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It’s happened to at least once to every gamer: you throw down your controller (keyboard, joystick, gun, whatever) and exclaim, “I could make a better game than this!”

Well now Microsoft, via its XBox 360 console, is giving gamers a chance to put up or shut up.

So you use the available XNA tools that have been around for a bit, you pay a Creators Club membership, develop the game, offer it up for peer review online, and if it passes muster, you get a cut of the profits.

The user-created Community Games, as they are called, will be sold for $2.50 – $10.