Well, I’ve spent most of today with it. I have actually been outside into that big place without walls that has clouds on its ceiling, but that was only for an hour or so. Nowhere had a Play & Charge Kit. Woolies thought they did, but after ten minutes searching, realised they didn’t. At least they looked for me. Nice people. Game were completely out of virtually everything 360-related, only seeming to have a random selection of a few games and wireless controllers & networking adapters left in stock. Oh, and the big remote controls. HMV and Smiths had some games, but no accessories at all, as far as I can see. I didn’t get as far as MVC and Gamestation is inside a Blockbusters, so doesn’t open until ten or so, which was after I was in town.

So, enough about what’s lacking out in the world, what have I done here?

Well, I’ve played a lot of PGR3. I’ve taken some photos from some races I saved replays of last night. I’ve played one of my friends. I’ve done a huge chunk of the solo career. And I’ve done quite a few online races. Apparently, 25% of the people who’ve voted for me in the gamer rep thing have given me bad marks. For being ‘unsporting’, apparently. I’m assuming four people have rated me, one of whom was someone I slammed into in a PGR3 race. I normally apologise unless it’s just a part of the rough and tumble. Ah well, never mind. I’ve got up to league nine today, which means I’m only 1345674358th in the world. Or thereabouts.

What else? Um, quite a lot of Mutant Storm Reloaded. It’s excellent. And I’m the best person on friends list at it. (Probably won’t be once at least one of my friends actually plays it, so I’ll take my glory while I can.) I really like the fact that if you go to a game’s page in the Live Arcade section of the dashboard it downloads your friends’ scores so you can see how you compare without launching the game.

I’ve played a bit of Joust, too. I’ve been trying to beat my friend Ade’s score, but can’t. I’ve got within 2,500 in one very flukey game, but haven’t got close since.

I played the Need for Speed: Most Wanted demo and it could have been a return to the glory days of Hot Pursuit 2 (yes, EA does make a decent game every few years or so) but the frame rate was just awful, so it’s going in the bin.

I’ve rippped a few CDs to the hard drive, so they’re there if I need them. Whatever database the 360 is looking at is a bit rubbish, because it didn’t recognise the Dangerdoom CD or the last three tracks on Ghetto Pop Life. So I didn’t rip them, as there’s no way I’m using the 360′s nasty text entry system to enter titles, artists, albums and genre info. It’s bad enough writing messages to friends. When I’m feeling extra lazy I just send a voice message instead.

Right now, as I type this, I’m playing The Auteurs off my iPod on the 360 while Neon makes pretty pictures appear on my TV. Good stuff. The iPod support is a bit rubbish during a game, but it works well in the main dashboard. I just wish I could work out how to turn off Shuffle. I normally want it to shuffle stuff, but not every single time I play something. Oh, and it sees the iPod Photo as a device that could contain photos, but doesn’t find them. Never mind.

Still haven’t tried any of the other games I ordered. PGR3 is so good that I haven’t felt the need. When I do get a little bit tired of it, I just play Mutant Storm Reloaded for a while. Still should test them sometime soon.