If you’ve been waiting for a prime opportunity to scoop up some better storage options for your gaming experiences, Amazon is delivering one for a limited time with discounts on solid-state drives. One key deal in this sale is $140 off of the stout 480GB SanDisk solid-state drive. An SSD also optimizes your gaming with faster transfer speeds so you can get into the action faster. Read up on the differences between HDD and SSD in our nifty guide so you know just what you’re getting into.
With options ranging from the SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB to the SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB, there’s a lot of value across the board. This deal isn’t just for PC gamers — owners of the PlayStation 4, PS4 Pro, and all models of the Xbox One can get it on the goodness. PS4 owners can easily install an SSD while Xbox One users can take advantage of this deal by using the drive as external storage.
The 480GB solid state SanDisk drive is the best value of the bunch, reducing the original price by $140.
This particular SanDisk drive is the second-best deal available. You’re still getting a lot of space with almost a terabyte of storage, and this sale cuts the original price by $138.
This is the heavy hitter for the storage fiends. You’ll be hard-pressed to fill up this big boy, which is getting a 20% price cut.
The little scrappy entry in this Amazon sale is the 120GB SanDisk SSD Plus. Though you get more space in other drives, you can still benefit from the faster transfer speeds. Save yourself 60% off the original price and toss in your favorite games and some secret folders.
Last but not least, the SanDisk Plus 240GB solid-state drive delivers modest space with high transfer speeds. Only a couple dollars are being chopped off of this particular SSD, but it may be the perfect storage accessory for you.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.