My supposedly-fixed 360 has been red-ringed for three days now, so it’s time to finally put it to rest. The service web site wouldn’t let me start a new repair request, since it still seems to be stuck on the ‘returning to customer’ phase of the last repair, so I had to call this one in. Fortunately I didn’t get one of the Indian call centres, so it went fairly smoothly.

They offered one of four different games as compensation for having to do a second repair, but…I actually already have all of them (PGR3, Kameo, Viva Pinata, and an XBLA compilation). Oh well, maybe I can give away a second copy of VP.

And unfortunately this is horrible timing as the holidays approach, as it means I’ll miss the launches of a huge number of games I’m interested in: Guitar Hero 3, Ace Combat 6, Beautiful Katamari, Call of Duty 4, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, The Simpsons Game, and potentially Assassin’s Creed. But if I’m lucky, it’ll be just in time for Mass Effect…