Subscribe to Discord Nitro to get one month free this Cyber Monday

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Discord is getting in on the holiday deals season with a Cyber Monday offer on its premium subscription service, Discord Nitro, which offers expanded features to the chat app like custom emojis, better streaming quality, and in-app games called Activities.

Until November 28 (that's today), those who purchase a new Discord Nitro one-month ($9.99) or annual ($99.99) subscription will get a free month of Nitro added to their account—a pretty good deal if you've been meaning to try out Discord's premium features.

Discord Nitro | 1 month | $9.99 Free with 1-month purchase

Discord Nitro | 1 month | $9.99 Free with 1-month purchase
With expanded emoji options, better streaming, and other minor benefits, Discord's premium subscription used to be a hard sell for anything other than the app's most hardcore users. After the recent addition of in-app games with the new Activities button, you might want to give it a real shot.

As a long-time Discord Nitro subscriber who mostly uses the service to stream games to friends at higher resolutions and framerates, I was delightfully surprised by a recent revamp of Nitro that added one of my new favorite Discord features: Activities. These "activities" are mostly in-house games made by Discord that run inside active voice channels, and they're pretty great.

The selection is basically pulled from the board game shelf of your average family game night: there's a version of Pictionary called SketchHeads, Scrabble, poker, checkers, and chess, plus a minigolf game called Putt Party and a Snake.io clone called Land-io. It's been really nice to fire up one of these games in the downtime between watching shows or playing games with friends, and I've definitely been caught playing hands of poker before the next round of Overwatch 2 starts.

You need at least one person with a Nitro subscription in the chat for Activities to work, but here's a nice plus: none of the games have any monetization whatsoever. That's so rare these days that I was a little confused that I was allowed to just give myself chips as the host in the Poker Night.

Even if the group gets bored after the third round of Putt Party, the BOGO deal is a better time than any to secure a few months of Nitro and see if it's worth keeping around.

Morgan Park
Staff Writer

Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though.

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