Are you looking for a new console, computer? Are you wasting your time while following fruitless, countless steps on game keys sites that don’t even work? Calm down and prepare for Black Friday. It is the best time to get your gear and long postponed upgrades going.

I will start rather oddly, but bare with me. I think there are plenty of tools that you might even forget to look at during these holiday sales. VPN, gameplay recording software, your accounts and personal information management and protection tools, and many other essentials that are used by many gamers but often forgotten during Black Friday rush. I listed a few of the best deals you should check out this year.

For security and protection

Surfshark is a VPN industry newcomer that could put the well-known competitors to shame. They have a variety of server locations and all of them support obfuscation and multi-hop features. In addition, the connection stability and speed do not cause unreasonable ping jumps. Of course, IP change allows you to bypass geo-restrictions that some games set for their early-access or even final release versions and regions. With their Black Friday coupon ‘BLACKSHARK’ you will save blasting 83% on their two years VPN plan which is just $47.76 ($1.99 per month) instead of the usual price of $286.80. You can get this deal here.

Albine offers to tools that both help you with personal information protection. Blur makes it easy to keep track of and secure all your personal information online. It prevents trackers, manages passwords, masks your email and phone number so no spam would follow you after a visit of a website with such advertising methods. Another Abine tool called DeleteMe removes your personal information like name, address, age, phone number, email address, and photos of your home from leading data broker sites. We can expect something around 30–50% discounts for this Black Friday 2018 weekend.

For streaming and recording

This is the most popular gameplay recording and general screen recording software on the market right now. It allows real-time recording and streaming, recording in a 4k definition and adding your audio commentary. With an intuitive user interface, smooth recording and integration with popular streaming services, Action! is one of the most user-friendly screen recorders available. Also, it is packed with many features and powerful editing options. It is already offering 33% off deal this autumn but it might get even better with Black Friday getting closer.

Premier stays one of the best and most popular video editing tool. It has clear and easy-to-manage interface, many features and tools to make your videos look professional. The usual price for a single-app plan is $19.99, but Black Friday should bring back their 40% discount on all of their yearly plans.

And now back to the usual Black Friday gamer deals stuff. Last year, retailers offered Xbox One and PS4 consoles for less than $200, while Nintendo followed with generous price cuts on their still pretty fresh Switch. VR headsets including the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive got price cuts of up to $100. Thus said, this year’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday weekend should not disappoint, especially, with more and more high-quality gear appearing ready for competition.

As per PC gaming, you can count on companies such as Razer, SteelSeries and Logitech to offer price cuts of at least 30% on their best laptops and other gaming gear. Razer’s Cyber Weekend event of 2017 offered laptops with up to $350 off, new Chroma keyboards as much as $40 less than retail, and even the new wireless Lancehead mouse for $40 off.

And how about if you are looking to update your computer or maybe build a new one on your own? It is probably the best time to get your GTX 1080 if you do not have it yet. Also, there few bloggers and people of Reddit that did not miss a chance to brag about building a completely new PC and saving few hundred dollars thanks to Black Friday 2017 deals.

Also, do not forget that game stores such as Steam and Humble Bundle have their sales scheduled too by now. Steam sales usually run for a week so they do tend to start earlier so Black Friday sale will start a day early on November 22nd and will most likely last through the weekend potentially including Cyber Monday. That being said, all that is left now is to hope, that we will see a cut in prices of some of 2018’s biggest releases such as Far Cry 5, or even maybe the two upcoming big boys — Fallout 76 and Red Dead Redemption 2, if we are really lucky.

That’s about it. Black Friday 2018 seems to be promising. I will go start planning my PC upgrades now or I might just get my Blade Stealth after all.