In a MS conference today they revealed that Settlers of Catan, Carcassone and Alhambra are being made for xbox live.

These will be small downloadable games instead of full price games bought in shops.

Cool eh?

Mike..............

(And i get them free as i work for MS Games, and no, not in the division that get any money from these selling any copies!)

YES! When? Link?

Tell me more!

That's interesting. I wonder if they do well enough, if they'll branch out and turn more games into downloadable XBOX-playable versions. That has potential to blow open the visibility for board games to a huge degree, especially if they catch on with video gamers.

Awesome... I hope the UNO crowd switches over.

Way, way cool

Excellent. The board/card games have been dull so far to me.

Great...

One minute ago I couldn't care less for the Xbox 360, now I must have one

I hope it is part of the free subscription that comes with the 360 and not the paid "Gold" subscription!!!!

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11609/Microsoft-Offers-More-Wa...

Second paragraph under Xbox Live Arcade. Not much more than was already said.



Well, what would most likely happen (based on the other things that have been released) is that you can buy an Xbox 360 and then purchase this game for another $5-10 (no gold membership is needed to purchase XBLA games). This would let you play the game against the AI or "hotseat" if they put that mode in. If you wanted to play with other people online, then you would have to pay for gold membership or wait for a free weekend on a silver membership.

I wonder how they're going to handle the rules for games like these. Most Xbox Live Arcade games have just a few rules, or are so familiar that they aren't needed.

I'm almost as big a fan of XBox Live Arcade as I am of boardgames, and I never thought this would happen.

I'm excited that this will allow friends from out of town play, and even more excited that Euro-games will get some mainstream trial.

This sounds great! I may have to renew my X-Box Live subscription.

Sorry for the no link, it literally had no more info on it.

It was mentioned at the end of a sentence by www.Eurogamer.net who were reviewing the conference but didn't even know what the games were!

To be honest at the moment, i play Spades and Hearts more than any other xbox game. Then again, Fable 2 (shameless plug) isn't out yet!

Mike........

You did Fable? You did Fable?!! What a fantastic game.