Some PGR3 – I bought a Lotus Esprit! – but mostly I’ve been playing with Live Arcade, where you can download small games to play off the Xbox’s hard drive. Which is the best idea ever. Little bite-sized games you can dip into whenever you want? Brilliant! Not a new idea, granted, but still a good one.

Downloaded the demo of Joust, played a game and remembered how bad I am at it. I haven’t bought it yet – costs about £3.50 – but I might.

Downloaded the demo of Mutant Storm Reloaded, which is Robotron meets Asteroids meets [example of something psychedelic]. I played the first two levels and bought it straight away. (It asks you after each level if you want to buy the full version and I’m very weak. It’s ace! But starting from level one each time could get annoying.

Then I played Hexic HD, the full of version of which is pre-installed on the Xbox hard drive. it’s a very, very dull puzzle game. Well, in Marathon mode it is. Timed mode might be more exciting. (To be charitable, Marathon mode might be a good hangover game.)

Anyway, you can see what I’ve been up to by clicking my gamer picture on the right there. (‘There’ being on my blog page, if any RSS types are reading. Which I doubt, but you never know.)

But Microsoft really need to sort out the stability of the pop-up mini dashboard that you can bring up mid-game. Not only does it crash PGR3, as previously mentioned, but it also crashed when I looked at it while playing Hexic, thus losing my progress (but not my achievements).

But, hey, the great remote control means I can turn the console on and off without getting up.

I’ve left it downloading Kameo while I watch some TV. I’m not sure how to turn the wireless controller off when the console is on but not being used. I’ll hope it has some sort of non-use sleep timer thing. And I’ll hunt round town tomorrow for a Play & Charge Kit.