Squid of Man

Say what you will about Microsoft and their plans for interstellar domination (in particular, J Allard’s vision of a utopian, agrarian community of the stars), they’re starting to get the hang of this video game lark.

Case in point: X06 has been surprisingly awesome.

It’s been so long since we had such a deluge of genuine, real product to get excited about I’d nearly forgotten the feeling. That giddy, child-like rush of seeing actual games that are actually running, on a machine that is available at retail, and that will be released in the foreseeable future.

After Nintendo’s prick-teasing and Sony’s blatant lies, feasting on a smorgasbord of real produce is a breath of fresh air.

The only dampener is that Microsoft have fucked us over again. The HD-DVD drive is launching in Japan, Europe and the US in November, while we have to wait until 2007. Ah well.