Black Friday is almost over here in the UK, but the deals train is still going strong for all you folk over in the US. It seems like forever ago that I boarded at Deals Station Central, but there’s still a fair old time before we all reach our final destination that is the culmination of November’s online deals frenzy, Cyber Monday. Thus, it falls to me, your ever faithful deals herald to continue striving away at the deals-based coal face to bring you the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals around.

Now, I’m not saying you should just spend a load of money for the sake of it. Indeed, you should only really partake of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals madness if you really need to upgrade to something. I ended up buying a laptop today, not because it was cheap (although that was certainly a factor), but because the battery on my current workhorse is practically bursting out from beneath my touchpad. Or at least I think it’s my battery. Either way, it’s getting on a bit and I could do with a new one. So, if you are> thinking about upgrading your PC, Black Friday and its accompanying deals jamboree Cyber Monday can be a great time to pick up some deals on the cheap, whether it’s a new graphics card, CPU, SSD, headset, or mouse and keyboard. So let’s dive straight in and see what bargains this year’s Black Friday has to offer.

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It’s finally here, the big day itself, Black Friday. Hooray! And to kick off proceedings, I’ve just found a brand-new 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti graphics card deal for you. It’s a US one only, I’m afraid, but the tiddly EVGA GeForce GTX 1050Ti Gaming is going for just $150 right now (that’s $5 less than our previous best graphics card deal, the $155 Asus Cerberus), but if you’re willing to go through Newegg’s rebate scheme, you can nab one for as little as $130.

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You probably haven’t, if you don’t own any cyber goggles. You don’t know what it’s like to be Hawkeye.

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The 960GB SanDisk SSD Plus is Amazon’s latest Black Friday deal of the day right now (Friday November 23), but as many of you pointed out earlier in my Black Friday Best SSD deals round-up when I stuck the 480GB model in there as part of Ebuyer’s Black Friday deals earlier in the week (apologies again for that, it’s now been scrubbed from existence), it isn’t actually> a very good SSD. Sure, almost 1TB of storage for 116 (down from 150) is pretty tempting from a money-saving deals deals deals point of view, but there are much better SSDs you could be getting instead for just a little bit more.

UPDATE: Amazon have also dropped the price of other SSDs which makes the SanDisk deal even worse than before.>

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It’s not easy being green, unless you’re a semi-famous frog detective, in which case it’s pretty chill. Released today, The Haunted Island, A Frog Detective Game is the longest game title I’ve typed today and also an endearingly daft, cute little hour-long-ish first person adventure by Grace Bruxner. A sloth named Martin lives on an island, and can’t sleep because it’s probably haunted, but the ghost scientists he hired can’t find anything. So he’s hired a frog detective instead, who is a detective of many things, not just frogs. There’s a trailer below, okay?

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Lemmings, Pikmin, and Lovecraftian elder gods is an odd mix, but it somehow works in the demo I just played. God’s Gift, by the worryingly named Seventeen Uncles, is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter to grow into a full game. It’s a platform puzzler with dark intent – as a tentacled servitor to an alien god, you> are invincible but the purple-robed human cultists following you are not. They need to be carefully shepherded, and only sacrificed on blood-altars when you absolutely need a little divine, flesh-warping help. Grab the demo here, and check out the trailer below.

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More often than not, gaming laptops tend to be a lot more expensive than their PC desktop counterparts, making them hard to justify unless you do a heck of a lot of travelling. Fortunately, Black Friday has got just as many deals on gaming laptops as every other PC component on the planet, making it a great time to crack open your wallet and take the plunge.

To that end, I’ve been scouring the web for the best gaming laptop deals Black Friday has to offer. This isn’t just an ordinary list, either, oh no. Along with nicely laid out specs and prices, you also get some bonus comments from yours truly, your trusted deals herald straight from the Black Friday deals mines (that definitely aren’t there just so the layout doesn’t break, no sir). I’ve done my best to seek out a range of gaming laptop deals, too, not just the crazy expensive ones, so we’ve got everything from 599 / $699 entry-level systems right the way up to fancy pants three grand jobs.

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Who needs sales when people keep giving away neat stuff for free? Coincidentally reviewed by Alyse Stanley here exactly> one year ago, Outcast: Second Contact is an exceptionally faithful remake of Appeal’s Stargate-inspired open world action-adventure Outcast, first launched in 1999. Some argue that the remake is authentic to a fault, but I reckon that whatever flaws that may imply, this is still the best way to experience an important piece of games history. Grab the game, DRM free and yours to keep here on Humble (open for the next 48 hours), and check out the trailer below.

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Who needs sales when people keep giving away neat stuff for free? Coincidentally reviewed by Alyse Stanley here exactly> one year ago, Outcast: Second Contact is an exceptionally faithful remake of Appeal’s Stargate-inspired open world action-adventure Outcast, first launched in 1999. Some argue that the remake is authentic to a fault, but I reckon that whatever flaws that may imply, this is still the best way to experience an important piece of games history. Grab the game, DRM free and yours to keep here on Humble (open for the next 48 hours), and check out the trailer below.

Update: Humble’s page says that the downloads will be disappearing on November 29th, so make sure to download it and stash it away before it vanishes into the ether.>

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Salty Bet is just a lovely concept for casual, passive entertainment online. Two random fighting game characters enter, one leaves, and you get to bet imaginary money on who for bragging rights. Kitfox Games clearly agree, as they’ve just launched BadCupid, a less cacophonous, more romantic take on the concept. Two characters with AI personalities go on a date in the locale of the audience’s choosing, and the crowd put down (entirely fictional) money on whether they’ll find love or not. It’s all very strange, free, and live here now if you want to give it a spin.

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