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There are always gaming deals to be had during the Black Friday period as we gear up for the holidays and, like clockwork, Nintendo has a few Switch bundles on offer. The company doesn’t really offer discounts on its consoles but it will toss in some freebies from time to time. We recommend going for the OLED model and its more vivid display if you think you’re more likely to play the Switch in handheld mode. But if you plan to mostly use the console in docked mode, there’s no harm in opting for the standard Switch and saving $50.

There’s a bundle that includes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and three months of Switch Online access at no extra cost. You’ll get a Switch, the game and a Switch Online membership for $300. That’s handy for newcomers to the Nintendo ecosystem or those who want to race against a family member in Mario Kart. It’s worth noting that you won’t see the price of the bundle until you check out at Amazon.

It’s hard to argue that this is a great deal, given that the console has been around for nearly seven years and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a port of an even older Wii U game. But it’s among the best deals you’ll find on a Switch right now, at least until Nintendo releases the console’s successor (which is widely expected to happen in 2024). In addition, upgrading to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack plan or buying the Booster Course Pass for $25 will give you access to dozens of extra tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Those who don’t mind spending a little more cash may prefer to pick up a Switch OLED instead. A bundle at Walmart includes Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and three months of Switch Online access. This bundle costs $350. So, if you’re hankering for some fighting game action on a larger, better display than you’ll find on the regular Switch, this is the way to go.

Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/nintendo-switch-black-friday-deals-save-on-console-bundles-with-mario-games-and-switch-online-memberships-184518079.html?src=rss 

Amazon has discounted nearly all of their own devices for Black Friday. And that includes their top-selling smart speaker, the Echo Dot. It’s down to $23, which is 54 percent off the $50 list price and matches the lowest it ever sold for, back in October during the company’s second Prime Day of the year. It’s dipped down to $35 throughout 2023, so this is still a significant discount over its typical sale price. We named the Echo Dot our favorite smart speaker under $50 — and now you can get two for that price. 

The Echo Dot is a little bigger than a baseball, but emits surprisingly full sound for its size. The spherical design is an upgrade from the previous generation’s puck shape, and now allows for higher-end components that make for pretty great audio. Of course, the real perk is Alexa’s help. You can use the assistant to control your smart home devices, tell you the weather, remind you to pick up the kid from school or a friend from the airport, and play you a happy song on a rainy day.

Other Amazon speakers are on sale too, including the standard Echo. It’s down to $55, which is a 45 percent discount and about $5 more than the all-time low it hit last Black Friday. This one happens to be our favorite smart speaker under $100, again beating out its direct competitors from Apple and Google thanks to its superior (and just louder) sound. And again, Alexa is baked right in. 

But if audio quality (plus smarts) is what you want, you’ll likely want to opt for the Echo Studio. It’s now down to $155 instead of $200 after a 23 percent discount that brings it back to its lowest price ever, from last year’s holiday shopping sale. The speaker packs high audio quality into its 7.7 pound body, emitting excellent sound that led us to declare this “the best-sounding speaker Amazon has built.”

Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-echo-dot-is-back-down-to-its-lowest-price-ever-in-this-amazon-black-friday-deal-140041159.html?src=rss 

If you’ve been looking to pick up some new gaming gear ahead of the holidays, several noteworthy Razer accessories have dropped to lower-than-usual prices for Black Friday. Not all of these Black Friday gaming deals are winners, but the offers do include a couple of top picks from our guides to the best gaming mice and gaming keyboards. The Razer Basilisk V3, for one, is the chief recommendation in the former, and it’s currently available for $40 at Amazon, Walmart, Target and Best Buy. That’s $10 off its typical going rate and matches the lowest price we’ve tracked.

The Basilisk V3 is a wired model, and it’s not the lightest thing around at roughly 100 grams. But if you don’t spend all of your PC gaming time in twitchy multiplayer titles, it’s a superb value at this price. Its sturdy, pleasingly textured shape should be comfortable for most hand sizes and grip types — lefties excluded, sadly — and its sensor had no major issues with tracking accuracy in testing. Its scroll wheel is on the louder side, but it’s also versatile: You can use it to navigate left or right and switch it to a free spin mode that lets you navigate large files faster. The whole thing comes with 11 customizable buttons, including a useful “sensitivity clutch” that lets you momentarily drop or raise the mouse’s DPI in moments where you need to aim more precisely. Speaking from experience, that won’t stop you from getting destroyed in Halo Infinite, but having a little bit of extra flexibility doesn’t hurt.

Elsewhere, the Razer Huntsman V2 TKL keyboard is also worth shouting out at its Black Friday price of $80. That’s the lowest price we’ve tracked for the model with Razer’s Linear Optical switches, which is the runner up pick in our gaming keyboard buying guide. This tenkeyless board doesn’t have the multifunctional analog switches of our top pick, the Wooting 60HE (which isn’t on sale), but it offers a well-crafted design at a much lower price. The linear switches here are fast and noticeably quiet in operation, while the PBT-coated keycaps feel crisp. The keyboard connects over a detachable USB-C cable and comes with a wrist rest in the box as well, though the latter can’t magnetically attach to the keyboard like some competitors. A variant with Razer’s Clicky Optical switches is also on sale for a new low of $45, but we found typing on that model to be distractingly loud in testing.

Among the rest, the Razer Naga Trinity is a decent value at $65 if you want a gaming mouse for MMOs and MOBAs, while the Razer Viper Ultimate is worth a look at $70 if you want a lighter mouse that comes with a charging dock. A handful of Razer’s webcams and bass-heavy gaming headsets are also on sale. If you want to look beyond Razer, we have a more general roundup of Black Friday gaming deals with additional discounts on peripherals we like.

Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/razer-black-friday-deals-for-2023-include-up-to-70-percent-off-gaming-mice-keyboards-and-webcams-180006261.html?src=rss 

One of social media’s seemingly favorite hair styling tools is down to a record low for Black Friday. Dyson’s Airwrap has a list price of $600 but is now on sale for $480 at QVC and for the same price on Amazon, after you clip the on-page coupon. The innovative AirWrap relies on air instead of extreme heat to dry and shape hair — which could help keep your hair healthier over using a curling iron, straightener or blow dryer. 

The Dyson Airwrap uses a technology called the Coanda effect, a phenomenon describing airflow’s tendency to follow the path of a curved surface. Here, the air jet flows around the tool’s barrel or brush attachment, so it wraps, dries and styles hair all at once. Since it doesn’t use a lot of heat, it’s meant to be less damaging to your hair in the long run. Dyson claims the Airwrap monitors the device multiple times per second, ensuring the temp stays safe for your hair. 

It comes with a rotating cool tip, three airflow speeds, three heat settings and a cold shot feature that immediately turns off the heating element, helping to set your with a blast of cool air. And there are plenty of accessories too: A barrel that’s 1.2 inches around, a barrel 1.6 inches in diameter, two smoothing brushes, a smoothing dryer, a volumizing brush and a detangling comb. Plus there’s a filter cleaner and a case to neatly store everything. 

Considering the attention this item has been getting — and the fact that it’s been a fast-selling gift for the holidays — means it may go out of stock quickly. If you’ve got your eye on it, either for your own hair or someone else’s, you may want to snap it up.  

Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-dyson-airwrap-is-at-its-lowest-price-yet-for-black-friday-2023-180025525.html?src=rss 

At this point in time, you probably have a ton of passwords to keep track of across a vast number of websites, apps and services. One way to keep them safe and organized, and to prevent losing access to your accounts, is to use a password manager. For Black Friday this year, 1Password is giving you the chance to purchase an individual or a family subscription for 50 percent off their normal prices, as long as you’re a new subscriber. The manager’s individual account normally costs $35.88 a year, while its family account is typically priced at $59.88, so expect to pay half those amounts, respectively. 

Both subscription tiers come with access to the service’s mobile and desktop passwords, as well as its browser extensions. You can save not just log in credentials with 1Password, but also addresses and credit card details, and you can hide select vaults when you switch on Travel mode. 1Password will allow you to temporarily share logins with anybody, as well, even if they’re not a user. But if you purchase a family subscription, you can share the account between five people who can create an unlimited number of shared vaults. Each member can also help another recover their access in case they get locked out.

It’s worth noting that 1Password recently went beyond well, passwords, and rolled out support for passkeys to desktop and mobile users. That means you’ll be able to sync your passkeys across devices and across platforms, so you can log in to your accounts without having to resort to using your credentials. This special Black Friday discount will be available from November 24 to November 27 only. 

Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/1password-black-friday-deal-save-50-percent-on-the-password-managers-individual-and-family-plans-173051507.html?src=rss 

We’ve found plenty of PS5 Black Friday deals, including games, accessories, store funds and the console itself. Grab the disc-based PlayStation 5 system for $450 on Amazon or $50 off the PS5 Slim bundled with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. In addition, you can save on DualSense controllers and games from franchises like God of War, Assassin’s Creed and Star Wars Jedi.

PS5 Slim console with Spider-Man 2

If you’re happy to go disc-free, Amazon has the month-old PS5 Slim console bundled with a digital code for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which Engadget found to be “bigger and better” than the 2018 original, for $499 ($60 off).

Sony’s “Slim” PS5 console (officially called the PS5 Digital Edition) removes the system’s disc drive but lets you change your mind later. Unlike previous digital variants, the disc drive is a modular attachment you can add later as a separate $80 purchase.

PS5 console with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

You can also get the console with Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III for the same price. This is the latest version of the gaming system with its removable disc drive already included and mounted. You also get a digital copy of the newest Call of Duty game, which includes remastered versions of all 16 maps from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009).

PS5 console (with disc drive)

An Amazon Black Friday deal has the PS5 console on sale for $450 ($50 off). This standard model includes a built-in disc drive that lets you choose between physical discs (without any extra purchases) or digital downloads of your favorite games.

Although this model is out of stock at the time of publication, we wouldn’t be surprised to see availability (for it and other deals in this article) fluctuate throughout the day and perhaps the entire Black Friday weekend.

DualSense controllers

Amazon also has loads of PS5 controllers on sale. The retailer offers various colorways of Sony’s DualSense Wireless gamepad in the $49 to $50 range. These include the standard white, black, cobalt blue, starlight blue, gray camouflage, pink and purple options.

The DualSense controller typically costs $70 to $75, so you’re shaving around a third of the price off Sony’s defacto PS5 gamepad.

PlayStation wallet funds

You can also save on PlayStation wallet funds on Amazon. Although the gift cards are branded for PlayStation Plus memberships, you can use them as standard virtual funds for games, DLC or other digital content.

As is typical with gift card deals, you’ll save more for buying higher amounts. You can get $30 worth of PlayStation funds for $27, $55 for $49.50, $70 for $63 or $110 for $99.

Black Friday PS5 game deals

Sony has plenty of digital games on sale in the PlayStation Store. There are too many to list all of them here, but highlights include God of War: Ragnarok for $30 (down from its usual $60), Cyberpunk 2077 for $30 (currently $50 MSRP), Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for $42 ($70 MSRP), Diablo IV for $42 ($70 MSRP) and Red Dead Redemption 2 for $19.79 ($60 MSRP). You can shop the entire PlayStation Store game sale to see if any other deals jump out.

Meanwhile, retailers have deals on physical PS5 games. Best Buy has discounted God of War: Ragnarok for half off ($35 from its $70 MSRP). Walmart has Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for $30 ($70 MSRP), Resident Evil 4 for $30 ($60 MSRP) and Street Fighter 6 for $30 ($60 MSRP). Amazon has (physical disc) game deals, too, including Elden Ring for $39.69 ($60 MSRP), Assassin’s Creed Mirage for $40 ($50 MSRP) and Final Fantasy XVI for $35 ($70 MSRP).

Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ps5-black-friday-deals-2023-get-50-off-the-playstation-5-181606741.html?src=rss 

Waiting until there are major discounts on a smartphone you have your eye on is rarely a bad idea, especially if you want to pick up one of the best Android phones around. Several of Samsung’s Galaxy S23 devices are on sale at Amazon for Black Friday, including our pick for the best premium Android phone.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra has dropped down to $900. That’s $300 off the regular price and close to a record low. For a brief time in August, this model was $860, but this is the best price we’ve seen since then.

We gave the Galaxy S23 Ultra a score of 89 in our review earlier this year and, given that the price was one of the main things for which we dinged it, the current discount makes it more enticing. In fact, our other main criticisms were the minimal design changes and the lack of new S Pen features. So if you’re switching from a phone that’s at least a couple of years old, the S23 Ultra should be a serious upgrade.

The device comes with said S Pen built in, which is a definite plus. It has an excellent 6.8-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate and a resolution of 3,088 x 1,440. The screen’s brightness can reach up to 1,750 nits too. The performance, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, is significantly faster than the previous generation.

The S23 Ultra also has terrific cameras, including a new 200MP main sensor on the rear. As for battery life, the handset performed well in our testing. It lasted for 19 hours and 26 minutes in our video rundown test. The S23 Ultra still had plenty of juice in the tank after a day of moderate usage too. Meanwhile, Samsung has started rolling out One UI 6, which is its version of Android 14, so you should have swift access to the latest OS on the S23 Ultra if you pick one up.

Alternatively, if you don’t need quite as many bells and whistles, you can snap up the Galaxy S23 or Galaxy S23+ for record low prices. The Galaxy S23 is $100 off at $700. As for the Galaxy S23+ (to which we gave a score of 86 in our review) has dropped by $200 to $800.

Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/amazon-black-friday-deals-include-samsung-galaxy-s23-smartphones-at-record-low-prices-110034277.html?src=rss