Ah, the holidays!

Thanksgiving is soon upon us, and with it, the most beautiful day of the (shopping) year: Black Friday. Over the last few weeks, information has trickled out about retailers' various offerings. This comes from the listing of Best Buy's ad, just released on Black-Friday.net:

	Left 4 Dead 2 (PS3)	$34.99 *
	Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360)	$34.99 *

This caught my eye, as I was unaware there was a PS3 version of Left 4 Dead 2. The original released only on Xbox 360 and PC. Developer Valve has a history of not making games for PS3. So color me curious about this listing.

Going to the official website confirmed my suspicion: L4D2 is not releasing on PS3. Additionally, looking at the actual ad scan shows this:


While the image is low quality due to the original scan, it clearly says, "Only available on XBOX 360." Somebody just forgot to do their homework.

Also of note in the listing:

	Call of Juarex (PS3)	$19.99
	Call of Juarez (Xbox 360)	$19.99

and

I Know Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (DVD)

$3.99

D'OH!

Source: http://www.black-friday.net/bf/bestbuy-black-friday.html

Prototype

From a Joystiq early hands-on of Prototype, a great game that I'm playing through right now, comes this post:

The meter yellow when everything's normal, but it will fill up and turn red if you do anything suspicious, like running up the side of a building or consuming someone entirely.

Looks like they forgot a verb again, eh?

Also, a slight factual error:

In Prototype, you're the extremely powerful (and scary) Alex Mercer who can take out tanks and helicopters with a couple of punches before you flash back to the start of the game where you wake up with minimal powers, 18 hours earlier.

In fact, the flashback portion is 18 days earlier, though this could have changed since the review was done.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/22/joystiq-hands-on-two-hours-with-prototype/

As football season approaches, so begins the commentary and speculation on the upcoming season. The OU Daily, local campus paper is already talking about possible Heisman candidates:

So, will this year be any different? Will we have the second player in history to win the Heisman, or will a new player hoist the trophy in December?

Again, we have a perfectly fine sentence, aside from the fact that it is completely inaccurate! There have been numerous winners of the trophy already. What they meant was "second player to win the Heisman twice." Huge difference there.

Source: http://oudaily.com/news/2009/jul/09/tradition-could-give-heisman-mccoy/

Sometimes, rather than some "simple" grammar mistake, blog posts are just wrong. Take, for example this Kotaku post about the upcoming Champions Online open beta:

The open beta will commence next Monday, August 17, and will run 24/7 until it closes.

The only problem with that statement is that next Monday isn't August 17th. By my watch, today is July 9th, so August 17th is more than a month away. Check your facts, people!

Source: http://kotaku.com/5310519/champions-online-open-beta-kicks-off-next-month

Update: The article has been corrected to remove the "next Monday" descriptor.