Apparently I’ve been allowed to use my Avatar in public communication (although I can’t talk about NXE any more than has been publically disclosed, so track your vision balls to the left.  I can however point you at some reviews other people have done that I agree with, in lieu of opinions of my very own.

Yay for unauthorized video footage of teaser trailers.  See below. [via Steve Gaynor]

Woot.  Although I prefer its alchemy wielding and unpopular little brother, Secret of Evermore, a SoM re-release is definitely a plus.  With Chrono Trigger coming out on the DS next month, and Super Mario RPG’s release a couple of weeks ago, if they get SoE in, that would pretty much round out re-releases of SNES era Square RPGs.

One can still point to a major gap in the lineup though.  Hopefully that will be fixed soon.

Ernest Adams’ excellent annual paper has been posted on Gamasutra.  Just saying.

(Can you see I’m experiencing Writer’s Block?)

Via Major Nelson:

John Schappert, Corporate Vice President of Xbox LIVE, Services and Software, announced today during his Tokyo Game Show keynote that the New Xbox Experience will ship to Xbox 360’s around the world (in 26 countries, localized in 11 languages) on November 19th 2008.

I just tried out Netflix last night, and all I can say is that my god, there is something truely beautiful about streaming nearly any TV Show I’ve missed (Starting with second season of 30 Rock) from the last couple of years onto my 46″ Plasma seamlessly through my 360.  It brings tears to my eyes.