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1:30PM Owen Good | Perhaps taking a page from the Team Fortress 2 Valentines from last year, Valve’s offering four sets of gift cards — with characters from TF2, Left 4 Dead and L4D2 — that are simply a holiday must. More »
If You Don’t Have A Holiday Card List, Make One
1:30PM Owen Good | Perhaps taking a page from the Team Fortress 2 Valentines from last year, Valve’s offering four sets of gift cards — with characters from TF2, Left 4 Dead and L4D2 — that are simply a holiday must. More » 
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It’s Not Christmas Without Holiday-Themed Wii Mini-Games
3:40AM Mike Fahey | Destineer brings the holiday cheer with We Wish You a Merry Christmas, a collection of mini-games and activities that will surely help families get into the holiday buying spirit. More »
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Analyst: The PlayStation 3 Could Dominate The Holidays
3:20AM Mike Fahey | Industry analyst Michael Pachter predicts that strong sales for the new PlayStation 3 Slim could give Sony their biggest holiday season yet, potentially outselling the 360 for the rest of the year. More »
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Today Is Video Game Innovation Day In Massachusetts
6:20AM Mike Fahey | From the creation of Spacewar! at MIT in 1961 to today’s release of The Beatles: Rock Band from Cambridge-based Harmonix, Massachusetts celebrates video game innovation today with an official holiday. More »
Good Games That’ll Work on Your Relatives’ Crappy PC
6:00AM Owen Good | Visiting family for the holidays? You know what an antisocial faux-pas it is to bring along a console, and if you’re a PC gamer, hell if you’re dragging along that rig. More »
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Parents.Com’s Kid-Friendly Holiday Games List
1:00AM Mike Fahey | Babblebaby told us their votes for the best kid friendly music games, now the folks at Parents.com have just issued their list of the Best Kid-Friendly Video Games of 2008, a quick and dirty guide to games that aren’t…quick and dirty. More »
SingStar Offers Celine Dion For The Holidays
4:00AM Mike Fahey | Is Celine Dion festive holiday fun? Sony Computer Entertainment seems to think so, bundling her single “Christmas Eve” together with four other innocent recording artists’ works and calling it the Festive Fun SongPack. Joining Celine as she claws her raptor-ish way through your PlayStation 3 will be Toni Braxton with “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Babyface with “Sleigh Ride”, the legendary Paul McCartney with “Wonderful Christmastime”, and finally Shakin’ Stevens with “Merry Christmas Everyone”. The pack shall be released on November 27th. More »
Xmas Console Sales Affected By Piracy. No, Seriously.
10:40AM Stuart Houghton | It’s all fun and games using ‘Piracy’ to describe copyright infringement when you want to reframe the debate and equate the sharing of intellectual property with aquatic larceny, but what happens when your actual ship-based armed robbers yo-ho-ho into view? What then, Mr cognitive linguistics smartypants? More »
Xbox Holiday Entertainment Survey Points To Good Season For Xboxes
5:20AM Stuart Houghton | Well, just fancy that. The results of the Xbox 360 Holiday Entertainment Survey are out and what do you know, this year we will be staying at home, wishing for video games, watching movies without going to the cinema and trying to ‘bring the family together’ with one reasonably priced gift. More »
