As a prelude to Black Friday Amazon will have “great deals” on video games every day leading up to Black Friday. The deals will start rolling in today, November 14, and will run until that horrible day when you empty your bank account buying up every game you missed out on this year. Already there are deals for the Wii balance board and World of Warcraft deals that will last all week; however most of the deals will only be available for that specific day only.

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With the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, this week looks to be a huge week for gaming and Amazon knows this; so for the entire day today the Amazon Gold Box deals will contain all video games. Starting from 6am PST you’ll be able to find some great deals on games throughout the day. But you’ll have to act fast because every new deal will only be available for a certain amount of time.

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In celebration of the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Amazon.com is having a one day sale on the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of EA’s 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. The sale will only last for today so if you haven’t picked it up yet this would be a great time to do so. EA’s 2010 FIFA World Cup is an updated version of FIFA 10 with some improvements made to the presentation, AI and gameplay tactics. You can compete as one of the 199 teams from qualifications all the way up to the World Cup tournament. Head over to Amazon.com to get your copy of EA’s 2010 FIFA World Cup for only $40.

MLB ‘10 The Show, the follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed sports title, looks to continue to dominate the baseball market. For those looking for some pre-order goodies, Amazon has got you covered. Pre-ordering the upcoming title on Amazon and you’ll receive a code that unlocks six classic stadiums: Shibe Park, Forbes Field, Polo Grounds, Crosley Field, Sportsman’s Park and Griffith Stadium. You can redeem it at the PlayStation Store just a few days after the game ships. For hardcore baseball fans this is a pretty good incentive to pre-order The Show from Amazon. The upcoming PS3 exclusive baseball sim is set to release on March 2^nd.

With XBLA and Wiiware titles showing up on Amazon.com it’s only fitting that PlayStation wanted in on the deal. Today Sony announced that they will be selling PlayStation Network games and add-on DLC for the PS3 and PSP via Amazon. The PSN titles and DLC can be purchased via the PSN Amazon video game store. The site will launch with 200 PSN games that include some popular titles such as Flower, Pixel Junk Monsters, Pixel Junk Eden, Super Stardust HD and Fat Princess. DLC will also be available and some of the most popular add-on content is already on the site like Little Big Planet packs and other content for your favorite PSN games. Included in the 200 games are some PSP games as well like SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo, Killzone: Liberation and Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters.

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It seems like every high profile game comes hand in hand with pre-order bonuses nowadays, especially at GameStop. Sony’s MAG is no exception, with a different pre-order bonus at three (and possibly one more) participating retailers. Those who order at GameCrazy will receive an exclusive RAVEN in-game character while those who pre-order at Amazon will receive the “S.V.E.R. PlayStation Home Personal Space,” which is basically an apartment of sorts for PlayStation Home. The VALOR in-game character will accompany pre-orders at an unknown retailer.

GameStop, as usual, has something extra to add into their deal. Not only do pre-orderers receive the S.V.E.R. in-game character, but they also get to participate in the MAG public beta that starts on October 12. Those who pre-order at GameStop can play during specific play windows from then until the beta servers will always be online after November 9 (at least until the beta ends!).

[Source: PlayStation.Blog]

Peter Moore, President of the EA Sports label, did a recent interview with Gamasutra about the importance of Metacritic scores on EA Sports titles for the Nintendo Wii. Instead of relying heavy on what has become kind of an industry-standard rating system (to keep developers in check when they make crappy games), EA Sports will now be putting more emphasis on user-based reviews from sites like Amazon.

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