Xbox 360 in Europe

I'm off to X05 (Microsoft's Xbox 360 event) tomorrow and will be blogging from the show - assuming there is a net connection in the auditorium. Otherwise it will be a sober post or two from the hotel. EA have already announced that their 360 launch line-up of FIFA, Tiger Woods, Need for Speed and the rest, will be playable at the event. This is nice, especially if the players in 360 FIFA look a little less like zombies than their PS2/Xbox counterparts. More interesting will be the presentation itself. At E3 Microsoft hilariously bussed in a team of aspiring actors to whoop and holler at every announcement. Hopefully for their sake they've taken the more reserved European audience into account for X05 - a typical Euro press conference consists of silence, followed by a question about the release date from a French journalist and a query about pixels from Dietar at Xboxesjoy.de - and have ditched the groupies. The fun starts tomorrow evening.