The Week In Review_ Retail Therapy

We’re just 24 hours into the Christmas shopping season and we’re thankful there are no reports of tramplings, maimings or tear-gassings. Yet. Update: Apparently there was a Buffalo stampede. No, really. There was a trampling at a Buffalo-area Target. None were seriously hurt.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); All that said, all of the holiday shopping is not done within a single day. There are still 27 more left before Christmas. And if getting up at 3 a.m. to mass in front of a rummy nobel big box store’s doors isn’t your cup of tea, the new “Cyber Monday” tradition of online shopping is heading your way in 48 hours. Until then, pile up a plate of leftover turkey, slather on some congealed, refrigerated gravy, nuke it for a couple minutes, and reflect on Kotaku’s week in original reporting. Kotaku’s 2010 Gift Guides and Black Friday Coverage These Gaming Deals Are INSANE!!! The Best Video Game Black Friday Deals and How To Get Them Kotaku’s 2010 PC Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 Xbox 360 Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 PlayStation 3 Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 Mac Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 Windows Phone 7 Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 Wii Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 DS Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 PSP Gift Guide Kotaku’s 2010 iPad Gift Guide rummy royal Kotaku’s 2010 iPhone Gift Guide Leaked GameStop Black Friday Ads Includes PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 Bundles https://kotaku.com/these-gaming-deals-are-insane-32684850 Top Stories A Visual Guide To Racing Games Activision: Call of Duty Boxed Copies Will Never Have Subscriptions Crisis In Korea Has A Video Game Echo Why The Scribblenauts People Are Making A Shooter https://kotaku.com/a-visual-guide-to-racing-games-5698648 Columns Lisa Foiles: My Perfect Imperfect Video Game Heroine Well Played: Navigating The Video Games of Black Friday Stick Jockey: Not Its Own Video Game, Not A Real Card Collection, Yet More Than Both https://kotaku.com/my-perfect-imperfect-video-game-heroine-5698735 Reviews, Previews, Hands-On and Impressions Review: Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Is A Spirited Thrill Review: The UnderGarden Is A Relaxing Dip In The Ocean Review: Dead Nation Justifies The Existence Of Yet Another Zombie Game Review: Sonic Colors Does Not Suck, It Merely Succeeds Review: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Is This Year’s Other Great Racer Review: Shaun White Skateboarding’s Path Of Enlightenment https://kotaku.com/review-pac-man-championship-edition-dx-is-a-spirited-t-5698681 News Crysis Creator’s Latest Game Is An Online Shooter Activision Teases ‘Murder Your Maker’ For Spike TV VGAs [Update] Pop Stars Move Kinect In Japan GT5 Online Woes Screw Up Your Singleplayer Games, Too Japanese PlayStation Network Shows Japan What’s Great From Abroad Next January, Play The Nintendo 3DS For Free! Kinect Is Wasted On Video Games The Tester 2: Episode 4: “No Tiers In Testing” Liveblog: Why Am I Here? The Soundtrack To The Botanical Apocalypse Smugleaf Is A Better Name Than Snivy The Patch That Changes World Of Warcraft Forever Let’s Dress Like It’s The End Of The World (And We’re Playing Yono all app STALKER) https://kotaku.com/crysis-creators-latest-game-is-an-online-shooter-5699302 Numbers iTunes Chart Toppers: Out with the Old, In With the New https://kotaku.com/itunes-chart-toppers-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-5695594 Sports Philandering Point Guard’s Ratings Get A Timely Adjustment In NBA 2K11 https://kotaku.com/philandering-point-guards-ratings-get-a-timely-adjustme-5698612 Reactions What Deals Did You Get? A Week In Comments https://kotaku.com/what-deals-did-you-get-5699737 Press Play Gran Turismo’s Pursuit Of Visual Perfection, One Game At A Time Otomedius Excellent Not Excellent Enough For 2010 Pokemon Invade Thanksgiving Parade, Menace Papa Smurf A Motorcycle To The Skull? Hell, Why Not Is It Time For a Major Black And White Video Game? https://kotaku.com/gran-turismos-pursuit-of-visual-perfection-one-game-at-5699530 Screengrabs Old Actors Say The Darndest Things SCV Ready? More Like Honda Ready Well, They Actually Did It Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Master System Cover Winners https://kotaku.com/old-actors-say-the-darndest-things-5698815 Rumors Green, Orange DSi Consoles To Go On Sale This Week https://kotaku.com/green-orange-dsi-consoles-to-go-on-sale-this-week-5695873 Follow your favorite Kotaku writers on Facebook and on Twitter. https://kotaku.com/kotaku-writers-on-facebook-30849416 Follow Kotaku on Twitter