User created Content

For years now the PC gaming industry has enjoyed a rich and thriving User created content.
The first that comes to mind I think to all of us is Counter strike. Probably, the biggest online game bigger then WOW.
What consoles like the 360, Wii and the ps3 should do is support this group give them some incentive's. A healthy home brew community for consoles can mean a whole new market.
Look at XBMC one of the greatest maybe the greatest home brew out there. In addition, the best media player out there retail or non retail.
Here is a great interview with Valve Software marketing director Doug Lombardi.

Halo 3 Beta -Crackdown Deal

The first way to get into the Halo 3 beta was to join a sweep stake.
Well, purchasing "specially marked" copies of the MS-published, Real Time Worlds' developed Crackdown in February will be the second way to get a piece of the Halo 3 beta pie.Though to play the beta you're paying $60 to participate in doesn't seem very public. How many copies of Crackdown can Halo 3 sell?

The xbox is back !!!!!

After months of reading about xbmc (xbox media center), I finnally decided to take the dive and I am still swimming in the wonderful world of possibly the most amazing piece of software ever created. Take a 50 to 100 dollar x box, pop in a 20 dollar mod chip, and a ether net cross over cable and in about a half an hour you have a 300 dollar media center that can play virtually every music and video file known to man and almost any video game emulator out there from the Atari to the n64. And allot more which I have yet to discover. Did I mention that xbmc is free. Do not be a fool like me and wait almost a year to get it, go right now you do not know what you are missing!
I will be posting constantly on the xbmc topic and informing you about this amazing software. GO GET IT NOW!!!!