All these Black Friday deals are a bitch to keep track of. That's what we're here for, though. Over the past few weeks we've been reporting on some good deals, but having to hop around our fine website to find them all isn't going to help you get your shopping done any easier.

We've made a list of the most notable items for sale this Friday. We've also compiled a list of stores running holiday deals. On top of all of that is a link to all of our Black Friday reports. We'll keep updating these lists throughout the week, so keep checking back. If you see any good ones we've missed, let me know.

All of our Black Friday reports are here.

Systems and bundles:

• Assassin's Creed PSP system and game, plus free PS3 AC2 game - $199 (Kmart)
• PS3 120gb Slim, with LittleBigPlanet and Ratchet and Clank - $299 (Best Buy)
• Xbox 360 120gb with six games! - $299 (Best Buy)
• Nintendo DS Lite - $98 (Walmart)
• PS3 Slim with Batman: Arkam Asylum, inFamous, and Dark Knight (movie) - $299 (Walmart)

Games:

• Left 4 Dead 2 - $34.99 (Best Buy)
• Resident Evil 5 - $19.99 (Best Buy)
• Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayer - $9.99 (NewEgg)
• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy Vii - $9.99 (GameStop)
• NFS: Undercover (PS3) - $10 (Walmart)
• Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (360) - $7 (Walmart)
• Dragon Age: Origins - $34.99 (Best Buy)
• Grand Theft Auto IV - $10 (Walmart)

Accessories and gift cards:

• Target: $50 gift cards on Xbox systems, $20 on DSi
• Target: $10 gift cards with many games
• Target: DualShock3 and Xbox 360 controllers, $39

Stores:

• Kmart
• Target
• Walmart
• Toys R Us
• GameStop
• Sears
• Best Buy
• NewEgg
• Old Navy? (lol)

Earlier this weekend, I decided to drop the weights and pick up the Dual Shock. This kind of recreation isn’t anything new, but the thing I chose to play sort of is: the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PS3-exclusive beta. Above is ten sweet, sweet minutes from my second match of that afternoon.

One thing you’ll notice in this latest Ten Minute Taste is that the Attacker side didn’t know what they were doing, or at least, didn’t care about the objectives. My team and I were in their spawn as a result, giving them some hell with bullets and fire from our armor. It was a spanking, no doubt.

Even though Florence and assassins have dominated my free time from Sunday afternoon on, I’m still thinking about BF:BC2. I obviously dug it and am planning to jump back into it in the near future. What do you guys think about the beta? The TMT? Chocolate pudding? Tell us.

Game makers really want to use the DSi cameras, it seems. Konami's latest announcement uses them in a sort of RPG mechanic.

Foto Showdown has players snapping pictures with the DSi cameras. From these photos, monsters with the same primary colors are spawned. Remember Monster Rancher? It's kind of like that, but instead of generating data (monsters) from CDs, it comes from images. Konami says that there are more than 100 levels to battle through, using your generated monsters against various opponents' ones. Your monsters gain strength each time they're used. In all, there are 152 different monsters to collect.

Konami is bringing this out early next year for the DSi.

Only good things can come when you combine the forces of Crysis with Back to the Future.

A mod by Tirido made the rounds this weekend on the social news sites, and for good reason. It brings a functional DeLorean into the game (and Crysis Wars) that you can play around with for fifteen minutes or however long it takes before the concept grows old.

To get the full effect, I suggest you watch the video above here instead. You can thank Reddit user Dave10 for that one. While the mod may not have serious longevity, it's the creativity behind the idea that counts.

The fact that someone thought to make such a thing brings a tear to my eye.

You really ought to commend the folks at Maverick PR (and Vicious Cycle Software) for their work on Matt Hazard. They've done a tremendous job of creating a back-story for the videogame character who's got a fictional past, both in and outside of the games.

If you haven't come to grips with the fact that game characters have their own Facebook accounts, I honestly don't blame you. But you know what? It makes sense for Matt Hazard to be involved with social networking.

His page has hit the 1,000 follower mark, which is cause for celebration, apparently. Basically, it's an excuse for us to get more Matt Hazard fiction. Don't have a Facebook account? That makes two of us. Thankfully, we have the full "fun facts" located past the break.

Go take a look; they are pretty amusing.

Link’s Awakening on the Nintendo Game Boy was one of the fruits of the success of Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo. A portable episode of Nintendo’s adventure had been a long time coming, and after wading through the SNES game, I lined up the handheld Legend of Zelda for a purchase.

Beforehand, I heard of a way to get an expensive item from a shop without having to pay for it. I believe I watched an episode of Gamesmaster, and it showed the familiar green/yellow tint of the Game Boy screen. Link ran in circles around the shopkeeper to the point that he was looking the other way, leaving Link to run out of the shop with the item. When I had the game myself, I found that if you tried to nip out the shop without paying for something, you’d be stopped from leaving by the alert owner.

That revealed, I decided to have a go at the shoplifting. Around I went several times, and I rushed out the door, prize in hand. However, I was then reminded of the fact that I was not to return to the shop. This warning would lead to the downfall of Link and my positive gaming experience.

I had left the shop, but the reminder not to return was, in theory, only tempting me to go back and check out what would happen. Whether I played a bit of the game afterwards or foolishly had a peek straight away, it didn’t matter; my curiosity was aroused. Like a child that had seen something that looked nice and edible, I took the opportunity regardless of the approaching cost.

We had a bunch of awesome Naruto prizes courtesy of Tomy Corporation to giveaway to some Naruto fans last week. We wanted to give them to real Naruto fans so we asked you all to show us how much of a Naruto fan you really are.

Congratulations to TocanRider, Kaaru1990, danielwjenkins, worldagainstjose and chicken008. They'll each be getting a copy of Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 for the Wii, a t-shirt, headband and Naruto chopsticks. Congratulations also go out to Erica Berkowitz who will be getting all of the above prizes PLUS  the exclusive one-of-a-kind framed poster featuring Anbu Kakashi from Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3.

For more free stuff, check out our Blip Festival 2009 contest where you can win tickets to the concert.

Harrison Krix, the guy responsible for the new Mr. Destructoid helmet, keeps producing awesome stuff. Recently, he took the Big Daddy costume and Little Sister syringe that he designed and had a photoshoot with the props at the Georgia Aquarium. Harrison is the one walking around in the Big Daddy suit and his fiancee is the Little Sister.

There are a bunch of photos from the photoshoot over on Volpin Props, where Harrison has more of his amazing custom props. Harrison has also just put up the Big Daddy suit for sale on eBay where the current bid is at $250. I'm looking forward to see how much Harrison makes off this sale. A few thousand easily, right?

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With the closing of Pandemic Studios, maker of Mercenaries and The Saboteur, and most of its staff now out of a job, things have been looking gloomy. But during such a sad time, you've always got to look on the brighter side -- this is exactly what's been done, as evidenced by the video up there.

Hopefully you have all seen the film Office Space by now, but if not, it's still fun to watch a few ex-Pandemic dudes beat the Christ out of a printer. The video, which was found by Kotaku, is supposed to be legit. As in, that was the company's actual printer.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

Remember Driver? Sure you do. It was a PlayStation game (and later a PC release), and a pretty good one at that. I had totally forgotten about this classic until Gameloft dusted it off for re-release on the iPhone.

So yes, it's a port, but its actually an improvement on the original game. We're talking better graphics and interfaces put on top of the same fun gameplay and physics of the original. An improvement port on a mobile phone? Nice.

Read on for our preview of Driver.

Assassin's Creed 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii both released this week, but neither were able to top the might of Modern Warfare 2. They take second and third place respectively, as Activision looks set to repeat the ludicrous success that last year's World at War enjoyed.

Left 4 Dead 2 debuted at a respectable, if not mind blowing, number seven on the chart. Otherwise, sports, fitness and racing games once again have majority control over the list, occupying eleven of the chart's twenty positions.

Hit the jump for the usual numbers.

With Thanksgiving this week, the PlayStation Network releases had to be moved up to Tuesday. We're getting two games, Revenge of the Wounded Dragons and Gravity Crash, both of which are $9.99.

As cool as the name sounds, RotWD looks off. For reference, the PlayStation Blog has video of the straight-up arcade-style beat-'em-up. Who knows, there's always the possibility it handles a heck of a lot better than it looks over the Internet.

The neon aesthetic of Gravity Crash is much less taxing on the eyes. It's very much what you would expect from a download-only shooter these days, with one exception. The level editor! The short montage shown here makes it look intuitive enough.

And since levels can be shared, you can always fall back on the work of others if need be.

When I first heard that No More Heroes was coming to the PS3/360, I was totally shocked. Porting a two-year-old Wii game to HD consoles? It's ludicrous, unheard of, and potentially brilliant. While I'm not totally convinced that NMH will be better for the swap between motion controls and HD graphics, I still want the game to sell well on the PS3/360. If this port goes on to outsell the 500,000-700,000 copies that the Wii original sold worldwide, I'd be ecstatic.

Now, before you going calling me a Wii-hating HD fanboy, hold your horses. Take another look at the title of this post. Look at a few of my other blogs. Though I'm not the biggest fan of Nintendo of America, the Wii is actually my favorite console of this generation so far.

So, if I like the Wii so much, why am I excited that NMH is "defecting" to high definition consoles? Well, because from where I stand, the success of the game on the PS3/360 could signal the final victory for the "Wii philosophy," which is the reason I like the Wii so much in the first place.

Hit the jump and I'll explain.

Normally reserved for Thursdays, Sony will be updating its PlayStation Store tomorrow. 

Why? Thanksgiving, of course. Yup, this is the week where you'll be eating turkey and stuffing with your families and then settling down into a nasty food coma until you need to wake up to go shopping. Sony assumes you won't be around to buy things, so you get the update tomorrow. 

Just wanted to remind you folks, especially those excited about the prospect of downloading a Kelly Clarkson song to play in Rock Band. No need to thank me.