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.

Attention iTunes shoppers, there’s another big app sale you need to know about! It’s from the current king of adventure games, Telltale Games. The company’s heart has grown three sizes this Thanksgiving and that’s a very good thing. It’s getting into the spirit of giving by sharing some great Thanksgiving weekend deals for your iOS devices! Between now and November 30 2011, you can get episodes from some of the most popular series for a discounted price.

The sale primarily applies to Telltale’s ample library of iPad games, so let’s start there…

Dungeons and Dragons‘ value as a brand skyrocketed with the advent of computer gaming, and many titles are classics of the genre, from Pool of Radiance to, well, anything by Bioware. While those old, 2D, turn-based games haven’t aged well, they’re still packed with gaming goodness for anyone not too snooty to play a game with dated graphics. If you missed out on those classics or just want to see some old friends here is some great news: Atari is releasing two massive bundles of D&D games for the 2011 holiday season….

Stores and malls are always a mad-house on Black Friday and, lets face it, you’re too full of turkey to move anyway. So why bother leaving the house to shop when Bulkypix has some great deals online! You can shop from the comfort of your home and grab some digital gifts for yourself and others. If you have a laptop, you don’t even have to leave your bed! Bulkypix is offering some great discounts and deals on their iOS games until November 27th 2011, so you can even put off shopping until the weekend and spend Thursday and Friday with your family.

These iOS games will be available for only 99 cents (marked down from $2.99) all weekend…

Best Buy has a good reason for you to spend some money today. The store’s Thanksgiving weekend sale started today. From now until Saturday, Best Buy has discounted nearly 200 videogame-related products online. Chances are if you were waiting for a game to drop in price, today is your lucky day.

The Gamertell staff wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving 2010

Today is a fine day to be a Founding Member of OnLive. Founding Members were the first people to take a chance on the service, even though they would have ended up paying out of pocket eventually. OnLive is very thankful to those who took a gamble on them. In the spirit of the holidays, OnLive has a couple free gifts to give to Founding Members. If you qualify, you can get either a free game, or the soon to be released OnLive MicroConsole.

It’s amazing how we have more than a couple gaming sales at Kmart that are all different. If Kmart’s Pre-Black Friday and Black Friday sales haven’t already gotten your attention, maybe its Thanksgiving sale will. A few of these deals such as the Kinect and Wii gaming coupon specials have already been reported. However, Kmart is also discounting a lot of games on Thanksgiving. Along with those discounts come more gaming coupons.

Our favorite little accident prone clay character has a new world to play in. Mr. Bill was updated today with a new Thanksgiving themed level. The last update Mr. Bill received was Mr. Bill vs. Zombies. There weren’t too many zombies in that update, but it was very welcome and free. This Thanksgiving update is free as well.

Sears sent out an email today (November 17, 2010) announcing its Thanksgiving week deals.

Yep, both chains will remain open for the Thanksgiving holiday (November 25, 2010). The press release notes that this is the 19th years that Sears has remained open for Thanksgiving. Click through for a list of the announced tech and videogame deals…