Free $5 Reward Certificate for Signing Up for the New Best Buy Gamers Program

Best Buy is kicking off a new program called Best Buy Gamers. If you’re among the first 200,000 people to sign up (you can do so here for free ), you’ll get a free $5 gift certificate, no strings attached. If you shop at Best Buy, there’s really no reason not to take advantage of this deal, especially with the deluge of big fall games releasing as we speak.

All you have to do is head over to the page and click the button to sign up. As long as you’re signed into your Best Buy account, you just have to create a username, and you’ll receive your $5 reward via email within 24 hours.

Best Buy Gamers is a new destination page on the big blue retailer’s website that gathers all sorts of gaming news, reviews, preorders, and deals in one place. IGN has partnered with Best Buy for the news and reviews portions of the page. It has polls you can vote in and trailers for upcoming games.

Right now, you can enter sweepstakes on a daily basis for a chance to “score up to $20,000 in prizes.” It has preorder links and other information about the biggest upcoming games, like Grand Theft Auto 6, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It lets you know, for instance, that Best Buy will be hosting a midnight launch event for the Ocarina remake, and that they’ll have a limited supply of the Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 console .

In other words, it’s a handy resource for all things new and upcoming in the world of console gaming. You can find more information here . And with the free $5 gift certificate giveaway, there’s really no reason not to sign up if you ever shop at Best Buy.

Note: IGN has partnered with Best Buy for the news and reviews portions of the Best Buy Gamers page.

Chris Reed is a senior commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN's LEGO coverage and maintains the upcoming release dates articles for video games , LEGO sets , and 4K Blu-rays . You can follow him on Bluesky .