CES10: Microsoft Confirms “Game Room” for Xbox 360 AND Games for Windows LIVE This Spring — 1,000 Retro Titles In Pipeline

Following a widely publicized leak earlier this evening, Microsoft tonight confirmed that they will launch “Game Room” — a new service featuring fully-functional virtual arcade machines — this Spring on both Xbox LIVE and their PC-based Games for Windows LIVE service.

Developed by Krome Studios, the service will allow players to to create and customize their own virtual arcades by purchasing authentic arcade cabinets and decorations, and invite friends (and their Xbox LIVE Avatars) to compete for high scores.

1up.com reports that users can expect to pay between 240-400 Microsoft Points ($3-5) per arcade cabinet, or 40 MS Points (50 cents) for a single play, akin to dropping in a pair of quarters into the machine — the latter option a raw deal for gamers used to getting free demos on Xbox LIVE. Giant Bomb adds that all titles will have online leaderboards and Xbox LIVE Achievements to boot.

30 titles will accompany the launch, including classics from Atari, Intellivision and Konami, with weekly releases thereafter; a Microsoft press release boasts that  “over 1,000″ titles will hit the service over the next three years. See what it looks like in the launch trailer, below:

[Source: Microsoft, Joystiq, 1up, Giant Bomb]

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  • DavidGX

    So a bunch of games far too old to even be worth $3 – $5 in a “home” ripoff setting. Wonderful.

    If this “game room” has ads in it I'm packing up the 360 and all it's games and taking them right to gamestop.

  • Nathan

    David Gx has got a point what a rip of PSN home why can't microsoft think of anything them self even ''project natal'' is a ripoff of game's console the Wii its like there saying they are making project natal to be like using the controller but not but if we wanted a Wii we would get one