April 19 is National Garlic Day in the States. Why not celebrate with a roasted garlic ice cream cake, chocolate garlic cream pie, or just grab a spoon and dig into a jar of roasted garlic white wine jelly. Garlic: it’s nature’s candy.

If you weren't able to pick something up for your video game-loving dad today, just forward them Dorkly's Father's Day comic. It really says it all.

Today, November 11th, is Veterans Day in the good old US of A. But in the far flung part of the world that is China, Nov. 11 stands for something completely different. In China, today is "Singles Day", a day where people lament and celebrate being single and do so by spending buttloads of money online.

Later this week, millions of ethnically Chinese people will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by getting together and having large family meals. Fast forward to the following week, millions upon millions of gifted "moon cakes" will be rotting away in the trash. Even the ridiculously cute and ornate ones.

The makers of the hilariously offensive card game are offering an all-new holiday pack that you can name your own price for. The new sets are probably as funny as the original starter packs, so don't be a g*****n skinflint. Go and order your Cards Against Humanity Holiday packs here.

Surprise it's December 16, do you know where your friends' presents are?

It's that time of the year. Time for you to crack open the wallet for someone other than yourself.

With a 15 hour long single player adventure, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is far more than a multiplayer side story in the Assassin's Creed universe. It's time to join the Brotherhood, as Ubisoft details Ezio's continuing adventures.

It's that time of the year. Time for you to crack open the wallet for someone other than yourself.

In this week's episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we'll be talking about the upcoming holiday, what we think were some of the best games of the year so far and the week's gaming news.

World of Warcraft finally adds a virtual Thanksgiving celebration to it's lineup of seasonal holidays, and just like the real Thanksgiving, Pilgrim's Bounty is mainly about cooking and eating.

Walmart's official website today confirms the rumor we broke yesterday about one heck of a deal on the Xbox 360 Arcade.

GameStop's booting up for the Black Friday rush, hiring some 15,000 temps between now and Christmas Eve to manage the predicted retail onslaught.

Research group NPD predicts a less techy Christmas in their holiday retail outlook. So don't act shocked if a book shows up in your stocking instead of a video game.

GameStop stands proudly in the snow, one foot atop the neatly decapitated recession monster as it proudly proclaims its triumph over the failing economy, with holiday sales up 22% over last year.

An article in the Wall Street Journal today considers the state of Sony's PlayStation 3 in the video game market, highlighting the fact that the console's holiday sales had dropped considerably over last year's.