I came accross this over at 1up.com. Apparently Pacman and other videogame characters are inspiring Spore creature makers.

Spore, the next and arguably most ambitious project from Sims mastermind Will Wright, has a sneak preview of sorts with the recently-released Spore Creature Creator. Although only one piece of the total Spore experience, players have quickly taken to creating their own cuddly creatures, creepy crawlies, and abominations. Aside from penisaurs, the first thought to a lot of gamers was to pay homage to their favorite games and franchises with their creations.

Epic Games has released its first round of user-created content for the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3.

The multiplayer map called DM-Shrine, created by Nottingham, England, resident Thomas Browett (aka Setheran) can be downloaded onto a PC, copied onto a PS3-readable memory device and uploaded to your system.

The map was originally created for the PC version of the game and "cooked" by Epic for the PS3. According to Epic president Mark Rein, who posted the announcement on the Epic forums last night, the company hasn't edited the content but simply reformatted the code to run on the console.

"We're waiting on some paperwork from Sony that will allow us to release an editor update so mod creators can do this cook process for themselves," Rein said. "We expect to have that very soon."

According to Rein's post, here are the steps needed to transfer and play the new user-created content:

Once imported you'll be able to see the map in your list of Deathmatch maps. You'll be able to host the map and join servers that are hosting the map. All UT3 mods install this same way. If this were a mutator it would show up in the mutator list. If it were a gametype it would show up in gametype lists, etc.

Today, Epic announced three more maps and a mutator: DM-Elevation by Warby, VCTF-Slax by Kantham, DM-Krodan by Hourences, and VASUT3AutoShields (mutator) by KalCorp.