Thursday, March 25, 2010

A Room With A View

So after a bit of an embarrassing start, Microsoft's new Game Room is finally open for business on Xbox LIVE and Windows LIVE. If you haven't heard of the game room yet then allow me to explain. The game room is a virtual arcade, Which allows you to add and play old Atari, Intellivision and Konami arcade games. Games will set you back 240 MS Points, or 400 points will allow you to play the game on both xbox and pc. Cool features of the game room are the ability to add theme's and decorations to your arcade, the ability to have a shot at a game you don't own for in game currency (coins) which can be obtained when a friend visits your arcade and plays games. Yes, Friends are a big deal here, You can visit friend's arcades and play the games they own (at a price) and they can visit yours, Plus if there are any games you both own, Then you can send out challenges to friends. Overall it's a nice little package that seems like it will be entertaining, but the constant drain on MS Points will probably mean this is something i wont use all that often.

5 comments:

  1. Seems like it could be fun, how does the operation work? Will I get to manually walk my Avatar around? If so, huzzah! If not, well it seems like it might be some fun, but I'm not gunna have points very often so I hope they will let me use the games I already have...Which arn't many.

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  2. the Game Room appears as a round three story room, with 4 smaller rooms on each floor and you navigate by simply rotating the camera to the room you want, however your avatar as well as friends and randomly generated avatars will wander the room freely. Also, the Game Room does NOT use xbox live arcade games, but rather specific game room games.

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  3. And for anyone wondering about the 'embarrassing start' i mentioned... there was an issue with the servers or something that basically meant you could download and attempt to load the Game Room, but it would just get stuck loading... for everyone... on xbox AND pc... nicely done, MS

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