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Sabrent Voltik 8-Port 252W USB-A & USB-C PD 3.0 Charging Station Was $88.95 → $78.95 with coupon on Amazon

If your desk has turned into a nest of wall warts and half-plugged cables, this is the fix. Eight ports and 252W of total output means a laptop, a phone, a tablet, a headset, a controller, and a couple of spares all run off one brick — and PD 3.0 support means the devices that can fast-charge actually do, rather than trickling because everything's sharing a cheap hub.

One heads up: the discounted price requires clipping a coupon on the product page before checkout, so don't skip that step.

Baseus 20000mAh 100W Power Bank w/ Built-In Dual USB-C Cables Was $79.99 → $55.99 on Amazon

The built-in cables are the whole pitch here — two USB-C cables attached to the unit, so there's no scenario where you've got the power bank but left the cable at home. At 100W output it'll actually charge a laptop rather than just topping off a phone, and the digital display shows exact remaining percentage instead of four vague LED dots.

20000mAh is right at the practical ceiling for carry-on air travel, so it works for events, con trips, or IRL streaming away from outlets. At 30% off, it’s a solid price on a unit that does a lot more than a basic phone top-off brick.

4-Pack OREiN Matter Smart RGB Light Bulbs (A19, 800 Lumens) Was $23.98 → $15.99 on Amazon

This is the cheapest way we've seen to get real colored lighting behind a stream setup. Four color-changing bulbs at 800 lumens each, and because they're Matter-certified they work with Apple Home, Alexa, and Google without being locked into one ecosystem or needing a proprietary hub.

Swap them into whatever lamps you already own and you've got a controllable color backdrop for about four bucks a bulb — a fraction of what dedicated streaming light panels cost. At 33% off, it's the easiest upgrade on this list for anyone whose on-camera background is currently just a wall.

Uineer Wireless Ergonomic Vertical Mouse (Tri-Mode, 3-Device) Was $22.99 → $19.99 on Amazon

Vertical mice put your hand in a handshake position rather than palm-down, which takes pressure off the wrist — genuinely worth trying if long sessions leave your hand aching. This one connects three ways (Bluetooth, 2.4GHz, and a second Bluetooth channel) and switches between up to three devices, so it moves between a desktop, a laptop, and a tablet without re-pairing.

Four DPI levels and a side scroll wheel round it out. This isn't a competitive gaming mouse — if you're playing shooters, stick with something conventional. But for editing, admin work, and the hours between streams, twenty bucks is a cheap experiment in fixing wrist strain.

ARCTIC MX-4 Premium Thermal Paste, 4g (+ Spatula) Was $8.99 → $5.49 on Amazon

Small pickup, real payoff. MX-4 is the default recommendation in PC building circles for good reason: strong thermal transfer, non-conductive so a slip won't fry anything, and it doesn't require a cure period. The 4g tube covers several applications, and the included spatula means you're not spreading it with a credit card.

With GPU prices climbing the way they have this year, keeping the hardware you already own running cool is the cheapest performance move available. If your rig has been running hot or you haven't repasted a CPU in a few years, five and a half bucks is a rounding error against a new cooler.

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🎮💰 GTA VI Giveaway: New Date — Win Cash Live on 11/14

Heads up — new date. We're moving the GTA VI cash giveaway to Saturday, November 14th, around 9PM CST. The game drops November 19th, and we're giving it the extra runway to make sure there are no more delays — and to see whether a PC rollout gets announced before we draw. Same deal otherwise: instead of preordering GTA VI, BLKSUIT is handing the cash straight to one of you. Spin the wheel, cash lands in your pocket.

The upside for you: entries stay open a whole lot longer, so there's plenty of runway to stack them up.

How to stack entries:
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This Week in Gaming

🎬 GTA 6 "Extended Look" Confirmed — August 27, on Netflix First

After more than a year of speculation, Rockstar finally put a date on it. Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look premieres August 27 at 3 p.m. ET — exclusively on Netflix, in what Netflix is calling a first-of-its-kind partnership. It hits Rockstar's own YouTube channel and the official GTA VI website six hours later at 9 p.m. ET, so nobody needs a Netflix subscription to see it, they just need patience.

Rockstar pointedly hasn't called it "Trailer 3." The official title is "An Extended Look," which suggests something more substantial than the roughly two-minute cinematic pieces that made up the first two trailers. Neither Rockstar nor Netflix has confirmed a runtime or whether it contains actual gameplay — and that's the open question, since Trailers 1 and 2 leaned almost entirely on cinematic shots rather than in-game action. It's the first significant GTA VI content since Trailer 2 landed in May 2025.

The timing puts it just under three months from launch. GTA 6 releases November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with the standard edition at $79.99 and the Ultimate at $99.99. Worth noting for collectors: the physical version ships as a code in a box, not a disc.

🪖 Helldivers 2 Surprise-Drops Into PS Plus — And August's Catalog Is Loaded

Sony didn't wait for the usual announcement cycle on this one. Helldivers 2 went live in the PS Plus Game Catalog on August 12 for Extra and Premium members worldwide, arriving the same day as the game's new Devoid of Liberty expansion — a horror-themed narrative arc that sends Helldivers into "the Void," where planets have been warped by strange mutations that intensify the closer you get.

The rest of August's catalog is genuinely one of the strongest in recent memory. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Vampire Survivors, Hell is Us, Metro Exodus, Two Point Museum, and Dying Light 2 are all rolling in — most on August 18, with a few landing August 25 depending on region. Premium subscribers also get Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams and Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire in the Classics catalog.

There's also a community challenge running: eliminate 500 million enemies collectively by August 18 to unlock four Helldiver PlayStation avatars. With a fresh wave of PS Plus recruits joining a game that's already welcomed 22.9 million players since 2024, hitting that number probably isn't the hard part.

📉 Supermassive Games Lays Off Up to 75 — Third Straight Year of Cuts

The studio behind Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology announced it's entering a redundancy consultation that could affect up to 75 employees. "This is a necessary step to help ensure the sustainability of the company," the statement read, adding that supporting affected staff is the priority throughout the process.

What makes this land harder is the pattern. Supermassive cut roughly 90 jobs in February 2024, another 36 in July 2025, and now up to 75 more — over 200 people across two and a half years. The studio had around 350 employees in 2023, meaning it will have roughly halved in size. Its most recent release, Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game, launched in May after being delayed from October 2025, and reportedly underperformed both critically and commercially.

It's a rough look for a developer with genuine pedigree. Until Dawn essentially defined the modern cinematic horror game, and The Quarry proved the formula still had legs. That a studio with that track record can't hold its headcount steady says a lot about the current state of the industry.

🐀 Xbox CEO Teases Elder Scrolls 6 While Union Protests Outside Bethesda

Asha Sharma gave fans the closest thing to a real Elder Scrolls 6 progress update in months. "Live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls VI: ******** this morning," she posted on X. "The scale and grandeur are incredible. The story is even greater." The post pulled 2.5 million views within hours, and eagle-eyed fans immediately zeroed in on those eight asterisks — an apparent hint at the subtitle's character count, which rules out longtime fan favorites like Hammerfell and Elsweyr.

The optics of the visit are the other half of the story. Sharma was at Bethesda's Rockville, Maryland office on August 11 — the same day members of the Bethesda Game Studios Union and the Communications Workers of America staged a protest outside. They brought Scabby, the giant inflatable rat traditionally deployed at labor demonstrations, and lined the office with red flags representing colleagues already laid off. The demonstration was deliberately timed to coincide with her visit.

The backdrop: Xbox has cut 1,600 workers with another 1,600 expected through the rest of the year. An executive posting glowing impressions of a flagship game while laid-off developers' colleagues protest outside is a contrast plenty of people noticed.

⚔️ Phantom Blade Zero Gets a Standalone State of Play on August 17

Sony is giving Phantom Blade Zero its own dedicated showcase. The State of Play streams August 17 at 7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET on PlayStation's YouTube and Twitch channels, running nearly 20 minutes and focused entirely on gameplay ahead of the game's October 29 launch on PS5 and PC.

The reveal that came with the announcement is the interesting part: Donnie Yen — the man behind the Ip Man films — has served as creative consultant on the game since 2023, personally shaping how its swordsmen move. S-GAME kept that quiet for three years. For a wuxia action RPG built around kung fu combat, having Yen in the room since early development is a meaningful credential, not just a marketing name-drop.

Pre-orders are live now on PlayStation Store, Steam, and Epic, and include early unlock of the Treasure Basin accessory and the Legacy outfit (both also obtainable through normal progression). One heads up for co-streamers: Sony has flagged that the broadcast may include licensed music it doesn't control, which could cause issues with VODs.

This Week in Streaming

💰 YouTube Doubles Its Partner Program Requirements — Kick Immediately Pounces

YouTube announced its first major overhaul of Partner Program requirements in years, and it's a significant barrier increase for new creators. The threshold is doubling to 1,000 subscribers along with raised watch-hour requirements, taking effect February 1, 2027. Existing partners aren't affected but will need to accept updated terms.

YouTube's framing is that higher thresholds mean more meaningful payouts — VP of Creator Product Amjad Hanif argued the goal is ensuring creators earn real income rather than "a few cents." The company is also expanding Premium Lite to every country where Premium is available, noting that partners typically earn more from a Premium viewer than an ad-supported one, and pointing to $100 billion paid out to creators between 2021 and 2025.

The reaction from creators was less generous — "This is going to be a devastating blow to small creators" was a common refrain. Kick's contract advisor wasted no time capitalizing: "If you are a creator who just got kicked in the gut please consider Kick Partner Program that pays more than YT for your viewers." For anyone weighing where to plant a flag as a newer creator, this materially changes the math.

🎩 Streamer Prom 2026 Took Over Houston Last Night

The second edition of Funny Mike's Streamer Prom went down last night, August 13, at the Imperio Ballroom in Houston, Texas, kicking off at 6:30 p.m. CDT. The invite-only event brings 100+ top-tier creators walking a live black-tie red carpet in custom prom attire, with attendees multistreaming throughout to capture reactions, fashion, and community interaction in real time.

The first edition set a high bar: 4.49 million Hours Watched live on Twitch, 562,883 Peak Viewers, and 1,575 unique channels covering the event — a mix of on-site guests and streamers rebroadcasting others' feeds. Names like jasontheween, ExtraEmily, Agent00, and Cinna covered it from the floor.

Funny Mike announced this year's edition with a characteristically unhinged trailer featuring a stolen cash box, subway surfing, a random marriage, and an alien encounter. Whatever actually happens, it's another data point in creator-led events becoming a genuine format rather than a novelty.

📊 Where Audiences Actually Watch: The H1 2026 Multistreaming Breakdown

Streams Charts dug into the top 500 multistreaming creators for the first half of 2026, and the findings cut against the assumption that being on every platform means an even audience split. YouTube led total Hours Watched at 57.14% — but that number is heavily distorted by CazéTV's 1.43 billion World Cup hours. Strip that single channel out and Twitch becomes the leader at 49.45%, with YouTube dropping to 32.55%.

On a per-creator average, Twitch remains the anchor, accounting for 56.18% of the typical channel's Hours Watched. The practical read: YouTube provides scale and discovery for breakout moments, but Twitch is where most creators' core communities actually live. Kick has carved out meaningful, high-engagement clusters rather than functioning as a catch-all.

Regional data is where it gets genuinely useful. Kick accounts for 29.51% of tracked hours in Spain and 25.74% in Brazil, but just 2.44% in Japan — where the split is essentially Twitch (52.05%) versus YouTube (45.52%). South Korea is YouTube-dominant at 68.88%, with SOOP at 15.36%. If you're multistreaming, where your audience lives matters more than how many platforms you're technically on.

⚠️ Asmongold Hit With 14-Day Twitch Ban

Zack "Asmongold" Hoyt's ZackRawrr channel — 2.4 million followers — went dark on August 6, with visitors met by a notice that the channel couldn't stream due to a Community Guidelines violation. Twitch doesn't publish ban reasons, but Asmongold has since confirmed the suspension runs 14 days, saying in a YouTube video: "I'm just guessing it's probably the thing that everybody was mad about."

The thing everybody was mad about: during an August 3 stream reacting to a video about Moroccan migrants crossing into Ceuta, Spain, he said he would "shoot whoever" attempted the crossing — explicitly naming women and children — and called the presence of children at the border "emotional blackmail." He also referred to migrants as "savages." The clip circulated widely after being reposted by Mario Nawfal. He has publicly stood by the substance of his remarks, saying he plans to adjust delivery but not the underlying position.

It's his second Twitch suspension of 2026, and it lands while he's already juggling an ongoing defamation lawsuit involving Mizkif and Emiru. Notably, he's also been streaming on Rumble since July 12 under the Asmongold name.

💸 Clavicular Says Kick Spent Nearly $700K Promoting His Clips in One Month

In an interview, Kick streamer Clavicular revealed he pays nothing to promote his viral short-form clips — Kick covers the entire cost. Asked what his clipping budget is, he answered flatly: "It's unlimited." He then said the platform's spend on his clipping campaign hit close to $700,000 in a single month, and that the campaign produced "2.2 billion views in like a month or two ago."

His reasoning for why Kick foots the bill is straightforward: the clips carry prominent Kick branding, so every viral clip functions as a customer acquisition ad for the platform. And he says it isn't exclusive to him — asked whether Kick offers this to other streamers, he replied simply, "Everyone on Kick."

Independent analysis backs the scale up. Streaming analyst and former CLG CEO Devin Nash estimated the operation at $650,000+ per month, and reporter JakeSucky noted over 1,500 clippers producing roughly 70,000 clips monthly. It raises a real question the industry hasn't fully reckoned with: when a platform bankrolls a creator's visibility at this scale, how much of "organic growth" is actually organic?

Hot Deals This Week

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Xbox Series X / PS5) Was $69.99 → from $15.67 on Amazon

Roughly 78% off is the steepest discount in this week's list by a wide margin, and it's on a genuinely enormous game. Infinite Wealth splits its story between Ichiban Kasuga and series veteran Kazuma Kiryu, moving the action from Japan to Hawaii and layering in a full turn-based RPG combat system, dozens of side activities, and a Dondoko Island management mode that could be its own release.

Pricing runs slightly different by platform right now: the Xbox Series X copy is $15.67 and the PS5 copy is $17.00, so grab whichever matches your console — the difference is small either way. If you played Yakuza 0 when it was discounted a few issues back and wanted to know where the series went from there, this is the modern flagship, and at these prices it's the easiest recommendation on the page.

Returnal (PS5) Was $69.99 → $35.95 on Amazon

Housemarque's roguelike shooter is still one of the best arguments for what PS5 hardware can actually do — particularly the DualSense implementation, where adaptive triggers and haptics carry real gameplay information rather than just rumbling for effect. You play Selene, crash-landed on a hostile alien planet and stuck in a time loop that resets the world every time you die.

It's genuinely difficult, and the run-based structure means progress is measured in knowledge as much as gear. At 49% off, it's a fair price to find out whether that loop grabs you.

Borderlands 4 (PS5) Was $49.99 → $29.99 on Amazon

The newest mainline Borderlands is already down to thirty bucks, which is a notably fast drop for a game this recent. The formula holds: absurd gun variety, four-player co-op, and a loot loop built to keep you chasing one more legendary drop.

Co-op is where this series earns its keep, so if you've got a squad that plays together regularly, at 40% off it's cheap enough that everyone can grab a copy without much negotiation.

Hell is Us (PS5) Was $59.99 → $29.99 on Amazon

Worth reading alongside the PS Plus story up top — Hell is Us is also joining the Game Catalog this month, so if you're an Extra or Premium subscriber, check there before buying. This is for everyone else, or anyone who wants to own it outright rather than rent it.

The game itself is a deliberately unguided action-adventure: no quest markers, no waypoints, no map hand-holding. You explore a war-torn country overrun by chimaeras and piece the mystery together yourself. It's a divisive design choice that some players find genuinely refreshing and others bounce off entirely. At 50% off, it's a reasonable price to find out which camp you land in.

Marvel Cosmic Invasion (Xbox Series X) Was $59.99 → $50.00 on Amazon

From the team behind TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, Cosmic Invasion brings the same sharp pixel-art beat-em-up energy to Marvel's cosmic corner — Silver Surfer, Nova, Venom, and a roster deep enough to keep a couch group arguing over picks.

The tag-team mechanic lets you bring two heroes into a run and swap between them mid-fight, which adds more depth than the genre usually bothers with. It supports both local and online co-op, so it works whether your group is on the couch or scattered. This is a modest 17% discount rather than a blowout — but it's a recent release that hasn't seen much of a price drop yet, so it's worth flagging for anyone who's had it on the list.