The first of two bits of coolness to report from the Microsoft Casual Games office today: if you've ever thought about developing a casual game for MSN Games, Windows Live Messenger, or Xbox Live Arcade (yes, there should probably be a whole bunch of little trademark and copyright notices in there, but I'm too lazy to figure out where they all go, so please just pretend), we now have a website specifically for you: http://www.microsoftcasualgames.com/

To start, we've posted a few handy resource documents, a list of upcoming developer events, fact sheets for our platforms, and more.  We'll be updating the site periodically, so if there's anything that you as a developer think would be particuarly useful to find there, please let us know!

Also, in completely non-Casual-Games-related news, since I just can't resist saying it: Crackdown = luv.  <3  <3  <3  Oh, yeah.  Luv.