A guide to the best Black Friday gaming deals

The one buck subscription isn’t an enticing deal if you’re the kind of person that doesn’t want to fight with crowds on a blustery fall day. After all, these great deals from companies like Microsoft certainly make great presents.

For the sake of this list, we only considered Xbox One gaming console deals. It’s one of the best games of the year. This will be down to personal taste, although bundles with extra controllers instead of extra games are worthy of your attention if you intend to play locally with friends. This offer is available at GameStop (all weekend), Best Buy (Black Friday only), and Wal-Mart (Black Friday only). Here we bring you the best Xbox One deals in the UK. The $450 deal is for Black Friday, the regular price of this bundle is $499, so you’re saving $50.

The retailer is also offering the usual 20% discount to those that sign up through the Gamers Club Unlocked program.

For some, the success of the Xbox 360 can be traced back to some of the most iconic exclusive video game titles that came with the console. However, that’s not all as the ads seem to have leaked a lot more. If you are looking to gain this holiday season, Amazon Prime is going to be one lucrative option.

As for what specific games will be available in December 2015, that remains a mystery, but next week (at the latest) should be the time when they are officially revealed.

Walmart has slashed the price on Apple’s iPad Mini 2, offering a 16 GB version of the tablet for $199. Deals open to everyone on November 24 and end on November 30. This will drop the game below $50.

On the productivity front, you can find Black Friday discounts on Office. The price here is $48.99. That last one was just released a couple of weeks ago and is already discounted to $36.

Beginning next Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET, Microsoft and its retail partners will offer up to $200 in savings off the Surface Pro 3, the tablet-laptop hybrid released a year ago to rave reviews.

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Besides offering a plethora of blockbuster titles, it also heralded game-changing technology like the Xbox Live multiplayer service and the Kinect motion sensing camera.

I’d save at least once every 10 to 15 minutes.