Xbox Game Room

Retro titles, avatars on PC and 360
Text: Bengt Lemne
Published 2010-01-08

Microsoft announced a new service called Xbox Game Room at CES. The service will allow players to download retro titles and play them in a virtual game room that you navigate with your avatar. Titles will be priced at 240 points (400 points if you want to play them on both PC and Xbox 360), and you can also opt to buy a credit (old school style) for 40 points.

The first 30 titles ready at launch are:

Adventure
Armor Battle
Asteroids Deluxe
Astrosmash
Battlantis
Centipede
Combat
Crystal Castles
Finalizer
Football
Gravitar
Jungler
Lunar Lander
Millipede
Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing
Outlaw
Pitfall
RealSports Tennis
Red Baron
Road Fighter
Scramble
Sea Battle
Shao-Lin's Road
Space Armada
Space Hawk
Star Raiders
Sub Hunt
Super Cobra
Tempest
Tutankham
Yars' Revenge

The service will launch with 30 titles this spring with the ambition of having 1000 titles in three years.

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