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World Of Warcraft Celebrates Thanksgiving

5:20AM Mike Fahey | World of Warcraft finally adds a virtual Thanksgiving celebration to it’s lineup of seasonal holidays, and just like the real Thanksgiving, Pilgrim’s Bounty is mainly about cooking and eating. More »
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NPD Groups Says Video Game Gift Sales Down This Holiday

8:00PM AJ Glasser | Research group NPD predicts a less techy Christmas in their holiday retail outlook. So don’t act shocked if a book shows up in your stocking instead of a video game. More »

GameStop Claims Triumph Over Recession, Holidays Sales Up 22%

2:20AM Mike Fahey | GameStop stands proudly in the snow, one foot atop the neatly decapitated recession monster as it proudly proclaims its triumph over the failing economy, with holiday sales up 22% over last year. More »

WSJ: Lower PS3 Holiday Sales Equal Fading Hope

1:40AM Mike Fahey | An article in the Wall Street Journal today considers the state of Sony’s PlayStation 3 in the video game market, highlighting the fact that the console’s holiday sales had dropped considerably over last year’s. More »

Did You Receive The Gift Of Gaming?

9:00AM David Wildgoose | I didn’t. No one gave me a single videogame today. Lucky I dropped by the discount table at EB Games yesterday – after I’d finished shopping for my loved ones, of course – and picked up a few cheap PS2 titles I’d never gotten around to playing. So I gave them to myself. The Thing, SOS: The Final Escape and Silent Hill 4 set me back $40 all up. How’d I do, guys? Enough about me. What games did you get today? More »

A Basket Full Of Easter Eggs

1:00AM Mike Fahey | It’s Easter Sunday, and all over the country children will be set loose in their backyards, hunting for colorful treats hidden away by mischievous and sometimes sadistic adults. I’m speaking, of course, about Easter eggs, and while here at Kotaku tower we prefer to shop for our Easter treats in bulk after the holiday is over and the prices get slashed, we can still share with our fluffy bunny readers some of the best video game Easter eggs we’ve come across in our travels. To start us off on our egg hunting adventure, we give you – well… More »