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MS: '50 Live Arcade games by year end'

Monday 17-Jul-2006 12:35 PM Xbox Live Arcade bigwig Greg Canessa reveals what's in store for the retro-tastic service
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Last week Microsoft put some order into Live Arcade by announcing Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays, a new promotion which - funnily enough - sees Live Arcade receiving new titles on Wednesdays. Things jumped into action with Frogger appearing on Arcade on July 12, and so far it's been announced that Frogger will be followed by Cloning Clyde, Galaga, Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting and Pac-Man.

But naturally the Wednesday Live Arcade fun won't end there and according to Xbox Live Arcade group manager Greg Canessa Microsoft is targeting 30 Arcade titles "by the end of summer" and 50 "by the end of the calendar year."

Speaking to Microsoft's Major Nelson, Canessa explained that Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays is an initiative that's been done "in direct response to [the Xbox Live] community".

"We've been working pretty much in secret for a number of months on Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays - we did go dark for a little bit", he revealed, adding: "That's part of the reason why we've had a little bit of a drought over the last couple of months on Xbox Live Arcade."

According to Canessa, Live Arcade games will be entirely constrained to Wednesdays from now on and will be released at 8:00am GMT. However, Canessa noted that he cannot guarantee that a new title will hit every week: "..there may be a week that we skip and then a week where we release two titles," he said.

More new Live Arcade titles are set to be announced before the last of the initial five, Pac-Man, hits on August 9. We'll let you know when more Arcade games crop up.

Andy Robinsoncomputerandvideogames.com
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About time really.

Now how about the following games please!:

Bomberman (the 10 player version)
ChuChu Rocket
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
The best from Megadrive/PC Engine
Chase HQ
Old arcade games like Final Fight etc.

Anyone else got some games they would love to see on Live?
ramsingh1 on 17 Jul '06
Would love to see bomberman on live arcade but with 360 getting a dedicated bomberman game I cannot see it happening anytime soon.

But these games would be fantastic also.
Shinobi, Outrun, Revenge of shinobi, Sonic 2, Alex kidd in miracle world, Rick dangerous, Golden axe, Sensible soccer, R-type, Chase Hq, Streets of rage 2, Ghouls 'n' ghosts, Super monaco gp, E-swat, Thunderforce 4, Truxton, Phantasy star, Shining force,
Rolling thunder, Doom, Xmen vs street fighter, Soccer brawl, better stop before the post gets to long!
richybakire on 17 Jul '06
Whoa!

Looks like fellow Sega fan! Yea there are too many games to list here that were on Sega systems. Lets just say the cream of the crop on all available systems...(Nintendo systems of course not available)
ramsingh1 on 17 Jul '06
id love to see Buggy Boy and perhaps the old arcade version of Star Wars - the one with the vector graphics
skaghead on 17 Jul '06
Shame - Our 8gb HD is too small for all 50 new arcade games. I only have 3gb left because of demos.
wildhook2 on 18 Jul '06
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