Sonic and the Secret Rings hit European stores today, and everyone here is pretty excited about it.

There’s a genuinely expectant mood about the place. Not just because it’s Friday and we’re expecting the weekend, and not just because we reckon we’ve launched one of the best Sonic games in recent memory (with a website to match). There’s more to it than that. Today we’re happy because Friday is launch day is Free Game Day!

Everyone gets a copy, see. It’s a perk. And, just to embarrass him, here’s a picture of Chris - our Systems Engineer - picking up his copy from Charlotte. Charlotte works in Operations, which is a detailed and difficult job involving distribution. We don’t know what a Systems Engineer is, but it’s technical and clever and Chris is a kung-fu black belt or something, so we tend not to get close enough to ask.

And, just because we’re in the mood for embarrassing people, check out this little video clip. Here we have a secret camera-phone recording of Mike, who makes games for us to put on the Web. Mike revealed to us all in this meeting that not only is he truly rubbish at his own games, he’s also good at discovering new bugs during presentations.

The game, for your info, will be appearing very soon on the Secret Rings website… just as soon as Mike fixes it.

Have a nice weekend.