I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving. If I find time between all the family and football, what’s a good game to play after mashed potatoes clog all of my major arteries?

News Blips:

Metal Gear Solid 5 is not quite yet confirmed. “I think we’ll probably have to make [Metal Gear Solid 5] at some point, but what that will be, we have no idea,” series creator Hideo Kojima said in an Official PlayStation Magazine interview. That’s wonderful; all great art is born of reluctant creators. The man responsible for Solid Snake also said that his involvement with the project would be more hands-off than in the past. “For [the first Metal Gear Solid] I made the maps myself, laid out the enemy routes myself, and did everything hands-on -- that level I can’t do again,” Kojima said. [Destructoid]

Consumer Reports chides GameStop for its anti-customer return policy. Each year, the consumer-advocacy firm creates a holiday list detailing which companies are “naughty” and which are “nice.” Ignoring that they totally ripped off my man Santa, it’s a useful resource for quickly deciding where to shop. Consumer Reports filed the nation’s biggest video-game-specific retailer under “naughty” for having a “laundry list of conditions governing returns and exchanges.” Of course, even if you meet those strict conditions it may not matter because of this little gem of fine print: “We reserve the right to refuse any return.” Enjoy your coal, GameStop. [ABC]

GameStop plans for its streaming service to be a supplement to the brick-and-mortar stores. “The consumer has to have bought the game,” GameStop Senior Vice President Mike Mauler told GamesIndustry.biz. By that he means that the consumer has to have bought the game from a physical GameStop store in order to use any potential online service. This won’t be an OnLive-like model where customers can simply go to the web and start streaming anything that they like. Mauler also said that the process would also require enrollment in its loyalty program. Basically, this is all just another pre-order bonus waiting to happen.   

Desert Bus is now available on iOS and Android; all proceeds are donated to the Child’s Play charity. This odd minigame from an unreleased Penn & Teller Sega CD title has players driving a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time. It’s a trip that takes about eight hours to complete, and the road is completely, boringly straight. To keep things interesting, the developers made it so the bus veers slightly to the right. Pull safely into Las Vegas and you will earn exactly one point. The painfully realistic driving sim has gained a bit of fame in recent years as part of the Desert Bus for Hope charity event, in which a group of players marathon it in return for donations. We should play this game competitively. First person to 99 points wins -- that should only take 41 days. 

Got any hot news tips? Send 'em over to tips@bitmob.com.