<![CDATA[Kotaku: Happy Holidays]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Happy Holidays]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/happy holidays http://kotaku.com/tag/happy holidays <![CDATA[GameStop Doesn't Report Record Holiday Sales]]> After years of record-breaking holiday sales, GameStop reports its second-highest holiday sales ever, citing economic weakness, item shortages, and winter storms as reasons for the lack of upward momentum. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5442611&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Autotune the Video Games with Kotaku]]> It has been a wonderful, wonderful ride, the double Os. After all, they saw the birth of Kotaku. They also saw the inception of our now annual holiday card. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5438130&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Christmas Was Very Good To Forza 3]]> Forza Motorsport 3 was on quite a few Christmas lists this year it seems, with developer Turn 10 reporting a massive influx of new players over the holiday weekend. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5436228&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Southpeak Games Wishes You A Charmingly Awkward Christmas]]> The gang from Southpeak Games wishes you and yours a happy holidays and a something 2010, showcasing one of the most adorably goofy groups of game industry professionals ever assembled, except for that one guy. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5431675&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[With a Corncob Pipe and a Drill Made Out of Snow ...]]> Big Daddy Snowman. Submitted by Snežana Nedeski of The Netherlands. Happy Holidays! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5432577&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Happy Holidays From Fallen Earth]]> There might not be any snow in the post-apocalyptic world of the MMO Fallen Earth, but that won't stop the Wastelanders from building Dirtmen while waiting for the Seasonal Arctic Network of Toy-based Altruism to arrive. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5431213&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Giant Evil Robot Teddy Bear Attacks Champions Online]]> Champions Online's Millennium City has been invaded by the Black Harlequin and his giant, murderous mecha-teddy, Clarence for the holidays. We're going to need bigger hugs. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5431211&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Have A Super Monkey Ball Christmas]]> Sega says Happy Holidays with a couple of holiday wallpapers and some new screens from the upcoming Wii Balance Board title Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5427003&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Happy Holidays From The Sims 3]]> EA's Top 10 Reasons to Give The Sims 3 this Holiday video shows that its much easier to get away with arson, peeping, murder, and sleeping with your friends mom in The Sims 3. How festive! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5424378&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Xbox Live's Holiday Plans]]> Microsoft details the next few weeks' worth of Xbox Live Arcade, Deals of the Week, Avatar items, and Games on Demand, with twelve days of special holiday deals kicking off on December 18th. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5423477&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Christmas Comes To PlayStation Home]]> The holidays hit PlayStation Home this week, bringing new content for MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, a Dead Space 2 costume, free copies of Diner Dash, and a mysterious Festive Tree in the Central Plaza. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5422777&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[It's A Chiptune Holiday!]]> Bloop and beep in the holidays with 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer's It's a Chiptune Holiday, an album filled with traditional holiday favorites, only better. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5420733&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[BioWare Labs Gives The Gift Of The Yeti]]> BioWare's new R&D group, BioWare Labs, gives us The Gift of the Yeti, a Facebook game that could raise up to $10,000 for Child's Play while giving gamers $10 off Dragon Age: Origins. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5419186&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Credit Card Fraudsters Love Their Video Games]]> Credit card fraud prevention experts Retail Decisions have detailed the four most fraud prone products on the internet this holiday season, and wouldn't you know it, three of them are video game related. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5416522&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Make-A-Wish Kid Designs GameStop's Holiday Gift Card]]> If it looks like GameStop's 2009 holiday gift card was designed by a 12-year-old, that's because it was. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5412689&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Holiday Message From The Society Against PlayStation]]> The recent batch of PlayStation 3 ads hearkens back to a simpler time, when all you needed to market your console was a little song, some puppets, and a stick. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5411833&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[It's A Very Video Game Holiday Season]]> A survey conducted on behalf the Entertainment Software Association this month shows that 42% of American adults plan to give or hope to receive video games as presents this holiday season. Where do you stand? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5405692&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Great-father Winter Delivers Exploding RC Cars To Azeroth]]> Blizzard adds to the Christmas cheer in World of Warcraft this morning with a brand new present under the Christmas Trees in Ironforge and Orgrimmar - Crashin' Thrashin' Race Cars. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5118064&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Age Of Conan Features Festive Goat Killing]]> The festive folk at Funcom have managed to pull off a gaming event involving killing a goat that won't get the gaming community upset as part of the holiday festivities in Age of Conan. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5117674&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mega Man Blows Mario's Badly-Rendered Gingerbread Brains Out]]> It all starts off innocently enough, but when you start mixing franchises in your video game-inspired holiday gingerbread cookies it can only end in tears. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5117633&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GoG.com Offers Holiday Bundles]]> Folks looking for a last-minute gift for fans of classic PC games might want to check out the limited-edition holiday bundles now available over at GoG.com. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5116916&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[XNA User Creates Ultimate 360 Fireplace]]> Now owners of Xbox 360 consoles with temperature control issues can finally put that extra heat to practical use with the innovative Xbox Live Community game, Fireplace. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5115614&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[EVE Celebrates Holidays With Interstellar Snowball Fights]]> In space, no one can hear you yell, "Duck!" EVE Online players are logging in today to discover that their hangar contains a special gift - a snowball launcher and 300 rounds of ammunition. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5114629&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jane Jensen's Christmas Story "Twas The Night Before"]]> Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen has written a short story for Christmas, introducing the character of young street performer Samantha Everett from her upcoming adventure game Gray Matter. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5113149&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GameStop Launches Buy Now, Get Later DS Program]]> GameStop just can't keep the Nintendo DS in stock during the holidays, but that won't stop them from selling them as the company launches the Holiday Nintendo DS Reservation Program. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5113069&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rock Band Rocks The Holidays]]> Harmonix spreads the holiday cheer next week with the release of the Rockin' the Holidays 2008 pack, containing three songs guaranteed to get very annoying at Christmas parties for ages to come. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5113399&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Aeria Gives Players Money For Christmas]]> Aeria Games, the online gaming operator responsible for titles like Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online and Dream of Mirror Online, celebrates the holidays by giving away more than $5 million to their community. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5111607&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NCsoft's MMORPG Holiday Plans]]> NCsoft rings in the holiday cheer as they announce the Christmas celebration plans for their MMORPGs City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Lineage II, featuring everything from fuzzy earmuffs to grand theft Santa. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5110280&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Warhammer Online Celebrates Holidays With Beer]]> Mythic Entertainment has announced details on their beer-soaked year-ending holiday event, inviting players to take part in the Dwarven New Year's festival of Keg End. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5108604&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Trapped In A Glass Ball With Your Xbox Friends]]> It's a non-stop celebration over on the Xbox 360, as folks around the world awake to discover that Santa left them a mystical torture device disguised as the Xbox 360 Holiday Snow Globe. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5108268&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lips Holiday Songs A Bit More Multicultural Than Singstar's]]> While Singstar's holiday fare is fairly Christmas-centric, Microsoft's Lips takes the more politically correct path, offering up a little something made out of clay to help balance out the holiday cheer. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5102446&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GameStop Holiday Sales Up 35%]]> Sometimes it seems like I write this post every year. Mega retail gaming store GameStop has announced that the 2007 holiday season saw a record $2.3 billion dollars, an increase of 35% over last year's holiday sales. To put this in perspective, this is more money than I have in my pocket right now. GameStop boss Dick Fontaine cites the proliferation of next-generation consoles as a driving force of the triumph over the numbers of yesteryear.
"Driven by robust domestic and international sales, GameStop achieved the most successful holiday season results ever," said company chairman and CEO Richard Fontaine. "Video game software sales grew by 45%, while the next generation installed base is now triple last year's base and a very positive leading indicator for future sales growth."
In the wake of sales news, the company raised their fiscal 2007 earnings guidance by $0.13 a share, indicating that I really need to read up on financial information to better understand what that means. I know it's good at least - otherwise it wouldn't have made it into the press release, after the jump. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343287&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Our Annotated Kristmas Kard]]> On Christmas morning Mark Wilson posted our off-beat, out-of-tune electronic Christmas Card to you our readers. If you missed reading it make sure to check it out here. If you can sing better than we can, and that's more than likely a given, hit the jump for the full lyrics with annotations to the stories that inspired them. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=337300&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Shadow the Hedgehog Steals Christmas]]>
Nothing says Happy Holidays like a beloved mascot character giving in to angst and peeing on a friend's belongings. "How The Hedgehog Stole Christmas" is a Christmas video that explores a slightly darker Shadow the Hedgehog than the gun-toting gangsta Sega has transformed him into. Basically he goes completely apeshit, urinates on Amy's floor, and is seemingly about to forcibly take Cream's mother until a child's voice brings redemption. Thanks Bryan for pointing this out, and allowing me to transfer my disturbing fascination with Cream into a more socially acceptable obsession with her mom. Hooray! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338147&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Sleigh is so Old Fashioned...]]> Jeff Rubenstein, Social Media Manager for SCEA has posted a little holiday video greeting from Polyphony Digital, the folks who created the Gran Turismo. It features Santa who has turned in his sleigh for a fancy sports car. Is it an attempt to make his Christmas duties faster or just a sad mid-life crisis? You be the judge! More »
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