And Pac Man is far from "mediocre". A game that is over 20+ years old and still has me addicted.

EnigmaNemesis

Lumines should be nice and Texas Hold 'Em will be huge, free or not. Everything else looks like a waste of time to me. Pac-Man for 5 bucks? I just bought Unreal Championship 2 for 5 bucks yesterday. Cut the price of Pac-Man in half, and maybe I'll consider it.

KaneRobot

As for Scrabble - I'm just not sure. I find it hard to imagine playing it through a joystick, with people taking lots of time scrambling through dictionaries and arguing over words. I just don't know. I suppose it could work.

I'd love to see Bridge. Rubber or contract, my bridge is rusty, and I'd love to see a really good bridge game. That's hard to get right, though - maybe if the Jack team ported over their championship game player that would work. Or perhaps it's time for XBLA games that only have a Live component, no offline play. Dunno.

Mahjongg would be good. That's fast, rewards speed and timing, and is one of those games where a clear delineation of who-did-what-first would improve the quality of the game. It's also complicated enough, in terms of scoring, that having a game track scores would be invaluable. It's also *stupidly* popular, as a game, in the east where Microsoft most needs to make inroads. I'd stump for Mahjongg.

As for Time Pilot - no doubt it'll have two sets of visuals, one of which will bring the X360 to its knees for no apparent reason, just like the rest of Konami's/Digital Eclipse's ports. Filler, that's what they are. :)

And as for Pac Man? I'm going to have a hard time not buying it unless it's just totally broken. Too many quarters, too many memories.

gblock

Karlott

Vabor

microsoft is doing a virtual bankroll system that is tied to your gamertag, so no going all-in all the time... if you start with $5000 and you lose it all, you get a loan for $1000 and you have to pay back your $5k.

good stuff

Scrapple

dtrain

BTW, I was also extremely excited for a second when I thought it said scrabble.... who knows, maybe there will be an xbla scrabble eventually.... they already gave us uno.

What The Geek

I'm all for the concept of "a new release each week"...but considering how simple some of these games are, I'd like to see a release on Tuesday and Thursday.

AlteredBeast

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=...

gamespot contacted MS about those dates, and MS would not confirm them saying that those dates were nothing but speculation and rumor, and that a correct schedule would become available in the coming weeks.

What The Geek