Happy spend money day! Black Friday 2021 is here and we've got the scoop on some of the best deals out there.
- Blizzard's Black Friday sale is live but there is no Hearthstone-specific content.
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Humble Bundle's Black Friday Sale
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Humble Bundle has some great game deals on for Black Friday and they are even steeper for Humble Choice members. Here are a few of my personal picks from the Black Friday sale.
Satisfactory - $20.99 USD (30% Discount)
Great open-world factory building game in first-person. So many hours spent in Factorio led me to doing the same here. They recently released an update which brought in new Trains stuff and a ton of new options for building visually stunning factories.
This is my favourite chillout game to play when I want to forget about the world for a few hours. If one would consider doing math for ultimate efficiency chillout.
7 Days to Die - $7.49 USD (70% Discount)
The survival crafting game. Its a first person open-world shooter with tower defense elements in the form of zombies. Invite some friends, build a base, and survive the zombie horde. It's a bit on the grindy side but this is some of the most post-apocalyptic fun I've had with friends. The exploration and occasional scare when a zombie jumps out at you makes it an 8/10. It becomes at 11/10 with the fun base building mechanics.
The game has been in early access since the Atari came out, but has seen a ton of updates in that time shaping it into quite the experience. The Alpha 20 patch is targeted for an early December release date on the Experimental branch of the game so now is the perfect time to pick it up! The Alpha 20 update will bring in some new zombies, questing improvements, new craftable weapons, terrain improvements, vehicle modifications, huge new map sizes, and more. I for one can't wait to give the game a go again, probably around the holidays.
Valheim - $15.99 USD (20% Discount)
Vikings. Play it.
But seriously, this is one of those games I picked up on release and logged almost 100 hours in a short period of time. I love the art. Screenshots don't do this game justice because when you're in it, it feels right. Boating brough back memories of Ark, the boss fights although simple were plenty of fun with friends, and building viking lodges to mount your trophies on your wall was super fun to play with the building physics. Being able to shape the land with your tools, creating mountains or carving out rivers is also awesome.
I came for the survival aspect, I stayed for the building and friends. This is easily in my top 3 games that released (early access) this year. It might even be #1. The Hearth and Home update came out a couple of months ago and although I haven't played it yet, the new cooking recipes, stations, and rebalancing of that aspect of the game looks really well done. There's also a ton of new things to build with (like Crystal Walls which are like windows, or that Viking Hot Tub) which is exciting to someone who loves to get creative in games like that.
Grand Theft Auto 5 - $14.99 USD (50% Discount)
It feels a bit strange to put this on a list because it seems like everyone owns it at this point, but it needs to be here. For $15, Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the best games you can play. The campaign is plenty of fun and has some truly great characters and gameplay but I love the game for online play. Getting to run through crazy heist missions with friends, have sniper battles on the streets of Los Santos with other players, and crash planes into other players trying to complete missions is thrilling to say the least.
The new Los Santos Tuners update for online has been positive with there being some great missions that can be completed solo. That's one thing that Rockstar has been doing better of lately with the game - making good online content that can be done solo if you want.
Gray Viking Games
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Although not Black Friday Deals, Gray Viking Games has instant delivery of codes for MTG Arena which, prior to us becoming an affiliate of, was my favourite way to buy codes online for MTG Arena. GVG has codes for Secret Lair products, prerelease booster packs (6 Packs on MTGA), premade decks, and more. If you are looking for some cosmetics, packs, or pre-constructed decks, they're a great and trusted source!
Amazon Black Friday Deals
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As usual with our promoted Amazon posts, I only like to recommend gear that I've personally used or know people who have had good experiences with it. That's very important to me because although getting a kickback is nice, I'd rather not see folks disappointed. Here's our picks for Black Friday 2021.
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Black Friday 2021 PlayStation Deals
- [$39.99] PlayStation Plus 12 Month Membership (33% Savings, better price that last year)
Black Friday 2021 Xbox Deals
- [$29.99] Just Dance 2022 Standard Edition– Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (Digital) (40% Savings)
- [$10.00] Watch Dogs 2 - Xbox One (Or Gold Edition for $18)
- [$35.00] Far Cry 6 Xbox Series X S, Xbox One (42% Savings)
- [$19.99] Hades (33% Savings)
Black Friday 2021 Switch Deals
- Shop All Black Friday Switch Game Deals
- [$36.99] PowerA Enhanced Wireless Controller (33% Savings, multiple models)
- [$39.99] Breath of the Wild (Digital) (33% Savings)
- [$35.00] Super Mario Bros U Deluxe (Digital) (42% Savings)
- [$39.99] Xenoblade Chronicles (Digital) (33% Savings)
- [$44.99] Monster Hunter Rise (Digital) (25% Savings)
- [$41.99] Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity (Digital) (30% Savings)
Black Friday 2021 PC Games Deals
- The Sims Franchise Deals (20-50% Off)
- Xbox Game Pass for PC - 3-Month Membership (33% Off)
Black Friday 2021 Gaming Peripheral Deals
Oculus
- Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset
- This isn't on sale, however, if you enter OCULUS50 at checkout, you get a $50 Amazon Credit on your next purchase.
- I'm genuinely impressed with how amazing Quest 2 is considering is 1/3 the price of a Valve Index. Beat Saber wireless is incredible!
Webcams
- [$59.99] Logitech C920x HD Pro Webcam (14% Savings)
Headphones
- [$129.99] HyperX Cloud II Wireless (13% Savings)
- [$59.99] HyperX Cloud Alpha - Gaming Headset (40% Savings)
Keyboards
- Shop All Corsair Black Friday Keyboard Deals
- [$99.99] HyperX Alloy Elite 2 (23% Savings)
- [$109.99] Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 (Cherry MX Reds) (31% Savings) (My all-time favourite keyboard)
- [$139.99] Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 SE (Cherry MX Speeds) (22% Savings)
Mice
- [$29.99] Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse, Hero 12K (40% Savings) (Multiple Colors)
Memory Cards
- Shop All SanDisk Memory Black Friday Deals
- Shop All Samsung Memory Black Friday Deals
- [$19.99] SanDisk 128GB Extreme microSDXC (9% Savings)
- [$17.99] SanDisk 64GB 2-Pack Ultra USB 3.0 Flash Drive (25% Savings)
- [$54.99] SAMSUNG EVO Select Micro SD 512GB (21% Savings)
Streaming
- [$99.99] Elgato Stream Deck (33% Savings)
- [$149.99] Elgato Key Light (25% Savings)
- [$119.99] Elgato Wave:3 Premium USB Condenser Microphone and Digital Mixer (20% Savings)
Black Friday 2021 PC Hardware
SSDs
- [$99.99] 1 TB Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe (29% Savings)
Hard Drives
- [$89.99] Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS Drive (19% Savings)
- [$179.99] Seagate IronWolf 8 TB NAS Drive (26% Savings)
Power Supply
- [$110.99] Corsair RMX Series, RM850x, 850 Watt, 80+ Gold (23% Savings)
- [$103.99] Corsair RMX Series, RM750x, 750 Watt, 80+ Gold (23% Savings)
RAM
- Shop All Crucial Black Friday RAM Deals
- [$118.99] Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM 32GB (22% Savings)
- [$74.99] Crucial Ballistix RGB 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM 16 GB (17% Savings)
AIO Coolers
- [$158.99] Corsair iCUE H150i Elite Capellix Liquid CPU Cooler (16% Savings)
Fans
- [$69.99] CORSAIR iCUE SP120 RGB ELITE Performance 120mm PWM Triple Fan Kit (13% Savings)
CPUs
- [$479.00] AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core, 24-Threads (16% Savings)
- [$340.99] AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Threads (24% Savings)
- [$419.99] Intel Core i7-12700K Desktop Processor 12 (8P+4E) Cores (15% Savings)
Motherboards
- [$164.99] ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (13% Savings) [Pair with the 5800x!]
- [$194.99] ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (WiFi 6) (7% Savings)
Comments
I'm embarrassed to say I was unaware it was due to a silicon shortage. I had heard that it was due to production issues with facilities closing down...
Well that and a combination of digital currency miners snapping up GPU's and therefore driving the price up. In short I thought it was a perfect storm of production issues, digital currency mining, and then scalpers on top of everything else.
Feel free to elaborate or clear it up, I'd be interested to hear more in detail! (in a PM if you don't want to make another tangent thread or discuss it publicly!)
As for XCOM2, I actually stopped playing because when I came back I tried to play but one of my mods was broken, and when I went to update my mods, I found that a few of my favorite mods were no longer supported. It kind of put a damper on my ability to pick the game up. Don't get me wrong, the game on a baseline level is still very fun, but I can't really play it "base" anymore and the fact that my favorite mods weren't working put me in a sour mood. So at this point I'm just praying for XCOM3 by 2023. (considering that Civ6 seems to be coming to the end of it's lifecycle, I expect that we may see XCOM3 as the new focus of development work by Firaxis in the future...)
Oh yeah, the silicon problems have been mental over the past couple of years. Without a doubt though it is a perfect storm that has caused all the problems. It was even more fascinating when the car problems, yes actual cars, ended up having supply chain issues.
The biggest issue from everyone ends up being folks weren't thinking long-term with their production cycles (in fairness it does cost money to hold raw material). It'll be interesting to see if any companies start hoarding stuff once productions return to capacity to try and avoid future similar problems.
Wendover did a good video talking about a bunch of the shortages that popped up the past couple of years.
As far as mods go though, I feel that so much.
Its one of the reasons why I try to play games without mods at all, even if that does reduce the overall play time. Mods are awesome to extend the life of some games but if you're really into it and something ends up breaking in a patch, you're usually outta luck.
Thanks for the video. It helped explain things even more. I found it amusing that it boils down to the adage: "It's not a problem, until it is (and affects me)"
But such a well put video that bleeding edge efficiency and stockpiles can only go so far to impress shareholders, and that America has mimicked the original "well tuned machine" that was Toyota, but not in the right ways.