LIVE: Black Friday has landed early in Australia — we’re keeping track of all the best PC gaming deals right here

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2025-11-20T02:49:36.245Z

Enviable

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Back in the heady days of early 2023, the Philips Evnia 34M2C8600 was PC Gamer’s favourite gaming monitor. That’s no longer the case—you can see how our ranking looks here—but it’s still a superb OLED gaming monitor for people prepared to spend well north of a grand on a screen.

It’s a 34 inch, 3440×1440 affair with the aforementioned glossy OLED panel, a 175Hz refresh rate and a speedy 0.1ms response time. “If Alienware’s very similar 34-inch model was the OLED monitor we’ve been waiting for, Philips has just bested it,” Jeremy Laird wrote in his review. “Thanks to a glossy panel coating, the OLED tech really sings. HDR games? They positively sizzle. A few minor OLED limitations remain. But this is as good as gaming monitors currently get.”

Long story short: local retailer Mwave is currently selling the Envia 34M2C8600 with AU$700 shaved off the (winceworthy) AU$1,699 RRP. In other words: it’ll set you back AU$999 right now, with free shipping.

2025-11-20T00:17:01.114Z

Questmaster

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For my inaugural actually-useful post (because the “hello” post below doesn’t count) I thought I’d draw attention to the Meta Quest 3S deals going around. I wrote about them on Tuesday and there’s been a fair bit of interest since. Meta is selling them direct for AU$420 for the 128GB model, or AU$560 for the 256GB model, but Amazon actually beats ’em with AU$418 for the 128GB model, and AU$550 for the 256GB model.

I’m always kinda surprised by how popular Meta Quest deals are whenever I do deals coverage for PC Gamer. Not because they aren’t good devices—we review them well—but it’s sometimes easy to forget that VR does have mainstream appeal beyond gamers and tech-enthusiasts.

2025-11-20T00:07:38.678Z

Wow, are we live? Has Black Friday already started even though it’s eight days until actual Black Friday?

Myself and Ben Mansill weren’t planning on starting this live blog until next Friday, but because the deals are coming thick and fast—via the likes of Mwave, Amazon, eBay, Secretlab, HP, etcetera—we’ve decided to go live today. We’ll be highlighting any significant deals we find here in this live blog, so keep an eye out.