Microsoft’s Kinect has already been hacked for use in almost everything, from making 3D models of rooms to real-time lightsaber fun. Now Microsoft has announced that Kinect software and SDK will be available to their XNA developers, the smaller, indie devs which will certainly appreciate toying around with Kinect. For more on Kinect, read our Kinect review.

The long-awaited Xbox Community Games feature, a system that will allow amateur developers to create games for the Xbox 360, will come online with its own channel when the New Xbox Experience launches November 19.

This video interview with Kathleen Sanders from the XNA team on Major Nelson details the process through which aspiring designers can create and submit their games to Xbox Live.

"It’s crazy, the range of games [I've seen] … you’ve got Pong clones, you’ve got RTSs … it continually surprises me," she said. "Unlike Xbox Live Arcade games, when a creator creates a game, from the time that they submit it for peer review, to the time it appears on Xbox Live, is 48 hours.”

Xbox Live subscribers will be able to download and play these games, though none of them will be free.