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With the recent release of the highly anticipated Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U, Nintendo sweetened the deal by offering early adopters a choice of four games with purchase.  You simply buy the game, register it to your account on the Club Nintendo site, and it will offer you a download code for one of four games. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Pikmin 3 New Super Mario Bros. U Wii Party U The highly anticipated game was release on May 30th, and the promo offer extends until July 31st for game registration. Once registered, Nintendo will allow you to claim your download by August 31st.   The problem is that the Club Nintendo site has been brought down to its knees due to this offer.  Logging in is currently an exercise in patience.  Registering the game mostly works, but when you attempt to get your code, it will either log you out, or loop you endlessly in re-registering the game and then error out.  How Nintendo could have underest...

As usual with this time of year, Google has been giving away or discounting music, movies, books, comics, and apps throughout the entire month. Of note, Kanye West's "Yeezus" album is free for as long as this promotion lasts.  The album can be downloaded here . Other notable giveaways are: Star Wars: Tiny Death Star Monopoly Bingo Avengers Alliance Asphalt 8: Airborne Ice Age Village Tetris Blitz Expedia Deal Grand St. Despicable Me True Blood (Pilot episode) Chronicle Cookbook:  Eating Well Made Delicious Elf In addition, Google Play Music also has many free tracks peppered throughout the Play store from artists such as Drake, Rihanna, Black Sabbath, and Bob Marley. These types of promotions are always time sensitive and come a few times a year so take advantage and get some great deals!

For those of you last minute shoppers who have been on the fence with the latest Nintendo systems, there are some pretty nice sales on them this week. With a pretty solid line up of upcoming games (Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Bayonetta, Watch Dogs, Monolith Softs "X", and Dragon Quest) the Wii U is finally a system worthy of consideration at the current deal prices. The 3DS has a solid line up from Street Fighter 4, to Metal Gear, to Kid Icarus, to Phoenix Wright, etc... there is something for just about everyone on this system. Of course, we don't know what type of deals we will see after the holidays just yet, however, if you need to pick something up before Xmas, then these are pretty good deals. Happy Shopping!!