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Daily Scoop: June 21, 2011 – Gold Box Event!

Ah, another Amazon Gold Box Event, just for video game nerds! The Deal of the Day is Xbox 360 4GB Kinect Bundle with $100 Promotional Credit – which works out really well for people like me, because the 250 GB Xbox 360 hard drive is on sale for $84.99. If you’ve been waiting to pick up the new Xbox 360 with Kinect, this is a great time to do so!

The rest of the Gold Box Event is as follows:

  • 6 AM PDT: Bring the fitness club to your living room – This one’s ExerBeat for Wii – $14.99!
  • 8 AM PDT: Blend banana-collecting puzzles with manic action gameplay – It’s Super Monkey Ball 3D for $21.99!
  • 10 AM PDT: Now in its tenth year, this franchise returns with number 7 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 – This one is Dynasty Warriors 7 for $39.99!
  • 12 PM PDT: Explore iconic settings including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley and the Forbidden Forest – No surprise that this is Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 for Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 for $14.99!
  • 2 PM PDT: Join your host, Mr. Potato Head, as you and your family play classic Hasbro games
  • 4 PM PDT: Listen to your game like it was meant to be heard
  • 6 PM PDT: Latest iteration of a storied fighter franchise
  • 8 PM PDT: Big savings on this classic NDS puzzle game

Huh. Well, I was hoping for Infamous 2 to be on sale, but hey – beggars can’t be choosers, amirite?

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Daily Scoop: June 20, 2011 – Comic hangover

Here I am, exhausted with a smile on my face, hungover from how much fun I had at the convention. I got to see Adam Baldwin talk yesterday, and that was amazing! It made me want to go home and watch Jaynestown all over again.

Lots of great deals today! Ryan Littlefield’s obsession with Toys R Us pays off today, as he told me about this amazing sale: get any two of these games for $50. The list is:

  • Brink
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • F.3.A.R.
  • Mortal Kombat
  • L.A. Noire
  • Portal 2

The games are available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This is an AMAZING deal, especially considering F.3.A.R. isn’t even out yet. I mean, what?

Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is SVG Distribution’s Brunswick Pro Bowling for the Xbox 360. This Kinect-only game is $39.99 down from $49.99, and has “10 highly detailed bowling environments, each with unique lane characteristics” as well as “five game-play options including Exhibition, Skins and Tournament modes.” Word!

As for today’s daily t-shirt, well, I love dinosaurs, in case you couldn’t tell. Funny story: when I play multiplayer games with my microphone on, people can’t tell if I’m a girl or a 10-year-old boy. It doesn’t help that the emblem on my player card in Call of Duty: Black Ops is a t-rex. So yeah, it’s obvious why today’s shirt.w00t is so close to my heart:

The artist should totally make an anime con version of this shirt and call it “Glompasaurus Rex.” :D

Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News, PS3, Xbox 360 |

Daily Scoop: June 17, 2011 – Yay comics!

Yay! It’s here! In an hour I’ll be at the Wizard World Comic Con, drinking in all the sights I’ve grown to love over the years. If you hear I’ve been arrested, it’s most likely because I’ve finally confessed my undying love to Bruce Campbell… or I caught sight of Brian Herbert and tackled him and chastised him on his horrible writing. Either way, send me letters in jail!

Not much in the way of deals, I’m afraid. Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is Hori’s HD LCD Monitor 3 for the PlayStation 3. It looks nice and sharp, but even at the sale price of $189.99, it’s still pretty expensive.

No video game shirts today, but I’m a sucker for this origami dinosaur shirt that’s today’s Qwertee:

It’s dino-tastic!

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Daily Scoop: June 16, 2011 – Wizard World Comic Con!

Tomorrow begins one of my favorite weekends of the year – Philadelphia’s Wizard World Comic Con! I’ve been attending it for 10 years now, and it’s a blast. This year they’ll have Bruce Campbell, Sean Patrick Flannery, Norman Reedus, and Adam Baldwin, along with a slew of other actors, comic book creators, and people dressed up in crazy costumes. If you’re in the area, come over to the convention center and check out all the fun!

The deals today are slim – Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is Namco’s Active Life: Explorer With Mat for the Wii. It’s $23.99 down from $29.99 and describes the mat itself as a “specially-designed mat is bundled with the game so you can jump straight into the action.” OOH. FUN.

In other news, Ript‘s “Kent” is absolutely amazing:

Wow. Give me the Batman version of that and I’m all over it.

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Daily Scoop: June 15, 2011 – D&D Encounters!

Ah, yes – it’s Wednesday again! And you know what that means… Mike Gutierrez and I will be heading out for some more D&D Encounters tonight. Things are getting heated… last time, we left the Shadowfell, but I have a feeling we’ll be getting sucked back in tonight…

Anyway, onto today’s deals! Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is Disney’s TRON: Evolution for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It’s on sale today for $18.99 from $39.99, which is over 50% off. That’s a pretty good deal! Scoop it up if you couldn’t get enough of Olivia Wilde – this is your chance to spend some more time with her.

Amazon’s also having a great Buy One, Get One 50% Off sale, with tons of great games, some of which I spied in the clearance section yesterday. And don’t forget about the great Dads & Grads promo still going strong!

Today’s t-shirt goes out to all the hipsters. It’s up at Ript, and it’s called “Old School:”

I love it for its 8-bit sentiments, but I hate it for its retro snobbery. Oh, t-shirts.

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Daily Scoop: June 14, 2011 – Duke Nukem Forever day

Hopefully you’re all at home, playing your copies of Duke Nukem Forever and weeping with joy. I wonder how many Duke-inspired sick days are happening right now?

In the off chance you’re checking the Internet, Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games – which is also today’s Gold Box deal – is none other than the amazing L.A. Noire. It’s $44.99 today for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There’s a reason that it topped the NPD charts for May. Hell, I gave it five stars. So yeah, you should definitely take advantage of this deal!

Don’t forget to check out Amazon’s clearance games, too – there’s some good stuff on there, like the Ghostbusters the Video Game Amazon.com Exclusive Slimer Edition, which includes – duh! – a Slimer statue.

If you’re in the market for a new game-themed t-shirt, Qwertee has you covered:

This mashup is aptly named “Vitruvian Mon.” Ha!

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Daily Scoop: June 13, 2011 – Duke Nukem Forever tomorrow!

Tomorrow’s the big day, everyone. It’s the day so many of you have been waiting for. The day that Duke Nuken Forever launches. As Editor-in-Chief John Scalzo mentioned, the wait has been long: 14 years, 1 month and 17 days. Hopefully the wait was worth it.

Anyway, we’ve got some deals for you. Today’s Deal of the Day in video games at Amazon is EA’s Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters for the Wii. It’s $29.96, and allows you to “Play like a true pro with a caddie alongside, assisting and supporting your every swing.” Wow. Said caddie will also “evaluate all pre-shot factors, such as wind, lie, and yardage, to provide a recommended shot.” There’s definitely a joke in there about lying to his wife, but I think everyone’s over Tiger Woods jokes by now, right?

Also up today is the last week of Amazon’s Dads & Grads promotion, which is “Next Generation Console & PC Deals.” Portal 2 is $29.99 for PC (and $39.96 for PS3 and $39.99 for Xbox 360), Halo Reach is $39.90, and James Bond 007: Blood Stone is $14.99 (Xbox 360 only). Scoop ’em up!

In the t-shirt world, today’s Ript shirt is called “Birds of War” and is an Angry Birds/Gears of War mashup:

The Ukrainian artist says it is a “shirt for those who like ‘Gears of War’ and ‘Angry birds’ and can not give preference to any.” Yeah, what he said.

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Daily Scoop: June 8, 2011 – all E3, all the time

It’s the second day of E3, and watching it from afar is like pure torture! Especially seeing some random person’s video of PixelJunk SideScroller gameplay. Why is that game not playable in my living room right this very second??? Unfair.

Today’s Deal of the Day in video games at Amazon is Namco’s Tekken 6 on the PSP. It’s on sale for $14.76 from $29.99. which is more than 50% off! Not a bad deal if you’re into this genre.

Nothing else to report today, bunnies. Unless you like DINOSAURS! Rawr! Tee Fury’s “Duck and Cover” shirt rawks:

The big doom-boom is coming!

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