Amazon and Target are offering a free sale, buy two, get one

The week is almost half over, but the offers are already huge. If you’ve got time to sink your teeth into some meaty video games or tabletop games this summer, we’ve got just the right discount for you. Amazon and Target are both offering a “buy two, get one free” offer through Saturday, June 18th. It’s another mix-and-match style promotion where you buy two video games, board games, movies, or even toys and get a third of equal or less value for free.

The current promo is a great opportunity to stock up on some excellent games released this year such as: elden ring or the recently released ones Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagaand you can even add a modern classic you might have missed, like Sekiro: Shadows die twice. The choice is yours and yours only, but one thing is for sure, you have quite a few options here. Simply add the three qualifying items to your shopping cart at any of the retailers and the discount will automatically take effect at checkout.

Is that the sound of the summer breeze gently enticing you with the warm embrace of the great outdoors? No, it’s the sound of some powerful ray-tracing capable graphics cards floating around in a desktop PC and actually being sold for a discount. After many shortages and rounds of limited replenishment, building a PC is now finally not a piece of cake, as GPUs occasionally get notable discounts – unless you want to stay up to date and are planning to buy the next-gen 40-series, when it starts next month.

If you’re currently in the market for a premium graphics card for your build, Antonline offers the EVGA RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 graphics card for $1,129.99 (approx. $300 off) and the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XC3 for $1,099.99 (approx $230 discount). These are some beefy 12GB cards that support 4K gaming at 120Hz with ray tracing and DLSS without breaking a sweat, and both come at cheaper prices than Nvidia’s base-model 3080 Ti reference card – which is currently $1,199.99 costs. Read our review.

Amazon’s latest Echo Dot is currently available for $27.99 in all colors on both Amazon and Best Buy, which is the smart speaker’s lowest price yet. It doesn’t get much better than this $22 discount on the base Dot model. However, if you’re new to the world of smart home tech, you might want to consider purchasing the $32.99 bundle that pairs the fourth-gen Dot with an Amazon smart plug. The discounted combo gives you easy access to Alexa in the room of your choice, with the smart plug adding some extra functionality to even an old-fashioned device. For example, not only can you play music or ask about the weather, but you can also tell Alexa to turn on a traditional light you’ve connected to the smart plug – or even set up some advanced timers using the Amazon Alexa app on your phone or tablet. Read our review of the Echo Dot here.

Another great deal currently available in the smart home space is the Amazon Smart Thermostat, which is currently available direct from Amazon for $47.99 ($12 off). The current asking price matches the thermostat’s lowest price yet, making it an even better value than it normally would – which is saying a lot considering the excellent device ticks most of the boxes the average person needs, even at $59.99 .

Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is the cheapest smart thermostat you can buy and easily syncs with Alexa so you can set timers, program schedules and heat or cool your home more efficiently than with a traditional thermostat. Of course, since this is Amazon’s ecosystem, you don’t get Google Assistant functionality or Apple HomeKit compatibility. Amazon wants you to use its services, and a good-looking thermostat that’s cheap yet does its job well is a smart way to make that happen. Read our review.

A few more Wednesday deals to try

• LG’s 27-inch Ultragear 27GN800-B – currently available on Amazon for just $276.99 ($73 off) – is a very affordable gaming monitor with a 144Hz refresh rate that supports QHD resolution. If you don’t mind the 1080p resolution, Amazon is also selling its 240Hz counterpart, the LG 27GN750-B, for a new all-time low of $226.99 ($123 off).
• The pre-orders for volume one and volume two of the upcoming Elden Ring Official Strategy Guide by Future Press are both reduced to $29.99, making the full set cost $59.98 to own, as opposed to the original list price of $49.99 per volume. However, this isn’t just a strategy guide for the massive game, it’s an intriguing lore repository that’s sure to turn heads when the first part releases later this summer.
• Satechi is offering a site-wide discount in the run-up to Father’s Day, taking 20 percent off USB hubs, multiport dongles and other accessories with a promo code FATHERS.
• One of our favorite laptops, the 13.5-inch HP Specter x360 2-in-1 is currently available for $1,479.99 ($250 off) at Best Buy. It’s the best 2-in-1 Windows laptop you can get for your money, and it comes with an Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of memory, and a 1TB SSD. Read our review.