Today’s best deals: Horizon Forbidden West, Apple gift cards, and more
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It's Wednesday, which means the time has come for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes a number of discounts on recommended PlayStation 5 games. Sony technically started its annual "PlayStation Summer Sale" late last month, but earlier this week it rolled out a fresh batch of deals that covers a range of first-party games. The new offers are available across multiple retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and GameStop-plus, for digital copies, Sony's PlayStation Store. Sony says the sale will run until August 17.
The selection includes the first significant discount we've seen for Horizon Forbidden West, the big PlayStation-exclusive action-RPG that arrived in February. Its PS4 and PS5 versions are available for $40 and $50, respectively, both of which represent a $20 discount. Unless having PS5 box art really matters to you, though, you should only get the PS4 copy-it's the last game to have a free PS4-to-PS5 upgrade path, so you might as well take advantage and save yourself the Hamilton.
Either way, our review deemed Forbidden West nothing less than "one of the greatest game sequels of all time," praising its writing, lush visuals, and general attention to detail. You really need to have played the original Horizon Zero Dawn to get the most out of it, and at the end of the day, it's another modern open-world game, which some players may be fatigued of at this point. But if you enjoyed the original's robot-dinosaur hunting and sweeping sci-fi-infused plot, Forbidden West is a more polished version of that.