Target is sweetening the Black Friday deals by adding giftcards to their gaming deals.
If you buy a Nintendo DS [preloaded with 5 bonus applications] for $169.99, you get a free $20 Target giftcard.
If you buy Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Assassin’s Creed II, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Mario and Sonic or Nerf: N-Strike Elite for $59.99 or less, you’ll get a $10 Target giftcard with each game you buy.
Buy a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite Bundle with Pure and Lego Batman and you get a $50 Target giftcard. Buy the Call of Duty Super Elite Xbox 360 bundle for $399.99 and …read more

No one can say that Ubisoft is dropping the publicity ball with regards to the Assassin’s Creed franchise.
From the amazing site that went live late March/early April to the great trailers that Ubisoft has released, they all led up to one of the most highly anticipate sequels to hit stores in a very long time.
Now, Ubisoft has released live action videos [really movies] that takes place before Assassin’s Creed II called Assassin’s Creed Lineage and they tell about what Ezio’s father, Giovanni Auditore, went through.
The acting is solid, the fight scenes are great and on the whole, this is …read more

I’ve been thinking about my Christmas list of games: Assassin’s Creed II, Borderlands, Little Big Planet Game of the Year Edition, Call of Duty: World at War.
If I were to buy all of these games, the cost would equal $230.96 [not including shipping or tax]. That’s a hunk of change.
I can get two iPhones for that.
Or, I could get eleven casual games [if they were $20 a piece].
I bring up the casual games idea after reading a piece by Eric von Coelln about Facebook eating the PC Download game model.
What I took away from the piece is that there is …read more

This video of some gameplay from GamesCon has given me hope for Assassin’s Creed II.
Here’s a brief rundown of what you’re going to see.
For one thing, there’s an economic system that allows you to buy things that you want with the money that you earn like weapon upgrades, armor and even poison.
Ezio learns how to be a better assassin as the game progresses but this learning system isn’t detailed.
Da Vinci’s creations are included in the game like a pistol and double hidden blades. Da Vinci items aren’t a big suprise since we’ve already seen the “flying machine” but the gun …read more

I’ve made no secret of the fact that Assassin’s Creed is my favorite game of all time. So naturally, getting my eyes on Assassin’s Creed II was my top priority at E3 2009. I’m happy to report that I succeeded, but I’m afraid there’s not much new I can tell you about the game that hasn’t already been reported elsewhere.
Instead, just feast your eyes on these incredible screenshots and that awesome pre-rendered trailer. They tell you pretty much everything you need to know about Assassin’s Creed II, which is coming this holiday season.

The Shrine Auditorium was the site for Sony’s E3 2009 Media Briefing Tuesday morning, where the big news was the PSP Go, God of War III, and the upcoming PlayStation motion controller.
Sony kicked things off with this slick video that introduced us to the hardware and software of PlayStation: