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• HBO's Louis Wu has collected up news articles and reviews and posted them, excepting the oft-repeated figure of $125M in sales on the first day.
• Joyride has pictures up of the Drone action figure, expected in January 2005. A company that does work for Joyride leaked the original image of the drone. Thanks HBO.
• The Xbox 2, according to The Inquirer, is rumored come in three flavors; a cheap version without a hard drive, a standard edition, and a media center PC edition. The first two are expected out next fall, the last in the fall of 2006. Penny Arcade today has Tycho's commentary on that rumor as does the comic, while Eurogamer has more details on the Xbox 2's ATI graphics chipset.
• Rapture at cooked gamers likens the unlockable multiplayer level, Foundation, to the return of Thunderdome from Marathon 2.

Read them in good health.