As the first patch goes into Playtest, the reviews are still showing to be very positive.

Here's one from Abstract360:

http://abstract360.com/2009/12/rate-my-avatar-review/

So, as you may have noticed we got spammed to hell and back over the holiday. I have deleted all the spam, and the majority of accounts that were created. I have also changed the permissions a little. This means that if you want to post stuff, you need to drop me an email first telling me your username so I can add you to the "trusted users" group. If you don't know my email, it's er00 at this domain (given the sheer volume of spam that ended up on this page, I'd rather not leave my address up here right now ;) ).

After much hard work, it's finally out, and the Rating Party is going on - your invite is available right HERE

WARWICKSHIRE Dec 10 - ProjectorGames, the respected UK independent games developer, today announced the launch of Rate My Avatar for Xbox Live Indie games. Rate My Avatar is a unique application that enables players to share their avatars with other users from around the world, and to rate one another in an attempt to become one of the top rated avatars on the Xbox Live service. The application is available now for 80 Microsoft Points (U.S $1).

GameCity starts up in less than 24 hours from now, and they're hard at work setting up.

All the fun and games should unfold here over the next 6 days:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gamecityfestival/

Starting pressing that F5 button, people.

http://XNplay.co.uk finally overcame their broken Xbox and found time to review BitStream.

"superior audiovisuals"
"a nice game, with catchy sounds and visual effects and a lineup of multi-player modes"

Best bit has to be from the comments, though:

I really like a lot of things about this game, namely:
-presentation
-graphics
-music
-controls
-game mechanics

http://www.xnplay.co.uk/2009/10/16/bitstream/

So, we finally gave in and got a twitter account. If you look to your right you should be able to see it, we'll keep you posted of anything exciting that's happening, so watch this space!

A patch fixing the issues with tournament savings has now been released!

Get it now by running it on your Xbox, or pick it up here!