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GIGABYTE B850 AORUS Stealth ICE Reverse-Connect ATX Motherboard 🖥️ Was $254.99 → $229.10 on Amazon

A genuine PC-build upgrade for anyone on AM5. The B850 AORUS Stealth ICE pairs a clean white and silver aesthetic with a reverse-connect layout, which routes cables behind the board for dramatically cleaner airflow and a build that actually looks finished once the side panel goes on. It supports the latest Ryzen chips with room to grow, solid VRM cooling for sustained overclocks, and the kind of build quality GIGABYTE's AORUS line is known for.

At 10% off, it's not the deepest discount of the week, but a $25 markdown on a board this well-reviewed for a from-scratch or upgrade build is still worth grabbing while it's here.

Glorious GMMK 3 75% Barebones Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard 🖥️ Was $89.99 → $52.49 on Amazon

42% off a genuinely great starting point for anyone getting into custom keyboards. The GMMK 3 75% ships barebones — no switches or keycaps included — so you pick exactly the feel and sound you want, then drop them into its modular gasket-mount system for a soft, cushioned typing experience instead of a harsh bottom-out. The knob up top gives you quick volume or scroll control without digging into software.

It's not a plug-and-play board out of the box, so budget for switches and keycaps separately, but for anyone who wants to build their first custom keyboard without starting completely from scratch, this is one of the more approachable ways in.

AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra 2.1 4K60 HDMI Capture Card Was $209.99 → $167.99 on Amazon (cart coupon required)

The prosumer pick for anyone recording or streaming from a console or second PC. The Live Gamer Ultra 2.1 captures true 4K60 HDR footage with next to no perceptible latency, so what you see on your capture monitor matches what's happening on screen in real time — critical for anything competitive.

It handles HDMI 2.1 sources, which means it's ready for current-gen console output without downscaling, and AVerMedia's software handles overlays, webcam mixing, and scene switching without needing a second piece of software running in the background. Heads up: the $167.99 price needs a coupon clipped on the product page before it applies at checkout, so don't skip that step. At 20% off, it's a real investment, but a serious one for anyone taking capture quality seriously.

ARCTIC Liquid Freezer WS360-SP6 AIO Workstation Liquid Cooler Was $109.99 → $96.79 on Amazon

A 360mm all-in-one liquid cooler built for workstation-class chips, specifically socketed for AMD's sTR5 and SP6 platforms. If you're running a Threadripper or high-core-count workstation build that generates real heat under sustained load, this is the kind of cooling that keeps clocks stable instead of throttling mid-render.

ARCTIC's Liquid Freezer line has built a strong reputation for pairing quiet operation with genuinely competitive cooling performance, and the 360mm radiator gives it plenty of surface area to work with. At 12% off, it's a modest discount, but a solid one on hardware that doesn't go on sale often.

UGREEN 1080P 60FPS HDMI Capture Card USB 3.0 Was $39.99 → $29.98 on Amazon

The budget-friendly answer to the AVerMedia pick above. This capture card handles 1080p at a full 60fps over a simple USB 3.0 connection, plug-and-play with OBS, Xsplit, and most other streaming software without extra drivers or setup headaches.

It won't touch 4K, and it's not built for zero-latency competitive capture the way a higher-end card is, but for anyone just getting into console capture or second-camera setups, it covers the basics cleanly. At 25% off, it's an easy, low-risk way to add a capture source to your setup without a big spend.

What's Streaming

🎮💰 GTA VI Giveaway: Win Cash Live on 8/15

Instead of preordering GTA VI, BLKSUIT is giving the cash straight to one of you. On Saturday, August 15th, around 9PM CST, we're drawing a winner live on stream — spin the wheel, cash lands in your pocket.

How to stack entries:
Sub (new or current) — +2  |  Subbed 3+ months — +2 bonus  |  New follower — +1  |  Cheer 500+ bits during the stream — +1  |  Sign up for the newsletter — +1  |  Every gift sub you hand out — +1

👉 Catch the drawing live on Twitch!

Regular Schedule

Catch BLKSUIT live every Monday and Thursday, plus the giveaway stream on Saturday, August 15th. 🔔

This Week in Gaming

🎨 GTA Online: The Kortz Center Heist Is Live

Rockstar dropped its next big GTA Online score on July 14 — The Kortz Center Heist, an art-robbery job centered on a fictional gallery in Pacific Bluffs. To unlock it, you'll need a Prix Luxury Mansion upgraded with a new Art Studio, which then becomes your planning hub for prep missions and the multi-stage finale. It supports solo play or up to four players, and the target paintings rotate weekly after your first completion.

What makes this one worth paying attention to: several outlets are already calling it the last major GTA Online content drop before GTA VI. Rockstar packed it accordingly — seven new vehicles, a GTA+-exclusive supercar (the Grotti Veleno GT, general release July 23), and a weekly challenge paying out GTA$100,000 just for completing the heist once.

If you've got a mansion sitting empty, this is the update that finally gives it a job to do.

🚵 MAVRIX 1.0 Launches Today, With New Head-to-Head Multiplayer

MAVRIX's full 1.0 release drops today, bringing the downhill/enduro mountain biking game out of a year-long Early Access and adding a brand-new head-to-head multiplayer mode. Up to 5 riders can now matchmake into the same trail together, racing first-to-the-bottom with bar-to-bar action you can watch in first-person, third-person, or even a rear-facing camera angle.

During Early Access, competition was solo — times and scores ranked on global leaderboards, but nobody racing you directly. Head-to-head changes that entirely, and it comes with a real strategic layer: downhill bikes hit harder and hold stability at high speed, while lighter enduro bikes accelerate faster and hop obstacles more easily. Picking the wrong bike for a trail can cost you the race before you even start.

It's available now on Xbox Series X|S and via Xbox Game Pass, so if you've got Game Pass, there's zero reason not to try it out today.

🔫 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Reveals Kill Block

Infinity Ward pulled back the curtain on Kill Block, a new multiplayer mode built around a battlefield that physically reconfigures between matches. The map is assembled from three massive modular sections — two "End Slabs" where teams spawn, and a central "Slab" in the middle — that combine into over 500 possible layouts. No two matches are guaranteed to play the same way twice.

It's set inside the fictional West Bridge Advanced Military Training Facility, and at launch it'll support both 3v3 and an all-new 10v10 Gunfight mode, with more core multiplayer modes planned for after release. Fanatics Fest NYC attendees are getting first hands-on access this week (July 16–19) at the Javits Center, ahead of the game's full launch.

Modern Warfare 4 releases October 23 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and — notably — Switch 2, marking Call of Duty's day-and-date debut on Nintendo's new console.

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🎮 PS Plus Extra & Premium July Lineup Revealed

Sony confirmed this month's PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium additions, and it's a genuinely strong batch. The two headliners are Rise of the Ronin, Team Ninja's open-world samurai action game set in 19th-century Japan, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ubisoft's open-world adventure built on lore from James Cameron himself. Premium subscribers also get two PS2-era classics added to the Classics catalog.

Sony's continuing to stagger releases across the month rather than dropping everything at once — Rise of the Ronin went live July 15 in the US and UK, with the rest of the lineup, including Avatar, rolling out through July 21 and 28 depending on region and title.

One thing to watch before you dive in: twelve titles are also leaving the Extra and Premium catalog on July 21, including Risk of Rain 2 and Tropico 6. If you've been meaning to finish something from the current library, this is your reminder.

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🥽 Valve's Steam Frame Launch Looks Imminent

Valve's standalone VR headset, Steam Frame, has been stuck in a vague "summer 2026" holding pattern for months — but the signals pointing to an actual launch are stacking up fast. Shipping manifests tagged "Virtual Reality Devices" show 15 separate shipments have now cleared US customs into Valve's warehouses, and a "Great On Frame" landing page has quietly gone live on the Steam store, mirroring exactly what happened right before the Steam Machine's launch in June.

The Frame is Valve's answer to the aging Valve Index — a standalone SteamOS headset that can also stream PC games wirelessly, using the same Verified compatibility badge system as Steam Deck. Its sibling device, the Steam Machine, already shipped June 30 at $1,049 through a randomized pre-order lottery, so expect the Frame to follow a similar reservation-based rollout rather than a simple "add to cart" launch.

No official price yet, but expectations are sitting in the $899–$1,199 range given how much memory and component costs have driven up Valve's other 2026 hardware. If Valve follows its own pattern, an actual announcement could land any day now.

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💿 'Don't Kill the Disc' Petition Passes 250,000 Signatures

Sony's July 1 announcement that it's ending physical disc production for new PlayStation games in January 2028 hasn't gone over quietly. A Change.org petition titled "Don't Kill the Disc," started by Canadian retailer PNP Games, has rocketed past 250,000 signatures in just over two weeks — hitting 100,000 in its first four days alone. The pitch is simple: a disc is something you can lend, resell, gift, or pass down, while a download code is "a digital license in plastic packaging" that can be revoked whenever a platform decides.

There's a GTA-shaped wrinkle in all this too — just days before Sony's announcement, GTA VI was confirmed to launch with no disc at all, which the petition points to directly as a sign of where the industry is heading now that the market leader has made its call. PNP Games CEO Jade Pearce has also framed this as a jobs issue as much as a preservation one: physical media supports retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and the entire resale and collector ecosystem, and an all-digital future quietly erases all of it.

Sony, for its part, has stayed almost completely silent since the July 1 announcement, beyond confirming the policy itself. Whether a quarter-million signatures (and climbing) is enough to move a company this size remains to be seen — Change.org petitions carry no legal weight — but it's become one of the loudest organized pushbacks the platform has faced in years.

This Week in Streaming

🎓 Kai Cenat's Streamer University 2026 Kicked Off July 15

Kai Cenat came back in a big way. After a roughly nine-month break from streaming to focus on his clothing line, Vivet, he returned to Twitch, crossed 1 million concurrent viewers for the second time in his career, and immediately announced the return of Streamer University — his annual event where he brings in a rotating cast of "professors" (fellow creators) to co-stream, collab, and build content together over several days.

This year's run is five days, shorter than some past editions, which sparked some pushback online — a few fans and creators joked that "grown adults" were losing it over an event that keeps shrinking in length. Kai also revealed that animal conservationist Maya Higa, one of the 12 announced professors, won't be able to attend after all, despite reportedly wanting to be there.

Whatever the format quirks, Streamer University remains one of the biggest recurring events in the creator space — a genuine ratings and culture moment each time it happens, and worth watching if you care about where livestreaming trends are headed next.

🎁 Twitch Summer Drop Fest 2026 Is Live Now (Through July 24)

Twitch's Summer Drop Fest is back, running July 10 through July 24, and it's stacked. The event partners with game publishers to hand out in-stream rewards just for watching — no purchase required, just tune into a participating streamer for a set number of hours. Titles in rotation include Disney Dreamlight Valley, The Elder Scrolls Online (celebrating its new Season One story content), Dead by Daylight (marking its anniversary with the Black Banquet event), and Delta Force's newest Extraction Mode map.

There's also a Dream Con category running alongside the Fest, celebrating Black creators, gamers, and culture — watching any streamer in that category for an hour earns an exclusive "Dreamers" chat badge, and gifting or purchasing a sub unlocks a limited-edition "Dream Beyond" badge available only for the weekend.

If your viewers are the type to chase drops, this is worth flagging — free loot for watching streams they'd probably be watching anyway.

💬 Twitch Quietly Stopped Enforcing Its "Combined Chat" Ban

For years, Twitch's multistreaming rules technically prohibited displaying a "combined chat" overlay — one box merging messages from Twitch, YouTube, and Kick into a single view for viewers watching across platforms. It was rarely enforced consistently, but it was real: creators like Gigguk got hit with actual warnings just for showing a unified chat box on stream.

After community backlash over the inconsistency, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy confirmed the platform would stop issuing enforcement actions for combined chat displays. The written Terms of Service technically still discourage it, but as of now, Twitch has confirmed it won't penalize creators for doing it — while reserving the right to reverse course if merged chats are ever deemed to be hurting the "Twitch-native" experience.

Practically, this means if you're multistreaming to Twitch alongside YouTube or Kick, you can finally run one unified chat overlay instead of juggling separate windows — a small but genuinely useful change for anyone running a multi-platform setup.

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📉 Twitch's Market Share Keeps Slipping as Kick and YouTube Climb

The numbers tell a clear story: Twitch now holds 54% of livestreaming watch time, down sharply from 71% in late 2023. YouTube Gaming has grown to 24% of the market, and Kick has surged to 11% after posting 131% year-over-year growth. Twitch still runs far more concurrent live channels than either rival — averaging around 93,000 channels live at once — but raw viewing hours are trending the other way.

Money is a big part of the pull. Kick pays creators a 95/5 revenue split versus Twitch's standard 50/50, which works out to roughly $4,750 a month per 1,000 subscribers on Kick compared to $2,500 on Twitch — a real six-figure difference over a few years for a mid-tier streamer. YouTube, meanwhile, wins on pure discoverability: every livestream is automatically archived and indexed as a searchable video the moment it ends, giving creators long-tail traffic Twitch VODs simply don't generate the same way.

None of this means Twitch is going anywhere soon, but the gap is narrowing every quarter, and creators weighing where to plant their flag now have real financial incentive to at least consider multistreaming rather than staying Twitch-exclusive.

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🎤 IShowSpeed Set to Perform at the World Cup Final Closing Ceremony

IShowSpeed has had one of the wildest World Cup runs of any creator alive — traveling stadium to stadium, breaking down in tears when Ronaldo scored, getting mistaken for starting a confrontation with a fan (it was actually friendly trash talk that went viral), and even meeting Kylian Mbappé's father courtside. Now it's culminating in something bigger than any single clip: FIFA confirmed Speed will perform his viral anthem "World Cup (Champions)" during the closing ceremony ahead of the Final, sharing a lineup with Robbie Williams, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger, and a special appearance from Tom Cruise.

The song itself has been a genuine phenomenon — its music video pulled over 90 million views within its first month, and it name-drops all 48 qualifying countries in this year's expanded tournament field. Speed said FIFA called him directly to ask him to perform, and that he initially thought it was a prank call.

It's a genuinely rare crossover moment: a livestreamer who built his entire career on Twitch and YouTube chaos is now sharing a stage with A-list musicians on one of the biggest broadcasts on the planet. Worth watching regardless of whether you follow soccer.

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Hot Deals This Week

Splatoon Raiders (Nintendo Switch 2, Digital) Was $59.99 → $49.99 on Amazon

Splatoon's first-ever spin-off drops players onto the mysterious Spirhalite Islands as a mechanic, teaming up with Deep Cut to raid for loot, upgrade gear and ship, and take down Salmonid enemies with ink weapons and craftable gadgets. It's not strictly solo — up to four players can join online or via local wireless, with difficulty scaling automatically based on squad size.

This pre-order deal is for the digital edition specifically, so keep that in mind if you're a physical-copy collector. At 17% off ahead of release, it's a modest but real discount on a first-party Nintendo title — those rarely go on sale at all, so locking in the lower price now while pre-orders are open is worth doing if you already know you're picking it up.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered (PS5) Was $49.99 → $29.00 on Amazon

Naughty Dog's genre-defining survival-action sequel gets a real discount here — 42% off for the Remastered edition, which includes the base story plus No Return, a roguelike survival mode that throws you into randomized encounters with the game's full arsenal of enemies and weapons. It also comes bundled with a set of unlockable guitar songs, developer commentary, and three lost levels cut from the original release.

If you already played it at launch, No Return alone is worth revisiting for — it's built specifically for replayability in a way the main campaign wasn't. And if you skipped it entirely, this is one of the most complete, best-reviewed packages in the PS5 library at a price that finally makes sense.

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater Tactical Edition (Xbox Series X) Was $49.99 → $25.90 on Amazon

Konami's full remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 rebuilds the jungle-set stealth classic in Unreal Engine 5, keeping Hideo Kojima's original story and mission structure intact while completely overhauling the visuals, camera, and control scheme for modern hardware. The Tactical Edition specifically includes the classic over-the-shoulder camera option alongside the new third-person view, so longtime fans can play it exactly the way they remember.

At 48% off, this is one of the steeper discounts we've seen on a genuinely major recent remake — Snake Eater is widely considered one of the best entries in the series, and this is the definitive modern way to experience it.

EA SPORTS College Football 26 (Xbox Series X) Was $69.99 → $20.73 on Amazon

EA's college football sim returns with updated rosters, revamped Dynasty and Road to Glory modes, and the kind of gameday atmosphere — rivalry traditions, mascots, run-outs — that made the franchise's 2025 comeback such a hit after a decade-long hiatus from the series.

At 70% off, this is a massive drop on a game that was a full-price release less than a year ago, and there's no real catch here — it's the standard edition at a genuinely steep discount. If you were priced out at launch, this is the moment to jump in before next year's roster update makes this one feel dated.

High on Life 2 (PS5) Was $59.99 → $39.99 on Amazon

Squanch Games' irreverent, talking-gun-filled shooter sequel picks up where the original left off, throwing more chaotic humor, alien bounty-hunting, and a cast of foul-mouthed weapon companions into another galaxy-hopping adventure. It leans hard into the original's absurdist comedy while expanding the gunplay and traversal systems based on feedback from the first game.

This is a genuinely fresh listing — the discount just went live — so if you enjoyed the chaos of the original, 33% off this early is a good time to jump in.