This morning I get on my Xbox, okay? It took a little extra time to boot up. Not enough time to where I got worried, but enough to where I noticed it. It says something like "An update is available for your console from XBox LIVE. If you decline this update you will be signed out of XBox LIVE."

So I thought, okay.... Why not?

It takes about five minutes or so and when it's done, I was signed out. I simply sign back in and look around my dashboard. Everything seemed to be the same. Then at the spotlight they showed something called "Games on Demand" and it said I could buy full 360 games on my console.

Here's what I liked about that: They don't cost Microsoft Points. They just cost real money with tax. Not much of a difference, but I still liked it better.

And I scrolled over a bit more to find that there is now the Avatar Marketplace. I had forgotten about them announcing that until today.

And it is better than I thought.

I knew there'd be props from games, plus regular items.

But I found Carmine helmets, COG gear, skateboards, character clothes from Fable II, Marine (Halo 3) armor, (although disapointingly no Master Chief stuff yet).

It's pretty cool. Although of course it will cost Microsoft Points, but it's not too expensive.

It's worth a look at.