A beautifully put together video – created from 1000 replays of the PC game Trackmania.

Embedded movie (youtube – low quality):

Higher Quality movie: Link to video hosted on GameTrailers.com

I should be able to get the GameTrailers.com movie embedded but it doesn’t work, grr!
If you want the high quality version just click on the link about.

Even if you don’t like games, the video is quite beautiful – it’s reminiscent of a pop video or adverts. The mass of cars is in some ways liek a flock or insects or a stream of sand grains, there are so many. Worth a couple of minutes of your time, anyway

Don’t forget to vote in this year’s Golden Joystick awards…

Also, I have to say that I’m loving the Xbox 360 Dashboard update – finally I can download games & demos in the background whilst I play Burnout Revenge and listen to tracks from my iPod.

Truly, I’m living the deam

According to the Best Ads on TV website.
There are some other brilliant ads in the top 50 so it’s great to see the Black TV spot up there. Personally I really enjoyed the ad but then I do love classical music and things exploding – a combination of the two was bound to appeal.

Sorry – I couldn’t resist.

It does look good though. I can see myself buying one on launch day to replace my Gamecube, especially if there’s a Zelda game…

Ok, we’re not talking The Last Starfighter yet… but apparently the remotely operated guns popular with the US Army are best used by gamers who have the training in shooting stuff onscreen.

It all sounds rather crazy and I certainly wouldn’t want to be a civilian around one of those things… crikey.

In other news, Katamari Damacy is finally out in the UK – GO BUY IT RIGHT NOW! GO!!

It includes all important English translations of the bonkers "King of all the Cosmos" and a beautifully illustrated manual.

Most importantly, though, is the simple joy of rolling up stuff.

The music is also utterly, utterly bonkers.

Ka-ta-ma-riiiii Da-ma-shee-eeey!

Sadly I have to limit my exposure to about an hour or I get slightly overexcited and have to lie down