Check out a video game from the library

Dakota Hall [email protected]

The library now has video games for checkout! As part of our continual effort to diversify our collection to meet patron needs, video games for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One are available now.

Anyone interested may find checkout cards in the new video game section next to DVDs, as well as cards to check out our new ukuleles.

Simply take the card for the game you would like to check out to the adult circulation desk, and they will be checked out to you. Likewise, patrons can place video games on hold just like any other item to be picked up at adult circulation or curbside pickup.

Patrons are limited to one video game checkout, and games can be kept for three weeks.

For the Nintendo Switch, the collection includes a range of the most popular games from the past few years. Fans of classic Nintendo platforms can pick up “Super Mario Odyssey” or “New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe.” We also have the news installations in the “Legend of Zelda” and “Smash Bros” series, “Breath of the Wild” and “Super Smash Bros Ultimate.” Anyone who missed out on the “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” phenomenon of last year can still create their own island community by checking it out now. Our newest acquisition is the recent hack-and-slash game “Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity,” where players can battle enemies from Hyrule playing as a number of beloved Zelda characters.

On PS4, patrons can check out our variety of popular action/adventure games: “Bloodborne,” a macabre fantasy where players travel a dark fantasy world inhabited by gothic monsters; “God of War,” the newest game in the Greek myth-inspired series; “The Last of Us,” a post-apocalyptic survival/horror adventure; Marvel’s “Spider-Man,” one of the “best games of the decade” according to Gamesradar+; and “Star Wars — Jedi: Fallen Order,” which follows a former padawan after the events of “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.” Also currently available are “Madden 21” and “Soul Calibur VI,” the newest entries in each franchise.

Our current Xbox One games include another brawler, “Injustice 2,” where players fight as characters from DC comics, like Wonder Woman and Batman; “NBA 2K21”; the action/adventure games, “Red Dead Redemption 2,” prequel to the first “Red Dead Redemption”; “The Witcher III: Wild Hunt,” based on the same series of books by Andrzej Sapkowski on which the Netflix TV show is also based; as well as the first-person shooter “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege,” based on Clancy’s thriller novel “Rainbow Six.”

Both “Rainbow Six” and the “Witcher” series novels are also available for checkout.

The collection will continue to grow, so please let us know if there are games or types of games you would like to recommend for purchase. The “Request a Purchase” form can be found on our website at: https://mybcpl.org/suggest-6864

Dakota Hall, a teen programming Specialist at the Bartholomew County Public Library, can be contacted at [email protected].