Halo 3 Legendary Edition from Amazon for $60 — Today Only

Today only, get Halo 3 Legendary Edition for the 360 (what else?) on Amazon for an astonishing $60! What kind of deal is this? Well, the regular edition sells for $60 (the same as this remarkable price), the Collector’s Edition is $70 (that’s right, $10 more than this deal) and this normally sells for $130.

What’s so legendary about the Legendary edition?

Well, it comes with three bonus discs chock-full of Halo-related stuff, a swanky box and a mini Master Chief helmet.

Hell, there’s almost no reason not to buy this edition. You can’t argue with the price. It’ll give you extra nerd points. No matter how you slice it, that’s one helluva deal.

Buy Cheap Halo 3 Wireless Controllers, Headset from Amazon

Amazon is currently offering a sweet deal on the Halo 3 Spartan controller, Halo 3 Covenant controller (both wireless, natch) and the Halo 3 wireless headset.

The deal? You can get each of them for $40. That’s a pretty swank deal considering that they all regularly go for $60. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always had a hard time justifying spending what I would on a game on a controller.

Now, you can get a regular controller, but that’ll still run you $50. So no matter how you slice it, just get one of the Halo 3 controllers, save some cash and now you can show your gamer pride.

Oh yeah, if you really wanna show that pride, get the Halo 3 Legendary Edition from Amazon. It’s still only $80, and down from $130.

Gamestop and EB Games — Black Friday Deals

For those of you who don’t want to attack the masses in the mega-malls of the world, here are the deals for Gamestop and EB Games.

Now, I’m not saying that these lines are going to be any easier to get through (in fact, they’ll probably be worse, you know how fanboys are). Though, I am saying that if you go to these stores, at least you’ll be surrounded by your people.

You won’t have to worry about that lady running your over for that fabulous deal on linens!

GAMESTOP & EBGAMES Deals

Door Buster Sale 7 a.m. - 11 a.m. Friday Nov. 23rd

• $30 Giftcard with Purchase of new Black or Silver PS2 Slim System ($129.99)
• PSP UMD Movies $3.99 & Under (Select Titles)
• PSP Rainbow Six Vegas $9.99
• World of Warcraft PC $9.99
• Sandisk 2GB MSPro Duo or SD Memory Card $19.99

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Pre-Black Friday Wii Game Deal — Toys R Us Bargains

There is currently a pre-Black Friday sale going on at Toys R Us.

For all of you out there who already scored a Wii (if not, get over to Amazon and vote!), Toys R Us is offering a buy two get one free deal on all Wii games.

This is a pre-Black Friday sale and ends Wednesday (Nov. 21), which is, you guessed it, the day before Thanksgiving.

Get out there and get your game on! For those of you looking for affordable deals on presents for your kids, loved ones or for yourself, this is the time.

Black Friday Deals

Following the break is all of the Black Friday Deals.

Don’t believe me, ha, go look!
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Bargain Basement Priced Wii from Amazon — With a Slight Catch

Amazon is looking to crash their servers this year as they are having a massive sale starting on Thanksgiving Day for the elusive Nintendo Wii.

What’s the deal?

They are selling 1,000 Wiis for the bargain-basement price of $79. That deal is even good enough to entice my good friends over at LimboLuster to take notice.

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Run Right And Love It — Why Variety Shouldn’t Review Videogames

Ah, the joys of universal acclaim. Everyone is singing your praises and quietly wishing they had done whatever you did themselves. Yes, it truly is a joy to be on top of the mountain. A good friend of mine, a one Mr. Mario, can tell you all about this. His new game, Super Mario Galaxy, came out on Tuesday and it’s phenomenal. Everyone loves it, critics, boys, girls, space aliens, even…dare I say…non-gaming folk.

Except for those wonderful reviewers over at Variety.

Wait…Variety? That fantastic news source that brings you entertainment news of the Hollywood sort? The Variety that clumps reviews of games and movies together?

Yup, them.

Their reviewer, clearly a person who has quite the experience with gaming has given, well, let’s call it a lackluster review of Super Mario Galaxy.

He compliments Nintendo on having the best game designers around (gimme), but lamented the poor graphics of the game.

Come on, the graphics? This is the Wii we’re talking about here, no one is expecting Gears of War. Seriously, you get what you pay for and with the Wii people want good, fun games that are addicting. You know what? Galaxy has that in spades.

‘Course, then again, he does insult the game’s story too. Seriously? Insulting the story?

I tend to wonder if he even remembers the first Super Mario Brothers for the NES. What was the story?

Run Right!

Why?

Who cares why, Run Right Damn It! Do it, and like it!

And you know what? We loved it then and we love it now.

Elements of Funky Gaming — Battletoads Takes the Cake

What does it take to make a funky game? Well, that depends on what you mean by funky. If you take one part impossibly difficult game, one part tougher American than Japanese version and one part retro-brand battle from the early ’90s, then you definitely have a funky game on your hands.

What game out there exists to meet these exacting funky standards?

Battletoads.

It’s so amazing and funky that my good friends over at FunkDeli would back me up on this one.

Wait…isn’t Battletoads just a rip-off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

You’re damn right it is, but that’s just the beginning of this fantastically funky tale. Read the rest…

Free Game as Xbox LIVE Turns Five — Also Watch for the Xbox Originals

Xbox LIVE is hitting the five mark, and Microsoft is ready to celebrate. They are offering Carcassonne (Hexic 2 in Korea) free to all current members between 12:01 a.m. PST on Nov. 15 and 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 16. As an added bonus, for that rare breed of gamer who has been with Xbox LIVE since its inception in 2002 (all three of you can take a bow), they are giving away 500 free Microsoft Points.

Also included in their announcement is that a new dashboard update will be available on Dec. 4 (with unmentioned features) and it will usher in the “Xbox Originals” era. The Xbox Originals will be full Xbox games that people can download and play on their 360. The ones that the press release takes the time to explicitly mention are: Halo, Fable, Indigo Prophecy, Crimson Skies, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Burnout 3. For a reasonable price of 1,200 points ($15 in real money), people will be able to download and play these fun games.

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This Just In — Most Parents Don’t Like Videogames

News flash: Most parents don’t like videogames.

I’m just gonna pause here for a sec and let that sink in.

Ok, better now?

According to an AP survey posted over at Yahoo, an average of 43 percent of parents think videogames are a big fatty fat waste of time for their kids (that’s a technical term there, fatty fat).

Granted, these parents are probably speaking about the stereotypically abused, overused and super-saturated view of a rare breed of gamer who gets no sunlight and scorns all who don’t understand his or her mysterious and magnificent WOW clans and ways.

Yeah, we’re all like that. Guilty as charged. We all play with swords and potions in our spare time and have a hard time co-mingling without computers or games to bridge the social divide.

Yup.

However, the underlying issue here is that people (yeah, parents are people too) don’t like what they don’t really understand. So if you have kids and your kids like games…and by some miraculous reason you happened upon this entry, then take some time outta your day to game with them. If nothing else, it’ll be a bonding experience with you and your son/daughter.

Show some interest in what they’re interested in, and they’ll open up to you.

As far as the newsworthiness of this story? It’s kinda like how back in the day TV was going to rot your brain, and before that comics were gonna make you deranged, even before that reading was going to put thoughts in your head and make you a wicked person. Every generation has their scapegoats, ours just gets to be videogames.

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