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Lenovo gaming PCs are among the most well liked of the pre-built gaming PC rigs, but they often cost more than comparable offerings from other OEM builders like Dell and HP. That’s why it’s important to jump on these Lenovo sales that happen a handful of times a year. One of these sales is Lenovo’s Black Friday in July, which coincidentally takes place during Amazon Prime Day. Save hundreds of dollars off MSRP on Lenovo Legion gaming PCs and laptops equipped with RTX 30 series GPUs. There’s also a 5% sitewide coupon code that sweetens the deal. The sale ends July 17.

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Lenovo Black Friday in July Gaming PCs

The Lenovo Legion gaming desktops are often very highly rated for their build quality. People generally like the fact that Lenovo does not use proprietary components in their rigs, so future upgradeability is much easier done here than in other prebuilt PCs. Lenovo gaming rigs generally also utilize solid cooling, especially for the CPU, even if you opt for the base models. The negative would be that Lenovo Legion gaming PCs generally cost more than other prebuilts, but that’s certainly not the case with this week’s deals. All listed gaming PCs are equipped with the current gen RTX 30 series GPUs. They’re far and away faster than previous generation models with the added benefit of ray tracing and DLSS 2.0 support. If you have a capable monitor, RTX 30 series GPUs have an HDMI 2.1 port that supports 4K @ 120Hz.

See our guide to the best Prime Day gaming PC deals for more options.

Lenovo Black Friday in July Gaming Laptops

The Legion lineup has some of the best performing gaming laptops on the market, and a big reason is that Lenovo supplies the RTX 30 series GPUs with plenty of power. The GPUs found in Lenovo laptops have some of the highest TDP ratings you can find. Higher TDP rating correlates to better gaming performance, but that also means more heat generated so you often need beefier cooling. Fortunately, Lenovo solves this by providing excellent active fan cooling. The Legion 7 laptops have an even more robust cooling system than the Legion 5.

See our guide to the best Prime Day gaming laptop deals for more options.

Tainted Grail, the board game that burst onto the scene as 2018’s biggest Kickstarter campaign, is now aiming even higher. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person, open-world RPG that aims to release into Steam Early Access in Q4 2022. Get a look at the tone and vibe of the game in the new cinematic trailer at the top of this page.

Polish fantasy writer Krzysztof Piskorski created Tainted Grail, which took its first stab at video game success with 2020’s Tainted Grail: Conquest, a deck-building roguelike. The Awaken Realms development team describes the world of Tainted Grail as a “gritty, unique retelling of Arthurian legends — an epic dark fantasy setting in which humans arrived at the island of Avalon in search of paradise, only to find a hellish land tainted by the Wyrdness — a mysterious force warping the reality.”

The Fall of Avalon promises a dark storyline, ample player freedom, complex quests, player choices that are “respected,” and plenty of monsters to slay.

More concrete gameplay features on tap include a unique magic system, multiple crafting systems, skill-based combat with the usual and welcome fantasy trifecta of melee weapons, ranged weapons, and magic, as well as memorable and plentiful NPCs. Wishlist Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon on Steam.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN’s weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our monthly(-ish) interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He’s a North Jersey guy, so it’s “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.