New games this week: Santa hates you edition

by Justin McElroy { Dec 24th 2007 at 9:00AM }

You know what Santa's bringing to you and all the other good gentile/agnostic/festive atheist boys and girls this year? Nope, neither do we, because that's a Christmas miracle surprise, and the very knowing of that secret is a crime against Lorthos, the god of the Yule.

But we do know what Santa's bringing to all the good/evil/very evil retailers this Christmas Day: Absolutely nothing. Squat. Nada. Zilch-o. Good thing they're selling those Mario-themed stockings, because it will be a great place to put their fat lump of coal.

Just remember the oldest Christmas adage, kids: Santa giveth and Santa taketh away.

Tags: newgames

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

christmasfish @ Dec 24th 2007 9:11AM

'eh, that's not a bad thing to have no games this week. Plenty of other crap to play. I was at Toys R Us last night and oh my god it was a freaking mad house. Software publishers ought to be happy when they see December sales data!

Ignatius @ Dec 24th 2007 9:18PM

I saw Kotaku's post on this, it looks like there were two games released... for Mac. Though, if you game on a Mac...

SoxFan13 @ Dec 24th 2007 9:30AM

Justin-- take a few days off from your cynical lifeview! Merry Christmas to all of the Joystiq bloggers and readers!

WiNG @ Dec 24th 2007 9:31AM

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

Remember, you can't spell Christmas without "stma"!

BIGGEN @ Dec 24th 2007 9:34AM

or without "Chris." see, see what i did there?

ssuk @ Dec 24th 2007 10:09AM

What's half of Father Christmas?

FAT CHRIS.

Oh gamestation, your adverts are great.

Jerk Face @ Dec 24th 2007 9:41AM

Two Things:

1) That picture scares the living shit out of me.
2) Happy holidays, Joystiq friends!

James @ Dec 24th 2007 9:44AM

I was in town yesterday picking up a PSP for my brother and joysus crust there was no queue in Gamestation! In, look at the bundles, out.

We're all recent born again PSP owners here and I've got a little mountain of games coming my way tomorrow! Should be a good un

Happy xmas folks :)

john paul @ Dec 24th 2007 11:27AM

turkey gave us enough

mr mobius @ Dec 24th 2007 12:06PM

No worries. I have a Mario Galaxy under the tree, and today is great to catch up on Super Mario World on VC, so lets not worry.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good Nights (or any other game you will be getting tomorrow - see what I did there, eh!).

Christmas NiGHTS @ Dec 24th 2007 12:13PM

Won't bother me, either, i'm about 1/2 way through Radiant Dawn, and putting it on hiatus to receive the joy of NiGHTS 2 tommorrow

Merry Christmas all,

Korova @ Dec 24th 2007 12:41PM

Merry Christmas everyone and Joyful Festivus to the rest of us!

I'll roll the fat bastard all the way back to november and katamari me up some a box of oranges and maybe some coal of doodee

Mr.ESC @ Dec 24th 2007 1:00PM

Merry Christmas,A very happy Hanukkah,A super special awesome Kuanza and a very honorable Ramadan to everyone.

(See is a lot shorter when you simply say Happy holiday)

iofthestorm @ Dec 24th 2007 2:10PM

Hehe, thanks for the greeting but on behalf of muslims reading joystiq Ramadan was in October... but we did have Eid al-adha last week. The thing is, the Islamic calendar is lunar so holidays move around in the solar calendar. Anyway, it's the thought that counts I guess. I'm actually exercising restraint and not getting any new games except some VC games because I've got a somewhat large list of games I need to finish before I get any new ones. I am going to go grab a $20 Wii card and buy Starfox and Mario 64 though, because I never had an N64 and always loved playing those games at friends' houses.

BPM - The 3rd Strike @ Dec 24th 2007 4:31PM

Dear Santa,

You are a bitch-ass n****.

frozengod @ Dec 24th 2007 4:48PM

Hahaha
Gutsman's Ass avatar.

frozengod @ Dec 24th 2007 4:45PM

There are already plenty of games I have to play anyway.

And my pals don't need you Santa!

I am giving the UR R MR GAY game to one of my friends, along with a faulty, non original game cube memory card, and the Freddie Mercury tribute DVD.

His brother gets those pretty Twilight Princess action figures (and if all is well a hp-1 barracuda headphone for his PC gaming delight - it should have been TF2 stuff, but they apparently don't ship to Brazil :[ ), and the live at Montreaux Jamiroquai DVD.

Ah, almost forgot, those two will also get their very own gaming-related-custom-made-coffee mugs with their faces printed on the bottom outside, and I glued my hands to include on the gift package those pretty Mario Bros. papercraft stages and a (also papercraft) Weighted Comapanion Cube I saw here on Joystiq some time ago (thank you Joystiq for the clues!).

Another friend is getting The Orange Box.

Happy for everyone!