The official Black Friday sales have been going on for a full week already, but today is finally Black Friday time for real now. Thanksgiving is traditionally when all of the sales go live, and arguably the best time to get some deals shopping in.

The IGN Deals team has been hard at work finding the best deals happening today so we can deliver them to you at your leisure. We've gathered discounts from across major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more to help you get the best prices possible.

Our Top Black Friday Deals Picks Today

Our picks for the top deals today include a mix of tech, games, movies, and toys that all have one thing in common: They're really good deals! The one exception to that is the Nintendo Switch 2 bundle, which is really only there because stock is going fast. We've also included couple of notable promotions here that are worth checking out. The fist is Amazon's usual "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" sale that includes tons of 4K movies, books, and vinyl. You can also get Audible for only 99 cents right now for three months (on top of a $20 credit).

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Best Video Game Deals

If you're looking for deals on games, our Senior Commerce Editor Robert Anderson has been all over these deals so far. Both the PlayStation and Nintendo Black Friday sales have been going on all week and some games have gone in and out of stock at various retailers. Here's the best Black Friday video game deals that are still live and where to find them:

Nintendo Switch Deals

The most notable discounts are on Mario Switch games, but there a few other really good deals in here. There aren't and new Switch 2 console deals, unfortunately, but you can still pick up the Switch 2 bundles from a few different retailers and save a little bit.

PlayStation 5 Deals

PlayStation has really done the most for Black Friday this year and pretty much everything is on sale, including a ton of popular PS5 games. Almost every DualSense controller is on sale right now, and you can even get a rare discount on the PlayStation Portal everyone seems to love. There are also console deals available on both the PS5 Pro and special edition bundles. PlayStation fans are feasting on discounts this year.

Xbox Deals

The Xbox Black Friday sale hasn't been quite as good as PlayStation, but there are still a lot of discounts to be had. There are quite a few Xbox games on sale right now as well as price cuts on Xbox controllers. Unfortunately, there have yet to be any sort of console deals available.

PC Game Deals

If you're looking for PC games specifically, there are are number of places to go. Most notably, Steam launched its first Black Friday sale this year, so that's definitely worth a look.

Apple Deals

Almost all of the Apple devices are on sale right now, with the exception of the iPhone 17. All of the AirPods have been dropping to new low prices all week and MacBooks and iPads are getting price reductions as well. The best prices are at major retailer like Amazon and Walmart, but Apple did announce its own Black Friday sale plans for 2025 as well. Starting tomorrow, you'll be able to get up to $250 in Apple gift cards when you make select purchases fromt eh Apple Store.

LEGO Deals

There are already a ton of great LEGO deals going on all over the internet right now, and our official LEGO Editor Chris Reed has hand picked the best of the best. One of our favorite discounts so far is on the LEGO Ideas Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory set that is only available at Target. We built this set back in September when it first came out and it's absolutely awesome. There are also a ton of LEGO sets set to retire soon that are seeing final disocunts before they're gone.

4K Blu-rays Deals

Black Friday is one of the best times of the year to buy 4K and Blu-ray discs and that's on full display this year. There's recent releases, like the new Superman movie, that have dropped all the way down to only $12.49. You can also get full trilogies like The Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter movies for surprisingly cheap.

PC Gaming Deals

If you're looking for PC gaming hardware deals, our Commerce Manager Eric Song has been actively looking for the best discounts all week long. There are some great prices available for PCs and gaming laptops equipped with the latest GPUs as well as massive discounts on gaming monitors. Here are the best deals we've found for each category in 2025 so far:

Gaming PCs

Some of the best discounts are on hardware direct from Lenovo and Dell, both of which are currently having their own sales. You can also find some surprisingly low prices at Walmart and Best Buy for iBuypower and CyberPowerPC gaming rigs.

Gaming Laptops

Similar to gaming PCs, almost all of the best discount here are direct from the manufacturer's own Black Friday sale. The Dell sale has the Alienware 16 Aurora for under $1,000 and Razer has the 2025 Razer Blade 14 down to its lowest price ever as well. There's also some good discounts from HP, Walmart, Lenovo, and Best Buy worth checking out.

Gaming Monitors

There are quite a few gaming monitors available, with some prominent Alienware options available directly from Dell. LG Ultragear monitors are seeing some solid price reductions across various retailers, and there are som good budget monitor options available on Amazon. Some of our favorite gaming monitors are included in this sale.

Gaming Chairs

We've found some pretty solid Black Friday gaming chair deals so far this year on some of IGN's top-reviewed gaming chairs. Our top pick, in terms of overall value, is the Razer Iskur V2 X. It's the best budget chair and is discounted an extra $50 on top of that. Both Secretlab and Andaseat also have their sales live and you can save a decent chunk of change there as well.

TV Deals

While we expect thee to be more Black Friday deals tomorrow and through to Cyber Monday, there are a lot of great options available right now, especially if you're looking for a good gaming TV. You can get a 77-inch LG TV for under $2,000 and receive a free soundbar right now when you buy directly through LG. There are also a handful of discounts at Best Buy and Walmart on some truly massive televisions.

Headphone Deals

The Black Friday deals on headphones are as good as it gets this year. You can currently get the latest pair of Apple AirPods for only $69, and even the recently released AirPods Pro 3 are getting discounted. For over-ear headphones, there's the Beats Studio Pro headphones that have dropped to only $150. And for top of the line, there's the new Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones now at the lowest price we've ever seen (outside of used models).

Streaming Deals

All of the best streaming deals are now live for Black Friday, and our streaming expert Blythe Dujardin has been tracking them all. The most popular deal is the Disney and Hulu bundle, which drops the price down to $4.99 per month for an entire year. There are also discounts on standalone subscriptions like Crunchyroll, Apple TV, and HBO Max that are definitely worth checking out. For anyone looking for a sports streaming option, Disney also still has the discount available on the ESPN Unlimited bundle as well.

Board Game Deals

There are some really good board games on sale right now, with a spread of deals on family board games and modern classics. The latest edition of Catan is only $24.99 and a must-have for anyone starting a board game collection. There's also classics like Sorry! and Connect 4 selling for only $5 each.

Book Deals

There are a lot of individual books on sale, but the best overall book deal right now is Amazon's buy 2, get 1 free sale. Most notably, this sale includes popular box sets like The Lord of the Rings books and Harry Potter. It's worth diving into the sale yourself and just searching for the books you'd want.

When Do Black Friday Sales End?

Black Friday start dates were pretty scattered this year, but the actual end of the sale is the same for pretty much every retailer. Black Friday sales end when Cyber Monday sales begin. That means you have until November 30 to shop the deals before the inevitable switchover to Cyber Monday happens on December 1. There are a lot of similarities between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but you can expect exclusive new deals for each sale.

Cyber Monday Deals Begin on December 1

It's true that a lot of the discounts will be the same on Cyber Monday as they were during Black Friday, but you can expect one major difference: Cyber Monday deals will mostly be online. Brick-and-morter locations like Target and Costco will only be offering these deals online. The exception to that rule is Best Buy, which will have discounts both in stores and online that day.

Tips for Black Friday Shopping Online

It may seem silly to start planning your Black Friday shopping right now, but doing so can help you save a lot of money when it comes time to actually start making purchases. Here are a few Black Friday tips that you should consider ahead of the event:

1. Set a Budget – Keeping track of how much money you can actually spend is important to avoid overspending. When everything is on sale, it can be easy to buy more than you really should just because things are at their lowest price of the year.
2. Create a Shopping List – Knowing exactly what you're trying to find discounts on is a great way to avoid making unnecessary purchases. It can also make it easier for you to compare prices between retailers or set price drop alerts ahead of time.
3. Compare Prices – Retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart make it really easy to do all of your shopping there. That being said, those retailers don't always have the best price on the items you're looking for. Make sure to compare prices across the web before you buy something for more than you have to.
4. Research Before You Buy – If you're making an expensive purchase, make sure you do at least some research before you buy it. This means looking for independent reviews or testimony from trusted sources about those products. You shouldn't necessarily trust Amazon reviews, for example.
5. Be Wary of Search Results and AI Summaries - Search platforms, such as Google, have a tendency to be flooded with sponsored links in the results as well as AI summaries that are potentially biased. Be careful to avoid clicking on a sponsored ad if you're looking for reviews or searching for specific products by price.

The creator of Dragon Quest, Yuji Horii, believes Final Fantasy X was "ultimate perfection" when it released back in 2001.

In an interview with Game Informer, Horii talked about his experience developing Dragon Quest, which at the time was up against the Final Fantasy series as Square and Enix had yet to merge. While he didn't really think of Final Fantasy as "competition" per se — while they're both RPGs, their approaches to storytelling are quite different — he did acknowledge that he was "definitely paying attention to it."

"Way back then, when Final Fantasy originally came out, I was definitely paying attention to it because it was something we needed to look out for," Horii said, reflecting on how the games differ. "But there's one key difference that I really saw back then: the protagonists in the Final Fantasy titles, they speak a lot. Whereas for Dragon Quest, the key objective for [the games], or the experience it offers for the player, is that the player becomes the protagonist themselves.

"In Final Fantasy, you kind of observe the protagonist, but you're not necessarily becoming the protagonist in the games. So I thought that was a really interesting and stark difference between Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, but I didn't necessarily see them as a rival back then."

That may have changed when Final Fantasy X came along, however.

"Final Fantasy, again, [the protagonists] just talk a lot," Horii added. "I do like Final Fantasy, though. When I first saw Final Fantasy X, I recall feeling this was the ultimate perfection of Final Fantasy."

Don't forget that Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake released at the end of October. We thought it was Amazing, awarding it 9/10, writing: "Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake beautifully concludes this trilogy, recapturing the retro magic of the originals while giving them a modern facelift."

And as for the latest on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3? Director Naoki Hamaguchi recently confirmed the upcoming game would "strike a balance" when it came to pacing and be "more concise," but insisted didn't mean he would cut any content from the game.

If you're hunting for the best offers this week, we're actively rounding up the strongest Black Friday deals on video games, tech, and more. You can find all our top picks and price drops in our full Black Friday hub, or check out our relevant pages for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox deals.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.

World of Warcraft: Midnight will release globally on March 2, 2026.

The second part of the Worldsoul Saga and the 11th overall expansion for Blizzard's MMORPG, Midnight will take you to new and reimagined zones, let you try out new abilities, and face "all-new Delves, dungeons, and raids."

Applications for the beta test are now open, and over the course of the test, Blizzard will be "inviting community veterans, press, fansies, friends, and family" to check out the upcoming expansion.

Players who have bought the Epic Edition will also get the chance to participate in the beta, as well as get three days' early access, which means they can get stuck in from February 27.

You also don't have to wait until March to set up home if you've purchased any edition of the Midnight expansion — don't forget that Housing Early Access will kick off next week on December 2, so you'll be able to select a neighborhood, choose a house, and start making it cosy weeks before the expansion drops.

Blizzard provided a roadmap to its expansions plans back in BlizzCon 2023. The second of three expansions announced at the time, Midnight follows last year's The War Within, and will take place in Azeroth's "Old World" in Quel'thalas, where Void forces have invaded and are trying to destroy the Sunwell and plunge the world into darkness.

We played the first 10 hours last month, writing in IGN's World of Warcraft: Midnight preview: "There's still a lot of the Midnight alpha to see. Try as I might, they wouldn't even let me into the mysterious realm of Zul'Aman! But having played it basically every waking hour since I got access, which was about 10 hours ago as I write this, I am certainly impressed with the new zones and the customization housing allows, and I'm excited to see where the story of the Worldsoul Saga goes next."

If you're hunting for the best offers this week, we're actively rounding up the strongest Black Friday deals on video games, tech, and more. You can find all our top picks and price drops in our full Black Friday hub, or check out our relevant pages for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox deals.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.

Battlefield 6 has dropped to just $35 at Amazon in the Black Friday sales (see here). That's 50% off, and an almighty $28 less than the previous best discount this week. Now that's more like it.

If you're looking for an excellent multiplayer shooter to play over the holidays, this is it, and it's the best price we're likely to get on it for a long while.

Snap it up ASAP, as I don't see this deal lasting until the rest of Thanksgiving, let alone the Black Friday sales weekend. Sorry, Xbox fans, this is a PlayStation 5-only deal for now, as Battlefield 6 is still just under $60 for Xbox consoles. But, we'll also keep an eye out for any changes.

Only releasing in October this year, Battlefield 6 has offered a true return to form for the long-running shooter franchise and has pretty much finally outdone Call of Duty at its own game, selling some almighty big numbers.

While we didn’t love the campaign, there’s no denying it’s a gorgeous-looking shooting gallery, but as with any Battlefield game, the real draw is multiplayer. Whether you’re looking for infantry combat, the opportunity to fly a jet or helicopter, or you just want to pile into a tank with your friends and bring down buildings, there’s something for everyone.

Reviewer Justin Koreis gave the multiplayer an 8 out of 10, saying, “Battlefield 6’s multiplayer action is expertly crafted, wrapped in a wonderful layer of destructibility that both looks great and materially affects the flow of combat. The gunplay is excellent, with weapons that are accurate enough to reward skilled shooting, but have just enough sway to promote a bit of careful thought while you take aim.”

Battlefield 6 is currently in the middle of its first season of post-launch content, including new maps and modes, while the RedSec Battle Royale mode is also available as a standalone free-to-play game. Given how successful the game has been for EA, you can likely expect new seasonal updates well into the future.

EA and Battlefield Studios have also recently launched the first Battlefield 6 free trial week, giving new players on PC, PS5 and Xbox the chance to try Season 1 multiplayer maps and modes from November 25, at 4 a.m. PT / 7 a.m. ET to December 2 at 4 a.m. PT / 7 a.m. ET.

Should You Wait for Black Friday on Nov. 28?

Wait? Not for deals like this. Black Friday might come with a few surprises of its own, but today, Battlefield 6 for just $35 is a Black Friday quality deal, and well worth snapping up before it inevitably goes out of stock.

Only Amazon has the deal right now, so if the deal gets nuked, then I'm afraid it'll be Black Friday FOMO for you. Fingers crossed Walmart and Best Buy price match it soon. Apologies for the tough love, but if BF6 has been on your wishlist, this is the best possible deal we're getting, and blows any other deals out of the water.

It's such a good offer, it properly rivals my previous best PS5 game deal recommendation in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater for $30 at Amazon and Walmart. You might have already seen my $20 or less roundup, which is still packed with heavy hitters from the last few years and perfect if you want maximum bang for your buck. I also recently covered the best games under $30 right now, sporting MGS as my top pick.

Just like BF6, that's likely to sell out fast as well. I've also got you covered if you're looking for a more comprehensive roundup of the best video game deals for Black Friday. In summary, snag these games as soon as you can, and have a great Thanksgiving.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's resident deals expert on games, collectibles, trading card games, and more. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter/X or Bluesky.

The release of the first volume of episodes for Stranger Things Season 5 sparked such interest that it briefly crashed Netflix.

Users report the streamer went offline for a few minutes at 5pm PT on Wednesday, November 26, as the first four episodes went live. Some have experienced bugs on Netflix throughout the evening.

The error message shown to users included a background image of a terrible cake baked on Netflix’s reality cooking competition show Nailed It!, which feels appropriate. Social media was awash with the error message as fans desperately tried to jump into Stranger Things Season 5.

CD Projekt has ruled out an appearance from The Witcher 4 at The Game Awards this year, despite its cinematic reveal trailer premiering during last year’s show.

While acknowledging The Witcher 4’s nomination in the Most Anticipated Game category at The Game Awards 2025, joint-CEO of CD Projekt, Michał Nowakowski, took to social media to manage expectations, confirming its hotly anticipated sequel is being kept under wraps for now.

“I’m very happy to see The Witcher 4 nominated in the Most Anticipated Game category at The Game Awards,” Nowakowski began. “Thanks to everyone who has already voted — your support means a lot to us. We won’t be bringing any new content to TGA this year, but we’re, as always, excited to watch the show and celebrate this amazing industry’s great night alongside all of you.”

So, that rules out more of The Witcher 4, last seen via a hugely impressive Unreal Engine 5 tech demo in June, any time soon. When might CD Projekt have more to show? Given CD Projekt has indicated The Witcher 4 won’t be out until 2027 at the earliest, perhaps The Game Awards 2026 is a safe bet. According to CD Projekt's latest financial report, 447 people are currently working on The Witcher 4, up slightly from the number reported at the end of July. Clearly, it is CD Projekt's focus right now.

And don’t go expecting anything from Cyberpunk 2, either. CD Projekt recently said it’s still “laying the foundations” for the sequel while ramping up staff at its development studios. That one’s even further out.

Still, we do know of one title that will be at The Game Awards this year: Exodus. The official Twitter page for the game confirmed that a new Exodus trailer will be shown at The Game Awards on December 11. Exodus is a new sci-fi RPG in development at Archetype Entertainment, a studio founded by former BioWare developers James Ohlen, Chad Robertson, and Drew Karpyshyn, and published by Wizards of the Coast.

While you wait for that, check out all the nominations for The Game Awards 2025.

If you're hunting for the best offers this week, we're actively rounding up the strongest Black Friday deals on video games, tech, and more. You can find all our top picks and price drops in our full Black Friday hub, or check out our relevant pages for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox deals.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Publisher Paradox Interactive has today taken the blame for the poor sales of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

The long in development sequel launched in October and was met with a ‘mixed’ Steam user review response, with fans saying it failed to meet the expectations they had for the sequel to Troika’s 2004 cult classic Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. IGN’s Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 review returned a 7/10. We said: “Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 takes another flawed but unique and remarkable bite at the jugular, with plenty to love and loathe alike, but I certainly enjoyed my time as an elder vampire at the very least.”

Now, after 30 days on sale, Paradox has issued a note to financial markets signalling a write-down valued at 355 million SEK (approx. $37 million) of capitalized development costs for Bloodlines 2. This write-down, Paradox said, was based on an updated sales forecast now it has had a month to look at Bloodlines’ commercial performance.

Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive, said the blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2’s failure lay at the publisher’s door, not that of The Chinese Room, which had been drafted in to save the project after years of development hell.

“Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is a strong vampire fantasy and we are pleased with the developers’ work on the game,” Wester said.

“We’ve had high expectations for a long time, since we saw that it was a good game with a strong IP in a genre with a broad appeal. A month after release we can sadly see that sales do not match our projections, which necessitates the write-down. The responsibility lies fully with us as the publisher. The game is outside of our core areas, in hindsight it is clear that this has made it difficult for us to gauge sales. Going forward, we focus our capital to our core segments and, at the same time, we’ll evaluate how we best develop World of Darkness’ strong brand catalogue in the future.”

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has two expansions planned as part of the game’s Premium Edition, and Paradox said it remains committed to delivering them. “Our post-release plan remains firm; we will deliver updates and the promised expansions to the game in the coming year,” Wester added.

Swedish game company Paradox’s main focus is on grand strategy games, which have proven enormously successful over the years. Games such as Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, and Cities: Skylines have all enjoyed big sales, and, in total, Paradox games have six million players each month.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, however, falls outside that core grand strategy genre, and always looked like it would struggle upon release. And while its development trouble began years ago, it suffered issues right up to launch. In September, a month before release, Paradox and The Chinese Room announced that the Lasombra and Toreador clans would be available in the base Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 experience following a backlash from players.

Paradox announced Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 all the way back in 2019 with then-developer Hardsuit aiming for a Q1 2020 release window. That, of course, never happened, as Paradox would go on to announce an indefinite delay alongside Hardsuit's departure from the project. The Chinese Room was then announced as its new developer in 2023.

In a recent interview with the Goth Boss podcast, former creative director Dan Pinchbeck said the development team tried to work out how to get Paradox to not call the game Bloodlines 2.

"The tricky question around it was Bloodlines 1," Pinchbeck said. "Are you making a sequel to Bloodlines 1? We used to sit there and have these planning sessions of how do we get them to not call it Bloodlines 2? That feels like the most important thing we do here, to come at this and say this isn't Bloodlines 2. We can't make Bloodlines 2; there's not enough time, there's not enough money.”

If you're hunting for the best offers this week, we're actively rounding up the strongest Black Friday deals on video games, tech, and more. You can find all our top picks and price drops in our full Black Friday hub, or check out our relevant pages for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox deals.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Sideshow is hosting its biggest sale of the year for Black Friday! In case you're not familiar with Sideshow, it's one of the top brands out there for collectibles, with six scale figures, dioramas, art prints and other impressive items across some of the biggest franchises. Because Sideshow is a high-end action figure manufacturer, the prices of its incredibly detailed statues and figures are also typically steep, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars each. However, with Black Friday and gifting season in mind, Sideshow is offering a special BOGO sale right now for serious collectors to take advantage of.

That's not all, either. Sideshow is also running a 40% off sale on several in-stock items. So if you don't have the budget to throw down hundreds on a new collector's item right now, there's plenty of other officially-licensed and high quality toys, books, and smaller statues to choose from and satisfy your collector's itch. Keep scrolling to find out everything you need to know about the BOGO sale, and to see some of my favorite items found within the wider (up to 40% off) sale.

Editor's Note: This article is brought to you by Sideshow.

Sideshow's Black Friday BOGO-Type Offer

My Favorite Deals on Sideshow Right Now:

Highlighted Deal: Stan Lee 1/6th scale Marvel collectible figure at 40% off

Hot Toys and Sideshow collaborated on this special Stan Lee® collectible figure, based on his memorable cameo appearance in Thor: Ragnarok. The details and artistry here are insane!

See below for additional terms and conditions so you can take advantage of this big Free Figure promotion from Sideshow.

Browse all the Black Friday Deals on Sideshow right now while supplies last.

Terms and Conditions for this sale:

From November 10 through December 28, 2025*, Sideshow is excited to offer a special promotion on qualifying purchases** to help fans build their collection. On eligible in-stock orders of $300 or more, customers can claim a free Sixth Scale Figure from one of two options with their purchase. On eligible in-stock orders of $450 or more, customers can claim a free Sixth Scale Figure from one of four options with their purchase. The free figures on offer are subject to availability, and options will change weekly.

From November 24 through December 7, 2025*, customers can claim a free item from one of three options with their purchase. On eligible in-stock orders of $450 or more, customers can claim a free item from one of five options with their purchase. The free items on offer are subject to availability, and options will change weekly. Only one offer can be claimed per purchase, but you can place multiple qualifying transactions throughout the promotion period.

*While supplies last.

**Some exclusions apply.

Lindsey (she/her) is IGN's Director of Audience Development and Commerce. She's been at IGN since 2021 and has a background in SEO, especially in the gaming, entertainment, and tech media spaces.

The holidays tend to be the busiest time of year for most folks, from shopping and parties to baking and wrapping, there’s a lot to get done. ECOVACS Robotics lets you check off a few items on the seemingly endless to-do list. Right now, a bunch of the brand's top cleaning robots are on sale via Amazon for Black Friday, and are the biggest deals we’ve seen all year. One robot is even discounted by over 60%. However, these killer savings won’t last forever as the sale ends on Cyber Monday, December 1st.

Editor's Note: This article is brought to you buy ECOVACS

Enjoy Big Savings on ECOVACS Robotics for Black Friday

The X11 OMNICYCLONE may be overkill for smaller households or different lifestyles, so finding a mid-tier or budget model could be a better, more economical option. The DEEBOT X9 PRO OMNI offers almost everything the X11 OMNICYCLONE has, albeit in a more toned-down way. But, at nearly 50% off, costing just $699.99, it’s an absolute steal.

For something even more affordable, ECOVACS has DEEBOT N20e Plus for $299. You lose out on mopping, but it still delivers powerful suction and features a self-emptying base. It’s the ideal option for first-time robot vacuum users or those with smaller spaces.

2 - Meet the impressive WINBOT MINI Window Cleaner, on sale for 20% off

Now, those are just a sampling of the many deeply discounted robot vacuums from ECOVACS for Black Friday. But the floors aren’t the only part of your home that may need a little extra attention; your windows might require some TLC, too. The WINBOT MINI attaches to your window and methodically cleans to get all that extra grime off the glass, and you can get it for over 20% off right now. For heavy-duty window cleaning, upgrading to the WINBOT W2 PRO OMNI is the way to go. It cleans large, hard-to-reach glass and features a multifunctional base station. Best of all, it’s an even better deal at nearly 50% off.

Amazon has almost every Ultra Pro Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy playmat on sale during its early Black Friday sale. A small number of popular mats, like fan-favorite Vivi, Stray Black Mage are sold out, but there are many other mats with incredible art to pick from at new discounted prices.

Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Playmats On Sale

If you're new to TCGs, people use playmats as a way to show off their favorite art or accomplishments, and also for practical reasons: have you tried picking up cards off of a kitchen table? I assure you, it gets annoying fast.

With the Final Fantasy crossover set that launched this past June, TCG accessory maker Ultra Pro released tons of playmats featuring some of the most iconic characters and moments from throughout the game series' long history, including Y'shtola from Final Fantasy XIV and Lightning from XIII. Mats for Final Fantasy VII characters Cloud and Tifa feature the new art from their cards, and some mats, like those for Clive or Sephiroth, are double-sided to represent mechanics of the cards they're based on.

Whichever Final Fantasy character speaks to you the most, odds are there's a playmat for you to bring to your game night or local game store for some cardboard slinging. These also make great mousepads if you're in the market to spruce up your home office or gaming setup.

If you've been on the lookout for MTG Final Fantasy cards, Amazon has the Revival Trance Commander deck featuring Terra on sale for 53% off, and Final Fantasy play booster boxes (30 packs) are at their lowest price ever for Black Friday, down to $162.57 (22% off).

More Magic: The Gathering Gifts

Be sure to check out our detailed Magic: The Gathering gift guide for inspiration while shopping for that special Planeswalker in your life. Everything from recommended deck boxes and dice packs, to card binders and even apparel, this guide covers everthing they'll need to protect their collection and give it some flare.

Myles Obenza is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X has been out for over a month now, and while it is an expensive device, you probably won’t see any real discounts for Black Friday. This is thanks in large part to Asus needing to ramp up production to meet demand, because even its high price wasn’t enough to stop people from buying it, apparently.

But while you won’t be able to save a bunch of cash on the system itself, that doesn’t mean it’s not a good time to get the Xbox Ally X or load up on accessories if you already have one

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A quality chair is arguably one of the most important parts of any gaming setup. They get expensive quickly, but there is relief, thankfully, in the form of Black Friday deals on great chairs like Secretlab's Titan Evo, which has consistently been IGN's top recommendation for most gamers. This is one of the best times of the year to upgrade your setup is here, so don't miss out on a chance to save on a new gaming chair.

Below we've highlighted some of the top gaming chairs we've found on sale right now that we'd actually recommend you buy.

The Best Gaming Chair Deals for Black Friday 2025

Secretlab Titan Evo has numerous features that make it our top recommendation, including a cold-cure foam mix that provides a perfect balance of support and comfort, a Pebble Seat Base designed to provide ergonomic support that slopes inwards, and more. But it's not the only good chair on sale; we found great deals on others from AndaSeat, Razer, and Logitech.

Take the AndaSeat Kaiser 3, which comes with built-in adjustable lumbar support, swappable magnetic armrest pads and a magnetically attached memory foam head pillow. The chair, available in synthetic leather or linen fabric, features a subdued design that's not far from our favorite office chairs and won't stick out if you happen to hop on a virtual meeting.

One of the cheapest gaming chairs on sale is the TC100 Relaxed from Corsair, a solid budget option that's just over $200. It features both neck and lumbar pillows, as well as adjustible-height, rotating armrests. Our top budget gaming chair pick overall, however, is the Razer Iskur V2 X we reviewed earlier this year. At only $249 during Amazon's Black Friday sale, it has the overall best value for the price tag.

Themed Gaming Chairs on Sale at Secretlab

If you're looking for a themed gaming chair instead something neutral, Secretlab has a ton of excellent options on sale as part of its Black Friday sale. You can score discounts on chairs themed after Star Wars, Final Fantasy XIV, Cyberpunk 2077, and more. Check out our favorite picks below.

Noah Hunter is a freelance writer and reviewer with a passion for games and technology. He co-founded Final Weapon, an outlet focused on nonsense-free Japanese gaming (in 2019) and has contributed to various publishers writing about the medium.

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Full spoilers follow for Pluribus Episode 5, “Got Milk,” which is available now on Apple TV.

Man, the whole planet is pissed off at Carol this week, that’s for sure.

That includes her fellow un-infected, Laxmi (Menik Gooneratne), who calls her from across the world to rip Rhea Seehorn’s Carol a new one for making her son cry. I mean, she made the entire human race cry, save 13 people, but Laxmi is mostly upset about her son.

I’ve read the Harry Potter books at least half a dozen times throughout my life, but it’s been a long time since my last run-through. It’s a lot easier to just turn the movies on in the background at any given time instead of actually sitting down to read the actual books. Since I’d been meaning to crack open The Sorcerer’s Stone again one of these days but just never got around to it, I was all too happy to give the new full-cast audiobook a try.

Full spoilers follow for Stranger Things: Season 5, Vol. 1, which consists of four of Season 5's eight episodes. Vol. 1 premieres November 26 on Netflix, with the next three episodes debuting on December 25 and the series finale debuting December 31.

There’s been a lot of grousing from critics and audiences alike that it’s taken Matt and Ross Duffer nine years to bring Stranger Things, their ode to ‘80s nostalgia and sci-fi storytelling, to a close. But the thing about Stranger Things as a series is that as soon as fresh chapters drop, you remember exactly why it’s worth waiting three years and four months for new episodes. Pound for pound, the Duffers, their collaborators and their stellar cast use their time away to deliver impactful character moments, surprising mythology twists, and emotional stakes on a level that few blockbuster movies can even hope to achieve.

This is the final season of the series, which means the expectations are arguably the highest they’ve ever been for the Duffers to pay off what is essentially a battle to determine a sovereign reality: the Rightside Up (ours) or the Upside Down (Vecna’s). Aside from a clunky first episode that’s saddled with disseminating the exposition needed to get the audience up to speed, the first block of episodes does an increasingly thrilling job of laying out the stakes for our heroes and setting up the major threats, both militarily and Vecna-wise. And it culminates in a Chapter 4 climax that rivals anything the show has ever pulled off before in scale and cinematic ambition.

But to start, the Hawkins, Indiana, we return to is much changed from when it was first introduced in 1983 as an idyllic example of middle-class suburbia. In the 584 days since the events of the Season 4 finale, when Max’s (Sadie Sink) brief death tore open Vecna’s (Jamie Campbell Bower) gates to the Upside Down and his realm bled into Hawkins, the town has sort of been cosplaying what it once was. It’s now a militarized zone, quarantined from the rest of the state by barbed-wire fences and checkpoints, and filled with soldiers who monitor the breaches and the residents who didn’t flee.

Amongst those stubborn Midwestern remainers are Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) and her kids, the Wheelers, the Sinclairs, the Hendersons, Robin (Maya Hawke), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Hopper (David Harbour). Our familiar players have a shared secret purpose, operating under the radar of their fellow citizens and the military while trying to figure out what’s become of Vecna, who has essentially disappeared since Max went into her coma. Under the powerful transmission tower of the WSQK radio station, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery), Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and Robin work to use the site’s equipment and remote location to plan covert Vecna scouting missions for Hopper into the Upside Down. All the while, Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Will (Noah Schnapp) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) continue to go to school, but assist as lookouts and field support during operations.

In general, the united allies are as purposeful and organized as they’ve ever been, with the exception of Dustin, who hasn’t been the same since the death of his buddy Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn). In the aftermath, he’s become bitter, angry and defensive of Eddie, who is still vilified by their community for his perceived demonic pursuits through the Hellfire Club. Dustin’s surly ‘tude is a welcome and realistic turn for the typically sunny character, and it forces the rest of his circle — especially Will — to take up the creative and mental slack as they try to anticipate Vecna’s quiet machinations. Matarazzo remains a cast MVP and his performance ensures that Eddie’s death matters, as his character wrestles with the pain he can’t quite process healthily. His is a standout characterization this season, along with Hawke’s energetic and witty Robin and Schnapp’s more assertive take on Will, who bristles against Joyce’s overprotectiveness and moves away from being the victim of the group.

At this point in the series, there’s also an abundance of Hawkins support characters to weave into the narrative because the town was built out to be a fully realized community. Which means the welcome returns of Karen Wheeler (Cara Buono), loud Murray (Brett Gelman) and Lucas’ salty sister Erica (Priah Ferguson). There’s also a new playable version of a more grown Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) and even her bully classmate, Derek Turnbow (Jake Connelly), who together bring back the kid vibes that have always made Stranger Things special. In general, few shows have created an ensemble net as successfully as the Duffers have in Hawkins, which means they can draw on even minor players to create unexpected jeopardy, or touchback on the show’s own mythology and history with purpose. And they do.

Aside from the threat of Vecna, Season 5 continues the secret-lab throughlines that originated with Dr. Martin Brenner’s work as revealed in the first season. There’s been a sinister baton-passing to Linda Hamilton’s Dr. Kay, and while her overall motives are unclear, it can’t be good that she’s figured out how to run a lab in the Upside Down where she hoards an abundance of nasty critters (a la Bishop in Aliens) to dissect. She’s also protecting a secret room which El and Hopper, who spend the majority of these episodes together in the Upside Down, will eventually infiltrate. Hamilton is always a positive in any cast but she’s just simmering so far.

Assessing the four episodes as a mini-season, "Chapter One: The Crawl" (written and directed by the Duffers) is the least graceful of the pack as it stuffs its 71-minute runtime with an overwhelming amount of information. There’s a lot of servicing the plot first at the expense of smaller character moments. For example, the new radio station initially functions as a way for Robin to give the audience an exposition dump, which leaves it feeling like the least organic set piece of the whole series. Let’s just say, it’s no Hawkins Lab or Starcourt Mall. Another sin of the episode is several one-note character scenarios that feel below the caliber of the cast. Steve and Jonathan’s basic bitch rivalry over Nancy’s attentions is kind of dumb, and reducing El to just an obsessed training machine, which again triggers Hopper’s worst protectionist instincts, feels like a regression of their dynamic.

However, the Duffers get their mojo back by “Chapter Two: The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler," which returns the series to its horror roots. It opens with a terrifying Demogorgon attack that evokes one of the most memorable scenes in Poltergeist and immediately puts three long-time characters in mortal jeopardy. The episode also signifies a more natural return to the show’s multiple plot structure where the Duffers are able to balance their large ensemble by clustering characters together on their own missions. One of the freshest pairings is having Will and Robin together. As he’s exploring his reactivated connection to Vecna, Robin’s independence and confidence gives him not only someone to look up to but also the only person he can talk to about his burgeoning same-sex feelings.

The legendary Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist) directs "Chapter Three: The Turnbow Trap,” which lets him rip with period-piece elements, Commando-style action sequences in the Upside Down featuring El and Hopper, and the establishing of Holly as the unexpected focus of Vecna’s attentions. He gets to showcase the quiet menace of Bower’s Henry persona and show his prowess in working with kids. He’s also gifted with framing an excellent reveal at the end of the episode that puts wind into the sails of the whole show heading into the climactic last episode, "Chapter Four: Sorcerer.”

The Vol. 1 finale, written and directed again by the Duffers, is equal parts love letter to Madeleine L'Engle’s teen sci-fi classic A Wrinkle in Time and to ’80s action films. Sink’s Max returns to the story changed yet even more admirable in her role as protector of Holly and relentless fighter against Vecna. And then the episode shifts into action mode, with the climax especially featuring some of the brothers’ finest work on the series, rivaling prior season finales for its sheer scale and consequential reveals. It also exceeds what’s come before in Stranger Things’ depiction of graphic violence, so be warned if you’re watching with younger viewers.

There’s a lot to admire here about how the Duffers blend their converging storylines into a propulsive The Great Escape-meets-Children of Men mashup sequence. Using oners and exceptional pacing in the edit, this is an audacious closing battle that dares to cross-cut between an Upside Down jailbreak of children with a Demogorgon orgy of violence. It leaves things on a breathless note, but sets the viewer up for the last four episodes with a clearer understanding of Vecna’s plans, an unexpected realignment of how Will’s simmering connection might flip the power dynamic, and provides a path for Max’s return to the fold. There’s also a fantastic callback to Season 2 that might rectify one of the show’s more controversial story arcs. Fans will be feeling the high of the cliffhanger, while knowing there’s only a month before the story gifts audiences with a final resolution.

Looking to keep your next PC upgrade under $1,000? This might very well be the most powerful gaming PC without breaking that threshold. For Black Friday, Walmart is offering an iBuypower Slate RTX 5070 gaming PC for just $999 with free delivery. This is a $100 price drop compared to the previous historical low price I saw during October Prime Day and possibly the first time I've seen any RTX 5070 equipped prebuilt priced under $1,000. The RTX 5070 is an excellent choice for gaming at 1080p or 1440p, especially in games that support DLSS 4.

iBuypower Slate RTX 5070 Gaming PC for $999

We have yet to see any Nintendo Switch 2 deals so far during Black Friday sales, but that was pretty much expected. Nintendo announced the entirety of its sale plans earlier this year and consoles weren't mentioned at all. Unfortunately, the same goes for Nintendo Switch 2 accessories. If you're looking for a discount on the new Switch 2 Pro controller, you're mostly out of luck.

I say mostly because it is actually possible to save a little bit if you don't mind buying used or going with an import model. These methods will only help you shave off a few dollars, but with how expensive the controller already is, everything helps.

Nintendo Switch 2 Controller Deals for Black Friday

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The RedMagic Astra follows on the heels of RedMagic’s earlier Nova gaming tablet, seeming to change little except upgrading to the newer Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. That’s an exciting change, though, as it’s an extremely powerful chip that has made recent Android gaming phones all the more impressive. With a quality display, promising performance, and a $549 price tag, the RedMagic Astra could very well be a worthy alternative to gaming handhelds if you like the Android games available to you and don’t mind dipping your toes into cloud gaming or emulation from time to time.

RedMagic Astra – Design and Features

The RedMagic Astra doesn’t sport the same snazzy looks of RedMagic’s phones, but it’s still a slick and clean design with a hint of style in the form of a clear panel on the back. This shows through to where some of the componentry is ostensibly laid out and gives a peak at the fan in the sealed cooling system, which also has a splash of RGB lighting. The rest of the system is thoroughly blacked out.

Most of the tablet is wrapped in aluminum, providing a clean seam between the back and frame of the tablet. The front sports a 9.06-inch display that has tight and even bezels around it, allowing the device to avoid being much larger than it needs to be. At just 6.9mm thick and 370 grams, the Astra ends up impressively compact and portable. That weight is also great for handheld use. Bigger and heavier tablets become unwieldy to try holding for extended gaming, whereas the Astra is more manageable.

That screen is also a great one. It has a 2400x1504 resolution, which is fantastically sharp at this size, and it’s a smooth 165Hz OLED panel that can deliver 1,600-nit highlights and perfect black pixels side by side, making for vivid visuals. Games and movies alike look great. When viewing the display at extreme off angles (beyond about 45 degrees), black pixels start to look a bit gray, but if you’re looking at the display from more optimal angles, it looks appropriately black.

The tablet packs in a pair of speakers that produce plenty of volume – more than most phones and more than is needed for gaming with the tablet in your hands. They’re over-the-top and a bit grating at full volume, but sound decent when dialed back a bit.

To my surprise, RedMagic has rated the Astra up to IP54 certification for protection against dust and some water. It shouldn’t be dunked underwater, but it won’t be the end of the world if there’s a spill or you get caught out in the rain.

Part of that certification is probably coming from the Astra not using an active air cooling system like the RedMagic 11 Pro. Instead, it keeps all of its cooling elements inside. These include multiple vapor chambers and liquid metal to move heat away from the chipset. The fan inside actually moves air through an internal duct, though how much that actually contributes to the cooling when it can’t directly expel heated air is unclear. On the bright side, what has been a shrill fan on air cooled systems is silent on the Astra.

The Astra has a fingerprint reader built into its power button, though it also supports facial recognition. The former is quick and reliable, but the same can’t be said of the latter. In addition to the power and volume buttons, there’s a red switch I’ve seen on several RedMagic phones now. This launches the phone’s special GameSpace, essentially a custom launcher for games with shortcuts to various settings and tools useful while gaming.

On the bottom of the tablet (or side if held in landscape), there’s a USB-C port positioned off to the right of center. This avoids having the tablet running right into your hand if you’re charging and using it at the same time. The USB-C port also supports DisplayPort output up to 4K/144Hz and has 10Gbps transfer speeds – both exciting to see.

RedMagic Astra – Software

The Astra comes with Android 15 and has RedMagic OS 10.5 running on top of that. It’s not too outlandish an Android skin and doesn’t even seem overly gamer-targeted until you hit the GameSpace switch and encounter RedMagic’s digital assistant Mora – a scantily-clad anime girl that does little, makes a lot of noise, and doesn't even leverage all the AI capabilities of the hardware to hold a virtual conversation. She’ll happily float around on your screen and present notifications though.

The software does have some helpful features, though. The tablet includes controller mapping software that was largely useful, but not quite perfect. It helped me get a controller working in place of in-game touch controls, but some settings simply didn’t behave properly. For instance, it wouldn’t register joystick nuance, so all of my aim adjustments were jerky going from 0 to 100% acceleration instantly.

RedMagic doesn’t plainly state how many software updates or years of Android security patches the Astra tablet will get, but a representative has told me that the tablet will receive five years of OS support and security patches in Europe and three years of each in other markets, including the US. What is still unclear is whether those three years will include three Android version updates.

RedMagic Astra – Gaming and Performance

The Astra offers excellent gaming performance, though not quite to the level I would have expected. Before this, the RedMagic 10 Pro smartphone set the stage for how much performance we could expect out of the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, and that had me very excited to see what a tablet could do with it. After all, a tablet doesn’t have the tight confines of a phone and ought to have room for more robust cooling systems as well as more surface area for heat transfer.

To my surprise, the Astra simply didn’t squeeze as much out of the Snapdragon 8 Elite as other devices have. It consistently performed in between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Across Geekbench 6 and 3DMark benchmarks, the Astra tended to lag between 10 and 20 percent behind the RedMagic 10 Pro and even the OnePlus 13. This is still strong performance, but not what I would have expected. It seemed to make no difference whether the tablet had different performance modes enabled in the GameSpace either.

With that said, the Astra was at least consistent. It may not be trying to drive itself as hard as it could get away with, but it holds up well under load. Even running the 3DMark Steel Nomad Light stress test – a series of 20 benchmarks in a row – the Astra maintained a 94.5% consistency with scores running from 2095 points to 1979 points.

While the tablet certainly generates heat, it doesn’t put a lot of that where you’ll feel it. After a session playing Delta Force over a half-hour, the tablet was only slightly warm to the touch.

This level of performance is also more than enough to handle everyday use with extremely smooth operation. The Astra never once felt slow.

The tablet runs on a sizable 8200mAh battery, though that doesn’t feel quite as impressive when considering the RedMagic 10 Pro phone has a 7,000mAh battery packed inside its much smaller frame. The battery is still enough to handle hours of gaming, even with fairly demanding usage. And since there’s no cellular modem, the system sips power while idling, so you’re unlikely to find it dead if you leave it alone for a few days.

RedMagic Astra – Cameras

The RedMagic Astra has cameras, but like many other tablets, they’re mostly there because they need to be. In anything less than bright sunlight, the 13MP rear camera takes such blurry, noisy photos that it shouldn’t be relied on for much.

The 9MP selfie camera actually fairs a little bit better but still has a lot of noise and not a terribly sharp image. Even in very bright conditions, they struggle to produce great photos. If you just want to have a video call or pop up in a game stream, it'll do, but neither are quality cameras.

Lenovo's most powerful 16" gaming laptop has just dropped to the lowest price ever for Black Friday. Right now you can pick up a Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 RTX 5090 gaming laptop for just $2,855.05 after you stack two coupon codes "BFEMAILDEAL" and "EXTRAFIVE". You must create a (free) Lenovo account and be logged in to see this price. That's over $1,700 in combined savings and beats the previous historical lowest price by over $200. This is the first time I've seen a Legion RTX 5090 gaming laptop priced under $3,000.

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It’s been two whole weeks since the Steam Machine was revealed to the world, and we still have no idea how much it’ll cost. I still don’t know when Valve is going to announce the price, but in the meantime, you can build a PC that’s pretty close to what the Steam Machine is going to be – albeit you won’t get exactly there. After all, as we’ve written about repeatedly at this point, Valve has said that the Steam Machine will cost roughly the same as a PC with equivalent hardware – so we wanted to see how much that equivalent hardware actually costs.

But it gets complicated, because the Steam Machine is largely going to be using mobile-class hardware, like you’d find in one of the best gaming laptops, rather than the PC components that go into building a gaming PC. So, even though I picked out the Radeon 7600, where the Steam Machine is going to be using the equivalent of a 7600M, the desktop version is going to be measurably more powerful.

The same is true of most of the components here. Just keep in mind that this isn’t going to be an exact one-to-one recreation of the Steam Machine, but it is a good way to estimate how much an “equivalent gaming PC” might cost.

Unfortunately, due to recent jumps in RAM pricing, building out this PC is significantly more expensive than it would have been even a few weeks ago. Let’s just hope that Valve got its hands on memory before the current NAND shortage started.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Almost all of the official Black Friday sales are already live. In fact, a lot of them actually went live last weekend. Black Friday as a sales event has continued to extend further and further every year, and it can be difficult to figure out exactly when the right time to shop is. Do you need to jump on the deals available now before they're gone? Or should you wait for a better discount to drop after Thanksgiving?

Unfortunately, there is no cut and dry answer to this question. Some of the deals live right now will probably be gone before actual Black Friday, and some will be better on the actual day. If you don't want to spend an entire week shopping for savings this year, I can help you cut through the noise.

The Friday After Thanksgiving Will Still Have the Best Deals

Lets just get this out of the way to start. Despite retailers stating that their full Black Friday sales are live, that isn't really true. Every major online retailer has released their partial Black Friday sale, with more coming later this week. That isn't to say that the current deal prices aren't worth checking out, but that, traditionally, the best deals drop on actual Black Friday because that's when most people will do the bulk of their shopping. Some retailers have already released ads that prove more deals are on their way.

Target released its Black Friday ad recently

Perhaps the most obvious indicator that better deals are scheduled for November 28 is that Target has flat out said so. In its latest Black Friday sales ad, Target has stated that more discounts will be arriving on Friday and hours earlier for Target Circle 360 members. While it hasn't given that many specifics about what will be on sale, we know that LEGO sets will be 40% off and a ton of clothing and outerwear will be 40% off as well. This announcement came alongside Target launching its official Black Friday sale on sale over the weekend.

What Deals Should You Shop Right Now?

It's true that bigger and better discounts will arrive starting tomorrow, but some deals you'll want to snap up now while stock lasts, like Black Friday video game deals. These discounts are mostly regulated by the actual gaming companies and have been going pretty fast. The PlayStation Black Friday deals launched on November 21 and the Nintendo Black Friday deals started on November 23. Because stock is limited on things like physical games and the deals are incredibly popular, we're already seeing stuff sell out at Amazon and other retailers.

Nintendo Switch Deals Are Going Fast

All of the Nintendo discounts are live and we're already seeing stuff sell out at Amazon. Most notably both Super Mario Odyssey and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door are now only available at Walmart and will likely be gone before Black Friday proper. There's also the Nintendo Switch 2 bundles, which aren't on sale at all, but are still incredibly popular ahead of the holidays. If you're planning on picking up the new console, you'll want to do it as soon as possible.

PlayStation Deals Are Also Selling Quickly

The PlayStation deals this year haven't been as popular as Nintendo, but the discounts are currently as good as they're going to get. Most of the items available aren't at that high a risk of selling out, although some discounted PS5 games are no longer available at Amazon. And among DualSense controller deals going on right now, the limited-edition ones that will probably go out of stock before Cyber Monday or earlier. Limited-edition console bundles also tend to sell out faster at these lower prices than a standard PS5.

Xbox Deals Are Limited

This year's round of Xbox Black Friday deals has been fairly disappointing so far. There are some game discounts available, but only a few of the Xbox controllers are on sale. And there are absolutely no Xbox console deals this year to speak of. That's a bummer considering Xbox raised its prices multiple times in 2025, but it is what it is.

Some of the best Xbox controller deals have come and gone (including the recent Xbox Elite Series 2 deal), so if you are looking for a discount there you'll want to act quickly. Most of the Xbox video game discounts have stuck around, however, so you should be find to pick those up any time over the weekend.

Streaming has gotten pricey, and that includes Paramount+, which is home to a lengthy list of Paramount movies as well as cartoons like South Park and SpongeBob. Thankfully, until December 1, you can get two months of any Paramount+ plan, including the ad-free Premium subscription, for $2.99 each month.

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If you're a Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2 owner, there is no better series of games to collect than Mario. The plumber has had some of his best adventures ever across the two systems, and this Black Friday, you can save on select Mario games for a limited time. Nintendo rarely puts its games on sale, so now is the time to pick these Mario games up before deals run out.

These Black Friday Nintendo deals have been very popular so far and have mostly sold out at Amazon. We've included the other retailers that still have the games in stock.

Every Mario Switch Game on Sale for Black Friday 2025

First up, it's hard to beat Super Mario Odyssey for only $29.99. Mario's quest to stop Bowser from forcibly marrying Princess Peach sees him traversing various Kingdoms with a new friend named Cappy, a sentient hat creature and this game's central gimmick. Mario can throw Cappy to possess and take control of enemies, inanimate objects, and more. If there's one game from this list I cannot recommend enough, it's Super Mario Odyssey.

Another fantastic Nintendo Switch game on sale is Luigi's Mansion 3, starring Mario's ghost-hunting brother. This time, Luigi enters a giant hotel with Mario, Toad, and Princess Peach for vacation, but as always, things go horribly wrong. One of the great new features involves solving puzzles using a cloned Luigi, named Gooigi, who can walk on spikes and squeeze through bars to get to places Luigi otherwise can't reach.

Paper-Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was one of the best Switch games of 2024, and this Black Friday, you can save 50% on the beloved remake. Originally released for GameCube, The Thousand-Year Door brings a fantastic story, great characters, and a satisfying turn-based RPG combat system. The Nintendo Switch remake added numerous quality-of-life features, like the Partner Ring to switch Partners on the fly, a fast travel system to cut down on backtracking, and more. And that's not to mention the overhauled graphics.

Finally, Princess Peach: Showtime! is on sale for $39.99 for Black Friday. Princess Peach must defend the stage in multiple plays against threats from a new group of enemies in this action-packed adventure. Each play brings a different outfit and ability set for Peach, opening up a completely new gameplay style. This is unlike any other Mario adventure, so if this one went under your radar last year, it's a great time and a worthy addition to your Nintendo Switch library.

More Great Nintendo Switch Black Friday Deals

While there aren't any Nintendo Switch 2 console deals available, you can still get the bundles before Christmas if you buy now. The Mario Kart World bundle includes a copy of the latest Mario Kart game while shaving off some of the cost of buying it separately.

Noah Hunter is a freelance writer and reviewer with a passion for games and technology. He co-founded Final Weapon, an outlet focused on nonsense-free Japanese gaming (in 2019) and has contributed to various publishers writing about the medium.