Anyone wondering where the hell Sensible World of Soccer has gotten to won’t find much comfort in the fact that Codemasters are remaining pretty quiet about the whole thing. In more disappointing Xbox Live Arcade news, Speedball 2 has also suffered a delay.

Eurogamer could draw very little out of Codemasters about SWOS; they simply said that it would be on the Arcade before Christmas. If it wasn’t, there would probably be an uproar, so this news isn’t very comforting at all. It’s unclear what has happened to the game, as it was meant to be coming in August for 800 Points. One can only guess that a bug was found, and it’s proven a tad difficult to iron out.

As for Speedball 2, it too has been pushed back, all the way to mid-October. This was also expected in August, but Eurogamer again got word about the delay straight from the developers. Another game priced for 800 MS Points that was expected in August but delayed; what a coincidence.

Sadly, that damn virtue that we all seem to have, “Patience”, will have to be brought in to play if we are to ever cope with such delays. Good job there’s a huge amount of high quality retail games coming soon!