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Holidays EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Nintendo invades malls for the holidays 15 Unless you're the type that confines yourself to your home and orders all your Christmas gifts through Amazon (not the world's worst idea, really), you're likely to go to a mall at least once thi... ESA: 42 percent to give or get games this holiday 16 Despite a beaten down economy, computer and console games aren't going anywhere. Or, at least that's what the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) says. Forty-two percent of American adults... Black Friday: NewEgg deals going on right now 20 NewEgg is having an early Black Friday sale right now. Their game selection isn't all that hot though. Here's the full list:   Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard (X360, PS3) - $9.99 Onechanbar... Black Friday: Best Buy's deals revealed 47 The Black Friday deals just keep on rolling in. First, lets look at the system deals. Best Buy will have two DSi bundles that come with five pre-installed games each. The White DSi bundle will ha... Black Friday: Here's what Target will have on sale 15 The latest Black Friday deal comes from Target and they're offering a lot of gift cards with certain purchases. System wise, Target will be offering $50 gift cards with any purchase of a Xbox 360... Art imitates life: Bit.Trip VOID in time for Thanksgiving 6 Bit.Trip VOID is a game that you can play with your family, where you compete to see who can get fatter the fastest. Thanksgiving (link NSFW) is a holiday where families do the same thing, except... THQ celebrates Halloween 12 Damn, THQ goes all out on Halloween. Well, some of its employees do for the annual Halloween contest. While not strictly gaming related (which is a little odd considering this is a gaming company... Top 20 Horror movies that would make great games part 2: 54 [Update: Saw this awesome image in KrazyKraut's cblog and I just had to take it. Thanks KrazyKraut!] OK, time to finish this list up right, hopefully in time for you to sneak some of these movies... Top 20 Horror movies that would make great games part 2: 54 [Update: Saw this awesome image in KrazyKraut's cblog and I just had to take it. Thanks KrazyKraut!] OK, time to finish this list up right, hopefully in time for you to sneak some of these movies... Eight last-minute Halloween costumes for gamers 75 Poor little videogame-lovin' naked guy. Halloween is literally just around the corner, and he still has no costume! It could be that he can't decide on who to be. Perhaps someone from one of thos... Top 20 Horror movies would make great games part 1 24 Last year's list was alright I guess, but I tried to do better this time around. This year I got a lot more input from the other Dtoid editors, expanded the total film count from ten to twenty, a... Free LittleBigPlanet pumpkin costume back for the holiday 10 Last Halloween, I missed my window of opportunity to download the free, limited-time-only Pumpkin Head mask for LittleBigPlanet. I was so furious, I called up Topher and demanded he come over, lo... BabaGeek: Halloween 2009 Custom Yoshi Mascot and Baby Mario Costumes Finished 44 [Editor's note: craineum is at it again with his Halloween costumes. Last year, he made his kids Mega Man and Kid Icarus outfits. This year, his kids are dressing up as Yoshi and Mario. Sweet! --... Custom Halo Elite Halloween costume is pretty rad 10 YouTuber petemander1 is going to be the talk of his Halloween party as he's going to have the best Halloween costume of the night. petemander1 is working on a Covenant Elite costume based on the ... Get in the Halloween spirit with Nintendo pumpkins 13 When I was a kid, my absolute favorite holiday-related thing to do every year was carve a pumpkin. We never did anything totally off the wall, but I just enjoyed the whole ritual every year. Now,... Destineer has some Christmas minigames gift for you 5 Man, let me tell you what I did NOT want for Christmas is a collection of holiday themed minigames, but you know, you say "minigames" and there's someone just waiting to make a Wii game... Less spending on games this holiday season, says NPD 21 Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst of the NPD Group said, “I think consumers will be looking for the right gift, rather than the most extravagant or expensive one."That means that y... Tis the season: there's a pumpkin carving sim on XBLA 9 I'm a total dork when it comes to the Halloween rituals -- I love hanging the stupid skeleton on the door, going to pick out a pumpkin to carve, queuing up the scary movies. I'm not so sure how I... Two minutes of The Grudge Wii is right proper creepy 39 Have you kept track of how many Wii games feature minimal combat and maximal flashlight? By my count, there are seven: LIT, Fragile, Fatal Frame 4, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, The Calling, a... Nintendo on Holiday 09: We have a 'tremendous amount' 17 You know how it goes. You go to the big box store around the holidays, looking for the hot new game system for little Timmy, and it's not there. Instead, you find soccer moms swarming around and ... Microsoft goes Xbox 360 bundle crazy this holiday 30 It's not the holidays unless Microsoft decides to toss some Xbox 360 bundles together, is it?  This year, the $299 Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle comes with an Elite console, as wel... Happy Kwanzaa? FF Crystal Bearers' suicidal release date 26 The long delayed, often thought dead Final Fantasy Crystal Chronciles: The Crystal Bearers finally has a US release date. In what will surely be remembered as one of the most clever, or the most ... Heavy competition for Holiday '09 has titles moving to 2010 17 Ubisoft's Michael de Plater was the creative director of EndWar, and he sees a different kind of war coming this Christmas/Holiday season -- the war for your gift money. Because of this upcoming ... Give your loved one some robot lovin' with the Destructoid Valentine's Day card 14 Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and what better way to celebrate the day of love then by giving some robot lovin’ to your significant other. Because he is awesome, Vice (featured on this ... Pachter plays the guessing game with holiday sales while Microsoft brags 6 I didn't get any new consoles this holiday season, so I have to admit I didn't do too much guessing about which ones sold best. Of course, why waste my time on such things when I could merely tur... Holiday cards: Resistance's V7 Splicer is the gift that keeps on slicing 1 OK, so it's almost the new year, and this card is a bit late thanks to Insomniac having an old address on file (I forgive you). But this holiday card -- a mock advertisement for the Resistance V7... Merry Christmas from the Destructoid Community 21 It’s Christmas day and that means not a whole hell of a lot is going to happen today on the Internets. People are taking the day off to be with family and play with all their new toys they ... Happy holidays: Watch the 1982 Christmas Comes to Pacland holiday special 15 In honor of the holidays we present to you to 23 minutes of your life you'll never be able to get back -- Christmas Comes to Pacland.  This made-for-television cartoon special first aired on... 2K knows just how to ring my bell this Christmas season 5 I had intended to place an order for a Little Sister figurine as soon as I saw 2K had announced them, but with all the holiday madness I never got around to doing so. After opening my mail today,... Enjoy a little holiday spirit with 8-Bit Jesus 18 If you're anything like me, the holiday season can wear you down. All of the shopping is absolutely exhausting (unless you're smart and do it online, which I am not) and all the while you are bei... Holiday cards: Persona 4's Teddy sends season's greetings 6 The fine folks at Atlus send along holiday greetings as the cards continue to hit Destructoid HQ.The wierd zipper-faced bear mascot of Atlus' latest RPG hit, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, convey... Sam's Club drops price of Guitar Hero World Tour just in time for Christmas 7 I don't know if Guitar Hero World Tour is on any of the Christmas lists of your friends or family (or yourselves), but if it is, you may want to take note of Sam's Club's special price on the gam... Nintendo shrugs off recession talk with crazy Wii sales 10 For Black Friday week, Nintendo sold about 800,000 Wii consoles and about the same number of DS systems. That's more than double the 350,000 sold this time last year. “I see no negative sig... Discountoid: Cyber Monday 2008 25 Just in case you didn’t max out all your credit cards on Black Friday, online retailers have fabricated a new bastion of American consumerism in recent years: “Cyber Monday.” It... Fourth Prince of Persia dev diary further heightens my anticipation for the game 18 [video]112726:796[/video] I’ve found that, in the usual glut of high-profile releases this fall, many people seem to completely have forgotten that there’s still one more potential g... Microsoft Gift Influencer: where was this stuff when I was a kid? 25 I'll never forget the way Christmas inevitably worked when I was growing up: my mom would ask me to tell her what I wanted, I would make her a list, and somehow I'd open my presents under the tre... 6-year-old girl designs GameStop gift card, purchase one to help charity 24 6-year-old Mary McKenzie designed a gift card for GameStop that's going to help raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation ... and what did you do this year? The Dallas-area girl drew up an ... The Wii drought is officially over at your local GameStop 13 If you know anyone who is still desperately searching for a Wii, their day may have finally come. In a recent interview with GameSpot, GameStop's exec VP of merchandising and marketing, Tony Bart... Dtoiders: What are you thankful for this year? 53 Does this mean the Rick Roll is finally dead? Also, it may just be me, but I think he is lip-syncing ...  Right now, my house is filling up with the delicious scent of Turkey and other yummy... Holiday cheer: Mario will call your parents with your Christmas requests 21 I;m actually not sure if this newest holiday move from Nintendo is downright genius or downright scary, but either way I'm sure it'll have an impact. It was announced today that you can visit htt... Free Blu-ray remote and movie with PS3 at Amazon 19 Were you finally thinking of getting a PS3 for yourself? I know you aren't really thinking of getting one for the Blu-ray functionality, but you might as well use it since you'll have it, right?I... October NPD: The holiday ramp-up 6 It's that time of month again where we take a quick look at the NPD data to see how the games industry is doing. We're over our shame for the incorrect predictions we put out in August for Septem... Early Black Friday leak: Xbox 360 Arcade and Rock Band 2 for $199 8 It's already that time to think about the holidays and shopping, and the first of the Black Friday deals are already making an appearance. The Xbox 360 Arcade unit is already a great deal at $199... Wal-Mart holiday bonus: $100 gift card with PS3, $30 with PS2 15 Part of the company's "Operation Main Street" promotion, Wal-Mart is out to help your hurting wallet this holiday season by cutting prices and running promotions on a whole bunch of pro... Activision partners with the USO, brings games to troops 7 Activision is using both Call of Duty: World at War and Guitar Hero: World Tour to bring entertainment to America's troops this holiday season. They're working with the United Service Organizatio... Destructoid Halloween 2008: Kool-Aid, YouTube, Mega Mans and more 35 Thanks to everyone that sent in or blogged about their Halloween costumes! There were a lot of great costumes that came from everyone. If this was a contest and we had to select the best, then ... Dtoiders: What are you going as for Halloween this year? 64 Halloween is tomorrow, folks, and we want to know what you're going as. Last year, the most popular videogame-related Halloween costumes were based on The Orange Box and BioShock. A lot of people... Sony says no holiday price cuts coming 41 Thinking maybe it's time for you to finally give in and buy a PS3, if only they'd reduce the price just a little bit more? This isn't going to be your year, if Patrick Seybold, director of corpor... Has the weak US economy finally affected videogames? 26 You saw our August NPD data, right? It said that August was a slow month, and may point to a slowing economy finally having an effect on the games industry. Analysts expected sales gains of 20 to... GameStop: Wii to sell out for third holiday straight 11 I know, I know. How is this news, right? News or not, GameStop has said that the 2008 holiday season will be just as Wii-challenged as the last couple have been. "I've never seen this t... Sony is not worried about Xbox 360 price cuts 54 You already know that as of September 5th, today, Xbox 360 console prices have been cut across the board. The $199 Arcade bundle has received the most buzz, with its pricing coming in below the W... A satisfaction with flame, a journey of the flamethrower 20 In one satisfying click, the wispy little flame on the end of a metallic barrel becomes a furious storm of heat and destruction. At first, it seems uncontrollable, such a marvelous display of pow... Wii owners bought 8 games per system in December 69 A friend visiting my house a few days ago pointed out how weak my Wii game collection was compared to the collections for the rest of the consoles I own. I agreed with her and pointed out that I ... December NPD: Everyone says that they won 10 In a sense, I guess everyone does win in December. But the releases sent to us by Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft on December's NPD data all seem to point to their victories over something, and mos... Square Christmas card has snow, chocobo, cuteness 17 Posting on Christmas Eve has its advantages. You have a captive audience, since everyone is either traveling somewhere or waiting to be attacked by waves of relatives, with nothing to do in the i... Orange Box soundtrack is an ideal gift if Companion Cubes are sold out 21 You don't have the $100 bucks to shell out for a plush Companion Cube, despite the lovely donation to Child's Play involved? Fear not, many are in the same boat. If you're seeking a more tasteful... Microsoft announces LIVE point gifting just in time 21 Ok, so it's unlikely that any of your friends will exhibit the sheer excitement of the legendary Nintendo 64 boy when you give them a gift, but it's the thought that counts. Thanks to Microsoft, ... Nintendo is not pleased about unofficial bundles 45 Kid: "Thanks for calling Gamestop, where we have the best Christmas bundles for the most affordable prices and you can subscribe to Game Informer for only $9.99 a month plus you get a free R... Nintendo may be missing out on 1.3 billion in sales due to shortages 20 We know that Nintendo's Wii is selling well, but how much better would they have fared if console supplies were plentiful?There's no way to know for sure, but  James Lin, senior analyst at t... Spin-free: November NPD software numbers 21 November was a great month for hardware sales, but it was even better for software, with sales up 62 percent to an incredible $1.3 billion. These days, it's in high fashion to "claim" t... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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