Bejeweled Blitz Fan Appreciation Days: Black Friday in disguise

Fan Appreciation Day
If you can keep your filthy cursor off of those shiny gems for just a minute (it's addictive, we know), you would notice that PopCap has decided to honor its Bejeweled Blitz fans by having Happy Hour all weekend starting today. Coincidentally (right...), today also happens to be the most insane shopping day of the year, Black Friday. With that, we're going to call this weekend's deals Black Friday in disguise.

Sign in today and you'll be treated to amazing deals on coins. Every coin package is half-off all day long, which means you get coins for:

    200,000 coins: 15 Facebook Credits ($1.50)
    500,000 coins: 30 Facebook Credits ($3)
    1,000,000 coins: 45 Facebook Credits ($4.50)


On top of insanely low prices on huge amounts of coins, every purchase comes with a free 2x point multiplier. It looks like scores are going to soar this weekend and on the cheap at that.

Cafe World Thanksgiving Extravaganza: Black Friday in a turkey suit

Thanksgiving Extravaganza
Why certain games aren't just coming out and saying "Black Friday" is beyond us, but at least the sales are there. Like in Cafe World's Thanksgiving Extravaganza (not to be confused with the Catering Order), where players will enjoy deep discounts on coins and Cafe Cash packages. For just another 15 hours as of this writing, all Cafe Cash packages are 20 percent off with coin packages up to half off the original price. Here's what you'll find on the cheap today:

Cafe Cash Discounts (20 percent off):
-25 Cafe Cash: $4
-55 Cafe Cash: $8
-120 Cafe Cash: $16
-350 Cafe Cash: $40
-780 Cafe Cash: $80
-1,250 Cafe Cash: $120
-1,700 Cafe Cash: $160

Coins Discounts (varies):
-15,280 coins: $4 (20 percent off)
-45.240 coins: $7 (30 percent off)
-125,280 coins: $14 (30 percent off)
-350,000 coins: $35 (30 percent off)
-770,000 coins: $65 (35 percent off)
-1,200,000 coins: $79.50 (47 percent off)
-1,700,000 coins: $100 (50 percent off)

For this little cash, you could deck your cafe in enough themed gear to turn it into a fun land or, rather a Wonder World. Still on the fence about buying virtual goods? You have another 14 hours to decide, so get to thinking.

Happy Aquarium Black Friday Sale begins 10 a.m. PST

CrowdStar has been preparing for this day for a long time, gathering just the right sales for this fine Black Friday. Today starting at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) in Happy Aquarium, all critters will be 40 percent off for just three hours. On top of that, all wallpapers, gravel and tankmates are 15 to 30 percent off. Feeders and cleaners are 15 percent off with all Potions to be reduced by 40 percent. Oh, and those sales are good all day long. So, don't fret if you can't make it for the big event--you'll save one way or another this Nov. 26.

Better yet, the first 100 players who log in at 10 a.m. sharp (PST, of course) will be rewarded with the exclusive Black CrowdStar-Fish. According to the official CrowdStar event page, there are over six thousand players waiting for that item. So, expect stiff competition for a item that's so limited. I know my trigger finger is ready, but what about you?

PetVille Black Friday Sale gets rid of those Turkey leftovers

PetVille Black Friday
Yes, the craziest shopping day of the year has your pets all riled up too, so Zynga launched a Black Friday Sale in PetVille to keep the little animals happy. However, there were simply too many uncooked (i.e. living) turkeys running around, so the pets decided to sell them at discount... as machines. OK, that last part is made up, but more interesting nonetheless. (Suspend your disbelief, people.) Here are the leftovers you can pick up starting today only:

    Mitchell the Relaxed Turkey (today only): 46 Pet Cash (around $4)
    Mechanical Turkeys Running From Pilgrim (today only): 24 Pet Cash (about $2)
    Mechanical Turkey Runners (two days): 24 Pet Cash (about $2)



Going a different route than most social games, PetVille is only selling rare items at normal prices today rather than cutting the prices of all of its items. Though, I bet that Mitchell won't be relaxed very long with everyone ogling him, yearning for seconds from last night's feast. Hey, leftovers is tradition too.

Black Friday proves that gamers still love their Mario, Zelda--er, Link

Super Mario 3D Land is the fastest-selling portable Mario game in history on a device that's supposedly in hot water. If that doesn't demonstrate the power of the portly, platforming plumber, nothing will. Nintendo revealed recent sales figures of its most recently-released games, both of which are the fastest-selling in their respective franchises.

Nintendo sold over 500,000 copies of Super Mario 3D Land since its Nov. 11 release and 535,000 discs packing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword since it landed on Nov. 20. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said to USA Today that these two games alone drove sales of both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii consoles. For instance, 3DS sales tripled last week ( a 325 percent increase), compared to sales the week before the game's release. The Wii also enjoyed record Black Friday sales with more than 500,000 consoles sold.

"We know that Black Friday and that entire week is a key selling week, and it is important for products like ours to have a jump in momentum, and we were fortunate to see that," Fils-Aime told USA Today. "For us, it really was driven by unique and powerful software and what gives us confidence is that we still have more software to launch in the balance of this holiday period."

The Mario maker still has yet another Mario game set to hit the 3DS--Mario Kart 7 hits Dec. 4--which could help sustain the enormous 3DS sales. Fils-Aime did say to us that content is what will make the 3DS a success, and it looks like the 3DS has found its system-seller. The question is, will Mario be enough pull the 3DS from out of the kettle?