Rockstar Games Table Tennis for Xbox360

By Alex Gordon

Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc, recently announced their latest video game project for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. Table Tennis. Yes folks, the old thrilling game itself. Although this may sound very unexciting, the game is shaping up quite well.

Developed by Rockstar San Diego, the creative house behind the highly successful Midnight Club racing series, Table Tennis is expected to ship to North American retailers on May 22nd, 2006 for a MSRP of $39.99. And will hit European retail shelves on May 26th, 2006 for a price of €39.99 and £29.99 in the UK.

"Our goal was to create a game that is perfectly addictive in its focused simplicity, a game that showcases the true possibilities of a next gen experience, not just in looks but in feel and pace," stated Sam Houser, Founder and Executive Producer of Rockstar Games. "We wanted to use the power of the new hardware and the resolution of new televisions to give the game an immediacy, an intensity and a sense of physicality and reality, resulting in a purer, more visceral experience that simply was not possible previously." Houser continued, "It is a distillation of game design philosophy, focusing on removing the traditional areas of compromise inherent in managing size and scope and concentrating the hardware's entire power on one activity, with the aim of doing that better than it's ever been done before."

Source: Rockstar Press Release