Windows Phone 7 will support multi-player games on mobile phones

Microsoft is Windows Phone 7 will come with integrated Xbox Live features and the company is also working on a new technology that would allow players to play through their mobile phone sets.

Imagine a player playing X-box games with his console with another one who is playing using his mobile phone supporting Windows Phone 7.

At the Microsoft X10 conference in Toronto this week, in an interview with Toronto-based tech- site RGB filter, Greg Milligan, Mobility Solutions Manager, Microsoft Canada, talked about this new technology. He said "We are working on realtime phone-to-console, likely initially through Wi-Fi, and operator networks are sensitive to that,"

He also said that multiplayer will be supported between Windows phones and PC games using the Games For Windows Live interface.

Milligan said that initially Microsoft would roll out “turn-by-turn” and “companion” games. Games like Catan or Scrabble fall under “turn-by-turn” category where two players would have to play in turns.

Under “companion type gaming,” if a player plays a certain game on his Windows Phone 7 handset and wins a particular level which results into some kind of achievement or unlocking of another level, the data will be automatically transferred to the console game version so that when the player plays the console version, he would play in the recently unlocked level.

Last week at the GDC Europe 2010 Game conference at Cologne, Germany, Microsoft unveiled games for its Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS. Initially, there will be sixty gaming titles. Gaming studios like Gameloft, Konami, Namco Bandai, PopCap, and THQ are working on Windows Phone 7 games.