• 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.

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Blockbuster backs Blu-Ray

I think this pretty much sums it up.