Well I installed the NXE update this afternoon. I must say, the Avatar creation is pretty much a carbon copy of the Mii stuff on the Wii. Even the sound effects are exactly like the ones when creating a Mii. At least Avatars have actual limbs, and the clothing is better.
    The NXE dashboard itself totally butchered the theme I had, too. For a while, I had a cool picture of a New York that I loaded off a flash drive as my background. It was still there, but it was mostly blocked by the menus and the giant gray sphere at the bottom. I switched over to the Xbox theme "Spectrum" and that looks OK, for now. I'll see what other themes come out that accommodate the NXE's new looks.
    I like the look of the in-game guide more. I like it more coming from the middle rather than a blade extending from the side.
    I haven't installed any games yet. I probably won't, since I only have the 20GB hard drive. If I get the 120GB HDD sometime down the line, I'll probably go for some installls.

I went to the Gears of War 2 midnight launch on Thursday night (into Friday morning of course) at my local mall GameStop. There was an okay amount of people but not really huge. A Best Buy nearby was also selling the game at midnight so I assume people were there too. Basically I waited around for a while, got in line, got the game that I had reserved (standard edition,) went home, and played it for about 2 hours. Yup.

Either 360 or PC, probably 360 if I decide to get it at all.

Hard to answer this question since I don't own a PS3. But I'm not sure if I would. I feel more like focusing on my Xbox Gamerscore since I've already gotten a big head start on it. If I only owned a PS3 though, I would consider starting a trophy collection.

Everything...the articles, the forums, the videos, the bombcasts...it's my new favorite site.