Argh. Microsoft has confirmed what European gamers feared to be true all along. The Xbox 360 will be released in Europe after it's released in the US. OK, it's only 10 days later (that's 2 December here versus the Thanksgiving-friendly 22 November stateside according to Kotaku and the BBC), but it's the principle of the thing.

Sigh. I think the UK needs some kind of post-summer/pre-Christmas excuse for retailers to get interested. Guy Fawkes doesn't appear to be capturing their imaginations.