Shack PSA: Holiday Deals and Discounts on Used Games, Hardware, and Console Downloads

Having covered the variety of seasonal PC bargains, let us now turn our eyes towards the console market, whereupon a variety of holiday and year-end sales are in the works.

In the realm of phsyical goods, online rental agency and Shacknews parent company GameFly is running its year-end sale on used games, Toys R Us is readying yet another buy one get one half-off promo, and Walmart will soon be offering a consolatory $50 gift card to those that didn't get the Xbox 360 they wanted for Christmas

GameFly

• Year-End Used Game Sale - Free Shipping, Up to 50% Off

  Through January 4, 2010

Toys R Us (via Joystiq)

• Buy 1, Get 1 Half-Off on All PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 Games

• Buy 1, Get 1 Half-Off on Any Nintendo DS Game under $20

  December 26, 2009 through January 1, 2010

Walmart (via Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg)

• $50 Gift Card with Xbox 360 Hardware Purchase

  December 26, 2009 through January 1, 2010

Meanwhile, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PSP owners are being subjected to a variety of digital promotions through the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store:

Xbox 360 / Xbox Live Marketplace

• Shadow Complex - 800 MS Points / $10 (33% Off, Gold Only)

  Through December 27, 2009

• The Maw - 400 MS Points / $5 (50% Off, Gold Only)

  December 28, 2009 through January 3, 2010

• Buy three EA digital games or add-ons, get $10 back

  December 25, 2009 through January 31, 2010

  Shooters

  • Battlefield Bad Company / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Army of Two / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Black / $19.99 / Xbox Classic

  • Dead Space / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Battlefield 1943 / 1200 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Battlefield 2: Modern Combat / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  Racing

  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Need for Speed: Carbon / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Need for Speed: Pro Street / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Burnout Paradise / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Burnout Paradise - Big Surf Island / 1000 MS Points/ Game add-on

  • Burnout Revenge / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  Sports

  • Madden NFL Arcade / 1200 MS Points/ Arcade

  • NHL 3 on 3 Arcade / 800 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Fight Night Round 3 / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 - Predator Golf Course / 600 MS Points/ Game add-on

  • FIFA 10 - Live Season 2 All Leagues / 800 MS Points/ Game add-on

  • Madden NFL 10 AFL Legacy Pack / 560 MS Points/ Game add-on

  Family Friendly

  • Sorry! Sliders / 800 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Sorry! / 800 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Yahtzee / 800 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Battleship / 800 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Monopoly / $29.99 / Games on Demand

  • Connect 4 / 800 MS Points/ Arcade

  Action, RPG & Strategy

  • Mass Effect / $19.99 / Games on Demand

  • Mass Effect - Bring Down the Sky / 400 MS Points/ Game add-on

  • Command & Conquer Commander's Challenge / 800 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Boom Boom Rocket / 560 MS Points/ Arcade

  • Dragon Age: Origins - Warden's Keep / 560 MS Points/ Game add-on

  • Mass Effect - Pinnacle Station / 400 MS Points/ Game add-on

PlayStation 3 & PSP / PlayStation Store

30% Off EA Digital Titles

December 22, 2009 through January 2, 2010

PlayStation 3

• Commander's Challenge - $6.99

• Battlefield 1943 - $10.49

• Hasbro Family Game Night - $29.99

• Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Bundle - $20.99

PSP

• Madden NFL 10

• Scrabble - $13.99

• NFS Carbon - $13.99

• NFS Most Wanted - $13.99

• NFS ProStreet - $13.99

• NFS Underground Rivals - $10.49

• GI Joe - $27.99

• Tetris - $6.99

• Sims 2 - $10.49

40% Off SEGA Digital Goods

Through January 7, 2010

PlayStation 3 Games and Add-ons

• Gunstar Heroes - $2.99

• Sonic Unleashed Apatos & Shamar Adventure Pack - $1.99

• Sonic Unleashed Chun-nan Adventure Pack - $1.99

• Sonic Unleashed Empire City & Adabat Adventure Pack- $1.99

• Sonic Unleashed Holoska Adventure Pack - $1.99

• Sonic Unleashed Mazuri Adventure Pack - $1.99

• Sonic Unleashed Spagonia Adventure Pack - $1.99

• SONIC: Very Hard Shadow Missions - $1.49

• SONIC: Very Hard Silver Missions - $1.49

• SONIC: Very Hard Sonic Missions - $1.49

• Valkyria Chronicles Edy's Mission "Enter the Edy Detachment" - $2.99

• Valkyria Chronicles Hard EX Mode - $2.99

• Valkyria Chronicles Selveria's Mission "Behind Her Blue Flame" - $2.99

PSP Games

• Alien Syndrome - $9.99

• Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars - $9.99

• Crush - $9.99

• Full Auto 2: Battlelines - $9.99

• Iron Man - $11.99

• Sega Genesis Collection - $9.99

• Sonic Rivals - $9.99

• Sonic Rivals 2 - $17.99

• Super Monkey Ball Adventure - $9.99

Other Sales

Until January 7, 2010 unless noted

PlayStation 3

• Bomberman Ultra - $4.99

  (revert to regular price on 1/7/10)

• Worms - $9.99
• Topatoi - $4.99
• ZOMBIE TYCOON - $4.99

PSP

• Armored Core 3 Portable - $9.99

  (revert to regular price on 1/21/10)

• ZOMBIE TYCOON - $4.99