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Welcome to IGN’s Black Friday 2019 central deals hub, your source for all the best deals in the UK. 

Black Friday is arguably the biggest shopping event in the UK, and consistently delivers shopping mayhem, dramatic headlines, and an onslaught of deals. This is likely to continue in 2019, and we’re going to be covering it all the way.

For a more comprehensive guide to the best Black Friday deals, check out Blackfriday.co.uk.

These are the kind of products we’re expecting deals on over the coming month

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Red Dead Redemption 2‘s release on PC did not go exactly to plan, with players reporting severe crashing problems that in some cases caused the launcher to fail to open.

Rockstar Games has now released an update that apparently fixes a handful of issues related to crashes and other problems. The November 5 update fixes problems related to the Rockstar Games Launcher and Red Dead Redemption 2 itself. There were crashing problems with Red Dead Redemption 2 on the Epic Games Store, too, and these have also been addressed.

You can see a rundown of the November 5 patch notes for Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC version below, as posted on the Rockstar Games support site.

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Patch Notes [November 5]

• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher failed to initialize” on startup
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher preload decryption getting stuck and not completing
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “The Rockstar Games Launcher exited unexpectedly” when launching Red Dead Redemption 2
• Fixed an issue that resulted in crashes when starting the Rockstar Games Launcher from the Epic Games Launcher
• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Rockstar Games Launcher returning the error “Unable to launch game, please verify your game data” when launching Red Dead Redemption 2 from the Epic Games Launcher

Crashing problems aren’t the only issues affecting Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC version at launch. People on Reddit have reported problems related to audio and FPS drops.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is available for PC now on Rockstar’s own launcher, as well as the Epic Games Store and other outlets. It won’t release on Steam until December, however.

The new 1.25 update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 brings a raft of improvements and tweaks to the game, one of which is bound to make fans of a particular map very happy. In a post on Reddit, Treyarch has outlined the big changes and released their full patch notes for this update.

Nuketown is now a permanent fixture of the Featured Playlist tab, so you can jump into a playlist dedicated to the map–a recreated small chunk of suburbia on a nuclear testing facility grounds–at any time. Nuketown first appeared in the original Black Ops back in 2010, and has been reimagined for each mainline Black Ops game that has followed.

Going forward, certain featured playlists will also grant you double XP, with a new one being selected each Tuesday. 2XP Stockpile, 2XP Capture the Flag, and 2XP Prop Hunt weeks have been promised.

Treyarch has increased the maximum damage and speed on the Echohawk Dual Bore assault rifle, while the AN-94 has also received a damage boost to make it a more viable weapon. The Reaper specialist class has also been nerfed slightly, with the Scythe’s duration being reduced from 40 seconds to 30 and its ammo being cut down from 150 rounds to 100.

In other patch notes, Blackout’s matchmaking is being overhauled with LTM Moshputs being introduced, giving players four limited-time modes each week to make sure that players are experiencing some sense of variety in their game. Changes are coming to Zombies too–if you’re playing on PS4, the new Zombies Gauntlet “An Ice Day In Hell” is up now, while an outro cutscene error bug that had affected some players has been addressed.

This patch suggests that Treyarch will continue to support their latest entry in the series, and the community of players who have stuck with it, in the wake of the release of Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. This makes sense, as the two games are quite different–Black Ops 4 does not feature a campaign and instead released with Blackout, Call of Duty’s first battle royale mode–and they’re both developed by two different teams. Black Ops 4 scored an 8/10 in our review last year.

Need for Speed Heat officially launches on November 8, but the racing game is playable right now for subscribers to EA Access and Origin Access on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

This is the full version of Need for Speed Heat, though there is a timer that limits gameplay to 10 hours. As with EA’s other “Play First” trials, all gameplay progress carries forward to the full game should you decide to pick it up. Additionally, EA/Origin Access subscribers save 10 percent on all EA digital content, so that knocks the price down from $60 USD to $54 USD.

EA Access costs $5/month or $30/year, and you can cancel any time.

Need for Speed Heat is an open-world racing game set in a fictional version of Miami called Palm City. There are more than 100 cars in the game, but no loot boxes.

GameSpot recently got some hands-on time with Need for Speed Heat, and our own Will Potter came away eager to play more. For more on his thoughts, check out GameSpot’s recent preview, “Why You Should Be Excited To Play Need For Speed: Heat.”