All the best Black Friday 2021 video game deals we can find, in one place [Updated]

Enlarge / As usual, a whole lot of video games are on sale for Black Friday. (credit: Ars Technica)

(Update 11/23/21 2:30 pm EST): We've updated this roundup to include a number of PC gaming deals that we've found since this article was first published.

Black Friday officially arrives in a few days, but many of the noteworthy deals we expect to see have already begun. We have a big roundup of the best early Black Friday deals we can find more generally, but today we wanted to break out a separate roundup for video game discounts, since a metric ton of them have gone live across several retailers this week.

Major retailers like Target, Best Buy, and Walmart have already kicked off their official sales, as have the digital gaming storefronts for Xbox and PlayStation, with others like Amazon price-matching many of the better offers. We've pored over as many so-called deals as we can find from all of them and have listed the genuine discounts we like below, spotlighting a few particularly notable offers along the way.