Black Friday gaming deals live – I’m digging out the hottest PC gaming tech deals because that’s how I always wanted to start my 21st year in the job

This Nextmug that keeps your coffee hot as heck isn’t cheap. Even on Black Friday with 31% off, it’s darn pricey. But I have one (it was a gift) and I use it every single day and it’s rad. I never wanted one of those desktop heating pads because I figured I’d absent-mindedly put a thumb drive or my headphones or some other piece of plastic on it and wind up melting it.

But this mug doesn’t work like that! The heating element is inside the mug, not the base, so there’s nothing actually hot on your desk threatening to melt your stuff. While sitting on its base, the mug will keep your drink warm, hot, or piping (depending on your preference) all day long, and off the base the battery will still go for a couple hours. Like I said, it’s pricey. But it’s also nicey.

There are a lot of reasons why I like this iBuyPower PC so much. Obviously, first is that it’s got a chonky discount for Black Friday, knocking $650 off the list price with the help of an extra coupon code. But then there’s also the high-end price/performance combo of the RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D, both of which I’ve personally tested and reviewed.

Yes, I love the sheer grunt of the RTX 5090, but that is in no way a reasonable price to pay for either a graphics card or a gaming PC with one inside it. The RTX 5080 is the high-end compromise, and the 9800X3D is just the best gaming CPU around. I also like the chassis—my own gaming PC comes in the Touch version of the same Hyte Y70 case.

The other thing that catches my eye with this machine is the warranty. Yeah, I know, boring. Well, boring until your cheaper PC with a one-year warranty gives up in a puff of smoke 13 months in. The three-year warranty of the iBuyPower is getting you some really healthy peace of mind on your new purchase.

There’s something really appealing about the Joytoy’s large scale Warhammer 40k figures, especially as a lapsed player. When Robin wrote about them over Prime Day earlier in the year I was intrigued, and now I want one. But I also know that, like the D&D Lego minifigs sat on my Framework Desktop right now, as soon as one of my little boys comes into the office and sees it, that thing is gooooooooooooooooooone.

2025-11-28T17:27:18.469Z

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I’ve not been a fan of Razer’s game pads before. They’ve always felt just a little bit chonky and, I dunno, unsophisticated to me. I’ve long preferred my Elite Series 2 and the Scuf pads, but the Wolverine V3 Pro has turned my head. It’s turned out collective heads, too, because it’s become Andy’s favorite controller of all, and we had it in pride of place in our best controller guide until Razer released its V3 Pro 8K edition especially for PC.

Still, for $160 at Amazon, this is a decent discount for a great premium pad.

Our James has a way with words. Check out his opining on the value and utility of Elgato’s Stream Deck devices, and then gaze in wonder at his parenthetical headline. A thing of Black Friday beauty.

Sage advice here from our Nick: “If you’re picking up a new laptop or handheld gaming PC, headset or gaming mouse, or any piece of tech in general, you’ll need to charge it at some point.”

He’s picked out three great options, from a simple 60 W all the way up to 200 W of juice jamming power.

Do you want a clear illustration of just what’s going on in the memory market? Nick’s just reminded me of a post he created for Amazon Prime Day back in the summer of this year. That’s just a little over four months ago, and there he’s recommending 64 GB DDR5 kits because Flight Sim 24 loves it lots of RAM.

There are three 64 GB DDR5-6000 kits, all costing just $170. Today the cheapest of the kits still available is $600. That’s a 253% increase over that short a time. Ugly.

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If you thought gaming laptops sporting OLED screens were just the preserve of super expensive, high-end machines, then allow me to dissuade from that opinion. We’ve got four different options here, all with lovely OLED panels in them.

Admittedly my overall preference would be the most expensive one, the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i, because I love that laptop and the screen is stunning. BUT, that said, I do also really rate the HP Omen Transcend 14, and I do so love a 14-inch machine, too. At $1,200 at an increasingly creaky Best Buy (its servers might not be coping too well with the Black Friday load right now), the little HP laptop is a great deal today.

And I’m loving seeing the old ZX Spectrum being brought to life in Lego form. I don’t need a retro console to play games for a minute for nostalgia and then put away forever, I bizarrely want a brick-based version I can just stick on a shelf.

Preferrably with a miniature version of Sir Clive Sinclair himself, riding his funny little electric bike thing. Aww. Bless.

At the moment this is just a Lego Ideas project, so still needs the necessary 10,000 votes to be considered, so there’s a way to go yet.

Hands up who thinks that when 9am PT rolls around (when Newegg’s Doorbusters unlock) you’ll actually be able to view and buy a $100 RTX 5060 Ti? Good luck to you if you can manage it.

Right now it’s listed as out of stock, and I would bet it will still be at 2 ms past 9am.

Jess reviewed the Light Mount earlier this year, and it’s quickly become her daily driver in the office. So if the clacks of a mechanical keyboard put you off, then you really ought to consider the Light Mount.

Newegg is bucking the memory pricing apocalypse trend by still giving away a memory kit that is arguably now retailing for more than the sale price of this B850M motherboard. Throw in a quality AM5 processor, like the excellent Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which is just $376 at Amazon right now, and you’ve got the base for a whole PC upgrade for a lot less than I would have expected going into Black Friday this year.

Lenovo’s Legion laptops have delivered some of the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals this year, and a new challenger has entered the ring. With a hefty $700 slashed from its ticket price, the Legion 5i comes with a ton of RAM, an OLED screen, a 24-core Intel CPU, and an RTX 5070 GPU all for under $1,400 at Amazon.

These Earfun buds (don’t laugh) are our pick as the best budget earbuds you can buy and are now down to their lowest ever price at just $53 at Amazon. Our Jacob’s been using them for months, even though he’s got a host of pricier ones to pick from thanks to the reviews he’s been doing for us.

That’s a pretty good sign when a reviewer doesn’t want to put them down.

2025-11-28T10:13:03.981Z

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Now, I know the Steam Deck is cheaper for its LCD version right now, but if you want to bag yourself an affordable handheld gaming PC—still with Valve’s excellent SteamOS installed—then the Legion Go S is a bit of a bargain price. This is the Z2 Go version, which means it’s not the top-spec Go, but it is quicker than the Steam Deck and cheaper than the OLED versions of Valve’s handheld.

I know which I’d rather today.

I swear Secretlab only spins up its Amazon store around Black Friday to prove just how good its deals are when you buy direct from its own shop.

For example, the classic Titan Evo is $589 at Amazon but if you check it out on the Secretlab store it’s just $499. Throughout the year it bangs on about the fact that because it’s a direct-to-consumer brand it can pass those savings on, despite the fact that generally that’s the only place you can buy a Secretlab chair. Only around sales events such as Black Friday does it find a place on Amazon to prove that saving in the real world.

Still, they’re great chairs and I’m sat on that very seat in the picture ☝️ right now.

Secretlab also makes great desks, and there are some pretty hefty discounts on the Magnus Pro and Magnus Evo today.

Here it, the Black Friday sales proper. I’m back online, digging through the deals, and I’ll be here all day and into the night because otherwise I don’t get paid.

While I’m not expecting massive changes in deals and pricing just today compared to the week of deals so far, it’s more than gratifying to see this little guy back on sale again. For $1,700 it really is a great price for such a premium piece of PC gaming hardware.

I’ve spent the last couple of hours making a page on the site dedicated to the biggest discounts of Black Friday, including both the products we recommend with the biggest monetary discounts on them, as well as the products with the biggest percentage discounts. And it’s been very interesting, as well as rather long-winded.

The interesting thing is that both HP, with its Omen line of gaming hardware, and Lenovo, with its Legion lineup, are slashing huge amounts of cash of their respective tech. And it’s a very close run thing as to who has cut the most in the products we actually like and would recommend you check out.

In total, the HP Omen discounts tot up to $3,655 across four different products and Lenovo just pips it with $3,660 worth of discounts across just three products.

That makes Lenovo the discount Black Friday hero 💸

Don’t get bored with the family in the holidays… get even. Katie’s found a host of family-friendly board games, perfect for a little healthy competition between kith and kin [furiously Google’s the etymology of ‘kith’] oh, so that’s what it means. Always wondered.

Anyways, Katie’s found 17 great games all with healthy discounts on them for Black Friday. Enjoy.

Andy loves the Fractal Design Scape headset. I think he even uttered the immortal ‘from my cold, dead hands’ line when I asked to borrow them for a PC Gamer mag photoshoot. They are a good-looking headset, and Andy is an audio expert, so when he says they’re great we really ought to listen.

And now they’ve got a Black Friday discount down to $170 at Amazon. Which admittedly isn’t cheap, but they are pretty darned lovely…

Our Jacob has been rounding up all the best budget gear you can get right now, go check out his shopping list!

Where to park your butt this Black Friday? Well, surprisingly, in a rare twist there actually are some gaming chair deals worth a damn doing the rounds this year. I reckon the perennial Corsair TC100 might well drop in price over the next couple days, but it’s still the best value chair you can get today.

In the middle order lies the stylish Fractal Design Refine and the classic Secretlab Titan Evo, and then, if you’re feeling flush and fancy the Logitech G x Herman Miller Embody is the absolute gaming pinnacle.

A state of nirvana for your spine, if you will.

Want a slick, sick, ultra-competitive gaming setup so you can slay in the multiplayer arena? Our Dr. Fox has picked out a couple of deals on his own particular gaming setup and it’s a doozy. If you value a super light, accurate gaming mouse and a surface for it to glide across, this is an outstanding combo.

For what it’s worth, on a purely technical performance angle, I prefer the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i because its software is the best and it can deliver the outright highest gaming performance, too. But this is a far more affordable machine, with a slightly thinner chassis, and you still get an excellent screen even if it isn’t an OLED.

If anyone’s after a lovely table top game to play this Thanksgiving, and you have some miniatures lying around, I heartily recommend Space Gits. It’s a super-simple skirmish game played with a handful of miniatures on some terrain, all chasing drunkenly after loot.

You can buy the full rulebook for $25 at Itch.io, or you can download a demo which has the quickstart rules so you can have a play around and see if you like it. You will like it.

The dexterity element to the game completely changes it from other skirmish battle games I’ve played, adding both an element of skill and of luck into the proceedings. Aiming weapons and calculating area effects involve aiming your dice roll accurately, and taking a turn and taking damage results in a tottering tower of dice that always has to be touching the miniature. Shifting that tower around gets tricky, and if the tower goes down so does your git.

I’m probably not explaining it well, but trust me, it’s quick and it’s very fun.

Morning! It’s time to give thanks for simply ludicrous deals on 4K monitors. We’ve already had some excellent deals from Asus and Gigabyte go out of stock, but neither of those can match this $200 4K dual-mode MSI monitor from Newegg.

Not only do you get a high-refresh 4K panel, but it will also offer a slightly-better-than-standard-scaling 1080p mode at 288 Hz if you want to go hard in competitive games.

What I will say is that it’s a little dim in SDR mode, with just a 250 cm/m² rating. That’s the big compromise with this otherwise seriously impressive gaming monitor deal. Newegg is displaying a big DisplayHDR 400 rating, which would imply it’s capable of hitting 400 cd/m² in HDR games. But on the official MSI product page that VESA standard is missing from the spec and you just get a HDR ready logo.

Okay, having said that, the Gigabyte RX 9060 XT being just $275 at Amazon right now is actually a pretty good GPU for 1440p gaming. Now, granted with 8 GB of VRAM you might struggle with certain games at absolute peak settings, but if you’re a bit more parsimonious about going all-out for Ultra presets you’ll be more than happy.

But I also reckon more often than not you will actually be able to whack those settings right up and not worry about video memory.

2025-11-26T20:39:00.704Z

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I love this thing. It is one of the best gaming laptops I’ve tested this year, and a genuine powerhouse. Its 175 W RTX 5080 delivers stellar 1440p and even 4K gaming frame rates, and I’m into its Tron-esque RGB lined chassis. Even if it is a bit on the chonk side.

I also love that 16-inch OLED display, the Intel CPU delivers, and you’re getting 32 GB RAM and a 2 TB SSD all for the current $2,300 price tag at B&H Photo. Sure, we’ve got other RTX 5080 machines on the list for under $2,000 from MSI and HP down there 👇but none with the straight gaming performance… or the Lenovo software.

Software?! Yes, the LegionSpace app bundled with its laptops is outstanding, and honestly the outright best laptop config software I’ve ever used. No other manufacturer gives you so much access to the power and performance of either the CPU or GPU, and that allows you to tailor the experience to your needs.

For me, that means pulling back the power delivered to the CPU and channelling that to the graphics card, with the result that you get top-end frame rates but without the turbine-like noise you would otherwise get at full speed.

Seriously, the LegionSpace app is so good.

I mentioned earlier that I was currently sporting the new BlackShark V3 from Razer as my go-to gaming headset, and a fine one it is, too. What else is a fine headset is the classic HyperX Cloud Alpha. It’s $60 at Amazon at the moment, which makes it a great low-cost headset, with some great audio chops, too.

It was my daily driver for years, and I’ve always loved its sound. It’s been a hugely influential gaming headset, too, as Razer actually used it as the template for the BlackShark V2 drivers way back when.

But, what I would say is that it’s an old headset now, and over Black Friday last year it dropped down to $50 at Amazon, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it matching that price in a couple of days if you’re willing to wait.

I’ve spent a while on this page talking about the impact of the memory price rises on various components and systems, but if you want a good explainer for exactly what’s going on, what’s been impacted, and where it’s all going, Jacob’s written a great feature covering all of that.

We’ve also been tracking memory pricing for a couple of weeks now, too, and Jeremy’s updated that page today with more information.

The TL;DR of it all is: none of it is good 😭

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Yet another Crucial 2 TB SSD that’s the same price as its 1 TB counterpart. Love ’em. This Crucial T710 is even faster than the Crucial T705 I highlighted further down the page, though it is commensurately more expensive.

Oh look, it’s me wearing the best gaming headset you can buy right now listening to an absolute banger of an album. And, even better, the Razer BlackShark V3 has been given a little price cut just a matter of months after launch. What a win. Right now, it’s just $130 at Amazon, which essentially makes it the same price as the outgoing BlackShark V2 Pro, and it beats that old classic hands down.

The new drivers really are excellent, and I am here bopping away at my desk in a very, very empty office. It’s not even that late and no-one else is here. Did I not get the memo?

Quite why a sub-$1,000 gaming laptop comes with a full AMD 16-core, 32-thread CPU is kinda beyond me, more so when it’s only rocking 16 GB of system memory, but here we are with the HP Omen 16 for $950 at HP.com.

Not that I’m necessarily complaining. It means that you can get serious processing power for a surprisingly little amount of cash, and in a surprisingly svelte chassis, too. If it weren’t for the staggering increase in the cost of memory this would have the makings of a fantastic desktop replacement PC for any creator. Slap in 32 GB or 64 GB of memory and you’re laughing.

Sadly, you’re laughing on the other side of your face today given that a 32 GB SO-DIMM kit is $200+ and 64 GB just damned prohibitive 😢

This is such a good entry point into the world of PC gaming. I get that $780 is still a lot of money to spend on a gaming device, but the beauty of the PC is that it can be so much more than that.

With a 10-core, 16-thread Intel CPU in there, 16 GB memory, and an RTX 5060 GPU, you’ve got all the makings of an excellent 1080p gaming PC, but also a system that can be used for pretty much everything you might want to do with a PC. Want to go down some more creative route? Go for it. Sure, that processor may not be the perfect chip for 4K video editing, but as a low-end machine for under $800 it’s a great starting point for anyone.

There’s nothing I can say about these electric screwdriver deals that Jacob hasn’t already said in his piece.

We’ve been talking about Gen5 SSDs starting to appear for Gen4 money already this Black Friday, with the Crucial P510 sitting at a tasty $90 for the 1 TB version and $140 for the 2 TB drive. And Crucial’s at it again, but this time with the fastest PCIe 5.0 drive in its catalogue.

The best bit, though, is that the discounted 2 TB Crucial T705 is $160 at Amazon, which makes it effectively the same price as its charging for the 1 TB version, therefore giving you an entire extra terabyte of ultra-fast storage gratis.

What a time to be alive.

But also, 😭what a time to be alive😭 with the memory pricing crisis making all memory pricing prone to a sharp increase post Black Friday. That counts for RAM, SSDs, and soon graphics cards, and therefore laptops and PCs.

Whatever, right now we can enjoy a discount or two on some ace SSDs. In our T705 review Zak called it “an outstandingly well-rounded high-speed drive, this nippy little SSD delivers some exceptional performance combined with awesome low latency. It’s a bit toasty though, and ideally you want to stick it under a motherboard heatsink.”

And if you do want one with a heatsink, that’s on sale, too, for just another $10.

The Slate gaming PC is $1,650 at Best Buy today, and literally packs in the best AMD has to offer in terms of both CPU and GPU. You’re getting the mighty Ryzen 7 9800X3D—literally the best gaming CPU—and the excellent Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card. Along with 32 GB of DDR5-5200 system memory, the 16 GB GPU means that you’re getting a decent bit of insulation against the worst ravages of the memory crisis because that isn’t going to be what holds you back with this system.

And with a 2 TB SSD in the bargain, you’re also safe for when SSD prices inevitably go up, too.

RTX 5080 laptops… which to choose?

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This is actually a bit of a conundrum. Both of these high-performance RTX 5080 gaming laptops are now below $2,000 marking a bit of a moment in the mobile RTX 50-series. And, while the MSI Vector 16 HX AI wasn’t regularly above that price, the HP Omen Max 16 was originally priced at $3,300.

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That would almost reflexively have most of us thinking the HP is the automatic choice of the two. After all, you’re getting twice the RAM capacity for $100 at a time when 32 GB DDR5 SO-DIMMs are at least $200 in retail.

But, there is a slight performance delta between the two because of their respective chassis. The MSI is proper old school anachronistic styling, with big vents and a chonky ol’ plastic chassis covering its large slabs of copper cooling. The HP, on the other hand, is a far more understated, svelte design. Which is far more aesthetically pleasing to the modern eye.

Though if looks aren’t your thing, then I’d be very tempted to pocket the extra $100 and pick the MSI. I really enjoyed my time with it and the added bonus of that big chassis is that you don’t need to rein in the system performance very much to get its fans running at an acceptable level. That’s more of a challenge with the HP machine.

You don’t get that with x86 Windows laptops generally, but my experience with Snapdragon has been exactly that. Which makes this ZenBook for just $550 at Best Buy actually a pretty tantalising offer for a slimline laptop with serious battery life and a lovely OLED screen.

I dunno, man, I was not expecting to see PCIe 5.0 SSDs being the storage deal over Black Friday. But here we are, with arguably the best 2 TB SSD offer being Crucial’s P510 for just $140 at B&HPhoto.

The cheapest other 2 TB NVMe drive is only $5 less for a slower PCIe 4.0 SSD, and it’s worth remembering that even if you didn’t have a PCIe 5.0 slot in your motherboard, the P510 will still work at the limits of the older interface.

So yeah, whether you’re rocking a PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 system, this is still the Black Friday SSD deal right now.

$30 at Amazon. That’s all it costs for one of our favorite gaming mice. The Glorious Model O Eternal is our pick as the best budget wired gaming mouse at the moment, and it’s a worthy winner.

It’s super lightweight, it’s got a decent sensor, and it feels good in the hand. What is there not to like?

And if you pair it up with the Gamakay x Naughshark NS68 Hall effect gaming keyboard at just $34 also at Amazon that will get you an outstanding keyboard and mouse gaming setup for just $64, and I think that’s a bit of a bargain.

And they look pretty sweet both in white.

2025-11-25T20:08:40.573Z

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How many is too many mouse buttons? As a veteran user of the ol’ Razer Naga I can tell you that with thumbs as fat and stubby as mine that its 12 side button panel was too many.

That’s kinda different with the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE, because the alternating textures and the way there seems to be that little bit more separation between them actually makes them far more accessible. Sure, there’s a bit of muscle memory to bed-in with the massively increased number of side buttons, but it’s worth it for the extra versatility this rodent offers.

Because it can also double as an Elgato Stream Deck. Yes, because of Corsair’s ownership of Elgato its mouse is able to use the software and tie each of those buttons to an action as though it were just a 12-panel Stream Deck.

Not bad considering this is now a $75 mouse at Amazon.

Just a wee reminder that this 👇 is still just $530 at Newegg right now. Just so happens to be our current pick as the best graphics card and a great way to ensure you’re on the ‘I’ve got lots of VRAM for like future-proofing and stuff’ bandwagon.

When you want a gaming chair that doesn’t look like one

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Okay, so the deal below is not for the Pro version ☝️with the headrest, but the rest of the chair is pretty much a match for the option below, which is now $150 cheaper than at launch, making the Razer Fujin $500 at Best Buy today.

Ooh, handy.

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The stripped back internal hardware of the AMD Z2 Go chip at the heart of this Legion Go S handheld meant that at full price it was a bit of a bust. Sure, it’s more powerful than a Steam Deck, but Windows sucks a lot of the performance away and the convenience. And at $650 I don’t want to pay for that.

Fast forward eight months and with a $200 discount making it just $450 at Best Buy right now it becomes a far more tempting option. Even more so given that this is the version sporting SteamOS out of the box.

What’s more they don’t cost a fortune these days. The fact you can get a 180 Hz 3440 x 1440 screen for just $250 at Best Buy is pretty staggering. Seriously, I love the fact that OLED panels have driven down the price of every other monitor type around…

2025-11-25T16:27:47.156Z

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A bit of a top and tail thing here for you—deals on both our pick as the best overall gaming keyboard and our pick for the best budget gaming keyboard. Black Friday deals are a-delivering once more. Both of these are great keyboards, both wireless, and both will give you a great experience for the money.

Valve says you should be sharing your Steam library between its Steam Machine, Deck, and Frame by taking advantage of the microSD slot in each of its PC gaming devices. And we say you should be taking advantage of the Black Friday sales to get yourself a beefy bit of extra storage for your handheld or prospective living room PC.

Sometimes you don’t want people snooping on what you’re doing online. That’s where VPNs come in handy. We’re at a point now where the best VPNs, such as Proton here, will deliver excellent speeds without throttling the expensive connection you’ve already paid for, and will allow through the streaming services you’re also paying out for.

A good VPN will also help block ads, kill trackers, and nix malware, too. And they don’t have to be expensive as this Black Friday offer from Proton shows, where it’s just $2.49 per month, though you do have to pay for the full package up front.

Though, because of this 75% discount, that still makes the 24 month package cheaper than the standard 12 month package.

I have a smol child who is very into Minecraft right now. Christmas is coming, and these are calling to me… The Very Cool x Minecraft collection is painfully very cool. And I am gutted the Enderman hoodie and Axolotl hat are both out of stock right now.

BUT JUST LOOK AT THEM!

That price premium is a lot lower now that the RTX 5060-powered G14 is $500 less and just $1,300 at Best Buy right now. Personally, I prefer the Blade 14, but the excellent RTX 5070 version is out of stock after a frankly stunning early Black Friday gaming laptop deal, and the RTX 5060 machine is a full $150 more expensive than the Asus.

I’ve spent time testing both the G14 and Blade 14 side-by-side and I do like them both, but you have to put a lot more work in with the Zephyrus G14 to get that fan noise down to an acceptable level and tone. But if you do, it’s still a beautiful little machine with the same stunning OLED display as the Razer. And well worth the money at this price.

Worth waiting for?

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I still reckon this is still a great budget gaming chair option. Especially as it doesn’t feel like a budget gaming chair. Corsair’s TC100 Relaxed has been a regular in our deals pages for years, but while the $215 pricetag at Amazon is good, there is a chance that we might just see if drop a little more if Corsair decides to go hard this Friday.

That’s because during both the July and October Prime Days this year we saw the TC100 drop well below the $200 mark, to just $147 and $160 respectively. So it might, might just be worth waiting.

For pretty much the same $1,500 price tag as the RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop below, you can pick up a pretty damned special Black Friday gaming PC deal. This is a machine sporting the best AMD graphics card you can buy right now, the Radeon RX 9070 XT, and that will match a desktop RTX 5070 Ti in gaming frame rates (sometimes beating it) and will definitely best a mobile version of the same GPU.

You’re also getting 32 GB of (what is now super-expensive DDR5) and a 1 TB SSD in the bargain. The Ryzen 5 9600X CPU isn’t massively exciting, but as six-core, 12-thread chips go it’s not a bad ‘un.

There are cheaper RTX 5070 Ti Black Friday gaming laptop deals available, such as the MSI Vector 16 HX below for $1,299, but while that’s a great machine if you’re focused on getting the most performance for the money, it is a bit of a chonker.

For something that’s a bit more svelte, and with an OLED screen to boot, I’m quite partial to the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S. The core spec is pretty tasty, with 32 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD, and a 240 Hz 16-inch OLED display. The GPU is restricted to 115 W to be able to run happily in that slimline chassis, but will still deliver great gaming performance for the money.

Basically, what I’m saying is, there are great gaming laptop options out there this Black Friday week.

2025-11-24T17:50:21.621Z

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I’ve had the odd dalliance with split ergo keyboards, but I’ve always found the learning curve far too steep when it comes to something like an ortholinear board. The Kinesis Freestyle Edge, however, is much more of a ‘normal’ gaming keyboard, but with the optional split and tilt.

And now it doesn’t have a huge price premium in play if you want to look after your body with some ergo peripherals for a change. At $119 at Amazon, this is our favorite ergonomic gaming keyboard and is well worth the money if you’re an ageing sole like me and looking to protect those wrists in your advancing years.

As part of our game performance testing, Nick has been putting the latest titles through a 15-inch Acer Nitro with an RTX 4050 inside it, and he’s found that performing surprisingly well. And, for just $629 at Walmart you are getting a lot of mobile gaming power for your money.

That’s cheaper than the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld but with a far more powerful GPU.

Neither of these Logitech or Razer mice are part of their respective squeaker-maker’s current generation of gaming rodents, but they are still outstanding examples of wireless gaming mice. And, honestly, unless you’re some serious pro, with serious reflexes, and the ability to tell the polling rate of a peripheral by feel alone, then the DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed and Logitech G Pro X Superlight will be all the Black Friday gaming mouse you need.

Me, well I’m partial to a DeathAdder, and use the V3 Pro at home right now. Because Jacob stole my DeathAdder V4 Pro (I’m coming for you, Jacob). The V3 HyperSpeed uses essentially the same chassis but a slightly weaker sensor, yet comes in significantly lighter.

2025-11-24T14:56:11.632Z

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Space is at a premium right now, and if there’s any kind of knock-on effect from the current DRAM price spike SSDs might be only set to get more expensive. Which makes this impressively quick 1 TB Biwin drive for only $70 a bit of a bargain.

We liked it a lot when Zak reviewed the Biwin Black Opal NV7400, and it’s the price/performance ratio of this SSD which has earned it a place in our best SSD for gaming guide as a budget pick.

Now even budgetier.

It’s the OG OLED that started it all, and I spoke about it being a great price when I was tracking down the Black Friday deals last week. And Alienware has now dropped the price of the luscious AW3423DWF by another $50. So, now it’s just $500 at Dell and that would have me very, very tempted.

It may not have the 240 Hz refresh rate that’s been the hallmark of recent OLED panels, but the glossy coating makes the most of the super contrast abilities of the display making it a stunning gaming monitor.

Now, either Walmart has a lot of these gaming laptops lying around in its vast warehouses, or everyone’s sleeping on one of the absolute best Black Friday gaming laptop deals. This is not the ‘AI’ version of the MSI Vector 16 HX, but it has a seriously stonking spec, and not just because it’s so damned affordable.

Not only are you getting the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (mighty close to RTX 5080 performance) but you’re also getting a monstrous 16-core, 32-thread AMD CPU. It might be last generation now, but the Ryzen 9 8940HX is still a great Zen 4 with more raw processing grunt than you will find in any mobile CPU at this price point.

2025-11-24T11:52:34.710Z

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Slapping the standard Microsoft Xbox controller out of the hands of PC gamers, the GameSir G7 Pro has planted itself firmly at the top of our Best PC controllers list, and for good reason. Packing both TMR sticks and Hall effect triggers into a sub-$80 package has made this high polling wireless pad an absolute steal.

And now it’s just hit its lowest price ever at just $60 at Best Buy.

Nvidia’s RTX 5070 redemption

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With 4.077 Steel Nomads per $, Nvidia’s RTX 5070-powered gaming PCs are looking like the price/performance winners in this year’s Black Friday sales.

What? That’s a completely normal metric.

I mean, Nick just completely made it up, but it does represent an interesting turnaround for a mid-range graphics card that was vilified at launch. By me.

The RTX 5070 arrived under the shadow of the RX 9070, which theoretically launched at the same price, and comprehensively outplayed it. The pricing of both at the time was a joke, but Nvidia’s card has shaken off a lot of its excess price premium now, to the point where you can actually find them below MSRP.

You can also more readily find RTX 5070-powered gaming PCs at a more reasonable price than AMD’s competing RDNA 4 GPU. Which is why we’ve ended up with this excellent iBuyPower rig topping Nick’s Steel Nomads per $ chart. And you get a sweet Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip in the bargain, too.

2025-11-21T15:55:50.760Z

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This is the gaming headset that accompanies me around the PC Gamer office right now. Previously I used the older BlackShark V2 Pro, but immediately swapped over to the new BlackShark V3 because of the fantastic drivers. The sound is genuinely noticeably better with the new diaphragm Razer has employed with the new cans.

Otherwise, it’s largely the same. Which is great because I love the design, the physical volume dial, and the speedy wireless connection.

And now we’ve got a Black Friday discount that brings the new headset down to the same price as the old Pro model. Don’t be fooled by the lack of the ‘Pro’ suffix here; I much prefer the standard V3 to the V3 Pro set, and it’s much more afforda

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If you’re looking at those graphics card performance benchmarks below, thinking ‘actually maybe I’d prefer the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card instead’ then allow me to provide you with the best price we’ve found for that mid-range RTX Blackwell GPU.

$400 is still a lot of money for a mid-range card, but at least you are getting the full 16 GB framebuffer, but here you have to make the choice about whether you are willing to pay the extra $60 for sometimes a bit more performance, plus the genuine benefits of DLSS 4 and Frame Generation (particularly of the Multi variety).

Drink it in. I’ve a horrible feeling this might be as good as it gets for the current generation of mid-range 16 GB graphics cards. RAM prices are going up and the knock on impact on VRAM production will push GPU prices up, too. Especially when, on something like the RX 9060 XT, the memory itself takes up quite a chunk of the manufacturing cost.

So, that all makes this Asus RX 9060 XT 16 GB card all the more appealing. It’s relatively diminutive, and also comes in under the original $350 MSRP AMD launched the card at.

If you’re one of the folk worrying about 8 GB not being enough for modern gaming then here’s your chance to do something about it in an affordable, and effective way.

2025-11-21T14:25:49.391Z

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If you want the absolute fastest Wi-Fi connection zipping around your home then realistically you’re going to want to ditch the dodgy router your network provider gave you with your package and make the move to Wi-Fi 7.

Nick did, and he’s not looked back since. I mean, it helps he’s got a 1 Gigabit+ connection where he is, but that would still be for naught if his internet tubes got bottlenecked by a rubbish router.

2025-11-21T13:46:24.254Z

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I already covered pretty much the cheapest good OLED I’ve seen so far this Black Friday season—the 240 Hz MSI 1440p OLED for just $390 at Newegg—but what if you feel the need, the need for speed?

I mean, 240 Hz is already pretty rapid, and the 0.03 ms response time runs across all modern OLED panels, but if you want more, two of the best are on sale right now.

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There was a time when the Razer DeathAdder V3 Hyperspeed sat atop our guide to the best gaming mice, after all it was a simpler, lighter version of the DeathAdder V3 Pro, lacked for little and was much more affordable.

And now, at just $70 at Amazon it’s much more affordable.

Our Nick was very taken with it, as you will see from his DeathAdder V3 Hyperspeed review, where he gave it a coveted PC Gamer Editor’s Pick award. With the specs list it’s got, this is a top-end mouse for mid-level monies.

2025-11-21T09:51:10.166Z

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It’s the Quest 2, but better. And now it’s the same price as the old master of the budget VR headsets was when it was at its zenith. Which means you can get in on the old virtual reality dance (yes, there are dancing games) without breaking the bank.

Sure, it’s a standalone VR headset, but it’s also more than a match for PC VR, too, and it doesn’t have to mean tethered, either. It needs more router bandwidth for that than the upcoming Steam Frame, with its dedicated 6 GHz dongle, but wireless PC VR is possible with the Quest 3S.

And it’s a darned sight cheaper than Valve’s headset will be at launch. And, y’know, available now. For just $250 at Amazon, no less.

Well, well, well, a genuine, modern OLED gaming monitor for a shade less than $390. Who woulda thought we’d hit that point so early in these Black Friday shenanigans? Not I, and yet here we are with a lovely MSI panel delivering on that promise for just $390 at Newegg.

There are few compromises, either. It’s a 27-inch panel, so the pixel pitch isn’t too loose, it’s got a still-pretty-high refresh rate of 240 Hz, and you’re only missing out on some USB-C connectivity. Feels like a bit of a bargain to me.

People sure are excited about the Steam Machine, but it was Valve’s handheld that made it all possible. Well, that and SteamOS with its Proton layer meaning Windows games now run well (sometimes even better) on Linux.

And now SteamOS is not restricted to the Steam Deck, either, because Lenovo has got in there early with its Legion Go S which now has top place in our overall best handheld gaming PC guide. It’s a great device, and now at a far more reasonable price.

The same reasons we fell in love with it in our Alienware AW3423DWF review remain, namely that glossy panel making the contrast and true black levels really pop. You can get 240 Hz versions now, and the updated Alienware AW3425DW is only $100 more, but will you really notice the difference between 165 Hz and 240 Hz?

And how about if I paid you $100, could you still see the difference?