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A photo of the Samsung CRG9

Hot on the heels (legs? Stand?) of the 240Hz C27RG come even more Samsung gaming monitors hitting the [cms-block] sales. The most eye-catching is the gargantuan Samsung CRG9, an almost amusingly large ultrawide monitor that’s dropped to a new all-time low of £890.

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To call Wobbledogs simply a pet simulation game seems to do it a disservice. It’s an irresponsible dog scientist’s genetic playground and exactly the kind of ridiculous sandbox that I longed for as a kid playing other pet simulations. These boxy, mutating dogs will enter early access in January, but you can watch them stumble around in a new teaser trailer.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

A photo of lots of different varieties of SSD, including NVMe SSDs, SATA SSDs and external portable SSDs.A photo showing a bundle of gaming headsets from Logitech, Corsair, Steelseries and Sennheiser.A photo of three gaming monitors on a deskA photo showing several different gaming mice at various angles in front of a keyboard.Black Friday

2020 is almost here, although given how many Black Friday deals are live right this very second, you certainly wouldn’t know there were still seven days to go until the main event. Still, if you want to avoid the rush, there are plenty of pretty great PC gaming deals to be had at the moment, whether it’s a new graphics card, CPU, SSD or gaming monitor you’re after, or a new mouse, keyboard or gaming headset. Whatever you’ve got your eye on, you’ll find all of the best Black Friday PC gaming deals right here in one handy list.

There will be even more new deals to come next week, too, but you can rest assured that I’ll be updating this article regularly to help you make the most of all the latest discounts. Without further ado, here are the best early Black Friday PC gaming deals you can get right now.

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Alien Hominid - best Flash game

We’ve known for three years that Adobe planned on killing off Flash at the end of 2020. Now that we’re nearing December 31st, stalwart of digital preservation the Internet Archive has stepped up and put together an emulated Flash library, so you can continue to watch and play hundreds of old faves from your browser.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

A photo of the WD Blue SN550Samsung 970 Evo Plus - Best gaming SSD 2020

[cms-block] week has arrived, and with it several new SSD deals that have never been better. Amazon have the pick of the bunch, slashing prices of Samsung and WD SSDs even lower than their previous Prime Day discounts, but there are still plenty of other Black Friday SSD deals going on elsewhere if you’d rather shop around. To help you cut through the noise, I’ve gathered together all the best Black Friday SSD deals you can grab right now to avoid the rush, including many of our best SSD for gaming picks at never-before-seen low prices.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (James Law)

Zombies get sucked into the D.I.E machine in Cold War Zombies while you try to get the easter egg.

If you take a few very specific steps in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Zombies mode, you can unlock a special easter egg, as well as special abilities known as Wonder Weapons. Be warned: it’ll take a long ol’ time, and is much easier with a group of friends, so get these instructions up, squad up with your gang, and get ready for the grind. Here’s how to get the easter egg in Cold War Zombies mode.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (James Archer)

A photo of the Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD.

[cms-block] may still be a week away, but Amazon UK have kicked off their Black Friday deals in earnest now, and several Samsung SSDs – both internal and external – have plummeted in price as a result, with some dropping to their lowest ever in the UK. The Samsung 970 Evo Plus is one to watch out for in particular: not only is it one of the fastest and best NVMe SSDs you can buy without getting into much more expensive PCIe 4.0 territory, but the 500GB model has dropped to just £70, while the 1TB version has been chopped down to £120, beating its previous Prime Day discount by £20.

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We’ve only added one new entry to our selection of the best free games for 2020, and it’s the first one you’ll find below in this (unordered) list. That doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of other, slightly older free games worth your time, no matter what kind of genre you enjoy.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

Despite there being one week to go until this year’s [cms-block] extravaganza, Amazon have kicked off their Black Friday deals in earnest today, adding loads of brand new Black Friday gaming headset deals to their bag o’ discounts. It’s not just Amazon who have started their Black Friday celebrations early this year, though, so if you’re looking to grab a gaming headset on the cheap before the big rush on November 27th, you’re in the right place, as I’ve gathered all the best deals on today’s best gaming headsets right here.

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Sans from Undertale with the face of Gabe Newell

Firstly, you’ll be glad to hear that everyone stuck to the brief this week. Not a single international incident. Purely because of that, this one is a success in my eyes.

And B, this week’s Mystery Steam Reviews focuses on video games that look older than they are. It’s faux-retro video games! In other words, fairly modern games that use a pixelated art style.

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