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I recently asked whether anyone was making substantial money creating & selling games for Xbox through the “app store” called Community Games on Xbox Live Marketplace.

There is such a thing as an awkward question! Well, here’s an awkward answer.

According to XNA Creators Club FAQ, revenue for November & December 2008 is rolled into the first full quarter, January through March 2009. And payment comes after that. So no checks yet.

But how about a prediction? According to MTV:

Microsoft told MTV Multiplayer they are currently working on making sales data available to developers. “All Community Games developers will be able to access sales and download numbers through the [XNA Creators Club] Web site by March,” said a company spokesperson in an e-mailed statement this morning.

Well, I look forward to hearing about people paying the bills by building Xbox games in March then!

My son loves RC-AirSim, for sure.

(He loves it more than my Yet-To-Be-Released Ankylosaurus + Price Is Right mashup, but only a little bit, so maybe there’s room for dinosaur gameshows on the best-sellers list. Then again, this is the 2-year-old segment we’re talking about. What I want to know is: where is Baby Smash 360?)

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No.1 wouldn’t read discs anymore, and starting putting serious scratches in them, after about a year. Good thing the vinyl being regrooved was the suck-a-licious Fusion Frenzy 2. Support gave me a new console.

No. 2 was fine for a year, now its ROL is RROD’ing fairly often. (ROTFLCOPTER BTW.) That’s supported under the 3-year warranty extension.

Support has done well by me so far. Let’s see what No. 3 is like.

So I’m running around the mall when my cell phone starts ringing. It’s Otis. I flip it open and realize I’ve just made a terrible mistake. A zombie’s here, and I’m in a hall, with one door. I jog to the door and barely catch a garbled “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?” from Otis before I face plant. One cannot talk on a cell phone and open doors at the same time.

The zombie takes note of my arm. He drools as he positions himself to gnaw on it. I’m committed to this call. I can’t even raise my other arm defend myself. I cower. The zombie bites. Because of some medical condition I can only release my precious phone once bitten by a zombie.

I say goodnight to the zombie with a 2×4 and throw my phone in the trash bin on the way out.

(I wish. I’ve had it with these motha-annoying phone calls on this motha-zombtastic video game.)