{"id":3231,"date":"2010-11-26T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2010-11-26T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:48:16","slug":"black-friday-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/11\/26\/black-friday-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a huge shopper, except for the stay at home and click on Amazon kind of shopping.  This year (at least so far today) I did not see a whole lot of deals that I just <em>had<\/em> to get.<\/p>\n<p>The tally today is <em>FIFA 11<\/em> (DS) and <em>Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/em> (Wii) for the kids, while dear old dad took advantage of a couple of Lightning Deals for <em>God of War Collection<\/em> (PS3) for a mere $10 and <em>God of War 3<\/em> (PS3) for a click under $35.  Thanks to the PSP and <em>God of War: Chains of Olympus<\/em>, I have become somewhat of a Kratos fan.  Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking about taking advantage of some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/11\/22\/get-prepped-for-the-holidays-with-the-playstation-network-stock-up-for-winter-sale\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/11\/22\/get-prepped-for-the-holidays-with-the-playstation-network-stock-up-for-winter-sale\/', 'PSN titles on sale');\" target=\"_blank\">PSN titles on sale<\/a>.  <em>Joe Danger<\/em> looks better than decent.  I am pretty sure I am going to pull the trigger on <em>Destruction Derby (PSOne)<\/em>; long time readers will remember that seeing the demo of this game made me fall in love with the PlayStation.  I have not picked up very many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/11\/23\/playstation-store-update-166\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/11\/23\/playstation-store-update-166\/', '15th Anniversary sale items');\" target=\"_blank\">15th Anniversary sale items<\/a>, but this is one that I will not pass up.  Then again \u2026 backlog list of games is growing deep.  To the good, <em>Destruction Derby will get some use on the PSP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gaming today has mostly consisted of <\/em><em>Sports Champions<\/em>, which is a great family title, and of course some <em>Gran Turismo 5<\/em> action.<\/p>\n<p>Happy gaming weekend to everyone!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a huge shopper, except for the stay at home and click on Amazon kind of shopping. This year (at least so far today) I did not see a whole lot of deals that I just had to get. The tally today is FIFA 11 (DS) and Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/11\/26\/black-friday-gaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Friday Gaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,44,9,26,51,32],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-fifa","tag-gran-turismo","tag-ps3","tag-psn","tag-psp","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}