If you’re looking into jumping into either the Dance Central or Kinect Sports franchises sequel-first, Amazon’s offering you a chance to catch up on your back catalog for peanuts. For a limited time, if you buy Dance Central 2 or Kinect Sports: Season 2 , you can get their prequels for half-off.

Autumnal consumerism is usually linked with holidays based around turkeys and/or trees, but that hasn’t stopped Amazon from conjuring up some scary-good deals to celebrate All Hallow’s Eve. The available gambit of creepy-eepy savings is fairly all-inclusive, ranging from Halloweenish gore-fests like Dead Island , Rise of Nightmares and Left 4 Dead , to the more subtle, yet still emotionally horrifying Catherine .

Amazon has dropped a selection of Lightning Deals on us, and while we can’t be 100% sure of the identities of all the mystery deals (and less sure of the prices) it looks like there’s enough stuff in there that you’ll want to keep an Amazon window open, and an alarm clock set. Right now, F.E.A.R. 3 is $20 on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

The Gears of War 3 bundle that includes a 320GB Xbox 360 console, two controllers and the game, comes with a $40 credit at Amazon. The $40 Amazon credit is good on most items shipped and sold by the online retailer. The Amazon bundle also includes, as a pre-order bonus, the Savage Kantus skin for the game’s multiplayer .

“But wait,” some of you youngsters might be thinking. “How can those stickers I’m always seeing on Toyota Celicas and Mitsubishi Eclipses be coming to my phone? Why would I even want that?” Take a seat, junior, you might learn something: Before R-Type adorned the window/bumper of every import with a fat pipe and under lighting, it was the name of one of the most iconic and ground-breaking shooters ever made

In June, after nearly six years on store shelves, Microsoft finally managed to crack the 1.5 million unit milestone for the Xbox 360 in Japan. To put that number into perspective, the 3DS just hit 1.5 million units sold after just six months … and the 3DS is considered to be selling so poorly that Nintendo’s CEO took a 50% pay cut .

Amazon wants you to get out of the house. We know it’s hot enough to fry bacon on the asphalt outside, but you’re permanently indenting your desk chair and the cat thinks your pajama pants are a scratching post. Reddit will survive without you for a day, we promise.