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Circuit City‘s Cyber Monday 2008 sale is somewhat lackluster. At least, when it comes to video games its fairly anticlimactic. If you purchase one of ten select DS, PS3, Wii or Xbox 360 games, you will receive a $10 Circuit City gift card. Of course, with Circuit City declaring bankruptcy and closing so many stores, this deal may not be the smartest one to bet on.

All of the games are quite popular ones. Nintendo games elligible for this deal are Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii), Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS), Prince of Persia: The Fallen King (DS) and Wii Music (Wii). Call of Duty: World at War (PS3 or Xbox 360), Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360), Prince of Persia (PS3 or Xbox 360) and Resistance 2 (PS3) are also part of the deal. Oddly enough, many of the participating games are unavailable, as the Prince of Persia games are listed as pre-orders and the Prince of Persia: The Fallen King game is shown as coming soon, with no option to even place an order…

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Best Buy‘s 2008 Cyber Monday sales are up. They aren’t as monumental as the Black Friday 2008 sales, but there are still a few good game deals to be had. It may be a good chance to get some game gifts. Most of the deals involve a cheaper price on a new release, or a buy one game, get another game at a reduced price. So you may want to check it out.

The majority of the sales are on PS3, Xbox 360 and DS games. There are some games from other systems to spice things up though. It also seems like at least half the sale games are “family friendly” or geared towards a younger audience, so if you have a young gamer who is wanting a hot title, this could be your chance. Be quick though, as quite a few deals are already sold out online.

Best Buy’s Cyber Monday 2008 video game sales are as follows…

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By now we’ve licked our wounds and recovered from the madness that’s known as Black Friday. Even though waiting in long lines in blustery cold weather is over, deals on games are still running strong.

Amazon still has some pretty amazing deals that will last until Monday (December 1, 2008). For example, how would you like to own Far Cry 2 for $17.95 or Infinite Undiscovery for $18.95? Say what you will about some reviews but these games are certainly worth one Andrew Jackson. There are steals like these spread out across all consoles and this list will cover some of the most notable. Most of these games are eligible for free shipping if your total purchase exceeds $25. These bargains won’t be around for much longer so get to it…

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Yeah, you read that headline right. Discount electronics site eCost has an awesome Black Friday offer appropriately named the Outrageous Offer.

According to the graphic, the site will be offering one Wii each hour for US$99 starting at 8:00 a.m. (EST), November 28, 2008. The Wii comes with Wii Sports, sensor bar, stand, a WiiMote and a Nunchuck. The graphic indicates that eCost estimates that only 10 Wiis will be sold at that price.

Update: eCost has changed the deal “due to overwhelming response.“ Now, the site’s graphics indicates it will offer one Wii for $99 each day for 10 days, beginning Thanksgiving night (November 27, 2008). The first will be sold some time between 8 and 10 pm, November 27, 2008, while rest of the Wiis will be sold at random times, 1 Wii per day, over the following 9 days (10 Wiis total)...

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I bet many of you have this vision of Nintendo sitting back eating some mystical golden cash turkey and spending Black Friday sleeping of massive amounts of tryptophan (the stuff that makes you sleepy after eating turkey) on mattresses stuffed with cash, dreaming about the holiday shopper circus frenzy in retailers across the country. Well, you’re probably right especially since Nintendo is offering up two new limited edition DS bundles for which shoppers will have to compete for in some form of death ring.

The first of the bundles will be offering up a fully crimson red painted DS with a Mario M logo stomped on the system’s top cover. It will also come bundled with a copy of New Super Mario Bros., a game which I watched go out of stock more than any other DS game…

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The Meijer Thanksgiving Day print ad just arrived and it has several sale items worth noting. The sale is in all Meijer stores from 6 a.m. to midnight on Thanksgiving Day (November 27, 2008).

The front page ads include:

• Sylvania 32. in LCD HDTV for $379.99 ($420 savings)
• An Apple 8GB iPod Nano for $149.99 minus $50 mail-in rebate (limit 1 per person, at least 40 per store).
• Buy Wii Fit and get Wii Fit Workout Kit ($49.99 value) free (at least 30 per store, limit 1).
• 50% off select games regularly priced $29.99 to $59.99 (so $14.99-$29.99 each). At least 100 titles per store, limit 4 per person and no rain checks. Games are not listed but the image shows Guitar Hero On Tour (DS), Lego Batman (Wii), Lego Indiana Jones (Xbox 360), Guitar Hero Dual Pack (PS2), God of War (can’t tell if I or II, PSP), Guitar Hero Aerosmith (Wii) and Madden 09 (PS3)

Inside is an advert for several that-day-only game bundles offers including…

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While dashing through my nearest Target store, I passed a rack stacked with tins in the underwear, er, pajamas section.

The tins, priced at $9.99 each, include a set of colorful men’s boxers that reflect the packaging: a Wii (as in the console), a red Guitar Hero guitar, black Guitar Hero speaker, an Xbox 360 controller, Super Mario Bros. 3 with Mario, the Superman logo and the Batman logo.

I did find a few listed on the Kohl’s and Sears web sites…

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As you probably know, if you’ve been following along with Gamertell’s Black Friday 2008 coverage, Amazon has been doing a countdown to Black Friday 2008 in its video games section. Each day, there’s a different deal going on. Today’s (November 25, 2008) is sort of a “make your own DS bundle” day. If you buy the limited edition pink breast cancer ribbon DS or metallic silver DS for $129.99, you can get a free copy of Personal Trainer: Cooking. So you save $20.

Personal Trainer: Cooking is a Touch Generations DS game which is basically a virtual cookbook. The game will talk to you, it has video demonstrations, it can be navigated with voice commands and it keeps a shopping list of ingredients to buy…

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For buyers who have been on the fence about buying a Playstation 3, perhaps what is offered here should aid in tipping your funds towards Sony’s cause.

A new Best Buy holiday bundle, based on information from here, shows an 80 GB Playstation 3 that includes both Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction and Casino Royale (the movie) on Blu-Ray.  The items are expected to go on sale on November 28, 2008, (aka Black Friday) and will cost $400.

Ratchet’s latest adventure has been reviewed favorably by…

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One of this season’s most anticipated Black Friday ads for 2008, the Walmart ad, has just been leaked. BlackFriday.info, Black Friday Ads and CAG are all reporting on the various deals in the ad, with both BlackFriday.info and Black Friday Ads offering complete scans of the leaked circular.

While it doesn’t look all that varied at first glance, there are quite a few substantial deals. One of the most prominent sales states that 50 assorted video games will be on sale for under $16. The advertisement doesn’t elaborate on what games will be part of this deal, but five DS games (Barbie: The Island Princess, Ben 10 Defender of Earth, Bratz: 4 Real, Cake Mania 2 and Lego Star Wars II) and seven Wii games (Barbie: The Island Princess, Cooking Mama Cook Off, Game Party, Namco Museum Remix, Spongebob Squarepants: Creature from Krusty Krab, Summer Sports Paradise and Wonder World) are shown in the ad image.

The complete list of video game sales, as taken from the ad circular scan leaked online, are as follows…

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