Game Room itself will be a free download and you'll be able to customize your space with decorations, themes and animated icons. The part that will cost you money is with the arcade units you'll be buying to fill up the Game Room space. Game Room will work on either the PC or Xbox 360 and you can buy games so that you can play them on either platform at any time. You'll also have the choice of buying arcade games tied to one platform at a lower price. Or for 40 Microsoft Points ($0.50), you'll be able to play an arcade game until you die, just like a real arcade cabinet. Otherwise, purchasing an arcade title will run you from 240 to 400 Microsoft Points.
Each arcade title will have Achievements and universal leaderboards. Game Room is really about the social aspect, as it should be, and you'll be able to send challenges to your friends and visit your friend's Game Room where you can demo their games for free.
Game Room will be released this Spring for the PC and Xbox 360. Hit the break to see the list of the first 30 games, of the 1,000 planned, coming out at launch.
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Next they'll have digital brothels so your avatar can do other avatars. I would say Sony already has this "home" but that would be considered "bias" and "fanboyism". Then I would be repremanded and told to get an avatar. So I won't say that.
Agent- apologies I'm a fish to a baited hook when a hatemonger calls someone faggot. If you'll notice I was on topic until he rudely started calling people derogatory things.
Anyhow, neato! Cheap enough for machines as there's only a couple I really want so far. I wonder if the 'Xbox Arcade' games you already own will get a spot in there.
So, Microsoft is stealing absolutely everything from Nintendo AND Sony without any sign of trying to hide it at this point. I can't help but like this idea though lol..
Wake me up when they either drop the price of a play to something worth it (8 points, maybe?) or they push forward in time and get The Simpsons arcade game. Either or.
I can't help but think when consoles do something that becomes popular it would only be smarter for the competition to adapt as immediately as possible and try to add more bang for the consumer buck. While at the same time it isn't always the case that they expand upon the idea but instead just level with the competition. I've always found it annoying that people claim that one company copies another. Of course they do, would you want to be the odd man out?
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So Microsoft basically take the lamest part of Home (the arcade cabinets) and make their own one. Well no matter I'll still get it and deck out my digital crib because I'm a sucker.
On a serious note this would be better if I could add my arcade games and indie games such as marvel vs. capcom or I maed a game with zombies in it. Also if I could decorate the arcade with giant tits and tit bean bag chair that would be cool too
This feels right, like coming home again. Overused jokes aside, did the narrator use a hard g in original? I'm more interested in that than whatever Microsoft is pitching.
@videodrone31 actually I am 18 I just have never gone through puberty, thus my penis has turned inside out and is now a vagina......also have I told you how sexy you are.......pssssss I'm on your side against that dumbass toiletfish
Wow this post spawned a lot of trolls.
Anyway, on topic this looks like Lives version of Home. The trolls will call me a fanboy but Home does have an arcade room where all you need to do is download the retro games pack from the PSN and you can access all the arcade games right in Home. I would like to see what 360 does to differentiate itself.
Sub Hunt, Armor Battle, Astrosmash... those are INTELLIVION games! SWEEET. I might buy a few even thought they're way overpriced (is anything on Live not?)
I suck at MW2, but I will RAPE you all at Sea Battle, and (hopefully) TRON: Deadly Discs.
Can we have the real arcade version of Turtles in Time, instead of that remake/abortion from last year? Also, X-Men: The Arcade Game and any and all side-scroller beat-'em-ups.
I would've been a little bit interested in this if it had Karate Champ. Tempest is alright, I guess, but still...baby Jesus hates people who don't play Karate Champ.
I still can't get over how they're charging up to $5 for old Atari game, and yet not that many people seems to bothered by it. But when people talked about getting Atari games on the Virtual Console, they said that they wouldn't pay any more than a buck, or two for them on there. So there's no way in hell I'm paying $5 for these old game. I don't care if they added achievements, or not. Its still not worth it!
I don't know how Microsoft thinks this is so revolutionary and that its going to bring in all the casual gamers. The Virtual Console is not what's bringing the casual gamers to the Wii. So they can keep hyping up this year as the best one ever for the 360 all they want, but they're the only ones believing it, and drinking they're own kool-aid here.
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Don't you mean "full wii-tard".
Yes, that was humour apparantly.
Anyhow, neato! Cheap enough for machines as there's only a couple I really want so far. I wonder if the 'Xbox Arcade' games you already own will get a spot in there.
Anyway, on topic this looks like Lives version of Home. The trolls will call me a fanboy but Home does have an arcade room where all you need to do is download the retro games pack from the PSN and you can access all the arcade games right in Home. I would like to see what 360 does to differentiate itself.
I suck at MW2, but I will RAPE you all at Sea Battle, and (hopefully) TRON: Deadly Discs.
Also, get a room, you two.
Tsk, tsk.
Also, @ Krow: tl;dr
I don't know how Microsoft thinks this is so revolutionary and that its going to bring in all the casual gamers. The Virtual Console is not what's bringing the casual gamers to the Wii. So they can keep hyping up this year as the best one ever for the 360 all they want, but they're the only ones believing it, and drinking they're own kool-aid here.
Also....
BURGERTIME
where is it?