Been playing this new game we bought last Thursday. Burnout Paradise is one of the coolest games I've played in a long time. I actually paid money for this one, and it's wicked cool. The basic premise is that you're controlling some raving lunatic car which speeds through the streets of Paradise City. As you compete in races, you upgrade your license and gain more cars in you 'Digital Junkyard'.
It's for the Xbox 360... which has become much cooler since I've hooked my computer up to it to watch movies and other media that I can stream off my computer downstairs. Izzy and I have been having a great time playing the new game, and watching movies on the system. We've (ok, I've) used the Xbox 360 more in the last week than I have in the last year.
If you're on Xbox live, my id is Benjammin47, feel free to give me a shout (and a race).