quote Vito Raliffe

Xbox Live Community Games is as exactly as it sounds, games created by the community for release on Xbox Live. Using a creator identity (much like gamertags), anybody can submit in their created games. After creating the game and writing a description for it, the game is submitted for Peer Review, to make sure no copyrights have been violated and to make sure it is appropriate for release. After a game has been approved, it is released to the Xbox Live community for download. Those who create good games will have their reputation increased by fellow gamers, probably similar to the system that is already in place for online gaming. As of this moment, a few of the games have trial demos up on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Games will hopefully be free, but nothing is confirmed as of now.

That is so super-duper sexy-licios.

Good idea though

Wow... sounds like a good idea to me. How do you create games, though?

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Xbox LIVE "Community Games" is a new offering from Xbox LIVE® that gives you an opportunity to share, peer review, download, and play games created by the community, for the community. Starting with the beta launch of the service later this spring, members of the XNA Creators Club will be able to submit their own game creations for self-publishing to Xbox LIVE Marketplace via the XNA Creators Club creators.xna.com website.

A community of their peers will be given a chance to download, play, and review the game and its content for appropriateness and conformance to the service's Terms of Service. Should it pass, the game will then get added to the global games catalog on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and available to gamers worldwide connected to Xbox LIVE.
You Can Be a Developer

All it takes for anyone to develop games for Community Games is to obtain the XNA Game Studio 2.0 toolset free from creators.xna.com and join the XNA Creators Club ($49 for 4 months or $99 for 12 months).

Individuals of all skill levels can participate in the making of a game for Community Games, as many games are created by teams where different members bring different skills and strengths such as game design, production, 2-D or 3-D art creation, sound effects, and of course game programming. We have received many heartwarming stories from our community members who have tried unsuccessfully in the past to create video games and yet were immediately successful in completing their games using the easy-to-use XNA Game Studio tools.