I recently visited the new Beauregard’s at University Drive and Memorial Parkway, next to Books-a-Million, and was very impressed. Establishment is large and well-furnished, food is good, and the beer selection is one of the best in town, IMO. Would like to get together there on Thursday night (9/6/07) around 7 PM. Late is fine–come when you can. Reply if interested.

Cole at Lasersharks points out that the Wikiscanner discovered an edit to the entry on Halo 3 that came from teh Sony Computer Entertainmentoffice in the UK. The edit inserted the phrase “although it wont look any better than Halo 2” into the description of the game.

The edit was apparently to the Halo 3 section of the main page for the Halo series and has since been removed.

Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.

Louis Wu at HBO pointed out that ComWave— apparently responsible for the Radio Shack website that just added a Halo 3 product page— will correct some of the errors in the previous product description, and also added additional screenshots to their gallery. I’ve collected the new shots, with Wu’s gracious technical assistance, in the images gallery.

Just so the dastardly scheme doesn’t work, I’ll post to the summary complete reproduction of the post at xbox360Rally. GameDaily is offering an article called “six reasons to pass up on this crappy game” that is filled with nonsense and self-contradictions. Not to mention, it’s basically six paragraphs on six separate pages. First they complain about the Arbiter being in Halo 2, and then complain that they can’t fight against UNSC forces in Halo 3. Wha? Then they complain it’s “too familiar”– as if the “familiar” elements of Halo 3 aren’t similar to just about every other FPS on the planet. They complain about cheaters, and finish off by saying they regret giving Halo 2 a 10/10 and will be more objective about Halo 3.

Revisionist history at its best. They’re basically saying either they don’t stand by their review, in which case they have no integrity, or they got suckered into rating the game too high, in which case they are incapable of discriminating. Either way, it means you might as well not bother reading what they write about Halo 3; whether good or bad, they’ll reverse themselves in a few years if it helps them make a convenient point.

Bioshock is, by all accounts, an incredible-looking story-driven shooter with deep gameplay for the Xbox 360.

So is Halo 3.

The major difference between the two of them– on top of Halo’s multiplayer, saved films and map editing features, is that Bioshock is out already, and Halo 3 is not.

Despite this, on Amazon.com, two editions of Halo 3, the regular and limited, are both outselling Bioshock, according to Next-Generation. That’s crazy.

I don’t see this as a slight to Bioshock at all, just a testament to just how much anticipation there is for Halo 3.

1Up’s latest piece on Halo 3 covers the “Bungie Recommends” feature that will take game variants and Forge map variants from individual player shares and suggest them to the community at large. That’ll be how custom community-made gametypes, like Halo 2’s honor-rules zombie, or dawn of the dead variants, will spread in Halo 3. They’ve also continued their Halo 2 retrospective up through the Arbiter levels. You can see all 1Up’s Halo 3 coverage on their Halo 3 mini-site.

Laird is selling a really cool 360 faceplate with autographs from tons of folks from RvB and Bungie on it. All proceeds go to the Child’s Play charity, which helps kids in hospitals out with some game systems to pass the time. Check it out!

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TheBest32 writes that the transcription of the piece Earth City from Halo 2 that we was arranging for two pianos will be a little later than he expected— but still out before Halo 3. I’m guessing most things that don’t get done before Halo 3 won’t end up getting done until a good while after Halo 3. At least 15 hours later, anyway.

TotalVideoGames has put up a short preview of Halo 3 based on the showing of Tsavo Highway at Leipzig this year. Like a lot of similar previews, they’re calling the graphics “improved” since the Beta, probably not realizing that campaign was more detailed than multiplayer all along– and has been since Halo 1.