Black Friday approcheth! The first official shopping day of the Holiday Season(tm) is going to be insane, a mob-rules shoving match of epic proportions. Cravers, don’t leave the house on Friday. Instead, get your holiday shopping done online and avoid the traffic, the screaming kids, the madness. Oh, and while you are buying for everyone else on your gift-giving list, pick up the PlayStation3 80GB Motorstorm bundle for yourself. The PS3 console is ethernet-ready, rigged for HDMI, and has an Nvidia graphics processor. The PS3 is backwards compatible with most of the older games, and MotorStorm? Let’s just say it’s a hell of a lot more fun than fighting holiday shopping traffic. Three cheers for vehicular mayhem! Dust off your old Ministry CDs, pop in “Jesus Built My Hotrod”, and fire up MotorStorm. Can’t you feel the adrenaline already?

Buy for $499.99

Earlier this week, we hyped the release of the Crusade epic Assassin’s Creed. If it weren’t for this little game above, Assassin’s Creed could have been the release of the year. While we have been patiently awaiting the AC release for nearly 18 months, we’ve been waiting for this one far longer… Ladies and gents, the game of the year has been released today: Crysis by Crytek/EA. If you own an up-to-date PC, you owe it to yourself to pick this one up. If you’re already aware of this game, go ahead and follow this buy link below. If not, stick around after the “read more”, we’ll walk you through just why this game is so lustworthy…

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We’ve been waiting for today for nearly 18 months. We first caught glimpse of Ubisoft’s dark crusade epic, Assassin’s Creed, at E3 back in May of 2006. Since then, we’ve consumed every video and article available about this game. And today– it is in our hands. Assassins Creed is now shipping for both Xbo360 and PS3, with a PC version forthcoming. If you are up-to-speed on how groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed this game is, follow the links below and pick up your copy. If you aren’t yet familiar with this one, check out the videos after the jump.

Buy for $59.99 (360)

Buy for $59.99 (PS3)

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This one’s banned in the UK, so it MUST be great. Rockstar Games had to bust ass night and day to tone this game down to an “M” rating, as it was squarely in Adults Only (AO) territory before. Rest assured, the content of Manhunt2 is still brutal enough to bring screams of terror from candy-assed protesters scared of anything edgy. The original Manhunt’s sicko storyline involved a whack-job who liked to watch the intrepid hero murder gang members, solve icky puzzles, and basically predict the Saw franchise (more or less). This version’s plot isn’t exactly a sequel, but you still have to be really effin’ quiet and dispatch the creeps with anything you can get your hands on. The murder weapons available in this game are causing quite a stir, and you’ll never look at a fuse box or toilet in the same way ever again.

Buy for $29.99 (PS2)

Buy for $39.99 (Wii)

As a PC Gamer, I’ve always kind of scoffed at consoles. The precision that mouse control provides in FPS and even third-person view games is unmatched by any other controller. Every time I’ve tried to play a first-person war game on Xbox360 or PS3, I feel little more than frustration. The inability to drop my crosshairs exactly where I want them drives me mad. Sure, I assimilate, like every God(of War)-fearing gamer out there. But still, my heart remains with PC games, where I can truly draw a bead on whatever moving target I can see with my eye or my scope… Enter SplitFish’s extraordinary FragFX controller. This brings the precision control of a mouse to the console environment, with controls optimized for PS3 games. So when I sit down to play Assassin’s Creed, you can bet your ass I’ll be hitting my marks right where I want them…

Buy for $59.99.

Good afternoon, Freeman. We have work for you… in some new areas, and some you’ve visited before. Welcome to The Orange Box. Valve’s flagship franchise returns with some classics and a brand new extension of the series. Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Half-Life 2, Episode One, Team Fortress 2, and the brand new Portal are all packed inside Valve’s fabulous Orange Box. A little nostalgia and plenty of new excitement, the Orange Box is already a sure-thing hit. Thanks to Amazon, you can get yourself a copy of the Orange Box and its 5 games for the lowest price on the web…

Buy for $39.99.

(also available for Xbox360 and PS3, yet not on sale)

It was bound to happen eventually. iKaraoke strips the lead vocals off any track in your iPod collection and sends it to any FM reciever, wired or wirelessly-your choice. Your next post-party gossip will be rife with stories of your friends making drunken fools of themselves trying to rap like 50, growling like the Deathklok, or (horrors) caterwauling like that guy from The Darkness. This little gadget by Griffin is small enough to fit in your pocket, and has blackmail YouTube video potential like no other device to hit the shelves since the home version of Dance Dance Revolution. Here’s a hint: don’t break this out right away. Let your pals get a few beers in them first, then let ‘er rip. Grab some video with your cell phone camera . . . you know what to do next.

Buy for $49.95

Got 3K laying around with nothing to do? Drop it on this full-sized Pac Man 25th Anniversary arcade classic. No coin op, mechanism though, which is a major bummer. Folks, this is what we used to do before the Internet. Order one today and live the dream, baby! Add it to your man room for the ultimate retro touch. You know you want to.

Buy for $2,995

DeGadget dropped word on some supersweet new gamer gear, the Belkin Nostromo n52te Speedpad. This baby sports a programmable eight-way thumb pad, removable joyswtick, backlit keys and software by Razer. The Nostromo is tailor-made for first-person shooters, role players, and other games with complicated keypad/keyboard needs, Nostromo hits the street in November for around $70.

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What you are looking at is THE hot new driving gear for Sony PS3. Fanatec somehow managed to get Porsche to license this reproduction of the original Porsche 911 leather steering wheel. This is a wireless, latency-free unit with 3 Force Feedback motors for realistic driving action, wireless pedals, and the classic 6+1 speed H-pattern gear shift. Compatible with PC and PS3, the advance hype on this is that it will work with any driving game. Does this kick ass? Yes. Can you buy it yet? No.

Preorder for $350