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Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Gift Box Edition $60 | Releases November 7 Preorder at Amazon Preorder at Walmart Preorder at Best Buy Hello Kitty Island Adventure made the jump from Apple Arcade to PS5, Switch, and PC earlier this year, and soon, the heartwarming adventure is getting a new Nintendo Switch-exclusive physical edition called the Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Gift Box Edition. The bundle is packed with physical collectibles like cards, a poster, and more--plus a copy of the game--all for $60. It launches on November 7, and preorders are available for $60 at Amazon. Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Gift Box Edition $60 | Releases November 7 The Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Gift Box Edition includes a copy of Hello Kitty Island Adventures: Deluxe Edition, which has the base game and in-game content like the Deluxe Starter Bundle to level up your friendships faster, the Deluxe Crafting Bundle filled with crafting materials, and the Deluxe Event Bundle and its 300+ seasonal rewards. However, the big selling point is the physical extras. Here's what's included:Collector's boxTophat's Memories18 collectible cards + 1 premium foil cardDouble-sided posterCritter and Fish GuideThat's an impressive lineup of items, especially considering the previously released Deluxe Edition also costs $60. Preorder at Amazon Preorder at Walmart Preorder at Best Buy Hello Kitty Island Adventure Gift Box EditionThe Gift Box Edition isn't the only physical version of Hello Kitty Adventure Island. Sanrio seems to be phasing out the Switch-exclusive Deluxe Edition--it's currently sold out at Amazon, but Walmart has it for $58. Meanwhile, PS5 players can pick up the standard edition of the game for $40.Hello Kitty Adventure Island: Deluxe Edition (Switch) -- $58Hello Kitty Adventure Island: Standard Edition (PS5, Switch) -- $40This Gift Box isn't the only thing Hello Kitty fans can look forward to in November. On November 6, a day before the Gift Box arrives, Hello Kitty and Friends: Freeze Tag Party releases for Nintendo Switch. You'll get to gear up as your favorite characters before chasing down the competition in a heated game of Tag. It's listed at just $40, and since it's packed with 70 missions, supports local play, and gives you dozens of ways to customize your character, it looks like a nice companion for Hello Kitty Island Adventure.Continue Reading at GameSpot

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Pokemon Holiday Calendar 2025 $50 See at Amazon We still have to get through Halloween and Thanksgiving--but for some people, it's never to early to start looking ahead to the holiday season. And to help you count down the remaining days, you'll find the adorable Pokemon Holiday Calendar 2025 available at Amazon for $50. It's loaded with collectible figurines and accessories, giving you a fun new toy to discover every day leading up to Christmas. There's also a spooky Pokemon Halloween Calendar for $35--and it's not too late to check it out. Pokemon Holiday Calendar 2025 $50 The Pokemon Holiday Calendar 2025 features 16 two-inch action figures, plus eight accessories. Several are dressed up for the holidays, such as Pikachu with a Christmas hat, Bulbasaur with garland, and Squirtle with winter gloves and a matching hat. As for the accessories, these are things like a Christmas tree, pastry cabinet, or tiny dining chairs and tables.With 24 total items, you can start counting down the days to Christmas on December 1. If you're impatient, there's nothing stopping you from tearing down all the doors at once, then displaying the two dozen figurines around your home. It looks like a pretty good value at $50 (each figurine costs approximately $2), and since this is an official Pokemon product, they should all be manufactured to pretty high standards.Another official Pokemon product, the Halloween Calendar 2025, is also available at Amazon. It features 13 days of reveals, including eight two-inch figures, two three-inch figures, a large 4.5-inch figure, and five accessories. Its packaging glows in the dark, too, making it a spooky display piece leading up to Halloween. See at Amazon Pokemon Holiday Calendar 2025 - Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Pikachu For a holiday calendar that's a bit different, check out the Mega Construx Pokemon Holiday Calendar. This has you building a new Pokemon-inspired item every day, including an adorable Pikachu sporting a Christmas hat. The entire set clocks in at 202 pieces--so it's a great choice for young Pokemon fans or novice builders. Another official Pokemon product, the Pokemon Halloween Calendar 2025, is also available at Amazon. It features 13 days of reveals, including eight two-inch figures, two three-inch figures, a large 4.5-inch figure, and five accessories. Its packaging glows in the dark, too, making it a spooky display piece leading up to Halloween.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Using Ryu Hayabusa's signature Flying Swallow attack, I leap into a crowd of enemies, slicing a daemon's head off with a clean strike before turning to the rest. As rapid combos transition into powerful Izuna Drops, Guillotine Throws, and charged-up Ultimate Techniques, I deflect and counter incoming attacks, lop off numerous limbs, and spill gallons of blood in the most exhilarating and stylish way imaginable. Co-developed by Team Ninja and Platinum Games, Ninja Gaiden 4 revives the character-action staple by nailing the fundamentals of the series' high-octane combat and then iterating on it in a number of interesting and exciting ways. It feels distinctly like Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden, but Platinum's DNA is also undeniably present, making for a thrilling sequel that's well worth the decade-long wait.Set in a near-future Tokyo, the once bustling city now lies deserted, blanketed by a perpetual downpour of miasma caused by the skeletal husk of the Dark Dragon looming over it. Ryu might've defeated the Divine Dragon God before, but peace can't be achieved until this cursed rain is stopped, kicking off a quest to resurrect the Dark Dragon and defeat it once and for all. For the majority of this adventure, you play as a new protagonist named Yakumo, a young ninja from the shadowy Raven Clan. He's stoic and broody, and emotes far more than Ryu ever has, but like the rest of the series, Ninja Gaiden 4 struggles to tell a compelling story. Yakumo has a team in his ear, adding some texture during moments of downtime as they chat about the state of the world and establish the stakes. This offers a new perspective on the world of ninja clans, but they're a one-dimensional bunch, and the narrative is still relatively light. Yakumo and Ryu are at odds with one another, despite ostensibly sharing the same goal, but this thread is paper-thin, and Ryu's section is disappointingly inconsequential. There are some pacing issues, too, including a stretch where the story grinds to a halt for three chapters as you chase after an interdimensional shark. It's not unexpected, but Ninja Gaiden 4 tells the sort of tale you'll likely forget about once the final credits have rolled.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Ninja Gaiden 4 brings the series back with a bang, building on its intoxicating foundations with smart additions that further elevate its brutally brilliant combat.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth co-director Naoki Hamaguchi doesn't think Nintendo is backing down from the Switch 2's controversial game key cards - in fact, he thinks it's going to double down on them.Talking to Wccftech (via Stealth), Naoki Hamaguchi once again went against the grain and straight-up defended the Switch 2's key cards, having previously said they "let us do things do things that maybe we wouldn't otherwise" while admitting that he understands where the controversy is coming from.Hamaguchi has now repeatedly stressed the benefits of game key cards for developers who would otherwise be working within the limitations of the Switch 2's physical cartridges."Personally, I feel that the loading speed issue for the game cartridge is more about the hardware spec of the Nintendo Switch 2," said Hamaguchi. "I'm not with Nintendo, so I can't really speak to that side. That said, I do feel that the Game Key Card format that Nintendo created for the Nintendo Switch 2 is a really amazing new idea that they had offered for us."Game key cards are controversial particularly among physical media preservation communities for obvious reasons. If you don't have a physical cartridge to boot up a game, you're essentially at the mercy of Nintendo, and while there's little reason to suspect them to start pulling games from digital libraries willy-nilly, the implications for long-term preservation aren't ideal. Still, Hamaguchi reckons folks should get used to the idea of game key cards."I don't personally see Nintendo working towards trying to improve the loading speed for the cartridges," he said. "Rather, I feel that Nintendo will put more effort into popularizing the Game Key Card format which again is a really fantastic idea for us developers."Also, we hope players familiarize themselves with what that costs them. That obviously is something we can help out with as well, from the developer side. I think that the collaborative effort between Nintendo and publishers trying to promote the Game Key Card will be the best way forward for all players in the future."The excellent 2020 Final Fantasy 7 Remake is due out on Switch 2 in 2026, with Rebirth and then the third entry in the series to follow. Unsurprisingly, the remake will ship in physical boxes as a game key card demanding an eye-watering 90GB of hard drive space.Here are the best Switch 2 games to play today.

Don't Starve: The Board Game has been a massive hit on Kickstarter, blowing way, way past its initial funding goal of $50,000 and, at time of writing, having secured almost $4 million in pledged money.Don't Starve launched back in 2013 but has since developed a cult following naming it among the best survival games ever. It makes sense then that there would be considerable appeal for a board game adapting its co-op roguelike mechanics for the tabletop formula. But $4 million? Incredible.In a new update from tabletop specialists Glass Cannon Unplugged, three new unlocked stretch goals are announced: wormhole tokens, starter cards, and regrowth marker miniatures. Glass Cannon says the wormhole tokens "add a dash ofunpredictabilityand aquick way to traverse the map," while the starter cards add "a bit of extra strategy and variety" and the regrowth marker miniatures are just more "visually appealing" markers to track regrowth on the map."With a community like yours,is anything impossible?" asks Glass Cannon. "There are just3 days leftbefore we wrap up the campaign, and you're not holding anything back!"Don't Starve: The Board Game has been unlocking all sorts of stretch goals at various points throughout its funding, but with the final stretch goal unlocking at $4.1 million, the developers are running out of potential unlocks.If the Kickstarter manages to hit $4 million before its final three days are up, players will get a Wurt acrylic standee and miniature, a character card, four ability cards, an activation token, a character board with dials, 5 Loyal Merm Guard tokens, and a personal item card. And finally, if its makes it to $4.1 million, the final stretch goal will unlock giving players a digital Wurt skin. With the rate of funding being what it is, it seems very likely these stretch goals will be funded as well.Don't Starve: The Board Game is a 1-4 player co-op experience where you're transported into "an unrelenting realm where magic and science intertwine in ways better left unspoken." It's targeting March 2027 for release.Don't Starve but now you're a cute little mouse is the pitch for the hit Steam Next Fest demo that's about to give me another survival game obsession

My Hero Academia has become a global phenomenon on the back of the seminal manga, created by Khei Horikoshi. With a live-action movie now in the works, screenwriter Jason Fuchs is opening up about how involved Khei has been in the development of the script - and according to a recent interview with EW, the mangaka is directly involved in creating the story of the film."There's no treatment, there's no outline, there's no scenes, there's no nothing that Khei doesn't give notes on, react to [with] thumbs up, thumbs down," Fuchs tells EW, explaining Khei is "very involved" in the process of adapting his beloved manga. . "That makes me feel really confident that we're gonna deliver something that fans, like myself, feel great about."In addition to working on the script for My Hero Academia, Fuchs is the co-creator and co-showrunner of It: Welcome to Derry, the Stephen King-fueled prequel to the recent It reboot and its sequel.My Hero Academia is set in a world where just about everyone has some kind of super-power - some useful, some more quirky. When Deku, one of the few kids of his generation who doesn't have an inborn power, encounters the world's top hero, All-Might, he inherits his incredible power.Deku goes on to master All-Might's inherited power bit-by-bit, forging alliances with his fellow students at the school where he trains his abilities and making enemies of those who despise All-Might and the other heroes.Having dug in myself as a fan of western superhero comics, I can say that My Hero Academia is not just a world-class manga and anime, it's one of the best teen superhero stories ever told. It's impossible not to be drawn in by Deku and his quest to become the world's greatest hero, and the challenges he faces along the way are more than enough to shock and steel him against the worst of the worst.The final season of the My Hero Academia anime is now streaming on Crunchyroll. No release date for the live-action film has been announced. While we wait, dig into our picks for the 25 best anime shows you can watch on Crunchyroll right now.

Before we go any further, let it be known that ideologically I don't think anyone should go to prison, and especially not the needle-and-thread princess Hornet. But I know this is a potentially controversial opinion. Some Hollow Knight: Silksong players are already acting out against it with an exploit that sends Hornet to the clink for life.She's too pretty to go to jail! Can't you people see! But, though I'm sad to see little Hornet stuck in The Slab's jail (she doesn't even have an iPad in there) as The Gamer reports, and as YouTuber Kilroy Was Here demonstrates in a recent video, violence begets violence. If you trap Hornet, you also trap your save file and softlock your game."My Hornet isn't really in a good state to escape right now," Kilroy Was Here says in his video. She's already acquired the Cling Grip that lets her scamper up walls from Shellwood, but she's missing every other core ability she should have upon willingly entering The Slab. Hornet can't dash, can't fast travel, and so, Kilroy says, "I am on my way to make the world's greatest softlock. Truly locking Hornet in jail forever." Ha! Retribution!But if you, despite what you've heard, still want to start your career as a Slab prison warden, just don't do things. Don't free the Bell Beast, don't pick up dash, don't kill Sister Splinter upon reaching the Slab through the Wormways. Then, even if you do manage to escape jail, you're still confined you never activated the fast travel Bellways."This is the end of the game," says Kilroy.No. This is karma.Hollow Knight Silksong has beat my ass for 11 hours, but it's not too hard we just have a problem with instant gratification.

The year is 1976. The talk of the town is Breakout, an action game that basically turned Pong into a PvE experience, challenging players to bounce a ball around an arena in order to destroy layers of bricks. The technology on display is mind-blowing. How do those wizards at Atari do it?The year is 2025. The talk of the town is Ball x Pit, an action game that basically turned Breakout into a precision-engineered serotonin dispenser cleverly disguised as a roguelike. You build a base, combine balls, and happily plug away at unlocks like a pigeon pecking the big red food button.300,000 people bought Ball x Pit in five days across PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch (Switch 2 release coming this fall). The people yearn for the balls."Thank you all!!!!" developer Kenny Sun said of Ball x Pit's smashing launch, using an appropriate number of exclamation points for a dev who's been at this for at least a decade and finally hooked a whopper release."Been too overwhelmed for a formal announcement post but BALL x PIT came out yesterday and I'm stunned by the response!" Sun said a few days ago on Bluesky. "I'm very grateful to everyone who helped make it possible."On all platforms, but on Steam especially, Ball x Pit is soaking up enviable user reviews, sitting at over 3,000 95% positive on Valve's store. It's a simple, easy to pick up, hard to put down game about balls. Just what the doctor ordered: a roguelike. Add it to the list alongside Godbreakers, Megabonk, Slots & Daggers, and oh no they just keep coming, how am I to play them all?Our Ball x Pit review praises the flow state of combat, even if combat eventually gets repetitive.

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The rebound in crypto prices won't be short-lived as key market metrics show signs of recovery, Arca analysts said in a Monday note.

The firm said it is "ripping the band-aid off" by allowing early investors to sell shares ahead of schedule.

A new Ripple-backed public vehicle is planned to buy XRP on the open market and pursue yield strategies.

The company's move to bring data center development in-house strengthens its AI and mining strategy, and accelerates monetization, said analyst Mark Palmer