http://kotaku.com/5376338/xbox-360-may-get-its-own-avatar-arcade    

The Xbox 360 may be getting its own retro-themed arcade space, an environment that looks remarkably similar to the one competitor Sony offers in PlayStation Home. The above pictures come from a rumored survey hinting at an "AvatArcade."

The name AvatArcade, despite its awkward camel-capping, is one of the better naming options being surveyed, according to details forwarded to Kotaku by a tipster. The others include Game Room, RetroCade, RetroGame, Game Preserve, Game Gallery, Tower of ROM, Tower of Game(s), Classics and Classics LIVE. Yes, Tower of ROM is far superior, but we just don't see that one sticking.

The survey info passed on to Kotaku doesn't offer much in the way of further details, but does indicate that publisher Atari will likely be one of the company's with a presence in the proposed space. The virtual arcade cabinets appear to feature playable copies of Atari's RealSports Baseball and Realsports Basketball, not to mention heavy Atari logo branding.

Looks like Intellivision games may also be on offer, as banners for Shark! Shark! and Star Strike hang in the same space. If those games are representative of the titles that would appear in the "AvatArcade," we're not sure what's so arcade-y about this.

The survey also hints that Microsoft may be charging for the Avatar-supported game room, asking surveyees what title would "compel" them to purchase the product.

We've checked in with Microsoft to see what they have to say.

Update: This is what they have to say: "Microsoft does not comment on rumors or speculation." I'm sure you never saw that coming.

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My favorite part of Home (it's arcade) might be copied and coming to xbox live and I like it!  I sort of saw this coming as soon as they started making avatar stuff.  I hope its all add based or free to gold members.  If not it will be useless because I won't pay for this stuff.

wow honestly im not very excited for this. it was pretty lame on PSN and making it on xbox live wouldnt make it better.

^^^

What does microsoft useually do?  They take a good idea and make it better.  As long as they don't have long wait times and decent games, I am all for it.  

oh c'mon MS, if you're going to copy one of sony's ideas at least copy a good one...

I...uh...no comment.

Go Home, Microsoft

Yea i'm not to keen on this idea either. I'd rather pay 800 points for arcade games and not have to wait in line.

This is actually what Microsoft wanted their XBLA service to feel like... thus the Live Arcade name... so really it's not a copy, but an evolution of their service... it would be cool if they had a ass ton of games and they cost like 1msp to play... that would rock and totally feel like a real arcade

I hate that feature in home.. Id rather play the game through the XMB

meh, this will however give 360 fanboys another useless talking point about why Live is better.

Nice... I remember when I was younger, me and my buddies would head to the Arcade to try and pick up some chicks. We rarely succeeded. Now I can do this on XBL. This time I will be the hot chick all the guys will want to pick up.