Game selection and invitation process

A method for establishing a multiplayer gaming session comprising:

• selecting, at a host computing device, at least one invitee computing device from a plurality of invitee computing devices to join the multiplayer gaming session;
• selecting, at the host computing device, a list of games for each invitee computing device of the at least one invitee computing device, the list of games for each invitee computing device stored in a memory communicatively coupled to the host computing device;
• combining each list of games for each invitee computing device into merged list of games;
• sorting the merged list of games into a sorted list of games;
• transmitting the sorted list of games to each invitee computing device so that each invitee computing device may vote for a game to play for the multiplayer gaming session,
• counting the vote made by the at least one computing device to determine a highest vote getting game, and sending a link to purchase the highest vote getting game for at least one invitee computing device which does not own the highest vote getting game;
• transmitting an invitation to join the multiplayer gaming session in the highest vote getting game to the at least one invitee computing device;
• and
• causing each invitee computing device to launch the game in a background process with one or more applications running in the foreground at each invitee computing device.