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The pre-holiday surge of big games has just about come to an end. All those games have successfully grabbed our attention while the older games are left to sit in the corner and collect dust. Gamefly is coming to the rescue by slashing prices on certain games until November 24, 2008.

These games may not have been the apple of every gamers eye but, for these prices, there’s a place for these games on our shelves. The discounted games cover all platforms except for the PC and PSP and no game is more than $29.99.

Click through for a list of the best of the discounted games…

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FROM GADGETELL - Microsoft’s Windows Live plans to start digitally distributing PC games in a battle against leader, Steam.
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Merscom and MDNA Games’ latest entry in the Carol Reed series of point-and-click mystery games have just announced that The Color of Murder is now available through Big Fish Games: The Color of Murder. Though it follows the same formula as previous Carol Reed Mystery titles, The Color of Murder is the first entry to feature a tutorial and hint system to help beginners find their way through the game, should they get stuck.

In The Color of Murder, Carol finds herself in Norrkoping, Sweden, attempting to find her friend Willy’s estranged son. As she searches for the man, she discovers that Willy’s son may not be the most upstanding citizen. Apparently, a resident of Norrkoping was killed the week before Carol arrived, and it looks like Willy’s son may have had some kind of connection to the victim. Its up to Carol to find out what is going on and who the murderer is…

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There is a game by IUGO Mobile Entertainment called Zombie Attack on the App Store for $0.99 that takes the form of a tower defense game. These kind of games usually involve strategically placing different weapons types around the map to quickly take down enemies of various strengths and weaknesses. The only difference this time around is hordes of zombies that impede your path when building towers.

Zombie Attack lets us play as a survivor who must protect his shack from…

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FROM GADGETELL - Last week Circuit City announced plans to close a fifth of its stores.  This morning, they just filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The petition for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia, listed $3.4 billion in assets and $2.32 billion in… MORE »

I was just opening up a newspaper in my old hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, this weekend and what did I see? A feature on women employed in the videogame industry. Since this happens to be a topic I have an invested interest in, I devoured it whole.

It has the hallmarks of many articles written about the generally male-skewed industry…

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On November 6, 2008, the anticipated new installment for the Silent Hill franchise, titled Homecoming, was released for direct download on the STEAM servers.

Silent Hill: Homecoming is the fifth game to take place directly in the Silent Hill lands of the Toluca Lake area where the little foggy vision of hell on earth resides. Taking a strong turn towards Jacob’s Ladder, it follows an injured veteran through his returning home to find that his brother disappeared. Haunted by the real demons of Silent Hill and the demons of his past deeds in war, he stumbles into a sanity stealing problem as his grip on reality slips away.

For those who buy and download before November 10, 2008, there will be a 10 percent discount…

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This year is no doubt a fantastic time to be a gamer. It’s not often that I can count triple-A titles on both my hands in such a short period of time. Sadly though, with every great game released another good game gets lost in its shadow.

It’s time to acknowledge the existence of these games before they fade into the background. Every major console has at least one promising game that won’t get much coverage in the coming months. Give these games a try before you get too immersed in Resistance 2 or Gears 2. You just may be happy you did…

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A wildfire of reports have been released announcing that THQ will be closing up to five studios and will be making more cuts later this week, presumably today (November 5, 2008) during the company’s quarterly reports call.

Reasons for the giant blow are linked to dropping share values and internal problems, similar to that of Electronic Arts.

Gamasutra first reported THQ’s problems with the closing of…

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The PoP 24-hour entertainment vending machine is a service brought to us by Universal Pictures and Sony that allows us to purchase games, DVD’s, Blu-ray movies and music around the clock. It’s essentially a vending machine that dispenses media instead of candy or soda. The interface is entirely touch-screen enabled and separates products into games, movies and music categories.

We can purchase the physical discs or download the media onto a USB thumb drive or a…

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