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shopping EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Inside Microsoft's first retail store 56 Coinciding with the release of Windows 7, Microsoft has opened their very first Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. People camped out overnight in sixty ... Eye of Judgment with PlayStation Eye: $30 at Walmart 21 Look, I'm a blogger for a living. It's a fun life and all, but I can't say that I'm rolling in cash come payday (no offense, boss). So, for the day-to-day needs of my life, I visit the Walmart lo... Breaking! Free Destructoid shirts for the ladies while they last 22 Time to clean house!  Nerdyshirts is closing out the last of our 08' Destructoid skull & crossbones shirts for $5 plus shipping (all men's sizes are sold out, sorry!) but here's how to g... Phone cam pics of a new prototype GameStop store 25 Going into those little hole in the mall GameStop stores leaves much to be desired. Some are so small that you're likely to knock sh*t off the shelves just walking through it. It's also sometimes... 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... Black Friday at SplitReason - 20% off all Destructoid swag, today only 23 Buy our crap!  I'm happy to announce that our T-shirt supplier SplitReason is having a 20% off sale today on all Destructoid merch. including our new Kamikaze shirt (pictured) and the Retrof... Rumortoid: MGS 4 pre-order bots responsible for Amazon downtime 36 Today was quite possibly the worst day for Amazon to experience downtime. Planned to be the day that Amazon began accepting pre-orders for the Metal Gear Solid 4 80 GB PS3 bundle, everything... Nintendo: Wii has a shelf life of one hour 30 It was hard to obtain Nintendo's Wii in 2006, but even now it is hard to come across a Nintendo Wii in a retail store. There's still a crazy demand and a shortage of hardware. Nintendo's Reggie F... Play-Asia announces Year of the Rat sale, free consoles to be won 24 Play-Asia and my bank account should be connected by a direct wire -- or perhaps an IV tube would be a more accurate choice. I can't begin to tabulate how much of my money they've spirited away, ... Japan braces for a Super Smash Bros. Brawl brawl due to shortages 43 If a delay didn't hurt enough, reports of a shortage of copies of Super Smash Bros. Brawl should have Japanese gamers clutching their chest and their reserve tickets.Our sister site Japanator poi... Toys R Us rewards you for buying Mario Galaxy with a $25 Gift Card 20 As some of you may already know, Toys R Us is tempting customers with the promise of a $25 Gift Card if you purchase Super Mario Galaxy at one of their retail stores. If you're going to get it (a... PSP $169 price drop. Idea: keep waiting 32 A variety of sources with more child labor than us are reporting that the PSP will drop to $169 tomorrow, making it still $50 more expensive than the world's most succesful video game console... April Fool's Alert #5: WiiHelm and the WoW tinfoil cap 11 The WiiHelm by ThinkGeek is a great April Fool's Day joke in so many ways. The item even fooled Dave Rudden, an editor at Games.net, who was ready to put down $25 for the accessory when he wa... Wii have some good news (update) 42 Are you still looking for your Nintendo Wii, only to find barren shelves and frowny faces? Are you still rabidly determined to purchase the system despite the naysayers? Well, our highly efficien... 52 issues of Famitsu just ... $398! Doh 10 HarrasmentPanda spotted an ironic deal on CheapAssGamer for hardcore gamers obsessed with reading about games we'll see in 6 months (if we're lucky): You can now subscribe to the #1 Japa... Limited Edition Dtoid shirt: Ten bucks! 150 Love Destructoid and Also Cocks? Here's an opportunity to tell the world confuse the hell out of anyone that happens to walk past you. Your demented friends at Destructoid are professionally ... AWOMO: Branson's new baby 9 If Gametap is the whore of video game content delivery, then Richard Branson's unfortunately named AWOMO (A World of My Own) is the new kid on the block. This poor, dumpy kid will inevitab... Ninty dominates Amazon: SNES > PS3? 43 Fanboys will have a field day with Amazon's public Top 25 video game sales list, which is completely overrun by Nintendo products. Among the usual suspects from the Wii camp is one strange su... 20 portable 80's Sega games for 20 beans 22 Coleco has launched a rebranded dirt-cheap portable console called the PlayPal, which retails for $20 at Target. It's flimsy as can be, but packs a near 3 inch screen and runs twenty classi... Video game artwork, sans the eyeballs 10 Neil sees an eyeball and he wants to paint it blackNo colors anymore Neil wants them to turn blackNeil sees the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothesNeil posts his art on Etsy until his... Online retailer quits, calls out game industry; waahmbulance dispatched 32 Some online retailer I've never heard of, DVD Empire, has come out and said they're going to stop selling video games and they got a few reasons as to why. Take a look at their list of co... The mother of all 8-bit NES auctions 34 If you're sick of waiting for good NES games on your Wii Virtual Console (you know, Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Brothers 3, Mega Man 2 -- not Urban Champion) and are sick of the fortune you... Ignorant mom tries to find a Mario game for Xbox 360 38 Retail-Sucks has a hilarious story about a woman trying to find a certain Nintendo game for Xbox 360. This mom must have a lot of faith in her kids, because she gave one EB Games employee hell j... Watch Circuit City sell out Wiis and blatantly lie today, live in your town! 28 I woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to buy a Wii for my dad. He's been playing stuff like Bases Loaded on his NES forever now because he finds everything else too complicated. Judgin... Save the dinosaurs, get free gaming mags 21 The magazine publishing industry needs your help. Actually, it doesn't -- it needs you to forget that video game news is not readily available and more current on the internet. It also needs ... Milk Circuit City for all it has, or just $40 (Update: Circuit City got scared) 29 While rumors of a Nintendo Wii fifty dollar price drop have been brewing since the holidays, nothing has quite yet materialized. We can't imagine they'd do so anytime soon with the high d... Urban Princess of the crocheted scarf world 20 She's got spunk. She's curls. She's got scarves! Scarves, people! Expensive hand crocheted Nintendo designs that, and I quote "were made my hands and imagination". A gradua... How not to sell a PlayStation 3 on Ebay 27 Oh, Mylanta! Call me conservative, but the last thing I want near my next-gen hardware is a fat naked dude's hairy testicles. That's just how I was raised, no offense. Unfortunately we fa... eBay stupidity is not in short supply 25 Surfing the listings at eBay, you'll see hundreds of auctions that are just tricks to rip idiot buyers off. The favorite trick of... I'd say clever sellers, but if the buyers took a minut... Got $40? Go buy Rainbow Six: Vegas for the 360 right now! 21 It appears as though Best Buy has slashed the price on, what I feel, is the best game on the Xbox 360 right now, Rainbow Six: Vegas. I'm not sure how long this sale will last, but you might ... Spend $175, become Metrosexual Mario 22 There's never been a faster way to get your ass kicked and waste money than the Dolce and Gabbana Mario fanboy shirt, available at Saks Fifth Avenue for the overpaid white collar gamers with ... An intimate view of the Chinese gold farmers of Warcraft 52 MTV's Game Week recently featured a inside look into the seedy underworld of Chinese gold farming: the MMO sweatshops that produce all of the gold and rare items up for grabs by online broker... Yo, where mah Wiis at? Arf Arf eBay (update) 10 Had trouble finding Wiis locally? Don't bother with your neighborhood Circuit City unless you're sleeping on the sidewalk. The e-commerce mogul recently announced an online-only post-Chri... Gamefly warns newbs about 360's state of the art disc etching technology 27 You've seen the video. If you flip an Xbox 360 on its side while it's running, you can pretty much kiss your game goodbye. The console is emo like that. That said, I was rather amused at ... Buying multiple PS3s at retail was so easy 50 This morning I set out to purchase a PS3 for our contest winner of the month, Matthew in the UK. Our neighboring Europeans can't buy the damn things for another 3 months so he's more than... Did you get any video game presents? 62 2006 was without a doubt one of the biggest, if not the best ever, years in video game history. We had three incredible consoles bankrupt us, a plethora of great games on every available console,... Nintendo Wii Internet Channel: Look ma! I is on the Internets! 40 As most of you well know, Nintendo unleashed their Opera-powered Internet browser today to Wii owners -- for free. And, oh man, I'm glad that thing is free. So far, I couldn't play anyt... Woot sells out PS3s while hating on them 49 As if organizing a stack of PS3 boxes into "Wii Rox!" isn't humiliating enough, team Woot defecates on the abilities of the PS3 while simultaneously selling them and somehow manage ... Why you have a sad, sad wallet 22 In a recent report, Forbes sheds some interesting light on the topic of game pricing -- for those of you in possession of inquiring minds. According to them, the $60 price tag that Xbox 360 game... Inside the Childs Play 2006 charity event 4 Want to know how gaming insiders spend their buckets of cash? Well, for some, they use that dough for a good cause. The latest is the Penny Arcade Childs Play 2006 auction which not only rais... Reggie promises no Wii drought; We buy stock in water 26 With the latest rumor that the top Wii games may come out late next year, Nintendo's man with the plan, Reggie Fils-Aime, promises that no Wii drought will ever take place while he's in ... Gamer's thumb: We are concerned 26 Do you play first-person shooters long into the night? Have your playing ways caused extreme pain in the thumb region? Well, then the American Physical Therapy Association is here for you! That&#... Zelda tops X-Play's best of 2006 list 53 While everyone waits for Destructoid's ultimate list of year-end awards (and honestly the only one that matters), have a look at what G4 put together for X-Play. They just sent us over the wi... Line Rider headed to DS and Wii! (update) 15 It was only a matter of time before someone decided to bring Line Rider to Nintendo DS and Wii. Hopefully, you've played this addicting game before. But if you are in the minority of people w... Pink Samurai's beaded Nintendo shop 10 Some people play video games. A smaller percentage of people play video games and craft 3x3 beaded pixel-perfect video game sprites that also glow in the dark. For this reason, the Annapolis base... Toys 'R' Us to receive thousands of PS3s and Wiis before Xmas 16 Still need your Wii or PlayStation 3 fix? Join the club. Thankfully, Toys "R" Us is claiming that they will be receiving thousands of each console. They have said they will get about 6,... Where is the Dtoid Also Cocks shirt? 14 I've received a few emails about our mysterious Destructoid "Also, Cocks" shirt mentioned in Podtoid 10, so just wanted to give you a head's up if you didn't see CTZ's c... This week in Destructoid 9 Our traffic hit all time highs this week and to celebrate ... well ... we're not doing anything except to continue to kick lots of ass all over the Internet. Care to join us? Here's what ... Instant gaming collection up on eBay for absurd price 26 eBay user markcz5581 has tossed a truly massive game collection up for auction. Included in this cornucopia of unabashed nerdity are seventeen (!) home and portable consoles and over 400 games an... Want a Wii? Get one today! [Update: nevermind!] 12 If you live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and still desperately desire a Nintendo Wii, then tomorrow morning is your lucky day! I'm not certain whether it's just a few or all Pittsburgh are... Elebits limited edition plush toy: You're so jealous 48 Does it make me less of a man to be loving my Elebits plush toy right now? I don't think so. I mean, I'm comfortable with my sexuality, honest. So, anyway, here's that plush toy all t... Next-Gen's top 25 people of the year; Destructoid dissed again 20 What the hell is wrong with you people? Don't you know how sexy and influential we are? Put us on your damn meaningless lists! Dear readers, we've been slighted again, this time by Next-... Add 2GB storage to your Wii for $9.95 13 If you suffer from Wii Virtual Console collection disease like I do, you're probably  losing sleep over your available block count. Luckily, SD cards are dirt cheap now: WarnerBoy spotte... Havok set to power Fable 2 11 Whether you were disappointed by the original Fable or not, you have to admit it was a more-than-decent game for the Xbox. The only thing that ruined it for some was the incredible hype that surr... GameVideos goes Wii-sploring 8 Got any Wii secrets not seen in this video? Please, share them with everyone. Stop being so greedy! Anyway, this video is chock full of Wiicrets that may have not been so obvious to those of us... Reminder: It's 1/2 off Final Fantasy Day 5 If you've been putting off the best selling role-playing franchise that makes you feel like a woman until there was a price drop, tonight is your night (bro). Toys R Us is butchering the Eng... Guitar Hero $35 dollar off online coupon 8 Toys R Us is having a nutty one day only sale this week every day this week, so only make evening plans with people you hate and can cancel without remorse. For example, today's is a Guitar H... You have forced me to sink to a new low 32 Look people, do you think it feels good to get out-friended by the likes of Kevin Periera on MySpace? Do you understand how large a hit my ego takes when I see this stuff? I didn't want to h... The Mass Effect demo or ... why you want to own a 360 21 I'm not exactly sure why we haven't posted this video yet, but either way, there's probably a chance some of you haven't seen this look into the upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Mass Effec... Moments in absolute fandom: Dissecting the Halo 3 trailer 46 I love Halo. I love the Halo series. I'm proud to admit that. In fact, Halo means more to me than any other current video game series. I've outgrown Mario and some others, and Halo has ... « 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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