a New Project Amidst Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Rumors

EA has confirmed that DICE and Respawn are working on a new project together, adding more fuel to rumors about Star Wars: Battlefront 3.

As part of a larger letter about the future of EA, the publisher confirmed that it is working on new Battlefield games. It also noted that in addition to Battlefield, DICE and Respawn are working together on a "future project" that they hope will unlock growth in their shooter portfolio. This follows rumors from earlier this week that the two companies are working together to make Star Wars: Battlefront 3.

"In addition to our future Battlefield titles, we’ll be bringing together our Respawn and DICE studios to collaborate on a future project that will help us achieve that ambition," said EA. "We can’t wait to share more when the time comes."

Variety also corroborated the Battlefront 3 rumors via sources, though nothing was shared on what the game will look like or when it might release. Other rumors recently suggested that Bungie was in the mix to work on Battlefront 3 or perhaps another project in the Star Wars universe, though nothing has been confirmed on that front. Star Wars: Battlefront 3 has been one of the most demanded titles over the last decade.

DICE's second crack at the Star Wars shooter franchise was controversial at launch due to issues with its monetization strategy, but the game itself was praised up and down by fans. It has remained a respected title among Star Wars lovers, and they've frequently rallied together to demand a sequel. Now, it seems like it will happen, though this time with the assistance of Respawn.

The Titanfall and Apex Legends studio has its own experience working on Star Wars through the Jedi games and the recently-released Star Wars Zero Company. Respawn also worked on a canceled Star Wars shooter, rumored to be a Mandalorian game, leaving fans to wonder what could've been. Only time will tell what this new Respawn and DICE game really is, but if it's Battlefront 3, it has serious potential to be something special.

This news came alongside some doom and gloom. EA confirmed that it was canceling the next Mass Effect and shutting down veteran RPG studio BioWare. The news comes after about a decade of commercial and critical misfires from the studio with games like Mass Effect: Andromeda, Anthem, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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Umamusume Fans Distraught After Los Angeles Concerts Canceled Due to Visa Issues

Two Umamusume concerts in Los Angeles have been canceled after workers could not get their visas approved in time for the event, leaving American fans distraught.

On October 18, the official Umamusume: Pretty Derby Twitter/X account announced that staffers working the shows — scheduled for October 22 and 23 — were having difficulties securing their travel visas. At the time, it did not cancel the events, but warned concertgoers that this may impact the festivities.

The possibility that these concerts would be canceled sparked concern among the game’s fanbase, with many joking (or perhaps being fully serious) that this event might politically “radicalize” them, given the extremely long wait times for visas in the United States right now.

The next day, Cygames confirmed that the Los Angeles concerts had been officially canceled, offering refunds to fans who’d purchased both on-site viewing tickets and streaming tickets to watch the show remotely. Responses to fans who made travel plans are also in progress, though Cygames admitted that this may take “some time.”

“Although we have coordinated repeatedly with all parties concerned and explored every possible option in our efforts to make this event happen, we were unable to obtain the necessary visas for entry into the US, so we have come to the painful conclusion that holding the concerts is no longer possible,” the post reads.

“Once again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this causes to all the Trainers who were eagerly looking forward to the concerts, as well as to the Umamusume cast, partner company staff, and everyone involved who put tremendous effort into making this event happen.”

It is with heavy hearts that we must announce the cancellation of the Umamusume: Pretty Derby – 7th EVENT: THE STAGE in LOS ANGELES concerts planned for Oct 22–23, 2026.

Although we have coordinated repeatedly with all parties concerned and explored every possible option in our efforts to make this event happen, we were unable to obtain the necessary visas for entry into the US, so we have come to the painful conclusion that holding the concerts is no longer possible.

To all the Trainers who were eagerly looking forward to the show, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and concern this causes, and for announcing this so close to the event date.

Due to this cancellation, we will process refunds for the following:

・On-site viewing tickets

・Streaming tickets

In addition, we are looking into possible responses to Trainers who were planning to attend the concert in person. This will take some time, so we ask for your patience. Details will be announced on the 7th EVENT WORLD TOUR official website.

Once again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this causes to all the Trainers who were eagerly looking forward to the concerts, as well as to the Umamusume cast, partner company staff, and everyone involved who put tremendous effort into making this event happen.

Please see the link below for the official notice:

https://t.co/lrZyCDHwhh

— Umamusume: Pretty Derby (@umamusume_eng) October 20, 2026

It’s safe to say that Umamusume fans in the States are completely beside themselves over this news, with many who’d made travel arrangements feeling especially burnt by the situation — not at Cygames, but with the political issues that are making visa acquisitions especially arduous.

“I'm so sorry that this happened. I was excited to have a mini-concert at home and had many friends and acquaintances who were excited to go. I wish things could have worked out,” one fan replied.

“Thank you so very much for trying, it's heart-breaking but we know you tried until the very end,” another wrote.

“This is not the America I wanted to live in,” another said, while yet another joked that the country is currently experiencing an “anti-Uma administration.”

Knowing the power of the Umamusume fanbase, some netizens are genuinely convinced that this incident could result in real political activism; after all, these fans have made several real-world impacts over the years, with the community previously banding together to save a sick racehorse from a slaughterhouse, raising over $600,000 to rebuild stables for the horse Meisho Doto, and even inspiring a disabled fan to perform onstage for the very first time.

Umamusume concerts aren’t the only events getting impacted by long visa wait times; several other shows have also fallen victim to this issue, with the likes of Shinee’s Taemin being forced to cancel his entire North American tour due to being unable to secure visas for its staff and key personnel.

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