ColorWare lets you tweak the color of the Xbox 360 S to your liking. Everything from the bottom accent to the disc tray can be colored in a variety of ways. Giving your Xbox 360 a new paint job isn’t a cheap process. You can either send in your Xbox 360 and get it painted for $175 or spend $500 on a brand new custom Xbox 360.

Microsoft is thinking of ways to implement avatars into our normal everyday stuff outside of Xbox Live. It’s latest effort, called Free Your Avatar, is available right now from Xbox.com and helps to show off your avatar all over the web.

This new service lets you take your avatar (or select one if you haven’t created an avatar) and place it into greeting cards, wallpaper and screensavers. The whole process is very user friendly and…

Gaia Online just announced the release of celebrity-inspired items for Gaia users. This week’s items now allow registrants the opportunity to dress up their avatars as Snoop Dogg or The Incredible Hulk with hairstyles, purple pants, green fists and more. This marks the first time fully licensed celebrity-branded virtual items have been sold in the virtual world.

In a partnership with virtual goods sales and distribution system Virtual Greats LLC, Gaia Online will allow users to collect or “snare” quality celebrity items each month to create…