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It’s Friday, YAY! This weekend, I plan on playing video games, writing, doing laundry, and hugging my cats until they squeak. If that doesn’t sound like the awesomest weekend ever, then I don’t know what does.

There are lots of great deals today! First up is this amazing XBLA sale that is TODAY ONLY! Get 50% off (that’s just 600 points!) Limbo, Castle Crashers, Shadow Complex, Trials HD, and Monday Night Combat. This is a steal for these games, so hop on this! Toys R Us is also having two great sales right now – the first is Buy 1 Get 1 40% off ALL Wii, PS3 & Xbox 360 Video Games. Yes, that says ALL in all capitals! And the website says that’s 1,128 games. Hot damn! Toys R Us is also having a sale on black and white Wii consoles – they’re $169.99 with free shipping. To polish it all off is today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games, which is THQ’s Dood’s Big Adventure – Udraw for the Wii. It’s $21.99 from $29.99, and no, it doesn’t have Prinny. Sorry!

And, finally, I present to you a t-shirt that I am absolutely going to buy today from Qwertee:

I have officially become obsessed with mash-ups.

News Editor Mike Gutierrez and I are heading to a screening of “A Game of Thrones” tonight, and I’m pretty excited. Why? Not because of the upcoming video game, but because I read these books back in 2005 and I can’t remember much from them and I really, really don’t feel like re-reading them, but I think Boromir is going to do just great as Ned Stark. Also, I’m a little concerned about the video game development so far, because – SPOILER ALERT – there really aren’t dragons in the books. At least, not right away. And certainly not gigantic and threatening and village-destroying ones.

Speaking of spoilers and dragons and Boromir, today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games is Namco’s Active Life Outdoor Challenge for the Wii. It’s $34.99 down from $49.99, and promises to be “A fun and easy way to get off the couch and get hearts pumping!” That sounds really exciting! It’s sure to train your dragon and prepare you for a grueling, dragon-filled RTS.

I think a few people are going to be excited about today’s t-shirt over at Ript:

Super Sesame Street Fighter! Heyooooo!

There are a lot of sales happening, as mentioned in yesterday’s Daily Scoop. If I didn’t have such a giant backlog, I would have already snatched up a bunch of games on sale, but that would be a really bad idea right now. I mean, not that I can’t just keep stacking them, but…yeah. Too many games!

Speaking of which, today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games is Square Enix’s Tomb Raider Trilogy for the PS3. It’s $10 cheaper today at $29.99, which is a steal for the three games you’re getting – Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Tomb Raider: Underworld. If you’re looking to catch up on raiding tombs with your favorite lady, now’s your chance.

Daily t-shirts have been letting me down lately, but today’s Tee Fury at least has controllers in it:

I’m not feeling it, but all that means is that my wallet will live to fight another day.

OK, so that was a super cheesy headline, but for real, there are tons of sales going on right now. Even the Warp Zoned staff is all over it! Editor-in-Chief John Scalzo told me about the free Copy of Body and Brain Connection with a purchase of Kinect at Gamestop this week (April 10th to 16th), and Podcast Producer Ryan Littlefield was embarrassed to admit he was in Gamestop and saw this amazing sale firsthand. Don’t worry, Ryan. We don’t judge you.

Today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games is PDP’s Afterglow AP.1 Controller for the PS3. It’s $16.99 down from $24.99, and the sale is for the blue one. It also apparently has “L2 and R2 triggers modeled upon PDP’s popular REAL TRIGGERS add-ons for PS3 controllers.” Hear that, people? REAL TRIGGERS. Yeah.

Amazon’s also running another sale, this one on the 4GB Xbox 360 with Kinect – for a limited time, you can get a $50 promotional credit for purchasing one. Sounds pretty good, considering you can upgrade to a larger hard drive for cheap these days – put that promotional credit towards that, and you’ll be set!