5 Deals You Need to Know Today: A Video Game Sale to Prove That Saving Beats Checkpointing
I'll be the one brave enough to say it: Video games are pretty good sometimes. Better when they're discounted by an extra 10%, like what they are at Woot. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Video Game Deal
Video Game Super Sale at Woot
Up to 87% off + extra 10% offSummer Games Fest, hit the bricks. We've had our fill of announcements of games for a vague "2026" release date, 94% of which look like Iron Maiden wanted to make a new promotional video game starring their idiot zombie mascot Eddie, and decided to do a Dark Souls. Fie to all of it — only immediate gratification is worthwhile. Which means two things: Lies of P got it right by shadow-dropping its DLC, and also this Woot sale is where the action is. Games, controllers, accessories — all of it steeply discounted, and even more so when you shop via the Woot app to get the extra 10% off. Now let's all give convulsing Deal-colleague N. Gosker a moment to compose himself, because he zoned out at "Iron Maiden Dark Souls" and we don't want to interrupt his reverie.
Top Exercise Equipment Deal
FitRX SmartBell Quick-Select 9-in-1 Adjustable Dumbbell
$58A theory: You can tell how advanced a civilization is by what activities they've had to replace in their regular daily lives with a specific kind of exercise. Which probably means the treadmill, or worse, the under-desk elliptical, will be seen by future historians as our downfall, even as they vastly overestimate how much boating we all used to do based on the popularity of the rowing machine. But look: a set of weights, here to replace all the heavy things we used to have to move all the time. Optimize your society out of doing it, optimize your body by doing it anyway. Optimize your savings by [gestures at deal].
Top Coffee Deal
Single Serve K-Cup Coffee 88- & 96-Packs at Staples
Up to 49% offIn amongst the regulars you'd expect to see in a K-Cup sale — your Dunkin's, your Green Mountains, your Peet's's's's — you might notice a friendly face staring out at you. That's right, it's only gulldurn Paul Newman, adorning the box of Newman's Own K-Cups. Do you think the late Mr. Newman ever operated a K-Cup? It seems unlikely. Knowing next to nothing about his personal life, I yet imagine him as a sort of "Frasier's Dad" coffee purist, but that may simply be because I see most things through a Frasier filter, and Mr. Newman seems unlikely to have been a Niles.
Top Toy Deal
LEGO Creator 3-in-1 Typewriter with Flowers
$23.49This 3-in-1 set seems genius — oh, it can be a typewriter, a flowerpot, or a 80s-tastic keytar gimmick! But then you realise the hoodwinkery at work: it can be a flowerpot! Or a typewriter (with flowers). Or a keytar (uh… with flowers). So you see: the artifice begins to emerge. Luckily, a $7 discount makes it all okay. Otherwise, believe you me, the LEGO company would regret their words and deeds.
Top Pants Deal
Target Men's Pants at eBay
Deals from $9Pants: you gotta wear 'em. That's Pants Law. But nowhere in the codes and statutes does it say you have to pay a lot for 'em. Pants Law is permissive, even within its admirably narrow remit.
