HP just dropped the price of the OMEN MAX 16 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop to just $1,539.99 with free shipping after applying 30% off coupon "OMENMAX30". Specs include a 16" 1920x1200 display, Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. This system can be customized if any of the specs aren't to your liking. I'd recommend upgrading to the 2560x1600 OLED display for an extra $150 ($105 after code). The RTX 5070 Ti is a powerful mobile GPU that should easily handle even the latest demanding games on the laptop's 2K display. It's comparable in performance to the previous generation's RTX 4080 and pulls ahead of it in games that support DLSS 4.

OMEN MAX 16 RTX 5080 Gaming Laptop

If you want something even more powerful, then check out this OMEN MAX 16 RTX 5080 gaming laptop for just $1,999.99 with free shipping after $1,300 in instant discounts. Aside from the GPU, this laptop has been upgraded with a higher resolution 16" 2560x1600 display, a more powerful and higher core-count Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, and double the RAM and storage capacity. The RTX 5080 is an absolute monster of a mobile GPU that surpasses the previous generation's top performer, the RTX 4090. You could even enable ray tracing and still get playable frames, something that was unheard of in laptops just a few years ago.

OMEN Transcend 14 RTX 5060 Ultra-Portable Gaming Laptop

The OMEN Transcend 14 is HP's thinnest and lightest gaming laptop, measuring just 0.71" thin and weighing in at about 3.6 pounds (about as thin and light as the much pricier Razer Blade 14). Right now you can get it for as low as $1,299.99 for Black Friday after a $700 off instant discount. It's equipped with a gorgeous 14" 2880x1800 OLED display, efficient Intel Core Ultra 7 255H CPU, GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, 16GB of LPDDR5X (onboard) RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD. The RTX 5060 is a capable, current-gen GPU that will play non-demanding games just fine even on the 3K display, but I'd recommend dropping the resolution down to 1080p and enabling DLSS if you plan on playing extra demanding games. Still, you won't find another thin and light laptop with this kind of gaming prowess under $1,300.

OMEN 16" RTX 5060 Gaming Laptop

Yes, even if you're budget is tight, you can still get a very good gaming laptop for under $1,000. This OMEN 16" gaming laptop, featuring an AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, can be had for just $949.99 after a hefty $850 off instant discount. The AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX is a surprisingly powerful GPU for this price range, with a max frequency of 5.3GHz and an ample 16 cores and 32 threads. The RTX 5060 is an unthrottled model that's more powerful than the 5060 found in the OMEN Transcend and will be able to run games smoothly on the 2K display.

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It's been 23 years since Courage the Cowardly Dog ended, but there's no better time to head back to Nowhere, Kansas than right now. This was a pivotal cartoon from my childhood and I often forget just how creepy it was, weaving horror and supernatural themes throughout each episode. If you haven't seen it before, it's definitely worth a watch.

Unfortunately, there's nowhere to stream Courage the Cowardly Dog after it and other Cartoon Network classics were purged from HBO Max earlier this year. That makes this DVD box set your best bet if you want to experience the wild adventures of a perpetually frightened dog and his owners.

Even More Cartoon Network Classics on Sale at Amazon

As for those other Cartoon Network classics I mentioned at the top, Dexter's Laboratory is technically the only other one with a Black Friday-specific deal. But Amazon still has Ed, Edd n Eddy, the Powerpuff Girls, and Regular Show available for significant discounts.

The retailer also brought back its 3 for 2 sale on 4K movies for Black Friday, so be sure to check that out for even more savings.

You can shop all the Black Friday sales right now, including Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. We'll be updating these pages and rounding up even more deals all week long, so make sure to check back often.

Matthew Adler has written for IGN since 2019 covering all things gaming, tech, tabletop games, and more. You can follow him on the site formerly known as Twitter @MatthewAdler and watch him stream on Twitch.

This two-for-three vinyl deal works exactly like it sounds: when you buy three albums, the lowest-priced album will be free. So, I’d recommend grabbing three similarly priced options for a better value. Best of all, it’s actually not just vinyl that you can grab with this promo; it’s buy two, get one free on a whole range of physical media. From 4K Blu-Rays and DVDs to book box sets and more, you can mix and match to your liking. Once eligible items are added to your cart, the discount will be applied.

If you’ve been struggling to buy something for a music lover on your holiday list, new vinyl is always a great and welcome gift. Who doesn’t want to add new albums to their collection? Be sure to take advantage of this deal now, as the most popular albums tend to sell out. As a person who spends far too much of her time analyzing music and its history, I’ve curated a list of a few of my personal favorites, all of which are three for the price of two right now.

Black Friday Vinyl Sale at Amazon - My Top Picks

When I say it was difficult to narrow down my favorite vinyls that are a part of this three-for-two deal, I mean it. This is Amazon’s best selection yet for this occasional sale. Every single one of my top artists had at least one album available for this awesome discount. So, beyond my personal recs, I’d recommend you explore Amazon’s vinyl sale on your own. There are seemingly endless options, including some epic movie soundtracks.

Of course, there are plenty of iconic albums that everyone needs in their collection. The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Carole King’s Tapestry display true mastery of songwriting. For no skip albums, Billy Joel’s The Stranger or Crosby, Stills and Nash’s debut can’t be beat. And if you want to slow things down and relax a little, Kind of Blue from Miles Davis has the consensus of being the best jazz album of all time.

Jumping to albums from this millennium, one of my favorite musicians and albums of all time, John Mayer’s Born and Raised, is a part of this promotion. It was co-produced with Mayer and Don Was and features a folky, Americana vibe. If you're an emo millennial after some nostalgia, grab My Chemical Romance’s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, which features the hit “I'm Not Okay (I Promise).” Or if you’ve spent too much time on TikTok, like me, and now know every song from Taylor Swift’s newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, you can add it to your cart and enjoy the promo deal. The vinyl even features a fun, sparkly orange color.

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to rediscover an artist, and that’s the case with multifaceted, wildly talented, and innovative D’Angelo, who we just lost in October. His album with Vanguard, Black Messiah, is a must listen. Another artist gone way too soon is Jeff Buckley, and his seminal album Grace is also part of the three-for-two vinyl deal.

Movie soundtracks are also included

Danielle is a Tech freelance writer based in Los Angeles who spends her free time creating videos and geeking out over music history.

With 2025’s S90F, Samsung has finally brought together the best aspects of high-end televisions and the fastest PC gaming displays into one end-game package. It was close last year with the S90D (which was also a very good gaming TV), but the improvements Samsung has made to fullscreen brightness and HDR highlights push the S90F to the top tier of our recommendations, and make gaming on the S90F a fantastic experience, now viable even if you’re not living in a cave. Just make sure to get the 65-inch version, which uses Samsung's QD-OLED technology; other sizes use an inferior WOLED panel.

Gaming on the S90F is as good as or better than most PC monitors. With a 144Hz refresh rate and full VRR support, gaming is clear, fluid, and judder-free no matter if you’re playing at 60 fps or 120 or anywhere in between. As I noted in my review, playing Doom: The Dark Ages on the S90F, with near-instant pixel response times and incredibly low input lag, was an absolute treat. TestUFO pursuit shots (at a very fast 1,920 pixels/sec) back this up, showing only pure sample-and-hold blur without any smearing or trailing. And happily, Samsung's Game mode doesn't compromise the picture quality, so HDR EOTF tracking and calibration are still top-notch.

Speaking of the EOTF, on a 2% white slide, representative of a typical HDR highlight, my measurements confirm that the S90F tracks HDR target luminance nearly perfectly, with only a slight deviation in the darkest shades, below 1 nit. Samsung is a bit more conservative with brightness in game mode than in its movie modes, but peak brightness still reaches around 1,200 nits on real content – still incredibly punchy, especially with OLED’s extreme local contrast.

The S90F does almost as well on a 10% slide, meaning that Samsung can maintain very good output over a decent portion of the screen. But brightness falls as the window size increases: At 100% fullscreen white, the S90F can only eek out 250 nits, too dim for bright room gaming.

LCD competitors like the Hisense U8QG or TCL QM8K can pip the S90F in absolute luminance output, but their response times are simply too slow to keep up, and their viewing angles are much worse than OLED. For gamers who have the ability to control the lighting in their rooms, the S90F OLED means there’s no going back to LCD.

At launch, the S90F's $2,500 asking price was too high, but patience (and healthy competition) pays: The S90F can now be found for $1,500, and at that price, it's an easy win for gamers.

Because of its tremendous performance/cost ratio, Samsung’s S90F earns our top spot for best overall gaming TV, but for those that have the additional budget to spring for a flagship product, both Samsung and LG are offering 2025 models (the S95F and G5) that push SDR/HDR brightness to new levels, improve reflection handling, and offer higher refresh rates. With end-of-year sales, they manage this without the luxury tax/diminishing returns price hike that normally comes with halo products.

In fact, a case could be made that LG, in particular, is tilting value towards the high end: Fullscreen brightness, a major area of weakness for previous gen and lower tier OLEDs, has been ramped nearly 80%, but the price premium for over the tier-down C5 is only around 40%. Case in point: The C5 gets you 220 nits fullscreen. The G5 gets you nearly 400.

We loved the 2,000+ nit highlights in our review, which we consider essential at this price tier, but LG has done a great job of balancing these with the drastically improved 100% APL, a huge year-on-year improvement over the G4 (one of our favorites from last year). This brightness boost also comes with an improvement to color purity as well; we measured 91.5% of the DCI-P3 color space, an excellent result for a WOLED panel. While LG is being tight-lipped about how exactly they achieved this, Panasonic's announcement of their Z95B, using the same panel as the G5, revealed the tech as Primary RGB Tandem, which allows the G5 to inch closer to Samsung's RGB QD-OLED performance.

Picture quality is everything we've come to expect from OLED panels: perfect blacks, incredible contrast that even multi-thousand zone FALD backlights can't achieve without blooming, and spectacular off-angle viewing. And this performance extends to LG's "Game Optimizer" mode as well: instant response times, native 165Hz refresh rate with VRR, low latency with ALLM, plus a ton of useful options for tweaking shadow and highlight balance. For gaming, even in fast-paced shooters like Apex Legends, the G5 is as good as it gets.

For downsides, our biggest issue with the G5 didn't have anything to do with its picture quality; the problem is LG's WebOS. Cluttered, slow, and difficult to navigate, LG's UI seems to be regressing from previous years, spurred on by their need to AI-ify everything. We've even lost the input selection button on the remote in favor of an AI button, a decision which is baffling.

But if you can get past the clunky menus (which is something unfortunately shared by Samsung as well), the G5 is the top-tier gaming TV of 2025. Whether you’re playing games or watching movies, SDR or HDR, basement cave or bright living room, the G5 delivers an awesome experience.

Why the G5 over the S95F? The LG is $300 cheaper and both perform nearly the same. Save the cash and enjoy.

The choice in this category was a very, very close contest between two LCD sets: TCL’s QM8K and the Hisense U8QG. We were hugely impressed with both the TCL and the Hisense, and it seems that the two companies are in lock-step, both pushing the boundary of what’s possible with FALD backlit LCD technology. We’re now getting more and more dimming zones, absurd brightness, and ever-increasing refresh rates. But for the best bright room gaming experience, we recommend the Hisense U8QG.

While the U8QG can hit 4,000 nits in highly specific cases, a better, more realistic metric for showcasing its brightness performance is to look at where its EOTF curve tops out with a 2% window size compared with 100% fullscreen white. The U8QG can reach more than 1,300 nits for highlights, but impressively, its fullscreen luminance only drops to 780 nits, which is still massively bright. That capacity to deliver mega fullscreen nits combined with an excellent AR coating means that the U8QG is a truly impressive bright room performer.

An OLED, like our top pick – the Samsung S90F – can go toe-to-toe with the U8QG at a 2% window size, but it takes a massive hit for fullscreen white, down to 250 nits, less than a third of what the Hisense can do.

Color performance stays excellent as well – bright, deep, vivid, and nearly full coverage of the DCI-P3 color space – enabled by the U8QG’s quantum dot enhanced backlight. Just don’t get too far off center or the viewing experience starts to suffer. TCL’s QM8K is similar in this regard, but it has fewer backlight zones, is slightly dimmer, and doesn’t have the same quality anti-reflective coating, which is why our nod goes to the U8QG.

Gaming/motion performance on the U8QG is good but not stellar. It supports 165Hz (+VRR) at 4K resolution on all its HDMI ports, and it even has an enhanced 288Hz mode at QHD for PC gamers, but its pixel response times aren’t in league with OLEDs or IPS gaming monitors. My response time measurements bear this out: an average of 20ms, but with some transitions lingering for around 30. Pursuit shots of the TestUFO alien give an accurate visual of what you can expect; objects have too much blur and dark colors show significant trailing.

While the Hisense U8QG doesn’t match OLED competitors like the Samsung S90F or LG C5 for motion clarity or viewing angles, its great fullscreen brightness and effective AR coating make it a sensible choice and the current go-to LCD to beat for gaming in bright rooms.

This category sees another very close competition between the two mid-range titans: the TCL QM7K and the Hisense U75QG. You really can’t go wrong with either; both offer full array local dimming, quantum dot backlights (or KSF phosphors in the case of the U75QG) for great DCI-P3 color space coverage, and 144Hz+ high refresh rates with VRR for gaming. But because TCL tuned its HVA panel to the as-good-as-it-gets level for LCD, the QM7K tops our list for best mid-range gaming TV.

The Hisense can get significantly brighter, has more dimming zones, and is the better choice for movies and television, but it’s let down by its motion performance. While the U75QG boasts a slightly higher max refresh rate of 165Hz, its response times simply aren’t good enough to beat the 144Hz mode on the TCL, which is excellent for both console and PC gaming.

But in our review, we weren’t just impressed with the gaming performance: TCL has done an excellent job reducing blooming and haloing with its local dimming algorithm, and with support for both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, the QM7K will work with any content, whether that’s streaming movies or the latest HDR games.

If you want the best gaming TV under $1,000, the QM7K is the logical choice.

All candidates for our best budget gaming TV award had to meet three specific requirements:

1. Full array local dimming
2. Quantum dot or other enhanced backlight
3. 120Hz + refresh rate with Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support

There are a lot of decent televisions out there that meet some of these criteria, but we contend that, in 2025, great HDR gaming requires all three. Edge-lit TVs can’t show the stark local contrast that makes HDR content pop, and they suffer from serious blooming, especially off-angle. Standard LED backlights also fall well short of covering the DCI-P3 color space, leaving colors dull and lifeless. And with modern gaming consoles fully supporting 120Hz “performance” modes with VRR, a fixed 60Hz refresh rate means the gaming experience is tarnished with the tearing and judder associated with typical V-Sync behavior.

In our review, we were very impressed with the QM6K. That sentiment still stands, making the QM6K our definitive pick for best budget gaming TV. Especially impressive was its ability to handle HDR highlights without significant blooming or haloing, given its limited zone count. Color performance is also excellent, helped by the KSF phosphor in its backlight. For watching movies and playing games, we also found off-angle viewing to be great, with limited loss of contrast and color saturation even well off-center.

TCL also has a knack for finely tuning the response time performance of their HVA panels: The QM6K has excellent response times and presents a smooth and judder-free gaming experience at any framerate thanks to its 144Hz max refresh rate and support for VRR, FreeSync Premium Pro, and ALLM. Two full-speed HDMI 2.1 ports allow simultaneous connections for both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, leaving the other HDMI ports available for lower refresh rate devices.

Below $650, though, concessions have to be made. Fullscreen brightness isn’t particularly good. This is not a TV that will “wow” you with bright highlights. This isn’t helped by TCL’s decision to use a glossy screen coating with no real anti-reflective treatment. If your primary viewing environment is brightly lit, the QM6K might not give the pop you’re looking for. We also found the Google TV interface slow and laggy.

Still, TCL has somehow delivered a very respectable performer with the QM6K, making it our top pick for best budget gaming TV.

Myles Obenza is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.