Today in Joystiq: October 12, 2005

Today, Joystiq's own James Ransom-Wiley braved the Xbox 360, and came back with pages of detailed impressions to show for it. Nintendogs sells well in Europe, and Advent Children does phenomenally in Japan. Here are the highlights for today:

• Nintendo's current status

• Joystiq hands-on: Xbox 360—the games

• 360 backwards-compatible list on Xbox.com next week

• Nintendogs sales figures; 160,000 copies across Europe

• PS3 festival set for Tokyo Oct. 22-30

• Sony online announcement set for 360 launch?

• Joystiq hands-on: Xbox 360

• My My Katamari giving away the Prince of all Cosmos' head

• Joystiq hands-on: Xbox 360—Live Arcade

• Advent Children sells 700,000 UMD's, DVD's

• DDR at the gym: Konami and fitness center team up

• Video iPod and iTunes 6 to compete with PSP's UMD?

• Joystiq hands-on: Perfect Dark Zero

• PSP as a learning aid (aka Personal Studying Peripheral)