Some guys screwing around with the Halo 3 beta managed to find their way into a custom game and created a little match of Escort that included the pistol as a selectable weapon.

In Escort one player is the VIP and he has to travel to different points on the map to score points. Sounds interesting, though I'm starting to think that Halo 3 is going to make me yearn for a warhawk or smoke and teleporting. Brian Crecente

Simon over at GameSetWatch writes about a nasty little rumor that has been making the rounds since before E3. Word had it that Hudson Entertainment was offering attractive woman as "personal assistants" to the editors of top gaming publications.

I heard about it from another site's editor a week before the show when we were talking about the whole free Caddy offer that I wrote about back then.

According to GSW (which gets its info from Brandon over at Insert Credit), the Hudson rumors are true, though not as nefarious as they sound. Simon describes the whole thing as "an odd E3-related cultural semi-accident from the Japanese headquartered Hudson Entertainment."

What I really want to know is which editors took Hudson up on their offer. That and which editors were driving brand new Caddys two weeks ago. —Brian Crecente

Hudson's E3 Helpers Lost in Translation [GSW]