Best Cyber Monday Game Deals With Free Xbox Series X Upgrades

Watch Dogs: Legion allows you to play as nearly every character you meet in its open world. Using a unique recruitment system, you can gain access to anyone you meet on the street along with their own slate of special skills, strengths, and weaknesses.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is the latest game in the history-hopping series, this time putting you into the furry boots of a pillaging Viking. You'll lead your clan to new lands, form alliances with rival kingdoms, and build your community as you search for a new home. Assassin's Creed Valhalla is $48 at GameStop right now.

Control was an eerie action-adventure game centering around a mysterious paranormal agency, and one of our favorites of 2019. The Ultimate Edition includes the full game and its season pass with The Foundation and AWE expansions, along with a free upgrade to the Xbox Series X/S versions. The standard edition of Control doesn't include the free upgrade, though, so if you want that upgrade when it launches in early 2021, you may want to pick up the Ultimate Edition at a discount now.

Gears 5 is the latest in the long-running stop-and-pop cover shooter series, following up on The Coalition taking control of the series. Like all first-party Microsoft games it's included with Xbox Game Pass, but if you want to buy to own it you can grab it for just $5 at Best Buy. The package includes a ton of content include loads of multiplayer modes with seasonal content drops.

Madden NFL 21 is the latest in EA's annual football series, so you mostly know what to expect. This year's entry includes a new mode called The Yard, with shorter backyard football style matches. A next-gen upgrade is coming on December 4, but if you grab it now you can be ready for the enhancements.

Like Madden, this annual sports franchise remains mostly what you expect. But for soccer fans, there's just nowhere else to get your fix of action from the soccer pitch. This year brings back the street soccer Volta mode. And like Madden, a free upgrade is coming on December 4.

Borderlands 3 is the latest game in the popular looter-shooter franchise that made its name on a gazillion guns, give or take a jillion. Borderlands 3 has added tons of chaotic DLC with new worlds to explore, but this base version will get you started. Plus you can get boosted performance on your new console.

Mortal Kombat 11 caps off the modern trilogy's story with a time-bending tale that puts many of your favorite characters face-to-face with themselves. Aside from the campaign, you can also take part in a number of online modes like ranked matches and the Towers of Time. It's gotten quite a bit of post-launch support, so you can pick between the standard edition for $13 or the DLC-packed Aftermath Kollection for $25. Aftermath includes a story expansion as well as the first eight DLC characters.