Xbox Game Room pricing, partners detailed

The pricing structure for Microsoft's newly announced Avatar-occupied Game Room has been detailed in an online fact sheet, and we'd suggest you stock up on Microsoft funny money. Players have three options: 400

($5) grants a dual-platform license for one game (for unlimited play on Xbox 360 and PC), 240

($3) gets you the virtual arcade cabinet on one platform (Xbox 360 or PC), or, for the old-fashioned types, 40

($0.50) is just "two quarters" worth of playtime on a select title -- for the authentic arcade experience, minus the sticky floors. Additionally, when visiting friends' game rooms, you can "try" their games before you pump in Microsoft Points of your own.

The Game Room itself -- developed by third-party outfit Krome Studios (Viva Piñata: Party Animals, Star Wars: Republic Heroes) -- will be free for users to download. Customization options are mentioned in the fact sheet, but pricing for these features is not addressed. At launch the service will include 30 original arcade titles -- with "over 1000" planned for the future -- from multiple publishers, including Atari, Activision, Intellivision, and Konami. (A list of 31 confirmed titles is posted after the break.)

Games will be presented in 1080p (because that's why you bought that HD set) and will support multiplayer for up to two players, as well as cross-platform leaderboards and Achievements. Microsoft's HomeGame Room is slated to launch this spring.
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Source - "Game Room" Fact Sheet [.doc]

Game Room Titles

• 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 [visible in screenshot]

• 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

[Via Game Room trailer; Giant Bomb]