Epic Games likes to keep things interesting with unique playlists for Gears of War 3, and the holidays are a great time to do so. Starting at 12 a.m. November 24, GoW 3 will have a special “Thanksgibbing” King of the Hill event. All shotguns on maps will be replaced by a Boomshot called the Cluckshot. Yes, it’s a poultry gun that shoots exploding chickens. Send the family off to watch the football games, this is going to be too much fun. The Versus Booster Map Pack is available this week also. The free download features five maps for public matchmaking. Two, Bullet Marsh and Clocktower are fan favorites from the first Gears. The other three, Azura, Rustlung and Blood Drive are from the recently released Horde Command Pack.

You can almost smell the holiday shopping season in the air. This isn’t a Black Friday deal, but it is a pretty good one. From now until Saturday, November 6, Amazon has a special going on. You’ll be able to purchase three games for the price on two. You can’t add six games to your cart and get two free. There’s only one free game per order. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do multiple separate transactions.

This week’s feature PS3 download game is Polar Panic for $9.99. In this game players control a polar bear who must push blocks to stop a greedy oil tycoon and his men from destroying his habitat and rescue all the captured polar bears to include his own family.

The next featured download game is Me & My Katamari for $19.99 for the PlayStation Portable. The King and the Prince are back and this time they’re on a mission to save a bunch of homeless animals by rolling up objects to create islands for these poor creatures.

And a giant list o’ downloadable goodness…

I have two words for this announcement: Frak yes! The SCI FI channel has just announced a two-hour prequel special for space drama Battlestar Galactica, to air after the final ten episodes in the series in 2009. The special will air on the channel, with a DVD release soon to follow, and it’s actually being directed by Edward James Olmos (and written by longtime BSG writer Jane Espenson).

The story is a prequel focused on Cylon #1 (Dean Stockwell), Resistance Leader Sam T. Anders and Chief Galen Tyrol; and is centered on the immediate aftermath of the Cylon attack that left the human race nearly decimated.

Steam is practically giving away 3D Realms’ sci-fi first-person shooter Prey for the price of $4.95. The special offer is for this weekend only (March 29-30, 2008), so you don’t have a lot of time at your disposal. Prey is a first-person shooter, for the PC and Xbox 360 and has sold more than 1 million copies across both the platforms since its 2006 release.

The game became available for download on Steam on November 30, 2006, and normally carries a price tag of $19.95…

Black Friday might be over but the Holiday sales continue. I just received a print ad in the mail for a two-day Holiday sale at Meijer Stores. On the last page is a spot advertising, “Buy any Wii game priced $29.99 or less, get one of equal or lesser value FREE.” The sale is taking more »

Alienware has just launched its holiday promotion site featuring a few must-have gaming systems for Christmas. First up is the Area 51-7500 starting at $1,399 or a low monthly payment of $42, the promotion is gearing to attract fans of Crysis offering free wallpaper downloads for the game. But overall just looking at the specs more »

GameStop and EB Games have a massive sale going on a large selection of UMD movies. There are 39 different movies which have had the price lowered the $4.99. These are all new movies, not used. To make things even better, the coupon code “SAVER” can be entered at the checkout to provide free value more »