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The Palestinian Relief Bundle on Itch.io contains 373 items for a minimum cost of $8. 213 of the items are are games, including greats such as Wandersong, A Short Hike and Coffee Talk. All proceeds go towards the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), a non-profit working to provide food, water and medical treatment in Gaza.

Video games must be three hours-long or infinite and nothing in between. The latest Steam event is designed to celebnrate the latter. The Endless Replayability Fest runs from now until May 20th, "celebrating games and demos you can play over and over again."

The Epic Games Store's spring sale is underway, from today until March 28th. That makes it twice as long as Steam's spring sale, which also started today. I'm not sure if that makes it twice as exciting, but here's what does: Deus Ex Mankind Divided is free to keep for the next week.

It's hard for me to get a read on Steam sales, because my relationship and access to games is defined by my work. So I ask you, as the Steam spring sale starts: are Steam sales as big a deal as they used to be?

The Steam winter sale is now underway, with discounts across the digital storefront's catalogue of games from now until January 4th. This also means that voting is now open in the 2023 Steam Awards, with the slightly earlier closing date of January 2nd.

Infamous crowdfunded disaster Godus and its spin-off Godus Wars have both been removed from sale on Steam. A statement from studio 22cans says that "an upcoming technical change to Amazon Web Services" is to blame. Both games had been in Steam Early Access since first launching in 2013 and 2016 respectively, receiving few updates since and mostly or overwhelmingly negative reviews.

Video games can be expensive. We don’t have to tell you that! I’m sure you’re fully aware of what new AAA games go for now with the latest-generation platforms. That means we’re being extra cautious about what video games we’re throwing money at when they launch. Knowing what games to pick up as they release and which to hold off on is rather crucial to ensure our bank accounts are taking a beating. So, we like to share the details whenever we come across a notable sale or promo. While not active right now, Valve revealed a Steam sale is coming next week.

Valve has released a new trailer to celebrate the upcoming Steam Winter Sale. The sale, set to go live on December 21 and feature games at deep discounts until January 4, will include quite a few PC titles available at lower prices. Check out the trailer below.

GOG has launched its Winter Sale, which is running until January 4, 2024.

The Crew is being taken off the streets: Ubisoft announced today that sales of its online racing game have been halted on all storefronts, and it will no longer be playable on any platform after March 31, 2024.

The Epic Games Store Holiday Sale is now available, featuring huge discounts and plenty of freebie games, starting with Destiny 2: Legacy Collection. This version of Bungie's online first-person shooter game includes the following three expansions and is usually priced at $60:

The Epic Games Store has launched its Holiday Sale.

If you hate bards like Chris Livingston hates bards, you'll be thrilled to hear that GOG is giving away the strategy dungeon-crawler Legend of Keepers to mark the start of its 2023 Winter Sale.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

The Epic Games Store has kicked off its 2023 Holiday Sale, and once again the daily free games are back—17 of them in all, beginning today with Destiny 2: Legacy Collection, a bundle of the Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep expansions for Destiny 2.

The Epic Games Store Holiday sale is live, and through Jan. 10, you can save 33% on thousands of titles in the Epic Games catalog. While Epic typically offers a single-use coupon during its holiday sales, this year, it’s offering unlimited 33% coupons that can be applied to purchases of $14.99 or more. The coupon can be applied to multiple items in a single transaction and will be returned to your account following checkout.

Amidst releasing exciting new gaming hardware and updating some of its oldest classic releases, Valve has also announced all the major Steam events slotted for the next year. Indeed, we now have exact dates for the first half of 2024’s Steam sales and fests.

Enjoy huge year-end savings on some of the best PC games.

After years of delays, overpromising, obfuscated skepticism, and a healthy dose of all around skepticism within the community, The Day Before finally launched in early access last week, and instantly, the game was met with widespread negative reception from players. Things only got worse from there, because just four days after the game’s release, developer Fntastic announced in a statement that the game had failed financially, and that the studio was, as such, shutting down.

Earlier today, indie developer Jake Birkett of Grey Alien Games published some research he has conducted into how the Week One revenue of indie titles compares with that generated across a game's first year. He has kindly allowed us to republish this piece

If you’re looking to add some books to your nerd-centric sundry, or you’re shopping for some last-minute gifts for the holidays, you’ll want to check out the collection of literature currently on sale at Amazon and Target. Some of our favorite books from the past year and some personal selections are discounted by 20% or more, including The Lord of the Rings Illustrated Edition,The Mysteries, Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, and many more.

There are plenty of Nintendo Switch deals on the shelves for Christmas this year, but one sits on a newly released accessory that's caught the attention of Switchers everywhere - including mine. What's more, the CRKD Nitro Deck is now back down to its lowest ever price - one I've only previously seen over Black Friday. 

French consumer appliances brand Thomson is set to dazzle Indian consumers with incredible discounts and offers on its entire range of smart TVs during the Flipkart Big Year End Sale, running from December 9th to 16th, with early access starting from December 8th at midnight. The Thomson TVs discounts make them remarkably affordable, with prices starting as low as Rs. 5999. The brand has recently unveiled a new lineup, including the 43-inch QLED, 43-inch FA series TVs with Realtek processor, and the 55-inch Google TV with a 4K display.

The Game Awards is an annual ceremony where we gather online and celebrate the accomplishments within the video game industry. We have awards handed out to different genres, even composers. There were plenty of incredible games that were released this past twelve months, and there are bound to be some games that players are bummed that didn’t even get a nomination. Regardless, if you tuned into the event last night, you were able to see several of these studios and individuals get their awards. With that said, now that we’re out of The Game Awards, it looks like Sony is going to help keep this event on player’s minds as we go through the weekend. A new PlayStation Store promo has kicked off, and it ends in just a few days.

Iron Man kicked off the MCU more than a decade ago, brought the Infinity Saga to an end by finally slaying Thanos, and there are even rumors Robert Downey Jr. will somehow reprise the role in the future. Suffice to say, the character, who many labeled the wrong choice to kick off the MCU, is one of the most popular superheroes on the planet. One that has enough Funko Pops that you could exclusively collect Iron Man figures, and later today - Friday, December 8, 2023 - you'll be able to add one more to that collection.

This month, on Doom's 30th anniversary, PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to SIGIL II, the brand new sixth episode for the iconic shooter designed by the original Doom Guy himself, John Romero. SIGIL II is Doom's most devilishly devious campaign yet, and we speak with Romero about his journey back to creating content for the legendary FPS, what the new episode offers PC gamers, and what his thoughts are on Doom's legacy today in 2023.

Once again, it’s time for Geoff Keighley to bestow his blessings on the best games of the year before retreating to Valhalla to feast and slumber. To celebrate the occasion, Steam is currently offering discounts on a selection of winners from the past nine years of The Game Awards.

Though the deals are good and I'm genuinely proud of the below lists, today's one of those days where I don't really want to be writing an intro. Frankly, I think my time would be better spent watching the "officially leaked" GTA VI trailer one more time. Y'know, for the the tenth viewing of. Possibly on the slowest playback speed, too, so I can spot yet another mind-blowing detail about this immensely impressive showcase.

The mClassic is a very cool accessory for Nintendo Switch and retro gamers.

Chinese smartphone brand iQoo is all geared up for the launch of its latest flagship smartphone called the iQoo 12. The iQoo 12 is the successor to the iQoo 11, which was launched in India at a starting price of Rs. 59,999. Ahead of the launch of its latest flagship, iQoo has now announced a new Priority Pass for its users. The pass will get interested buyers of the upcoming iQoo 12 smartphone early access to the sale, among other things. The flagship smartphone is set to launch in India on 12 December.

Microsoft decided to wait until a week after Black Friday to launch its incredible deal on the Xbox Series X. At Amazon and Walmart, the console costs $349.99, the same price as the newer black Series S with 1 TB of storage, and even the same cost as the Nintendo Switch OLED. With this new price, you can get the Series X and a 1 TB expansion card for the same amount as this console previously sold for.

Loki season two appears to have injected some much-needed life into the MCU, although its finale hitting Disney Plus as The Marvels, which fans don't seem to be quite as interested in, arrived in cinemas might have held it back a little. Nevertheless, Disney was clearly well aware of the impact more Loki would have, turning the God version of the anti-hero into a Funko Pop! as soon as season two ended. That Pop! will be available later today (December 1, 2023) alongside four other Funko Pop! products pulled from Loki's second season.

Stability AI, the British artificial intelligence startup behind the Stable Diffusion image generator, has explored selling the company as management faces increased pressure from investors over its financial position.

Shortly after it released the Starter Pack for Destiny 2, Bungie has now pulled the pack from sale. The company made the decision to pull the Starter Pack from sale due to concerns raised by the Destiny 2 community, which accused the Starter Pack of being a pay-to-win bundle.

Before Cyber Monday deals disappear for another year, let me tell you about one of the coolest bits of hardware I tested in 2023. During the Summer, I took on the task of building my very first gaming PC from scratch. Now, for a Hardware Editor, that felt like a right of passage, but it didn't make the idea any less daunting. What made things even scarier was the fact that I decided to do things the hard way, and build a small form factor gaming PC. 

Better move fast if you want to buy Sonic Superstars at a big discount!

A «kawaii» addition to any gamer setup.

Roguelikes: god, there's a lot of 'em, and thank god for that. The line between roguelike and roguelite is razor-thin, and within that nebulous gray area, you'll find more genre mash-ups than once thought possible. The best roguelikes might be action games, shooters, card games, strategy games, deck-builders, rhythm games, platformers, Metroidvanias in disguise, brawlers, dungeon-crawlers, or some seemingly absurd mix of these and other design principles. 

I'm 40 years old (that's somewhere around 260 in gamer years) which means I grew up in the '80s and '90s, the height of what we now call retro-gaming. And I've got my bona fides - I grew up playing a classic old school Atari console, much like the Atari 2600 that LEGO has recreated as a building set complete with cartridges, controllers, and even some buildable characters from some of the most iconic Atari games, which is currently on sale for Cyber Monday.

If you want to relive the nostalgia of arcade machines from your childhood or introduce yourself to the world of arcade gaming, the Arcade1UP sets are your best bet. These sets include all the classic arcade games you know, but thanks to Cyber Monday, you can find some of these options from $100 to $400 off right now at Best Buy.

It's hard to know where to begin with this, but let's just rip the plaster off and get it over with. Reedpop have today announced that they're "investigating the potential sale" of RPS owners Gamer Network. This also includes our friends at Eurogamer, VG247, Dicebreaker, and GamesIndustry.biz. Not included in the sale are UK events EGX or MCM, or the website Popverse. There's not a lot more I can say at this stage - we ourselves still have lots of questions that need answering first - but I'll endeavour to share more with you, our readers, as soon as I can. For now, here's the broad strokes of what's happening.

The Cyber Monday sale is finally here and you can buy a huge number of products now available at massive discounts. If you have been looking to switch to Google Pixel smartphones, your time is now. Amazon is offering an amazing discount on Google Pixel 7a. Using this Cyber Monday deal, you can reduce the price of this premium smartphone and get it at a heavily discounted price. Check here to know all about this Cyber Monday deal:

Do you love The Legend of Zelda? Do you love sales? Then you should head over to GameStop right now, where it's having a buy two, get one free sale for Cyber Monday, with plenty of Zelda merch included.

Fanatical is offering some of the best deals around on Sony's excellent PlayStation Studios games for PC.

Most years, I log on to work over the Black Friday weekend with the intention of discussing the best deal I've bought. This time I've had my eye on extra storage, with a Lexar 4TB SSD (-19% off at $187) making it all the way through checkout. However, I cancelled once I remembered that the Alienware R10 it was destined for, which I bought a couple of Black Fridays ago (and honestly have regretted due to the hassle it's caused) only has one NVMe slot. I don't have the brainspace to futz around with an adapter or migrating my data on the current drive, particularly as the case is such a pig to deal with that I hast actually drawn blood. So instead, let's talk mini-fridges, and why they're one of the best upgrades you can make to your PC gaming setup.

The Steam Autumn Sale is still live until November 28, which means there’s still plenty of time to scroll through never-ending discounts and find a hidden gem stuck between Steam’s algorithm. Surprisingly, the digital discount fest has been an absolute goldmine for some of the best JRPGs, so let’s run down our favorite discounts from the genre. 

Black Friday may have come and gone, but many of Best Buy's deals are back once again for the Cyber Monday sales. Best Buy already has their deals live (alongside Amazon), so you can still find discounts on most categories of items they sell going into the final days of the sale period. You can save cash on everything from video games to refrigerators, and basically, if Best Buy sells it, there’s a good chance it’s on sale this weekend for Cyber Monday. You can view the entire sale here, or keep scrolling for the best deals available now.

Looking for an awesome Cyber Monday deal on the new iPhone 15 series? Well, Walmart has something special for you! Even though Cyber Monday sale is still not here, you can score a fantastic offer right now. Walmart is offering the iPhone 15 on a discounted monthly plan for just $23.03. And here's the kicker - they will give you a $300 eGift card to use in-store. This amazing gift card deal is valid for AT&T and Verizon iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro purchases made between November 22 and December 3.

2023 has been a busy year where new game releases are concerned, and the last few months have been doubly so, which means you may not have found the time to play all the games that you may have wanted to. If Alan Wake 2 was among them, the acclaimed survival horror title is currently being sold at a discounted rate on PC.

Amazon, Walmart, and Target are essentially giving away free money.

The Steam Autumn Sale is well underway, offering steep discounts on everything from the biggest blockbusters to the quaintest indies until next week on November 28. Arguably the best thing about the discount fest, though, is that our 24 favorite Metroidvanias are on sale for as low as $2.

There's something magical about LEGO, and when the beloved building toy is combined with a setting as iconic as the Marvel Universe, the good vibes and fun go through the roof - even through the roof of this massive LEGO Daily Bugle set which is on sale for $300.99 this Black Friday, just a dollar higher than the set's lowest price ever.

This excellent Black Friday Final Fantasy 16 deal should not be ignored. One of the best games of 2023 is enjoying its first substantial price cut since its launch earlier this year, available at Amazon for just $35. That, my friends, is a 50% saving for an adventure which will bring you hours of enjoyment. 

The popularity of Dungeons & Dragons may have peaked earlier this year with the OGL fiasco, which supercharged the sales of everything not D&D. That’s created an influx of new and revitalized TTRPGs, and one of the most unusual by far is a system called Everyday Heroes — which is heavily discounted for Black Friday.

Black Friday is here, and surprisingly, the recently-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is already on sale via a number of platforms and retailers. This usually doesn’t happen – I’ve been writing up Black Friday deals posts for years, and you almost never see discounts for that year’s Call of Duty.

Warhammer 40K and its grimdark aesthetic are awesome, but not everyone can devote a significant portion of their time and budget to painting an entire army's worth of miniatures. If you (like me) enjoy the look of the war-torn universe of 41st millennium, but don’t necessarily want to engage in the tabletop game, you might want to check out the vast collection of official Warhammer 40K action figures from Joytoy that are currently on sale at Amazon.

Build a miniature version of Horizon: Forbidden West's coolest mechanical creature.

Sony wireless, noise-canceling headphones are a popular holiday gift for a reason. They’re reliably excellent — and have been for decades. For this Black Friday, Amazon has two of my favorite headsets on sale: the Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds and the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones.

Monster High dolls are some of the most popular dolls to collect right now, and Amazon has just slashed the price of many of them in its Black Friday sale.

PlayStation Plus subscriptions and PlayStation Store gift cards are currently on sale for Black Friday.

Companies in the games industry have figured out a stupid number of ways to try and get as much money out of their paying customers as possible, but they never seem to run out of new ideas. Recently, it was reported that ads for Ubisoft’s Black Friday sale had started popping up in-game for some players playing older Assassin’s Creed titles, which, as you might imagine, sparked the ire of many in the community.

Magic: The Gathering is having a banner year, helping Hasbro pull itself up by its bootstraps with blockbuster sets like The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. That massive sales volume means that quite a lot of overstock is sitting around after the year’s best sets blazed a trail through your local game store. We’ve scanned all the Black Friday deals on Amazon, compared them to available price histories online, and narrowed things down to find the very best deals on Magic cards this holiday.

UK retailers are offering significant discounts on the console versions of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 as part of their Black Friday sales.

It’s common for a publisher like Ubisoft to advertise sales and DLC within existing products. Boot up Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and you’ll be greeted with tiles on the main menu for purchasing additional content and premium items. However, what if an obnoxious full-page ad appeared while playing?

It feels like these Black Friday cozy gaming deals were made for me. I've put several (hundreds) of hours into the likes of Animal Crossing: New Horizons as well as dabbled in games such as The Sims 4, and Disney Dreamlight Valley - but if you're just getting started on your cozy gaming journey, now is the best time to pick up these titles and more as they're even cheaper than usual thanks to the annual savings event. 

Razer Seiren Mini | Condenser mic | USB | 48kHz sampling rate | 20-20kHz frequency response | $49.99 $34.99 at Amazon (save $15)Our favorite budget microphone for gaming and streaming is simple as they come but offers great sound. It would be nicer if it used a standard USB cable rather than Razer's proprietary offering and the lack of a mute button is a bit disappointing, but at this price, these are minor issues.

Black Friday is almost upon us, which means the big 2023 Steam Autumn Sale is also here. You can grab deals on thousands of games, including big multiplatform titles like Diablo IV, Resident Evil 4, Hogwarts Legacy, and Cyberpunk 2077, indie hits like Dredge, Dave the Diver, and Wizard with a Gun, and Steam standbys like Arma III, Rust, and Deep Rock Galactic. Here’s a quick selection of some of the best deals (there are no flash deals, so browse at your leisure):

Everyone loves a good sale, especially when it’s for those video games you wanted to buy but couldn’t justify spending a ton of money on. Thankfully, Steam has provided some amazing sales on top-rated games in its storefront.

PlayStation launched its annual Black Friday Sale, late last week, offering discounts of up to 70 percent on key titles on the PS4 and PS5. The promotion is live across some first, but largely third-party releases, and is slated to end November 28 on the digital storefront. God of War Ragnarök is a standout among the catalogue, available at a 38 percent discount for Rs. 3,099, tasking Kratos and Atreus on a journey to the Nine Realms to prevent the prophesied apocalypse. PS Plus Premium/ Deluxe members also get a three-hour free trial period, in case you feel like testing the waters. Those who only own an old-gen PS4, however, can opt for the dedicated version at Rs. 2,279.

From Hi-Fi Rush to Final Fantasy VII Remake, you can save big now on excellent PC games.

Valve has launched Steam‘s Autumn Sale.

Elden Ring — Standard Edition Vinyl | Marble-effect | $49.99$34.99 at Bandai Namco (save $15)This Vinyl set features 17 tracks that were selected as fan faves across Elden Ring's complete original soundtrack, and it's only available on the official store.

Gigabyte G5 | Core i7 12650H | RTX 4060 | 16GB DDR5-4800 | 512GB SSD | 15.6-inch | 1080p | 144Hz | $1,099.99 $799.99 at Best Buy (save $300)This is a lot of laptop for not very much money. To start with, you're getting a 10-core, 16-thread CPU that will easily cope with pretty much any game you throw at it. There's an RTX 4060 Mobile graphics chip too, that supports DLSS upscaling and frame generation. The storage is a bit disappointing, and you'll probably want to upgrade it at some point with a large SSD. For portable gaming and school work, though, this Gigabyte G5 laptop will keep you and your wallet happy.

All PS5 DualSense controller colours are on sale in the UK for Black Friday.

Walmart has become the first major US retailer to offer a significant discount on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.

Walmart’s latest Black Friday deals event launches on Wednesday, with early access reserved for Walmart+ members.

If you are anything like me, Black Friday is the time of year you pick up all-time classic games you don't own, or great games from that year you haven't gotten to yet (I'm currently deciding how many of these games I can afford to get, if we're being honest).

As announced last week, Valve’s latest seasonal sale for Steam is now available. The Steam Autumn Sale runs from November 21st to 28th and includes discounts on thousands of PC games.

Diablo 4 is currently free to play on Steam, developer Blizzard has announced.

The 2023 Steam Autumn Sale is now live, bringing new and returning deals on PC games. The event is live for a week, running until November 28 at 10:30pm IST, slashing prices by up to 85 percent on select titles. Blizzard's Diablo IV, which recently came to Valve's storefront, has gotten a 40 percent discount — Rs. 3,359 — tossing you into the hellish landscape of the Sanctuary to battle bloodthirsty monsters as a legendary horned demon Lilith, Queen of the Succubi comes into power. Lacklustre post-launch content has tarnished this game's reputation, so why not give it a test run with the six-day-long free trial? Bethesda's expansive space RPG Starfield has also received a first discount, setting you centuries into the future where humanity has begun thriving on other planets. It's available at Rs. 3,999 at a 20 percent discount.