We now know that the Black Friday season will kick off very soon as Amazon has announced that its Prime Big Deal Days sales event will take place on October 8 - 9. Effectively the retailer's second Prime Day of the year, the 48-hour sale will offer up some of the year's best deals on a whole range of tech exclusively to Prime members.

We've already seen games like NBA 2K25 demand up to 130GB for installation, but with Call of Duty Black Ops 6 likely to be a large game, and Assassin's Creed Shadows dropping in the same month, it could be time to upgrade your storage.

Walmart just announced that its first Holiday Deals event will start on Tuesday, October 8 and run through Sunday, October 13. While that's three times as long as Amazon's two-day event (on October 8 and 9),