My fellow gaming Americans, Thanksgiving is a day when you can eat turkey, be lazy and answer questions from well-meaning but relatively uninformed relatives about that video game thing you're into.
Guess what happened in New York today. Hint: it had to do with balloons. And parades. And Thanksgiving.
Imagine Mr. Torgue in a tight pink shirt and hair curlers, it's as unsettling as it sounds. That, plus a love of indie games is basically Grandma Flexington, the newest character in Borderlands 2's latest Thanksgiving-themed DLC.
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Playing a good Vita or iPhone video game under the table instead of eating turkey?
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Based in the UK, mobile game publisher Chillingo has no real reason to celebrate the American holiday of Thanksgiving, but if that celebration means free copies of Totem Runner and Puzzle Craft then I'm willing to play along.
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No one told the folks over at IndiePub that you're supposed to kill the turkey before shoving your entire kitchen into it. Turkey Stuffin', now available for Android and iOS, is definitely stupid, possibly fun.
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The employees of peripheral maker PDP Gaming celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday with a turkey made of pastry and cream. What's in your stomach?
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Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the parade! Delight in your dinner! Prepare for tomorrow's battle.
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The mascot of The Behemoth, the studio behind the PS3 and Xbox 360 downloadable hit Castle Crashers, is a giant chicken. Fittingly, it's pledging gifts of livestock to needy families in developing countries through the end of November.
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Thanksgiving means family. But for Pikachu, it means being dragged through Manhattan as an inflatable balloon. And this year he'll be accompanied by some Pocket Monster cohorts.
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Well, not entirely free. You've got to spend $25 there first, but the bonus is yours if you do, per the clothing retailer's Black Friday ad.
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Reality Gap's got two games in the giving spirit on this Thanksgiving holiday. Log into either massively multiplayer role-playing game, Monato Esprit, or real time strategy/first person shooter hodgepodge, Battleswarm to get your goodies.
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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.
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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.
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I think Super Monkey Ball is the second-to-last game I would come up with when thinking about Thanksgiving — the first being Modern Warfare 2.
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Walmart's official website today confirms the rumor we broke yesterday about one heck of a deal on the Xbox 360 Arcade.
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