The next XBox will be revealed May 12 on MTV. Good for them -- I'm sure this will be a mostly information-free event ("new giga-X processing makes games 300% more extreme!"), but it's never made sense that new consoles are revealed at trade shows to hordes of slavering adult geeks. When you'll actually be able to buy one of these remains a mystery (Christmas seems like a good guess), but at least we'll have plenty of advance opportunity to dismantle our social and romantic lives to make way for all those additional gigapixels.

In related news, MS has also announced that new titles for the original XBox will be arriving through 2007. Sounds to me like a "no" vote on the new console being backward-compatible, but what do I know? Some people think it means exactly the opposite.