• The Creed assassinates sales and rental charts: Sells with the speed of a ninja
• Ubisoft delays Haze and Splinter Cell: Conviction, announces Rainbow Six Vegas 2
• Sony launches PlayStation Store for PC
• Get ready to Black Friday: A list of this week’s best videogame deals
• Imbeciles want to subject the Wii to harsher ESRB ratings

Happening at Kotaku:

• The Orange Box Gets An Xbox 360 Demo Today
• Hitman A Miss With Movie Critics
• Rock Band Guitar Controllers Failing
• Activision “Looking Into” GH Wii Mono Issues
• GHIII Still Driving Music Sales

The word at Joystiq:

• Joystiq Holidaze: the guitar compatibility guide
• The Romantics sue over ‘virtually indistinguishable’ cover in Guitar Hero ’80s
• Reminder: Win a $5K gaming PC from Falcon Northwest
• Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3 has gone gold, likely due mid-December
• Amazon.com’s great Black Friday deals — including Wii supply

• Custom Samus Figure Is Finished, Awesome
• Halo Novel Is A Best-Seller
• Uncharted Devs Wish They Hadn’t Shown It So Early
• Halo 3 Big With The Casual Set
• Not Enough Rock Band To Go Around?

The word at Joystiq:

• Atari expecting layoffs and IP sales
• Watch the one woman Rock Band
• Turok rewards you for team killing with acheviement
• Nega-Review: Rock Band
• Original Nights into Dreams coming to PS2

Over at Destructoid:

• Halo 3 getting 3 new maps December 11
• Myst creators bringing Hex Isle to the 360
• Final Fantasy XIII possibly delayed until 2009
• Does Manhunt 2 make the mentally ill look bad?
• The invisible political commentary of Blacksite: Area 51

Even though Blu-ray discs can be rotten (literally!), they are now the only high-definition format that Blockbuster is going to back.

Blockbuster drives in what is probably the final nail in the coffin for the HD-DVD format disc. The company announced that they will only offer Blu-ray format in 1,450 of its stores, dropping HD-DVD forever. They say that customers are choosing Blu-ray more than 70 percent of the time.

“The consumers are sending us a message. I can’t ignore what I’m seeing,” Matthew Smith, senior vice president of merchandising at Blockbuster.

Hit the link for the full story.

Blockbuster backs Blu-Ray

9.25.07 Remember this date because years from now I see this day being very important. Some will remember the joy, others the spectacle.

For me I think the thing that I’ll remember the most is the look on Sony face when in one day, one game could potentially out sell everything that they have tried to do with their grill shaped console. Now I realize that this may come back to haunt me, but given the fact that the second game in this trilogy made just about as much money as Spiderman 3* did in it’s opening weekend I think I’m pretty safe.

Anyways just be sure to remember this date as I can tell you now my son and I will be knee deep in some Master Chief goodness for quite some time after the release.

Hit the link to be taken over to Destructoid to read the whole story

Halo 3 to be Released on 9-25-07

*according to Wikipedia Halo 2 made $125 million in it’s first 24 hours