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Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed.

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Windu

never heard about the cat, apparently
We've known that proper Xbox Live gaming (powered by XNA) was coming to Windows Phone 7 devices, but we'd yet to see any of that thumb-spraining goodness in action besides a brief demo and a few developer videos. Well, Microsoft has finally come clean with details about its launch strategy for the platform, and from where we sit, it's definitely looking pretty promising. First off, the company has announced a full list of launch titles for WP7 handsets, including some familiar names and franchises like Castlevania, Halo: Waypoint, Star Wars, Crackdown, and Guitar Hero, alongside a handful of newer properties like the ultra-cute ilomilo, produced in-house by Microsoft Game Studios. In total, the company will launch with over 60 game titles, with new offerings appearing every week in the Xbox Live Marketplace, just like its big brother console version. We've got all the details, a full list of the launch titles, and our hands-on preview after the break -- so read on to get the scoop!
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Press Release
With Xbox LIVE and a Blockbuster Title Lineup, Windows Phone 7 Marks a New Era in Mobile Gaming

First wave of Xbox LIVE titles from award-winning publishers announced for the launch of Windows Phone 7.

COLOGNE, Germany - Aug. 17, 2010 - Today at gamescom 2010, the world's largest consumer-oriented games showcase, Microsoft Corp. premiered the first wave of Xbox LIVE games launching on Windows Phone 7 this holiday. With even more games and applications to come, Windows Phone 7 is putting the power of Xbox LIVE into the palm of your hand - from Xbox LIVE Avatars to staying connected with friends, Xbox LIVE is now at your fingertips, anytime, anywhere.*

"We believe that no matter where life takes you, the best in gaming and entertainment should follow," said Marc Whitten, corporate vice president of Xbox LIVE at Microsoft. "Windows Phone 7 takes a different approach to handheld gaming, utilizing Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Game Studios, leading game publishers, and innovative indie developers, to create powerful, shared experiences for everyone."

The Games You Want, Played When and Wherever You Want Them

In a sea of games, apps, gadgets and gizmos, the biggest obstacle can be finding the game that's right for you. Only Windows Phone 7 has a Games hub featuring Xbox LIVE, creating a different kind of mobile gaming experience that puts the games you want front and center. Xbox LIVE games on Windows Phone 7 will be specially selected from the top names in mobile, PC and console game development, making the best mobile games even better, thanks to Xbox LIVE. With try-before-you-buy demos, Xbox LIVE leaderboards, turn-based multiplayer, Achievements and more, Windows Phone 7 brings the quality, consistency and community of the Xbox experience to gamers on the go.

Windows Phone 7 also will be supported by content from Microsoft Game Studios (MGS), providing strong first-party gaming titles and intellectual property for the phone. For Xbox fans, this means that Windows Phone 7 will offer companion titles to familiar names, such as "Halo: Waypoint," and "Crackdown 2," extending the experience of their favorite Xbox 360 franchises.

"Windows Phone 7 is the launch of a major gaming platform for Microsoft," said Matt Booty, general manager of mobile gaming for MGS. "Just like we've done with Xbox 360, our charter is to push the envelope and deliver definitive games that maximize the platform. We will have an incredible lineup of MGS titles, and that's just the beginning."

The most creative minds in game development are bringing the biggest franchises to Windows Phone 7. The first wave of launch portfolio titles includes Xbox LIVE games from the likes of Gameloft, Konami, Namco Bandai, PopCap and THQ. Whether you choose to play a gem of a puzzler with "Bejeweled™ LIVE" (PopCap), bring down the house with "Guitar Hero 5" (Glu Mobile), fight off a destructive alien invasion in "The Harvest" (MGS), paint your way out of a corner with "Max and the Magic Marker" (PressPlay) or defend your city in "Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst" (MGS), the first wave of games announced in the launch portfolio of Xbox LIVE games on Windows Phone 7 has something for every mobile gamer:

"3D Brick Breaker Revolution" (Digital Chocolate)
"Age of Zombies" (Halfbrick)
"Armor Valley" (Protégé Games)
"Asphalt 5" (Gameloft)
"Assassins Creed" (Gameloft)
"Bejeweled™ LIVE" (PopCap)
"Bloons TD" (Digital Goldfish)
"Brain Challenge" (Gameloft)
"Bubble Town 2" (i-Play)
"Butterfly" (Press Start Studio)
"CarneyVale Showtime" (MGS)
"Castlevania" (Konami)
"Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst" (MGS)
"De Blob Revolution" (THQ)
"Deal or No Deal 2010" (i-Play)
"Earthworm Jim" (Gameloft)
"Fast & Furious 7" (i-Play)
"Fight Game Rivals" (Rough Cookie)
"Finger Physics" (Mobliss Inc.)
"Flight Control" (Namco Bandai)
"Flowerz" (Carbonated Games)
"Frogger" (Konami)
"Fruit Ninja" (Halfbrick)
"Game Chest-Board" (MGS)
"Game Chest-Card" (MGS)
"Game Chest-Logic" (MGS)
"Game Chest-Solitaire" (MGS)
"GeoDefense" (Critical Thought)
"Ghostscape" (Psionic)
"Glow Artisan" (Powerhead Games)
"Glyder 2" (Glu Mobile)
"Guitar Hero 5" (Glu Mobile) "Halo Waypoint" (MGS)
"Hexic Rush" (Carbonated Games)
"I Dig It" (InMotion)
"iBlast Moki" (Godzilab)
"ilomilo" (MGS)
"Implode XL" (IUGO)
"Iquarium" (Infinite Dreams)
"Jet Car Stunts" (True Axis)
"Let's Golf 2" (Gameloft)
"Little Wheel" (One click dog)
"Loondon" (Flip N Tale)
"Max and the Magic Marker" (PressPlay)
"Mini Squadron" (Supermono Limited)
"More Brain Exercise" (Namco Bandai)
"O.M.G." (Arkedo)
"Puzzle Quest 2" (Namco Bandai)
"Real Soccer 2" (Gameloft)
"The Revenants" (Chaotic Moon)
"Rise of Glory" (Revo Solutions)
"Rocket Riot" (Codeglue)
"Splinter Cell Conviction" (Gameloft)
"Star Wars: Battle for Hoth" (THQ)
"Star Wars: Cantina" (THQ)
"The Harvest" (MGS)
"The Oregon Trail" (Gameloft)
"Tower Bloxx NY" (Digital Chocolate)
"Twin Blades" (Press Start Studio)
"UNO" (Gameloft)
"Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet" (i-Play)
"Zombie Attack!" (IUGO)
"Zombies!!!!" (Babaroga)

Additional titles in the launch portfolio will be released between now and the Windows Phone 7 launch this holiday season; once the phone launches, new Xbox LIVE titles also will be added to the games portfolio every week.

Xbox LIVE: Bringing More to Your Mobile Gaming

Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone 7 unlocks a world of games and fun and directly connects you to a global community of more than 25 million active Xbox LIVE members. Windows Phone 7 is the only phone that seamlessly integrates Xbox LIVE and provides unique mobile gaming experiences:

Avatars. Connect to your Xbox LIVE profile and Avatar, or create a new one if you don't already have an Avatar or Xbox LIVE profile; take your 3-D Avatar and props with you on the phone with full closet access.

Friends. Bring your Xbox LIVE friends with you everywhere; compare Achievements, challenge rivals to your favorite game, and even see who's online and what they're doing on their consoles, PCs or phones.

Game access. Easily view and launch your full game library from a single location; find, try and buy new games either in the Marketplace or Games hub.

Achievements. Earn, view and track Achievements, view Xbox LIVE leaderboards and build your Gamerscore across Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 - every time you play an Xbox LIVE title.

Messaging. Communicate with all of your Xbox LIVE friends, any time you want, through Xbox LIVE messages.

Multiplayer. Invite, connect and play against friends on other Windows Phone 7 phones or the PC with turn-based (asynchronous) multiplayer gaming.

Spotlight. Access Xbox LIVE Spotlight feeds, including the latest game titles, breaking news from Xbox LIVE, game tips and tricks, and more.
About Xbox LIVE

Xbox LIVE is the online entertainment service for your Xbox 360, connecting you to an ever-expanding world of games, movies, TV, music, sports and social entertainment. Xbox LIVE lets you play the best games, enjoy the largest on-demand library on any console, listen to millions of songs and share the fun with friends around the world. This holiday season, Xbox LIVE will come to Windows Phone 7 and put the power of connected entertainment in the palm of your hand. Xbox LIVE is also the exclusive home of controller-free online entertainment through Kinect, making your Xbox 360 more intuitive and interactive than ever before. With an active community of 25 million people across 26 countries, expanding to 35 this fall, Xbox LIVE, together with Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, provides you with instant access to the entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, wherever you are. More information about Xbox LIVE can be found online at http://www.xbox.com/live.
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Gizmodo: Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7: Hands On and First Impressions

Xbox.com Windows Phone

Windows Phone NewsRoom

Windows Phone Blog

Zdnet - Games to be front and center for Windows Phone 7

Pocket-lint: Hands on with Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone 7
 
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killakiz

Member
Microsoft has alot of traditional third party support, they are treating WP7 like a console launch. I just don't know if XBOX LIVE can be a backbone to a phone platform.
 
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jagowar

Member
killakiz said:
Microsoft has alot of traditional third party support, they are treating WP7 like a console launch. I just don't know if XBOX LIVE can be a backbone to a phone platform.
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Why not.... live is certainly better than what any other phone manufacturer will have to leverage.

I really like the fact that MGS has a number of games in the works..... that is one big advantage they have (along with the live multiplayer stuff being baked in every game)
 
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clav

Member
Looks like it'll get a lot of iPhone games ported over in addition to this collection in the near future.

O.M.G. by Arkedo sticks out.

Come on MS. Make XBLA titles happen. That would be awesome news playing Geometry Wars or Ikaruga on a phone.
 
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RBH

Member
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The screen response seemed accurate and sensitive, reacting quickly to our input. Particularly in the Crackdown title -- a tower defense game "set in the Crackdown universe" -- pinch zooming, rotation, and finger tracking was excellent.

Besides just standard gaming, it looks like Microsoft will try and leverage some other components of the platform. In the aforementioned Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst, the game utilizes Bing maps to create levels (not unlike the PSN title The Last Guy), and logic in the software is able to recognize things like roads for enemies to make their way down. A unique concept for sure, and the kind of thinking we hope we'll see more of on this platform.
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Interesting.
 
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watership

Member
bearcatjosh said:
This looks like it will easily surpass Android gaming to take on Apple as their main mobile phone gaming competition.
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Android will never be a successful gaming platform. MS has strict control about the performance of win7 phones, so games will have a strong common platform to work with. Android phones are all over the place, performance wise.
 
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AzBat

Member
I see a new Arkedo game in there called O.M.G. Looks like a vertical scrolling space shooter. Cool! Check out the 0:36 mark.
 
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dallow_bg

nods at old men
All those games will have Achievements that add to your gamerscore?

Uh oh.
This is going to like a super refined potent crack of all crack.

EDIT: I really hope ilomilo still comes out to the 360 proper.
 
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Cynar

Member
So if I already say have puzzle quest 2 on xbla does that mean I can just download it and play it on the go with my phone or would I have to repurchase?
 
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Lone_Prodigy

Member
I wish WinMo 7 was more like WinMo 6 (but way better) instead of looking like an iPhone clone. Then again Win 7 (and Vista) looked a lot like Apple OS.
 
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Burnst

Member
Lone_Prodigy said:
I wish WinMo 7 was more like WinMo 6 (but way better) instead of looking like an iPhone clone. Then again Win 7 (and Vista) looked a lot like Apple OS.
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What? WP7 looks nothing like iOS..
 
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gillty

Banned
Lone_Prodigy said:
I wish WinMo 7 was more like WinMo 6 (but way better) instead of looking like an iPhone clone. Then again Win 7 (and Vista) looked a lot like Apple OS.
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touch screen interface = looks like iOS :lol:lol

anyways highlights from the list

Asphalt 5
Bejeweled Live
Flight Control
Fruit Ninja
GeoDefense
Jet Car Stunts
Let's Golf 2
Mini Squadron
Puzzle Quest 2
Sunburst
UNO
 
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TheSeks

Blinded by the luminous glory that is David Bowie's physical manifestation.
CTRL + F "Ikaruga"

No results found?

Yeah, can't care about WinMo7 until that happens, MS. Get cracking on Treasure to port it to your phones.

Castlevania being a nice addition, but it probably isn't the SotN/HD ports on XBLA.

Puzzle Quest 2 being the only good thing on that launch line-up. But you can already play that on the DS (IIRC), so why bother getting it on Win7 if you have a DS verison?

They really need to pack that (mobile verison) with the XBLA version if/when available and they may have a chance.

As it is, I'm more worried they'll abandon this in a month (see: Kin) than the quality of the titles and WinMo generally sucking.
 
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D4Danger

Unconfirmed Member
Lone_Prodigy said:
I wish WinMo 7 was more like WinMo 6 (but way better) instead of looking like an iPhone clone. Then again Win 7 (and Vista) looked a lot like Apple OS.
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:lol :lol so much nonsense in one post.
 
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dLMN8R

Member
Awesome, some of my favorite iPhone games including:
"I Dig It" (InMotion)
"Let's Golf 2" (Gameloft)
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Great launch lineup! Much much more impressive than I would have ever thought.
 
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Daigoro

Member
they couldve left the avatar shit off of the thing and no one wouldve noticed or cared.

TheSeks said:
CTRL + F "Ikaruga"

No results found?

Yeah, can't care about WinMo7 until that happens, MS. Get cracking on Treasure to port it to your phones.
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the hell? thats some random shit right there. why? and no thanks.
 
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seady

Member
The way they reveal this seem to be handled pretty well.
Their OS seem to be much more open than iPhone OS (to different phone manufacturer), while they seem to have some quality check behind the games release on the platform - which would help balance the flooded market (and the resulted poor pricing structure) on iTunes.

I am enthusiastic.
 
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StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
I just got an iphone a few months back, but I really really hope MS can make this work as a 3rd mobile platform.
 
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dLMN8R

Member
Daigoro said:
they couldve left the avatar shit off of the thing and no one wouldve noticed or cared.
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I'm sure Microsoft cares about making millions off of the extra avatar items they'll sell to the people they usually sell them to, just so they can now show it off on their phone :lol
 
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sykoex

Lost all credibility.
Wow I glanced at the first pic and thought I read "Snatcher" on the screen. Almost had a heart attack. I really do like that MS is leveraging the gaming side of their business for their phones though.
 
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Rhindle

Member
seady said:
The way they reveal this seem to be handled pretty well.
Their OS seem to be much more open than iPhone OS (to different phone manufacturer), while they seem to have some quality check behind the games release on the platform - which would help balance the flooded market (and the resulted poor pricing structure) on iTunes.
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Yeah, not to mention the wasteland that is Android development.

The way for MS to set themselves apart is to set a high quality bar and stick with it, while at the same time offering lots of support for indie developers.

I also think they need a separate environment for casual gaming/social apps. The XBL integration is neat and all, but the XBL bro crowd isn't exactly a global mass market demographic.
 
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Rhindle

Member
StoOgE said:
I just got an iphone a few months back, but I really really hope MS can make this work as a 3rd mobile platform.
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TBH, I'd rather see this on a mini-tablet form factor, like the Dell Streak (which coincidentally has the exact same hardware spec as WP7. Hmm ....)
 
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Windu

never heard about the cat, apparently
trinest said:
Its called a Zune.
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yep, but sadly the Zune HD doesn't have the specs to run this OS. I'm sure they will release a HD 2 at some point that has the same specs as the phones.
 
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Daigoro

Member
dLMN8R said:
I'm sure Microsoft cares about making millions off of the extra avatar items they'll sell to the people they usually sell them to, just so they can now show it off on their phone :lol
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ug. i suppose this is true. it saddens me to think about it though.
 
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dLMN8R

Member
Rhindle said:
Yeah, not to mention the wasteland that is Android development.

The way for MS to set themselves apart is to set a high quality bar and stick with it, while at the same time offering lots of support for indie developers.

I also think they need a separate environment for casual gaming/social apps. The XBL integration is neat and all, but the XBL bro crowd isn't exactly a global mass market demographic.
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All of these games announced here are only for Xbox Live. Officially released by Microsoft, have achievements, etc.


There's absolutely nothing stopping the masses of everyone else from releasing whatever they want on the normal application store. It just won't have Xbox Live integration, is all.
 
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