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It's that time of the year when consumers wait outside stores for hours on end to get the best holiday deals. Black Friday is the unofficial start of the holiday season, presents are purchased, kids begin to beg Santa for gifts, and a huge amount of money is spent. And what would Black Friday be without leaked ad scans weeks in advance? Word on the street is that Best Buy will be having a sweet $18.99 sale on a few Xbox 360 games including R* Games Presents: Table Tennis, Condemned, Amped 3, and NBA Live 06. So, if you feel like participating in the Black Friday ritual, make the holy trek to Best Buy and pick up a few games ... just be sure to bring a roll of Tums, because we all know the day after Thanksgiving wreaks havoc on the belly.
Bad news
for fans of the Xbox 360 launch title, Amped 3, and the recently released Top Spin 2: game publisher
Take-Two has closed down their Salt Lake City-based development studio, Indie Built.
Indie Built, previously known as Access
Software, was responsible for the popular Links series of golf games, as well as the CD-ROM Tex Murphy
adventures (like Under a Killing Moon), before being acquired by Microsoft in 1999. Microsoft sold the studio
to Take-Two in 2004 becoming part of their 2K Sports brand. The Gamasutra news piece hints that the closure might
be due to the lackluster sales of Amped 3; sounds to us like another victim of the historically tumultuous
generational transition.
Enjoy snow? Love games? Advocates of
snowboarding and the Xbox 360 could soon find themselves in a blended paradise of the two with the Xbox Big Day Out
festival. In four days time the event will kick off, giving snowboarders from all over the chance to compete and frolic
on the peaks of Val d'Isere in France.
Spectators can also have in on the fun (since Microsoft is
sponsoring it, after all) by getting the opportunity to land their mitts on some Xbox 360 action with all the latest
games. But maybe you can't make the long journey, they understand. That's why there's an online competition for the rest of us [as in 'Europeans']. Winners score a
limited edition snowboard from Quicksilver and Marharishi, and an Xbox 360 along with Amped 3.
It's time for the fanboys to unite. As we've been hearing over the past 24 hours, many of our usual online friends were not able to secure Xbox 360s yesterday. So, it's time to make some new friends (besides, the guys over at Joystiq won't accept our friend requests).
Continuing its long history (3 days now) of bringing gamers together, Xbox 360 Fanboy is providing some bandwidth for you to add your Xbox live gamertag, your zone and your list of 360 games to the comments below.
We'll go first:
Gamertag: Master Rogue (yes, it's lame. So, no need to waste valuable gaming time commenting on the obvious).
Zone: Underground
X360 Games: Quake 4, PGR 3, King Kong, Tiger Woods 2006, PDZ, Call of Duty 2, Condemed, Kameo
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