Today’s the last day to get in on the weekly video game over at Amazon for 20%-34% off select Call of Duty titles.

Call of Duty: Black Ops – $39.99
Playstation 3 | Xbox 360

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – $39.99
Playstation 3 | Xbox 360

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – $29.99
Playstation 3 | Xbox 360

Visit the main Sale page to see more video game deals.

Video games? Booze?! Go on, I’m listening…I’m listening.

2011 saw some incredible video games released (mostly in that small chunk of fall when bunches of them were raining down on us), but what can make a great video game even better? Why, an adult beverage concocted in the name of these very same games, of course.

The Guardian’s Games Blog reached out to James Dance, owner of the video game bar called Loading and master of the mixological arts, to create some cocktails for six of 2011’s top video game titles: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, L.A. Noire, Portal 2, and Batman: Arkham City.

Continue on below to check out the recipes for each of these wild creations, as well as images of what they should look like!

TorrentFreak has released a rundown of the most pirated video games and movies of 2011.

Topping the list of games is the PC version of German developer Crytek’s hit sequel Crysis 2 with 3.92 million downloads, which is something of a surprise considering how many huge titles were released last year. It was followed by a much more expected name in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which was downloaded 3.65 million times for the PC. Battlefield 3, FIFA 12, and Portal 2 rounded out the PC list.

When James Cameron’s Avatar took movie theaters by storm, obliterating every record in sight including the seemingly untouchable $600 million mark set by another Cameron movie, Titanic, very few people thought a day would soon come where that new record fell.

Shockingly, though no movie has or likely will come close for a long time, it’s a video game that has nudged its way into Avatar‘s personal record bubble. Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has reached $1 billion, and it has done so in only 16 days. That tops Avatar, which pulled it off in 17 days.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Xbox 360 | PS3 | PC
DEVELOPER: Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games
PUBLISHER: Activision
WRITER: Paul Haggis
STARRING: Kevin McKidd, Billy Murray, William Fichtner, Idris Elba, Timothy Olyphant
RELEASE DATE: November 8, 2011

The Call of Duty franchise has become a juggernaut in the video game industry—with titles like World at War, Black Ops, and, biggest of all, the Modern Warfare series contributing to what has become a more profitable franchise than both Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, to name a couple.

While I’ve always loved first-person shooters, I was late to the Call of Duty games for one reason or another and only recently jumped in head first a year or so back when I first played Modern Warfare and decided to finally try this “multiplayer” thing out with Black Ops. As was the case with most people, I too was sucked in fairly quickly, and, after getting pretty decent at multiplayer action, began getting pumped for the newest and biggest Call of Duty title to date, Modern Warfare 3.

Part of Amazon’s weekly video game deals this week is a $50 credit when you purchase Xbox 360 Limited Edition Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Bundle.

Note – this deal is valid through Saturday, November 12, 2011 until 11:59pm PST while supplies last. See full details on promotion here below.

The MW3 bundle includes a customized 320GB Hard Drive console, two customized controllers, Xbox 360 Wired Headset (black), and exclusive downloadable avatar items, as well as a copy of the standard edition Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 video game.

A $50 credit to use towards future purchases is also available on the Xbox 360 4GB Console and the PlayStation 3 160GB System.

Right now Amazon has two bonus offers if you purchase the PC Download version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. With your purchase, receive $10 credit towards future video game downloads, redeemable for up to a year from now.

Also with this purchase, you will receive a $10 credit toward the purchase of either the Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105 Call of Duty: MW3 Edition OR the Logitech G9X Gaming Mouse Call of Duty: MW3 Edition.

The video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 comes out for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, and PC Download tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8, 2011, and there are several bonuses you can get if you pre-order the game.

See list of pre-order bonuses and details here below, and remember, the game comes out tomorrow, so pre-order now! All of these bonuses are listed on the respective product pages in a “Bonus Offer” box.

The MP3 album deal of the day over at Amazon today The Greatest Video Game Music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Skeet for only $2.99.

If you’d like to own a physical copy of The Greatest Video Game Music, it also comes in CD for only $9.99.

The album, which was released today, contains 22 tracks of classical versions of some of the most popular video games like Super Mario Bros., Grand Theft Auto IV, Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, and many more.

The video game deal of the day over at Amazon today is
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for PC — preload the game today and receive $10 credit towards future video game downloads.

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Saturday, November 5, 2011, until 11:59pm PST. [Update – the deal has been extended through end of day November 7.]

If you purchase and preload Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, you will be able to play the game immediately upon its release at midnight on November 8, 2011. See more details on this promotion here below.