Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone 7 announced

Microsoft has announced 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. Windows Phone 7 will be supported by content from Microsoft Game Studios (MGS), providing strong first-party gaming titles and intellectual property for the phone.

The first wave of launch portfolio titles includes Xbox LIVE games from the likes of Gameloft, Konami Digital Entertainment, 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 Digital Entertainment)
+ “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 Digital Entertainment)
+ “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)

According to Microsoft, 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.