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The 1UP Community's Thanksgiving Gaming Memories

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 03:06 PM PST

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The 1UP Community's Thanksgiving Gaming Memories

Our readers share their most treasured stories of Turkey Day gaming.

By: 1UP Staff November 23, 2011

Everyone's family and friends do something a little different for Thanksgiving. In celebration of the upcoming Turkey Day we asked our 1up readers to share with us their favorite Thanksgiving gaming memories and traditions. Our entries included epic tournaments, unexpected revelations, cherished childhood memories, and of course family bonding. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

  • ThePhr3ak

    ThePhr3ak

    Every Thanksgiving, my brother and I would get our whole family together; aunts, uncles, in-laws, stepfamily, and have a bracketed tournament playing a random game. We would draw out on a sheet of butcher paper the individual competitions, all leading to the quarter-final, semi-final, and the notorious final round. We didn't just play for fun either, cash monies was at stake. To enter each individual was a twenty dollar fee, whether it be a toddler or an octogenarian, with the winner taking home the grand prize of several hundred dollars. I recall in 2006, around forty-plus people gathered around the flatscreen to have an ultimate showdown in Mario Party...

  • daBAMF619

Steam Autumn Sale Offers to Keep You Home on Black Friday

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 12:45 PM PST

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Videogame fans have plenty of sales to try taking advantage of come Friday (or even Thursday in some cases). We've already compiled a list of highlights from this year's Black Friday videogame deals, a select number of which you'll be able to take advantage of from home. PC game fans can avoid the lines and general misery altogether so long as they don't mind shopping on Steam; Valve has just kicked off a conveniently-timed autumn sale that can save you some money and, just as importantly for some, spare you from even having to think about going to the store later this week.

The sale runs from today, November 23, through November 27. There are a great number of titles on sale in addition to a selection of games that are available at a discount for 24 hours at a time. Once that 24 hours is up another round of games will be made available.

Piracy to Blame for I Am Alive Not Coming to PC

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:42 AM PST

I Am Alive was, once upon a time, headed to PC in addition to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Following a switch from one developer to another and a long stretch of silence about the game's status, it's now headed to 360 and PS3 -- but not PC -- as a downloadable title. The lack of a PC version is thanks in large part to piracy according to the game's creative director, Stanislas Mettra.

"We've heard loud and clear that PC gamers are bitching about there being no version for them," Mettra told IncGamers. "But are these people just making noise just because there's no version or because it's a game they actually want to play? Would they buy it if we made it?"

1UP Plays Minecraft: Pocket Edition

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:43 AM PST
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