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Black Friday 2023 is donezo, but the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals live on. Here, we’ll continue to round up big savings on all kinds of quality hardware – from the best SSDs and graphics cards to fully prebuilt gaming PCs and laptops.
Mechanical keyboards may offer a superior typing experience, but they are also A) expensive, and B) loud. So if you’re looking to save money on your next PC build, or you want to play games late at night without incurring the wrath of your household, then the Razer Cynosa Lite will offer a cheaper, quieter experience. It also packs in a lot of features for a budget board, and you get grab this already inexpensive peripheral for less than half-price this Black Friday weekend.
The best PC gaming monitors can run the gamut from ultrawide 8k screens curved like the spacetime around Jupiter, to bespoke esports monitors that refresh faster than the Ticketmaster page for a Taylor Swift concert. But if all you want is for your PC games to look nice while spending as little as humanly possible, here’s a screen you can stick on your desk for less than £75 this Black Friday weekend.
Gaming laptops are a tougher proposition at a time when the Steam Deck offers portable PC gaming at a fraction of the cost. Yet while Valve’s handheld is great for playing indie games and older AAA titles, there are some circumstances where it’s simply not fit for purpose. It isn’t really suited for twitchy multiplayer shooters, while glossy ray traced experiences are beyond its capabilities. So if you’re after that kind of gaming on the go, a laptop remains ideal, and you can get a great portable gaming device for less than a grand this Black Friday weekend.
We reckon the Intel Core i5-13600K is not only Intel’s best processor overall, but the best CPU for gaming currently available. That quality has also meant it’s maintained its initial price fairly steadily for the last twelve months. But in both the UK and the US, you can get this excellent CPU for a pretty decent discount this Black Friday weekend.
The Logitech G432 has been our pick for the best gaming headset for ages, and with good reason. It packs a huge amount of quality into a very reasonably priced package. And this Black Friday weekend, that package is even more reasonably priced than usual, as this fantastic headset is down to half-price in both the UK and the US.
Four-legged beat ’em up Them’s Fightin’ Herds has had quite the journey, having begun life as an unofficial My Little Pony fangame before becoming a legally distinct and well-liked fighter via crowdfunding and Early Access.
Now that journey seems to be an end. News of a patch and some DLC characters earlier this week came alongside the news that these updates would the game’s last – meaning that an in-progress story mode will never be completed and certain crowdfunded rewards will never be delivered.
There’s a quote about early computer animation, which I can’t track down now, that before Pixar came along everyone was using it to swoop cameras through outerspace and up a gnat’s ass. Or perhaps it was a fly’s butt?
I’m glad Pixar used computer animation to tell great stories, but in watching the 24-minute trailer for the technology underpinning Star Citizen, I have come to realise: swooping the camera through outerspace and up to a man’s sweaty brow, at least, is actually pretty cool, too.
Amazon doesn’t specifically list this as a Black Friday deal. But it’s certainly a bargain that you can take advantage of this Black Friday weekend. AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600X processor is available for just either side of half-price, depending on which side of the pond you live on. Regardless, that’s a big chunk off one of the best gaming CPUs around.
When Katharine reviewed the 5600X back in 2020, she called it “a stonkingly fast gaming CPU”. It’s a six-core, twelve thread processor, with each of its Vermeer processors providing speedy single-core performance, making it an ideal CPU for playing both modern multithreaded games, and older single-thread titles. There are of course plenty of faster CPUs around these days, but you’ll pay significantly more for those, and it’s only prudent to do so if you’re looking to get the highest framerates at 1080p. If you’re gaming at 4k, then it’s your GPU that’ll be doing most of the heavy lifting, and your funds are better spent there.
It’s also worth noting that the 5600X is highly power efficient, with a TDP of just 65 watts. This makes it both more economical and more environmentally friendly that a lot of CPUs, an important consideration if your energy bills are making you wince.
These days the best gaming mice often have nearly as many buttons as your keyboard. But at the end of the day, a gaming mouse needs three things, a left-button, a right-button and a scroll-wheel. And this Black Friday weekend, you can get twice that many buttons three, plus some fetching RGB lighting, for less than twenty quid.
