Just because Black Friday Weekend has come and gone and Cyber Week is all but over doesn’t mean that there aren’t great gaming deals still to be had — especially if you are looking to upgrade your peripherals. Razer—who in our opinion makes the best gaming laptop of 2020 — is offering deals on everything from gaming headsets to laptops all month long as part of its Holiday Gift Guide sale, so you’re sure to save money while shopping for your favorite gamer (or getting a little something for yourself). Better yet, orders of $49 or more (i.e. most orders) get free shipping, and when you spend $129 or more, you also score an exclusive Razer Chroma Keycap Keychain via the code HOLIDAYGIFT20. Razer will be offering these gaming deals until December 31, but as we’ve seen recently with the Razer Cyber Weekend Sale, these deals go fast so if you snooze you may lose your chance to save.
Some of the best deals to be had from Razer’s Holiday Gift Guide are its gaming bundles. You can save anywhere from 7% to 27% off list price by bundling multiple items like keyboards, headsets, and mice together. Even better, it means more pretty boxes under the tree!
Our favorite deal from Razer’s Holiday Gift Guide is the Competitive Bundle , which is comprised of two peripherals, the Razer Viper Gaming Mouse and the Razer Firefly V2 Gaming Mouse Pad . At 69 grams, the ambidextrous Viper is the lightest mouse Razer has released to date and our experts like it for its speedy, ergonomic design. It also features a 5G optical sensor offering 99.4% tracking accuracy and 16,000 DPI, as well as a highly flexible Speedflex cable, five custom DPI stages, and eight programmable buttons. Add in the extra-wide Firefly 2’s micro-textured surface and colorful Chroma RGB LED lights (offering an unbelievable 16.8 million color combinations!) and this bundle will help give you a competitive edge over your opponents, not to mention some extra cash in your wallet to spend on other gifts on your list.
This bundle is marked down from $130 to $100, which is 23% off list price and a savings of $30.
For years, Call of Duty’s campaign mode has used big, scripted set pieces to tell the overarching story amid all the adrenaline-pumping action. The 2023 Modern Warfare 3 tried to shake up the established formula by introducing a handful of short open combat missions, and I genuinely liked the idea, but the game's overall negative reception seeped into how those missions were received.
I feared the next iteration might abandon the idea because of the backlash, but I am glad it didn't. MW4’s “Stranded” mission uses the same approach, but instead of fragmenting it across the campaign, it puts it all in a single large-scale open-world mission.
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.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.