As I mentioned earlier today the Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows XP and Windows Vista is available in Norway as of today. This 199,- NOK (29.99$) device lets you connect up to four Xbox 360 wireless controllers and a racing wheel to your PC wirelessly. It's basically a small USB dongle, like the once you're used to from your wireless mouse/keyboard.

The device ships with XP drivers on the CD, but my fellow RD Scott Hanselman has Vista installation all covered in his blog.

Installation and connecting the devices was a walk in the park. To test the controllers out I installed PJ64 Nintendo 64 emulator on the Media Center computer. The emulator runs at approx 45 frames per second, which is good. I didn't get it to run in full screen, so any tip on this is appreciated. I think this is a general problem with "old" DirectX/OpenGL apps on Vista. Configuring the controllers was no problem, since they show up as "standard" game controllers in Windows. I've uploaded my controller configuration scheme, so if you have a 360 controller and PJ64 you can grab my config.

For any PC gamer this device is a great value add, specially since the "Games for Windows" branding requires gamepad support in their games (as well as some other stuff like a Vista Performance Index requirement, and launch from Media Center).