This week, my local grocery store is offering a free turkey with the purchase of a ham. I don't have a joke to go with that; I just think people should know that it's happening.

Video Blips:

• The makers of Infinity Blade 2 talk about how they make the game look so darn purty in this video. Does anyone else gasp when they see that gauntlet swiping away at the iPad? It's gonna scratch the hell out of that screen.

Hit the break for Firefall's quest for balance, a look behind the scenes of Shinobi, and the latest addition to Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster.

• Learn the finer points of class balancing and battle frame design in this developer diary for Firefall. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a shooter in which some characters have helmets and some don't can ever truly be balanced.

• Action and platforming go together like a ham and a turkey in Shinobi for the 3DS. Callback!

• Elmo and Cookie Monster make friends with some aliens in Once Upon a Monster's new DLC, "Unidentified Furry Objects." They called it that because "Close Encounters of the Furred Kind" sounded several kinds of wrong.