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Black Friday 2009: Half Price Books promotions
Anyone who’s stepped into a Half Price Books store knows that you can find used video games, half price PC games and even used video game strategy guides on sale at reasonable prices. While the store never offers traditional Black Friday sales, they do offer special promotions to customers who stop by and make a purchase during the busiest shopping days of the year. The Half Price Book special offers for Black Friday 2009 have…
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Black Friday 2009: Sears’ video game sale offerings
Sears’ 2009 Black Friday ad scan has leaked onto the internet and, while there aren’t as many video game deals as there were in the Kmart ad, there’s still a lot to look over.
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Black Friday 2009: Kmart’s sale offerings
Kmart’s 2009 Black Friday ad has been leaked, and there’s a great selection of video games on sale. There are also some notable video game bundle offers that include systems and games, and HDTVs to play the games on.
Walmart’s Pre-Black Friday sale: Xbox and cheap laptops
FROM GADGETELL - What’s better than a Black Friday sale? A desperate Pre-Black Friday sale in hopes to get all the dollars you would have spent on the actual Black Friday. Wal-Mart delivers with a sale this Saturday, Novermber 7. The deals look worthy of making a special trip. From the Xbox 360… MORE »
Toys R Us ad for November 6-7, 2009 features multiple game bargains
If you check your mailboxes, you may find a Toys ‘R Us circular proclaiming that a massive sale is going to be held Friday, November 6, 2009 from 9am to 12am and Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 7am to 11pm. Looks like Toys ‘R Us is trying to kick off… Continue Reading »
Aldi ad for November 4, 2009 offers a $249.99 Wii bundle deal
The Aldi ad for November 4-10, 2009 has a pretty nice Wii bundle deal, if you’re looking to pick one up for a friend or family member this holiday season. The custom bundle is billed as a Nintendo Wii System and Game Set and gives you the console, four games… Continue Reading »
Tekken 6 ships 2.5 million in its first week
Fighting games aren’t as popular as they used to be, right? Don’t tell that to Namco Bandai, as the company has put extensive resources behind Tekken 6, including ponying up enough money for Monday Night Football ads. Namco Bandai has also confirmed the shipping of 2.5 million copies of the… Continue Reading »
Doom cover artist Don Ivan Punchatz dies at 73
The man behind one of the most well-known game covers in history died October 22, 2009. Don Ivan Punchatz created art for National Lampoon, Playboy and National Geographic during his decades-long career. He suffered a heart attack October 11, 2009, and never regained consciousness. When hired by then startup iD… Continue Reading »
Advertorial: Binverse, the next evolution In downloads
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in minutes that would take hours using other technologies. Binverse utilizes 256-bit SSL encryption (the same encryption used by banks) to… Continue Reading »
PlayStation Store Update: PSP Game sales and Inferno Pool (November 1 to 7, 2009)
This week’s first featured downloadable game is Inferno Pool for $9.99 on the PS3. But this isn’t the old school game of pool we all know and enjoy. In fact, this game takes pool to a whole new extreme challenge for up to four players. The next downloadable game this… Continue Reading »
Tecmo touts ability to bounce breasts in newest Ninja Gaiden game
Somewhere soon, a group of video game company executives will meet in a conference room and discuss how to market games to women. Tecmo’s latest ad campaign for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 will likely only get mentioned as a “How Not To.” It seems the newest Ninja Gaiden sequel gives… Continue Reading »
Beatles: Rock Band not quite mopping up the sales
The game that many in the industry believed would revitalize the music game genre hasn’t, at least so far. Despite an ad campaign that saw The Beatles: Rock Band promoted nearly everywhere, sales have been just so-so. The game sold 595,000 copies in September 2009, according to sales data from… Continue Reading »
This year, Domo’s spending Halloween with 7-Eleven
About a year ago, Gamertell’s Important Importables talked about Japanese mascots who’ve gotten their own video games. One of the mascots was Domo, the Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) network mascot - a big brown, friendly monster whose mouth is perpetually open and says only, “Domo.” Last year, Domo was the… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
