Ten Black Friday video game deals you don't want to miss

Black Friday is mere days away, and if you're looking to buy gaming gifts without putting too big of a dent in your bank account, here are some must-see sales coming to a big box retailer near you.

*Note: Sale prices for each of these items may not display until 11/23.

Xbox 360 4GB with Skylanders bundle
$149, Wal-Mart
Walmart's Skylanders bundle is probably one of the most compelling deals this Friday. It's appeal is less about the inclusion of Skylanders Spyro Adventures (though that will be great for some), and more about the fact that this is probably the least you'll pay for an Xbox 360 this holiday season.

Xbox 360 4GB model with Kinect
$199, Sam's Club, Target, others
The $199 4GB model of the Xbox 360 doesn't include a harddrive, which makes this system a no-go for people who want to download games or movies from Xbox Live. However, pair this Xbox with a free Kinect camera (which doesn't require storage space) you're in for a motion-controlled gaming experience at a nice price.


Xbox 360 250GB Bundle
$199, Best Buy
If you want to buy an Xbox with plenty of room to download games and other media, this deal's for you. Best Buy's bundle includes an Xbox 360 with 250 GB, a wireless controller, headset along with a copy of Microsoft's driving game, Forza, and a download code for Skyrim.

Nintendo Wii with Wii Sports
$99, Sears
The Nintendo WiivU is arguably the hottest game gift this holiday season, but if you don't want to drop $300 or more to buy one, you can score the classic Wii for under $100. Sears will also be throwing in Wii Sports, which is a great way to counteract that caloric splurge known as Thanksgiving. Other outlets will be offering the Wii hardware, sans Wii Sports, for $89, but it's worth spending that extra $10 to get a game that will get the entire family playing together.

PlayStation 3 Bundle
$199 at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, others
Sony's PlayStation 3 will also be available for less than $200, and this bundle includes the slim PS3 with 250 GB storage, plus collections of Uncharted and Infamous games. We'd be hard pressed to think of a better way to break in a new PS3 than with Uncharted's scruffy hero, Nathan Drake. Note: Toys R Us will have the 250 GB PS3 for the same price, but with an AirFlo controller instead of the games.

Sony PlayStation Vita
$199 at Best Buy, Target, Toys R Us and others.
Sony's most recent handheld system doesn't have many system-selling games, but it's hard to deny that this is one impressive piece of hardware. This veritable Swiss Army knife of a gadget includes a touch screen, back touch panel and can be used to play games, watch movies via Netflix, listen to music and share your innermost thoughts on Twitter. A game is include as well, though that varies by retailer -- Lego Batman 2 at Target and Call of Duty at Toys R Us.

Wii U Games
Buy one, Get 40% off second game, Toys "R" Us
If you can manage to get your hands on a Nintendo Wii U (which sold out on launch day), Toys R Us has a great deal on WiiU games -- buy one, get the second one for 40% off.

Assassin's Creed III
$34.99, Best Buy
Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 comprise the holy trinity of must-have console games this holiday season. Halo and CoD aren't likely to be candidates for deep discounts, so be sure to snap up this stealth game with a Civil War backdrop for $35, down from $60. It's a steal.

Epic Mickey 2
$24.96, Wal-Mart
Mickey Mouse and pals are back for another new adventure on, well, almost every game console.

Just Dance 4, XCOM, Borderlands 2, and other games
$25, Walmart
Walmart slashes 50% off some of the biggest games this year. This is great way to check out games that, at full price, might not be first on your must-play list.

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Source: http://blog.games.com/2012/11/20/black-friday-video-game-deals-you-dont-want-to-miss/

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Firefox 17 Gets Friendly With Facebook, Wary of iFrames

Mozilla has made its Web browser more social -- and more secure -- with the release of Firefox 17. The latest version of the foundation's popular browser includes a plug-in that displays notifications and instant messages from Facebook in a sidebar. The plug-in is the first implementation of the Social API introduced by Mozilla in July.

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20 Guests, 19 Pies

The Plotz family's wonderful and absurd Thanksgiving pie tradition

Photograph by Paul Plotz

Last November, Slate Editor David Plotz shared the story of how his mother came to bake 19 pies for 20 guests ... every Thanksgiving. The original piece is reprinted below.

?When he began to eat pie, he wished he had eaten nothing else. He ate a piece of pumpkin pie and a piece of custard pie, and he ate almost a piece of vinegar pie. He tried a piece of mince pie, but could not finish it. He just couldn?t do it. There were berry pies and cream pies and vinegar pies and raisin pies, but he could not eat any more.?

From Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

At 5:15 p.m., after the turkey and trimmings, after the traditional neighborhood walk, after a few stolen moments of football watching, after the first round of washing dishes, we line up in the study. At first, it is an orderly line, children and older guests at the front, family in the back.

The pies cover the entire desk, and spill over onto a bookshelf. Several are held in reserve?just in case. (In case of what, no one knows.) In recent years, they have been labeled carefully by the grandkids. The traditional pies are there, of course: a pumpkin, a pecan, several kinds of apple. The line jostles toward the cluster of creamy pies: lemon meringue, lemon cream, grasshopper, and, of course, mocha chocolate crunch (about which more below). In the far corner are the pies that only my father eats: mince, minty sly, ecclefechan tart, and funeral. The two flat golden pies, derby and frangipane, are impossible to tell apart. Hardest to reach, in the center of the table, are the experimental pies: pomegranate, coffee maple-walnut, and crab-apple pie with cider vinegar.

Nineteen pies in all, for a Thanksgiving party of 20.

The first cut is made, usually my mother dishing mocha chocolate crunch for a grandchild. And then, chaos. The line dissolves. It?s every piehole for himself, until, 45 minutes later, we all collapse, insentient, on the floor of the living room.

My mother, a retired English professor, is a doting grandmother, a brilliant scholar, and a great wit. She is thrifty in her tastes?I can?t remember the last thing she bought for herself?and small of appetite. But in this one way she is extravagance itself. Her Thanksgiving pie spectacle?enough pie to feed 80 or 100 guests?is excessive, bizarre, and sometimes even grotesque.

Yet it has also become the only holiday tradition that anyone in our family cares about. My children look forward to pie for weeks. We have friends who once rejiggered their holiday plans just to drop by for Thanksgiving dessert. My own favorite few minutes of the year are the ones just before the slicing begins, when I reconnoiter the pie room, and plan my assault. Apricot this year? Or the new apple crumb pie? A huge slice of cherry or just a sliver?

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We all love the iPad in our house. You can never tell where it is or who has it, but it?s pretty much always in use. The new iPad looks great. I?d love to find one of those under my Christmas tree, wouldn?t you? I?ve joined in a giveaway with a group of other bloggers and the winner will be able to do just that. The prize is a new iPad with Retina display valued at $499. The giveaway starts today, November 20, and ends December 17. Here?s the details on how to enter.

Welcome to the iPad for Christmas giveaway event hosted by Bay Area Mommy! Special shoutout to co-hosts Mom to Bed By 8, Frugal FilAm and Shopaholic Mommy who also helped make this giveaway possible!

Would you, or someone you know, love to win an iPad just before Christmas? This is your chance because we?re giving away a 16GB iPad with retina display ($499) to one lucky reader!!! Already have an iPad? No problem! You can opt for the cash equivalent via Paypal!

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U.S. lawmakers say they're confident they can avoid "fiscal cliff"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. lawmakers expressed confidence on Sunday that they could reach a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" even as they laid down markers on taxes and spending that may make any agreement more difficult.

Republicans and Democratic leaders have agreed on a framework to reform the tax code and government benefit programs next year, but first need to prevent across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts due to begin in January that could push the economy back into recession.

That toxic $600 billion combination, known as the fiscal cliff, is the legacy of earlier failed budget deals. Both sides say they see greater willingness to compromise this time.

"What I hear is a perceptible change in rhetoric from the other side," Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, said on CNN's "State of the Union" program. "And what it is is an invitation for our side to basically sit down and say, 'What can we do for this country?'"

Taxes are the biggest hurdle.

President Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of households, who have benefited more than the rest of the population over the past several decades as globalization and technology have transformed the U.S. economy. He wants to extend low tax rates for the bottom 98 percent of the population, but said he will not sign a budget deal that keeps low rates for the wealthiest in place.

Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, echoed this view. Though Republicans control the House, they will probably need Democratic votes to get any deal passed.

"If it's going to bring in revenue, the president has been very clear that the higher-income people have to pay their fair share," she said on ABC's "This Week."

A top Republican, Representative Tom Price, said his colleagues recognize the need to generate more tax revenue even as he said any tax-rate increase on the wealthy would lead to job losses.

Most Republican lawmakers have signed a pledge promising they will not tax rates. Instead, they want to generate more revenue through a rewrite of the code that would eliminate exemptions, lower rates and presumably spur the economy.

They also say tax changes must be paired with spending cuts.

"The two sides have identified the tax revenue that we're willing to discuss, and now it's time to talk about spending reductions," Price, a member of the leadership team who has close ties to rank-and-file conservatives, said on CNN.

Many of Price's fellow Republicans voted against an August 2011 budget deal that included $1 trillion in spending cuts on the grounds that it did not go far enough. That deal narrowly averted a U.S. default, but it rattled consumers and investors and led to a first-ever downgrade of the country's debt.

Opinion polls show that Republicans would shoulder more of the blame if the country goes over the fiscal cliff in January. Price said his side is eager to avert disaster this time.

"Every member of our caucus appreciates that this fiscal crisis, this challenge that we have, is ever closer," he said.

Durbin said he sees an increased willingness on the part of Republicans to reach a deal compared with prior budget standoffs. "You have to be careful. If you talk about taxes they run for the hills, but if you talk about revenue and tax reform they'll sit still for that conversation," Durbin said.

(Editing by Will Dunham)

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UConn women romp past Texas A&M

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) ? Stefanie Dolson scored 24 points to lead No. 2 Connecticut to an 81-50 romp of No. 16 Texas A&M on Sunday.

The Huskies (2-0) hammered the Aggies (0-3) in the paint 42-12, as A&M had no answer for the 6-foot-5 Dolson, a preseason All-Big East first team selection, and forwards Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (16 points) and Breanna Stewart (11 points) down low.

Courtney Walker led A&M with 20 points, the only Aggie to score in double figures.

The Huskies continually worked the ball around the perimeter and inside, in tallying 27 assists to the Aggies' 14.

UConn is likely to slide into the top ranking after defending national champion Baylor fell to No. 4 Stanford 71-69 in the first game of the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Hawaii on Friday.

A&M had fewer turnovers (15 To UConn's 17), but the Huskies outscored the Aggies 14-5 off turnovers. The Aggies shot a season-low 30 percent (18 of 60), while UConn countered with 56.1 percent (32 of 57) from the field.

The youthful Aggies, the 2011 national champions, have lost to three top-10 teams this season in Louisville, Penn State and now UConn.

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