James Pickard

Best Buy’s week-long 60th anniversary sale features discounts on laptops, TVs, Apple devices, headphones, appliances, gaming products, cameras, smart-home devices, and more. Standout offers include the HP OmniBook X Flip at $749.99, Apple AirPods Pro 3 at $189.99, the Hisense 58-inch 4K TV at $149.99, and the LG 77-inch B5 OLED at $1,399.99. Other recommendations cover Chromebooks, MacBooks, Nintendo Switch 2 bundles, headphones from Sony and Bose, vacuums from Shark and Dyson, Apple Watches and iPads, and the GoPro Hero 13 Black. The sale is scheduled to end on Sunday, with additional deals potentially added before then.

The Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece Collection is available on Steam for $29.99/£25.49, discounted 70% from $99.99/£84.99. It includes the major Kingdom Hearts games, remastered handheld titles, cutscene compilations, Kingdom Hearts III, and the Re Mind DLC, offering more than 200 hours of content. Although several mobile and spin-off releases are omitted or presented as movies, the bundle is described as the easiest and most affordable way to catch up with the series ahead of a 25th-anniversary D23 Expo event and possible news about Kingdom Hearts IV.

MSI’s UK Store launch promotion gives customers the chance to buy one featured product per day for £1 by finding a hidden voucher code on the store’s category or product pages. Each day has only one code, so the offer ends once it is claimed. Products already won include a monitor and a motherboard-plus-AIO bundle, while upcoming offers reportedly include a PC case, power supply, QD-OLED monitor and an RTX 5060 Ti graphics card.

Best Buy has reduced the Samsung R85H 85-inch Micro RGB TV from $3,999.99 to $2,799.99, its largest reported discount. The television uses micro-sized RGB LEDs for improved color accuracy, brightness, contrast, and reduced blooming, while its anti-glare panel, 144Hz refresh rate, and variable refresh rate support movie viewing, sports, gaming, and home-cinema use. Smaller 55-inch and 65-inch models are also available from $1,399.99.

Bose has reduced prices on five headphones and earbuds at Amazon following the announcement of the second-generation QuietComfort Headphones. The original QuietComfort Headphones are $229, the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are $369, the QuietComfort Earbuds are $149, the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds are $249, and the Ultra Open Earbuds are $199. The article considers the QuietComfort and standard Earbuds deals decent but not record-setting, while the Ultra Earbuds and Ultra Open Earbuds return to particularly strong low prices. Larger discounts may reappear during Black Friday.

Back-to-school sales in the US and UK offer discounts of up to 40% on laptops from Dell, Apple, Lenovo, Samsung, and Asus. James Pickard selects twelve deals ranging from basic Chromebooks priced at $199 or £159 to more capable models such as the Dell XPS 13, MacBook Neo, and Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360. The recommendations weigh price, specifications, battery life, expert reviews, and suitability for school, work, and everyday use, with student discounts providing additional savings on some US purchases.