When PSO (Phantasy Star Online) came out for the DC (Dreamcast) I was in heaven.

Ubisoft, one of the worlds leading game publishers, announced today that they would be collaborating with Six time X Games gold medallist and snowboarding half-pipe gold medallist at this years Winter Olympics (the one on TV!), Shaun White, to develop a new range of snowboarding titles for current-gen and next-gen consoles.White will work alongside Ubisoft to recreate the thrill and excitement from snowboarding.Shaun says:"I'm stoked to be working with Ubisoft to develop a video game that captures the thrill of snowboarding like no game has done before, I'm a huge fan of Ubisoft games like Prince of Persia, so I'm excited to be able to combine what I love about snowboarding and gaming into an experience for everyone to enjoy."Shaun White is just 19 years old and is one of the world’s greatest snowboarding sensations. He is the only snowboarder ever to win gold in both the half-pipe and slopestyle at the Winter X Games. To win the recent 2006 Winter Olympics, Shaun pulled off back-to-back 1,080-degree rotations grabbing his board on both. (wow!).Shaun White and Ubisoft's first snowboarding collaboration is due to hit the shelves sometime in 2007.

Yesterday saw not only the release of the belated King Kong demo on the Xbox Live Marketplace but also some additional theme, game content and picture packs.Arcade titles Hexic HD and Bejeweled 2 now have theme packs available to download.Close to its release, Fight Night Round 3 has had both picture packs and themes released for download in the Market Place.Finally recently released Arcade title Crystal Quest has its own Marketplace content released for it in the form of Graphics packs that ‘skin’ the original games content as well as Sound packs to replace the stock sounds within the game.All of these new Marketplace items come to you at a cost ranging from 50 to 160 MPs.