At its E3 press briefing last month, Microsoft announced that it would be launching an Xbox Live Arcade service this fall, and that Electronic Arts had finally agreed to support Xbox Live with a number of its major franchises. Further to those announcements, Microsoft's European office has released a list of 15 titles, most of which are scheduled for release this year, that will support Xbox Live and the recently launched Xbox Live Alerts service.

　　The list of games (with European launch dates) released today, most of which will come as no surprise, is as follows:

　　Full Spectrum Warrior - June 2004

　　Driver 3 - June 2004

　　Rainbow Six: Black Arrow - August 2004

　　Star Wars: Battlefront - September 2004

　　Burnout 3 - September 2004

　　Mortal Kombat: Deception - October 2004

　　FIFA Football 2005 - October 2004

　　OutRun2 - October 2004

　　Halo 2 - November 2004

　　Need for Speed Underground 2 - November 2004

　　Forza Motorsport - December 2004

　　Call of Duty: Finest Hour - Q4 2004

　　Unreal Championship 2 - Q4 2004

　　MechAssault 2 - January 2005

　　Doom 3 - When it's done

　　Xbox Live Alerts, for anyone that is unfamiliar with the service, allows Xbox Live subscribers to link their Gamertag to their .NET Passport and then receive game invites, information from Microsoft, and so forth, via e-mail, MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, or even a mobile device. Anyone wishing to sign up for Xbox Live Alerts can do so at Xbox.com.

　　Microsoft believes that over 150 Live-enabled Xbox games will be available before the end of 2004, and it hopes that the "nearly one million members" will soon become a round million. When Xbox Live reaches one million members it will almost certainly have reached the magic number in a third of the time that it took TiVo, Netflix, or AOL to achieve the same thing.