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Sale EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag PSA: Gamefly has a ton of Wii and 360 games for under $10 21 You wouldn't know it by looking at my credit card bills, but I have never been a member of GameFly. I have, however, racked up a bunch of meager transactions over the years whenever they try to p... Black Friday: Don't waste your time going to Toys R Us 13 Toys R Us has a ton of deals going on for toys during Black Friday, but their gaming selection isn't so great compared to some of the other Black Friday deals. Still, there are a few notable game... 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... Black Friday: Sears has a few things you'll want 17 'Tis the season to be a crazed shopper looking for the best Holiday deals. Black Friday "leaks" are popping up all over and the latest comes from Sears. Sears is going to have your typical 2-pack... Buy two Wii games, get one free at Target 17 For the week of November 1, you'll be able to buy two Wii games priced at $49.99 and get the third one for free at Target. All Wii games are part of this offer and you only have one week to take ... Get Team Fortress 2 for $2.49 RIGHT NOW 39 Valve is selling Team Fortress 2 on Steam right now for just $2.49. The catch is that you only have until 2:00PM PDT today to pick the game up for such a low price. If you still haven't bought Te... Toys R' Us giving you a free game after you buy two 35 Are you really backlogged on the games you need to play, but also strapped for cash? Yea, who isn't? What's the solution though? Theft? Selling drugs? Prostitution? I mean I'm a good looking guy,... Indie shmup Bullet Candy Perfect on sale for as low as $1 8 Ah, the old "pay as much as you think it's worth" business model. In theory, a giant middle-finger to the greedy corporations who feel justified charging exorbitant amounts of money in ... Game Crazy having clearance sales this weekend 23 As we told you last night, over 200 hundred Game Crazy stores are to be closed by the end of October. With closers always come some deep discounted sales! Except, in the case of Game Crazy, the s... Indie game Immortal Defense is awesome, on sale for $3 20 If you haven't already played Immortal Defense -- known around the Burch household as "the single best tower defense game ever made next to Plants vs Zombies" -- you're in luck. In cele... Best Buy sale: Buy one Xbox 360 game, get other half off 25 A lot of good sales are coming down the line this week for us gamers. Best Buy throws their hat into the ring with this Xbox 360 game offer.Here's the deal: buy one Xbox 360 game and get another ... Play-Asia sale: 20 percent off items paid with Visa card 11 Importer Play-Asia is running a pretty good sale right now. Pay for your purchases with a Visa card, and you'll see that 20 percent has been taken off your total.  This is, of course, a prom... PAX 09: The Capcom store will be at PAX next week 13 Capcom is bringing their goods to the Penny Arcade Expo next week. If you've ever seen a Capcom store at any event in the past, then you know Capcom always bring the goods. Case in point: Giant-s... Xbox 360 getting a price drop next week 65 We’ve been hearing rumblings of an Xbox 360 Elite price drop for a little while now and this Walmart ad has confirmed what we knew was coming. The Xbox 360 Elite will be going for $299 star... Droplitz dropz its price: $.99 for iPhone, $1.99 on Steam 13 Droplitz. Puzzler. We liked it a bunch. If you somehow missed it the first time around, or you're some kind of cheap-ass (me), then you'll be pleased to know that the game is on sale for both the... Valve announces Half-Life yard sale: 66% off! 29 If you're stuck at home with no plans this weekend, things may be looking up more than you think. Steam just announced that they're having a sale this weekend, with everything Half-Life-related s... Prototype on the cheap on Steam: $40 32 Our absolutely massive review of Prototype featured the views of three of our editors, and came with a bonus music video. The end result? A respectable score of 7.5 out of 10. That means that we ... Street Fighter IV, MadWorld, and more get dropped to $19.99 55 Massive savings can be found at GameStop from now until August 2 both in store and online. A big group of games, including the console versions of Street Fighter IV, have been given a temporary p... ZOMG! Steam has been taken over by 'the casuals' 9 It was inevitable, I suppose. Not even Valve’s digital distribution service Steam -- one of the few remaining bastions of "proper" PC gaming -- could remain safe from the terrible... Zeno Clash "The Pit" DLC is: free, awesome, now available 6 If you haven't picked up Zeno Clash -- undoubtedly call the most enjoyable Source-based, Chilean, 3D beatemup of the last six months -- then perhaps the release of three new challenge levels will... Get 12 months of Xbox Live for $27.99 18 eBay has an awesome deal for Xbox Live Gold today.  You can get a years subscription of Gold for $27.99, saving yourself $22 from the regular price of $49.99. The deal is only good until Jun... Cheapskate alert: Universe at War is only $5 on Steam 12 Another Friday night, another weekend deal from Steam is upon us. This time, it's Petroglyph's 2007 sci-fi real-time strategy game, Universe at War: Earth Assault. While the title normally runs f... Best Buy to go crazy with huge $10 game sale 42 Cheap games. Real Talk.In this day and age, any kind of anything you can land for $10 is good. That's because $10 hardly buys anything of value anymore. It does get ten things off the dollar menu... All Strategy First games are 50% off on Steam 13 There's nothing quite like a sale to get you buying things you don't really need, and spending money you don't really have. But that's the situation I find myself in practically every week when S... Schafer: Gamers care too much about sales 25 If anybody knows a thing or two about good games selling poorly, it's Double Fine's Tim Schafer. His last game, Psychonauts, was notorious for a disappointing sales performance despite widespread... Select RPGs are 15% off at Good Old Games for a limited time 10 It's that time of the week again, folks. I'm not here to announce an update to Good Old Games' catalog on this glorious Friday afternoon, but I do have equally good news: the DRM-free PC game dis... Poor-ass gamers: Dell has cheap PS3 and Xbox 360 systems 13 There was a cheap PS3 for a very short while last year, but that disappeared when the holidays came. Everyone wanted a Blu-ray player for Christmas, and I was recommending the PS3 instead -- but ... Massive holiday sale on Steam 33 It's that time of the year again! Valve has just begun their massive end-of-year sale on Steam, and there are a ton of great deals up. Everything in the store is discounted anywhere from 10% to 7... You might want to check Circuit City again 25 We told you early last month that electronics retailer Circuit City was closing over 150 stores. That's big news, as they held up about 10% of the US games market. Damn this economy!We saw their ... Psst: Need a cheap 20GB hard drive for your Xbox 360 Arcade? 13 How does $29.99 sound for a 20GB hard drive? Not bad, eh?As you know, the Xbox 360 Arcade bundle is nicely priced, but some of that low price is due to the absence of a hard drive. And not having... 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... Discountoid: Another Buy 2 Get 1, bundled accessories and more 7 Target stores have their sights set on getting you to spend this week, with a buy 2 get 1 free promotion in their Sunday ad. The bad news? It's only on Wii games. Still, if there are a few first-... Toys 'R' Us holding their annual buy two games, get one free deal 23 It’s that time again, folks! CheapAssGamer brings word that Toys ‘R’ Us is holding their annual buy two videogames, get one free sale. The sale starts this Sunday and will last ... The state of gaming in Trinidad and Tobago: Last gen piracy is alive and well 74 Please allow me to interrupt a slow news day with tales of piracy from the True Caribbean, as locals call it.  I was recently in Scarborough, Tobago with some friends and noticed this haunti... Almost 50% of stores ignore ESRB ratings, according to undercover survey 19 The East County Youth Coalition, in conjunction with a number of other organizations has conducted an undercover survey to see just how often children can get their hands on adult-oriented videog... Wii availability creates tourism boost in rural Japan, seashell art sales stable 14 Nearly ten months in and still the Wii is only marginally easier to get hold of than rocking-horse manure. Having pre-ordered mine before launch, I had to be honest, pretty much stopped tracking ... Things looking rocky for GAME's buyout of Gamestation 12 If you've been following mine and Jim's coverage of the buy-out of the UK's Gamestation retail chain by its bigger, uglier evil twin GAME, you'll perhaps understand why I was briefly tempted to w... Two boys experience the worst GameStop visit ever 35 Two Texas-based gamers thought they were going to GameStop to get some new games, but all they got was a gun in their faces. They just happened to pick the worst time to stop by their local game ... GAME's plan to dominate the UK continues online 29 Next Generation is reporting that GAME, the evil band of megalomaniacs who acquired Gamestation and threaten the UK with its perverse monopoly, is now viewing the online realm with envious eyes a... Destructoid review: Call of Juarez 17 This'll be a very unconventional Destructoid review in nearly every way. Firstly, this review will only consist of one editor's views -- mine. The rest of our intrepid Destructoid editors... GAME/Gamestation merger under investigation 25 Several weeks ago, fellow Briton Dave broke the news that UK retail chain GAME had bought their biggest rivals Gamestation in a move that disgusted many gamers in this fair nation, myself includ... Free Stuff for the Week of 5/26/07 45 Everyone loves free stuff. I collect free stuff like Joystiq collects talented writers. I have an armada of Kids Meal toys (such as a 6 piece nugget box and soda that inexplicably transform into ... GAME buys Gamestation chain: a nation gets nervous 32 GAME, the U.K. and Ireland's recently stock-troubled leader in high street games sales, has bought out biggest rival Gamestation. The smaller chain was purchased from previous owner Blockbus... UK GAME stores still oblivious; plot thickens 32 Intrigued by Summa's report on the U.K. and Ireland's biggest gaming retail chain, GAME , not stocking Friday's PS3 release of Oblivion, I decided to make a stand for my fellow coun... Sony making up for Euro PS3 gimp with cheaper game prices in UK 27 Even though the PlayStation 3 is a bit altered in the lands of Europe, Sony was able to squeeze out some good news today concerning the games in the United Kingdom and how they would actually cl... ZOMG MASSIVE BEST BUY SALE 155 [Update: Reports have come in from all over about a variety of nationwide stores honoring the promotion, while others say they will begin tomorrow or are completely oblivious. Call your local Bes...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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