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Cyber Monday gaming deals for 2024: The best sales for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and PC

Cyber Monday is usually a good time to restock on video games and gaming gear at a discount, and this year is no exception. If you’re looking to pad out your backlog, pick up a new console or refresh your desktop with new peripherals, we’re rounding up the Cyber Monday gaming deals that are most worth your attention below.

The selection includes a ton of popular Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox and PC games at their lowest prices to date, $75 off PS5 consoles, plus several discounts on accessories we’ve tested and recommended. We’ve dug through reviews and used price history trackers to ensure each offer below is a genuine deal, and we’ll update this post over the course of the day if prices change and more discounts become available.

The Morning After: Elon Musk wants the court to stop OpenAI becoming a for-profit

Elon Musk’s attorneys filed for an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, accusing them of anticompetitive practices. He wants to stop OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company. Musk first sued OpenAI earlier this year for allegedly violating its founding mission of building AI “for the benefit of humanity,” but he withdrew the lawsuit a few months later. He filed another lawsuit against OpenAI in a California federal court in August.

The third time’s the charm and all: Musk’s new motion accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of telling investors not to fund OpenAI’s competitors, such as Musk’s xAI, of “benefitting from wrongfully obtained competitively sensitive information or coordination” through its relationship with Microsoft.

— Mat Smith

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Intel Arc Battlemage GPU specs may have leaked early

The company teases ‘big graphics news’ this week.

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Cyber Monday streaming deals include the Hulu and Disney+ bundle for $36 for one year

This is it: Cyber Monday is your last chance to get what’s possibly the best streaming deal of the season. The Disney+ and Hulu Duo Basic bundle is on sale for $3 per month for twelve months, which comes out to $36 for the full year. This bundle gives you the basic tier of Hulu and Disney+, both with ads, and only new users or subscribers who canceled their plans at least a month ago are eligible to redeem the discount. Note that there’s no ESPN Plus included — but if you’re not into sports, that’s a nice net savings here.

This bundle with ads contains content from Disney+ and Hulu. The content is still the same as with ad-free plans, including movies and series like Deadpool & Wolverine, Frozen, Godmothered and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the anticipated Star Wars series only on Disney+. If some of these newer shows aren’t to your liking, there are likely older classics worth your time in the library.

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The best Cyber Monday speaker deals for 2024: Big savings on JBL, Sonos, Echo, Marshall and more

Bluetooth speakers bring your music anywhere. Soundbars help you rely less on subtitles. Then there are smart speakers, which build your grocery list, tell you the weather or play that ‘90s song that’s been stuck in your head for a week (… no diggity…). Now that Cyber Monday is here, we’re seeing deals on all types of speakers, but the ones worth checking out are the ones from our list of the best Bluetooth speakers, the best soundbars and the best smart speakers. We’ve listed every model we recommend that’s currently seeing a noteworthy discount. Here are the best Cyber Monday speaker deals.

The best Bluetooth speaker Cyber Monday deals

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Portable Bluetooth speakers make it easy for you to bring the music where plugs don’t reach — a picnic, the front stoop, an aimless wander along the Pacific Crest Trail. And right now for Cyber Monday, we’re seeing plenty of Bluetooth speaker Cyber Monday deals. Below is the best of what’s on sale, all pulled from our Bluetooth speaker guide as well as our reviews and news coverage.

The best JBL speaker Cyber Monday deals

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I can’t get over how good a deal the Pixel 8A is for $399

Google Pixel 8A showing homescreen.
You’re practically making money on this phone at 400 bucks. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

For someone who wants to spend the absolute least on a phone and not have to think about buying another one for a good long while, I’ll always recommend Google’s A-series Pixel phone. That’s doubly true now with the Pixel 8A on a $100 discount for Black Friday-ish Cyber Shopping Holiday or whatever it is we’re currently experiencing. The 8A is a solid value at its full $499 price, and cut down to $399 it’s a ridiculously good deal.

Here’s the kicker: Google is promising to update the Pixel 8A with OS version upgrades and security releases through May 2031. That means you can expect it to run Android 21. If you bought the 8A now for $400 and owned it for six years, that works out to $66 per year. You’d have to use a $1000 flagship phone…

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