With all the grumbling about XBox 360 glitches and hardware problems, this review over on G-pinions of the interface and user experience is what I was afraid was being drowned out but is what I’ve been most hoping to see. From the piece:

The whole setup sounded like a gimmicky moneymaker when they first started talking about it – and it is – but it’s so great because everyone wins. I get the best purely arcade experiences I’ve had in a decade, relatively inexpensively, Microsoft gets to make some of their hardware losses back, and independent developers get to share their efforts with the world without the hassles of traditional distribution (and hopefully get a small piece of the pie and be able to make more games).

It’s only one commentary so far, but hopefully there will be more. This one does enthusiatically discuss “Achievements” (the XBox 360 built-in reputation system), but I really want to read more about the Live Marketplace.

via Wonderland