NYKO is known for building some of the coolest gaming accessories out there.  We saw a whole ton of them at CES 2007 in Las Vegas this year.  Though, to be completely honest, I really wasn’t all that excited about this one. The idea of printing my own faceplate didn’t strike me as being something I would be all that interested in. Although the finished product was far from production quality (my HP inkjet is about a decade old), creating a faceplate with my favourite booth babes was surprisingly fun!

All that and a bag of chips! (chips not included)

The Gameface faceplate creation program (Mac and PC versions included) consists of a template, in the shape of the 360 faceplate, and an elementary layering system. By adding layers of pictures to the template, you create your faceplate. The tools allow you to change the scale (in percentage), the contrast, the brightness, and to rotate. There are also some common editing features such as invert, sepia, gray scale, blur, flip horizontal, flip vertical, and transparent white. You basically just drag the pictures to your desired position.

It might be ugly, but it's mine!

The software lacks the ability to do much more than put different pictures into a collage. Ideally one would use photo editing software to fancy up the pictures first, and then apply it to the gameface layer editor. This can be done by editing the collage in a 300X870 format and then applying the finished product as a single layer. The editor unfortunately does not allow you to select between different layers; once you add a new one, the old one is stuck.