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This week's best deals: Sonic Mania Plus, Xbox One X, Injustice 2, and more

Plus, Shovel Knight and Nier Automata.

After a week's break, we're back with another week's worth of the best gaming deals from the previous week - just in time for this to come to you directly from the show floor at EGX Rezzed 2018. Whether you're here at the show or not, feel free to stop and see if something on this list is ideal for you. We've got a bunch of stuff to go through.

As usual, we've got deals that'll work in the UK, deals that'll work in the US and some deals that will work in both the UK and US, as well as presumably many other places. Let's get started.

UK & US Deals

In case you missed it, SteelSeries has partnered up with Jelly Deals to give away a big box of PC accessory goodness worth over £380. To be in with a chance of winning, head to the link below and you can enter.

Win a big box of SteelSeries gear with Jelly Deals

Shovel Knight, I am happy to say, is one of my favourite games of the past few years and the fact that the original game has only bulked up with its transformation into the 'Treasure Trove', which features several other stories alongside the base game, can only be a good thing. This edition is currently on sale for £16 / $20 at Humble.

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove on PC (Steam) for £15.99 / $19.99 from Humble Store

Strategy Bundle time! Humble is offering a batch of strategic video games - a lot of which feature the word 'endless' in the title - for a cost of whatever you'd like to pay. This one will be live for around two weeks from now.

Pay what you want for the Humble Strategy Bundle

This week's GOG Weekly Sale features Observer, Amnesia, The Coma, Layers of Fear, Outlast, Alan Wake's American Nightmare and other creep-filled classics. Most importantly of all, the director's cut of Deadly Premonition is in there.

Up to 90 per cent off with GOG Weekly Sale

Did you know there were comics based on Assassin's Creed, The Evil Within, Dishonored, Dark Souls and Tekken? I certainly didn't, but they can all be yours with the current Humble Gaming Comics bundle up for grabs.

Pay what you want for the Gaming Comics bundle from Humble

A new month means a new set of Humble Monthly offerings. This time around, dropping $12 / £10 to sign up for a subscription will get you copies of Kerbal Space Program, Dead Rising 4 and Ruiner, along with a bunch of other games when the month finishes.

Kerbal Space Program, Dead Rising 4 and RUINER for $12 / £10 with Humble Monthly

UK Deals

Injustice 2's Legendary Edition is the most complete version of the game to date, featuring the original base game and every DLC character released since launch - including Hellboy and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Currently, you can pick up a copy for £31 on Xbox One or PS4.

Yes, it's time for another Nier Automata discount. Right now, you can pick up a copy on PS4 for £23.99 and you really, really should.

Nier Automata on PS4 for £23.99 from Amazon UK

Thanks to this week's release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on Blu-ray, you can now get yourself an Xbox One X console along with a copy of the 4K Blu-ray of the movie and a copy of Star Wars Battlefront 2, for no extra cost above the £450 for the console itself.

Xbox One X with Star Wars Battlefront 2 and The Last Jedi 4K Blu-ray for £449.99 from Amazon UK

The upcoming boxed and extra feature-rich version of Sonic Mania Plus is available for pre-order cheapest over at Base, where you can get an Xbox One or PS4 edition for under £24.

Entering the code WINDOWS10 at ao's website right now will get you an extra discount on the already discounted Surface Pro and TypeCover bundle. That will bring the whole set down to £674.10.

Microsoft Surface Pro with TypeCover for £674.10 using code WINDOWS10 from ao

Amazon is offering this LG 34UM68 ultrawide monitor for its lowest ever price right now, of £299.95. This thing is absurdly wide, but also features an IPS monitor and a 5ms response time, among other lovely specs.

LG 34UM68 34-inch Ultrawide IPS monitor with FreeSync for £299.95 from Amazon UK

In case you're going the dangerous route of building a new gaming PC at the moment - or you just fancy upgrading your existing setup - you can save a bit of cash on a Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240 CPU cooler. It's currently down to £35 from Novatech.

Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 240 CPU Cooler for £34.98 from Novatech

US Deals

The official Sea of Thieves hardcover artbook is now around $10 off over at Amazon, in case you needed just a little more of a pirate fix in your life.

The Art of Sea of Thieves for $29.84 from Amazon US

This week, you can use code NEFPSET12 over at NewEgg's website to grab a slick Steel Black or Midnight Blue DualShock 4 controller for $47.99 rather than its regular cost of $60. These things will work on any Bluetooth enabled device, not just PS4 consoles as well.

Gorgeous watercolour adventure game, Okami HD, is down to just shy of $16 as a boxed copy if you fancy getting stuck into Ameratsu's excellent adventure.

Okami HD on PS4 for $15.68 from Amazon US

Fans of chibi figurines and Zelda games can rejoice this week, as the Breath of the Wild edition Link Nendoroid is discounted down to under $39 while stock lasts. Plus, it's adorable.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link Nendoroid figure for $38.19 from Amazon US

With that, we're done for another week. Keep in mind that deals, prices and availability can change at the drop of a hat, so apologies if you miss out on something you wanted. I'll be over at Jelly Deals scouring the world wide web for more deals. Feel free to visit, or follow us on Twitter and give us a like on Facebook.

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