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An industry veteran, Louis Castle has been around the gaming scene for 25 years. As one of the founders of Westwood studios (the company responsible for Dune and Command and Conquer) and the former CEO of EA's Los Angeles branch (which developed the Medal of Honor series and Lord of The Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth), and winner of the "Life Achievement Award" by the CGDA he certainly knows his way around the industry.

Tuesday night I'll be sitting down with this industry giant (and of course by "sitting down" I mean we'll be across the country from one another on our respective telephones) in order to grill him on InstantAction, where he is currently chief executive officer.

Touted as a cloud-based means of digital distribution, InstantAction looks to bring browser-based gaming to blockbuster titles. With the ability to "demo" any game that is available (you get to play the first 20 minutes for free), rent those same games at increments and prices set by the developer, and outright purchase the game and play it from any computer with an Internet connection,  it seems like a service that is setting its sights on services like Steam and OnLive.

If you haven't seen the service and what it's capable of, here it is in a nutshell: fully embedded games on any website. Whether it be a blog post, a review of the same game, or your facebook profile, a reader can have full access to both the demo and full retail version of the game you choose — once they purchase it themselves, of course.

Sound crazy? How about you play The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, right now, on Bitmob?

The Secret of Monkey Island:SE powered by InstantAction

While I have a slew of questions for Mr. Castle, what would an interview for a community-based site be without, well, community input? (psst, this is where you come in!)

If you have any questions or concerns about the company or its service, let me know in the comments section. I'll pick a few of the better ones and insert them into the interview (which will be up on this site hopefully soon after).

You only have until Monday night to think of an amazing question, so what are you waiting for? Get to it!