Early Black Friday gaming deals include one year of PS Plus for $40

Just ahead of Black Friday, some solid gaming deals are popping up. A 12-month subscription to is currently on Amazon. It typically costs $60 and it’s a digital code, so you won’t have to wait for delivery. If you’re already a PS Plus member, it’s still worth checking out this deal, since you can stack additional subscriptions.

Buy PS Plus (1 year) at Amazon – $40

You’ll need a PS Plus membership to play most multiplayer games on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. There are exceptions for some free-to-play games, including . In addition, members often get discounts on digital purchases through the PlayStation Store, as well as cloud storage and backups for game save files.

One of the major value adds of PS Plus is that players receive a mystery bag of a few games each month across PS4 and PS5. There are three extra PS VR games to mark the headset’s fifth anniversary. You’ll retain access to claimed PS Plus games as long as you maintain your subscription.

PS5 owners can take advantage of too. It’s a selection of first-party and third-party PS4 games, some of which have been patched for better performance on PS5. The lineup includes God of War, Monster Hunter: World, Final Fantasy XV, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Ratchet & Clank, Days Gone, Battlefield 1, Batman: Arkham Knight, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us Remastered, Persona 5 and Resident Evil 7. The same rule applies: if your PS Plus subscription lapses, you won’t be able to play games you claimed through the collection.

Of course, given that this is the biggest shopping season of the year, there are discounts on games as well, and many of the better deals are for physical editions. You can find savings on PlayStation console exclusives like (, usually $60), the of Ghost of Tsushima on PS5 (down from $70 to ),  (also reduced by $30 to ) and, in one of the bigger discounts, Returnal, which has dropped from $70 to .

There are good deals on multi-platform titles too, such as Eidos-Montreal’s surprisingly wonderful , which is half off at on all platforms. and are both less than half price at the minute at $20. , which is widely regarded as one of the best games of 2020, is also on all platforms.

is a third off at , and you can save on FIFA 22 as well. The latest edition of EA’s famed soccer series is $40 on and (it’s a digital code for the latter consoles), and $28 on and .

The PS5 digital edition and Xbox Series X don’t have disc drives, so deals on physical games won’t mean much to owners of those consoles. However, it’s worth checking out the PlayStation and Xbox digital stores for Black Friday deals there too.

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