Posts tagged thanksgiving 
Cute new Pikachu, Skylanders balloons in Thanksgiving Parade
Happy November! It's the month of family, too much food and the 88th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, this year featuring a new Pikachu balloon and a big balloon of Eruptor from the Skylanders series. The new Pikachu wears a festive scarf and he's carrying a snowman version of himself in h...
Humble Store Thanksgiving sale: Kentucky Route Zero, Gone Home, Rogue Legacy
The Humble Store Thanksgiving sale runs from November 27 to December 3, and it's stuffed with savings on 18 games, including Kentucky Route Zero ($12.50), Rogue Legacy ($7.50), Gone Home ($10), Frozen Synapse ($5), Game Dev Tycoon ($7), Godus ($15), Vessel ($3.75), Worms Reloaded ($6.50) and The Br...
GTA Online rifles and accessories are half-off this weekend
Rockstar is bringing holiday cheer to Grand Theft Auto 5 with a couple of discounted pieces of in-game content for GTA Online. Players can celebrate Thanksgiving with half-off deals for all rifles and rifle ammo and attachments, specifically the game's assault, carbine, heavy, advanced and sniper r...
Sega's Thanksgiving Day sale is a digital feast
Sega's Thanksgiving Day sale features games discounted across XBLM, PSN, Android and iOS devices, with an extra-special discount on some titles for PS Plus members. It's kind of like getting the plate with extra gravy. PSN highlights include Jet Set Radio ($7 standard, $4.90 PS Plus), a bundle of S...
Nine PS3 Ultimate Edition deals take a seat at the Thanksgiving table
PS3 Ultimate Editions bundle major games with all of their DLC packs and throw them up on PSN for hungry consumers to... consume. Nine more of these bundles are on sale now through Monday, November 26, up to 66 percent off for standard PS3 players and up to 73 percent off for PS Plus members. Curre...
Retailers opening up at midnight (or even earlier) for Black Friday
If waking up at 5am in the morning this Friday to grab some of those deals on video games at Gamestop doesn't sound like your idea of a good time, then good news times two: One, you're completely sane. Second, GameStop is actually opening at 12:01am on Thanksgiving night/Friday morning, so if you...
Namco Bandai discounting iOS stable for Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday (but not Super Tuesday)
Sick and tired of your neighbor Steve Grabowski always showing off with his fancy Pac-Man Championship Edition on iPhone? First and foremost, tell Grabowski to shove it, but more importantly, know that you'll soon be able to afford your very own copy. Namco's Thanksgiving Week slash Black Friday ...
Redeem double XP in Red Dead Redemption this weekend
We really wanted to tie the double XP offer in Red Dead Redemption to Thanksgiving in a thematic way, but there's little in common between the two things. They celebrate different periods of American history, and shooting a bunch of banditos and varmints is pretty far away from ... not dying of star...
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions on PC is Walmart exclusive for Thanksgiving weekend
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is getting a PC release right around Thanksgiving this year -- kind of. According to the game's official Facebook page, the North American PC version will only be available at Walmart over the Thanksgiving weekend, which means if you want it, you'll have to brave th...
Sony thanks 440,000 customers for giving it money during Black Friday week
Just a few hours after Nintendo, Sony has prepared a Black Friday sales statement of its own. SCEA's Patrick Seybold wrote in a press release: "PlayStation 3 demand was at an all time high with the system selling more than 440,000 units for the week ending 11/29/09." While shy of Wii's numbers, the...
