The best time to play a Destiny raid is as soon as it launches. Before the puzzles are solved, the bosses cheesed, the builds optimised, and the surprises spoiled, get in and discover it for yourself. Raids are extra brutal at launch because the first 24 hours are under a special ‘Contest Mode’ making enemies so much tougher while players race for the world’s first completion. So when Destiny 2: Beyond Light opened the Deep Stone Crypt last Saturday, I dove straight in with my fireteam for puzzling and a pummelling. It was: great.

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[cms-block] is well and truly underway now, and we’ve rounded up all the best DDR4 RAM deals to save you the hassle of searching for them yourself. You’ll find all kinds of sizes and speeds here, with Black Friday RAM deals spanning both the UK and the US. Regardless of whether you’re simply adding more RAM to your existing system or buying a whole new set, every RAM deal you’ll find below has the RPS seal of approval. So let’s get to it!

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As you may have noticed, graphics card deals are pretty few and far between this [cms-block], and there simply haven’t been any RTX 3080 cards in stock to even try and buy one at their usual price. At least not on their own, anyway. If you’ve got deep pockets and have been thinking about upgrading your entire PC to, say, play Cyberpunk 2077 with maximum ray tracing settings, then it may be quicker, easier and cheaper to simply buy a whole new PC – and if it’s an RTX 3080 you’re after, Dell are currently shaving 15% off some of their pre-built Alienware Aurora desktops for Black Friday.

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You get a sale! And you get a sale! Everybody gets a sale! Hot on the heels of Steam’s autumn sale, Epic Games have launched their own [cms-block] extravaganza. Now, they don’t have quite so many games on offer as Steam’s big blowout, but there are a few decent deals in there – including some alright discounts on new games like Watch Dogs: Legion and Star Wars: Squadrons.

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Deals deals deals! Just kidding – I interrupt your regularly scheduled Black Friday posts to bring you some delightful Apex Legends japes. Today in “what daft thing has Imogen done in a multiplayer shooter now”, I had a go at replicating a glitch that throws Apex’s new vehicles across the map.

Actually, “launch” is probably a better word to use than “throw”, because pulling off the stunt jetts you off into the sky like Gnome Chompski strapped to a rocket.

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[cms-block] is over half way done for us in the UK, and as I look back over the great sea of discounted PC components I’ve scavenged over the last seven days (weeks? Years?), I have to say that the best deals have definitely been reserved for those after an ultrawide gaming monitor. That’s not to say there also hasn’t been plenty of great, if fleeting, deals on regular 16:9 monitors this year (most notably Samsung’s stupendously good Odyssey G7 and LG’s G-Sync Compatible UltraGear 27GL850-B), but the biggest and best discounts have definitely fallen in the ultrawide camp, which is great, as it’s never been a better time to dive into the wonderful world of ultrawide PC games. If you, too, want to join the ultrawide club, these are the best deals you’ll see all week.

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DEF48750. A magical code which has completely changed the way I play Spelunky 2 after over a hundred hours.

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[cms-block] is now in full swing, and there are dozens of great Black Friday gaming keyboard or mouse deals to tuck into. There are some great discounts to be had on RPS favourites like the Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse, and there’s also a new all-time low price for Razer’s Deathadder V2. There are some fabulous keyboard deals for our US readers as well, of course, where our top gaming keyboard, the Roccat Vulcan, has a tasty $50 discount for our friends in the US, as well as Logitech’s brilliant G815 Lightsync for a new low price of just £101 over in the UK. So if you’re looking for the best Black Friday mouse and keyboard deals, you’re in the right place, as we’ve gathered them all up right here below.

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The number of great [cms-block] CPU deals is pretty small this year, but if you’re looking to upgrade your PC with a new Intel or AMD processor, you’re in the right place, as we’ve rounded up all the best Black Friday CPU deals happening in the UK and the US right here. Most of this year’s Black Friday CPU deals are limited to the premium end of the price spectrum, unfortunately, but if you’re looking to pick up one of Intel’s new 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs this is still a good time to do so. I’ll be updating this article on a regular basis as more CPU deals start going live, so make sure you pop this page in your bookmarks to keep on top of the latest deals.

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It’s finally the end of the week, which means it’s [cms-block] for real. Rather than kick off a sale earlier in the week like so many others, GOG are clearly taking the whole event much more seriously, dropping their big Black Friday deals today. I respect it. While they don’t have too many new games on offer, they have got a load of old favourites like Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and the Batman: Arkham Asylum series for up to 80% off.

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