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The Dark Souls 2 box art has just been revealed and it brings good news for PC gamers, as that version of the cover has no mention of Games for Windows Live, the controversial DRM system used for the PC edition of Dark Souls 1.Dark Souls II received quite a lot of great details in the recent week, including two gamep... |
13 April 2013
02:32 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a statement saying that it's aware of the ongoing Games for Windows Live issues that are preventing users from logging into their accounts and actually playing the games they own on the PC platform.
Games for Windows Live is Microsoft's attempt at bringing its Xbox Live online servic... |
12 February 2013
07:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has made it clear that it has no plans to eliminate Microsoft Points and that they will continue to be used by those who want to purchase content from the Xbox Live service in the coming years.
The company has also made it clear that Windows 8, the Operating System that will be launched this fall, will use... |
11 October 2012
02:33 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that those who have got Street Fighter X Tekken on Games for Windows Live can now get its new DLC, while those who have bought it on Steam will have to wait a bit more, as an unforeseen error resulted in a delay.
Street Fighter X Tekken, after plenty of debates and controversy, has finally recei... |
23 July 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, the famous games designer responsible for the Fable franchise, has talked about PC gaming and expressed his shock in regard to Microsoft’s indifference towards the platform and its Windows operating system. While consoles like the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or the upcoming Wii U fight for supremac... |
15 June 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Although there are countless petitions against Games for Windows Live in which fans complain of Microsoft’s lackluster platform, the company will continue to promote it, even if the upcoming Windows 8 operating system will have a deep integration with the Xbox Live online service.Microsoft, despite owning the b... |
21 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The pressure of PC-based players who tend to look unfavorably upon Games for Windows Live from Microsoft might apparently still be enough to persuade publisher Namco Bandai to drop the service for the upcoming launch of Dark Souls, with more information promised to fans at E3. Daisuke Uchiyama, who is the publishing... |
20 April 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Video game publisher Namco Bandai has confirmed that the PC version of its Dark Souls action role-playing game will be launched on August 24 and will be sold under the name Prepare to Die Edition, using the Games for Windows Live service from Microsoft as its Digital Rights Management solution.
The core content of t... |
12 April 2012
07:36 GMT |
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I spent more time trying to download, install and run Microsoft Flight than with any other free-to-play video game and I suspect it is all the fault of Microsoft’s incredibly annoying Game for Windows Live client.
When I accessed the official site of the game, I was prompted to download the game and play it im... |
2 March 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Remedy Entertainment has revealed a few more details on the upcoming Alan Wake PC edition, confirming that it will be released on Steam using its Steamworks suite and that support for Microsoft’s Games for Windows Live system has yet to be decided upon.While most PC game developers these days choose to use Valv... |
19 December 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Two big pieces of information have surfaced concerning Batman: Arkham City, the new superhero title from Rockteady Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, one confirming that the title will have a 'New Gamer +' mode, while the other saying that the game is still going to support the Games For Wi... |
31 August 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The video game oriented division of software giant Microsoft has said that a so-called “internal operational error” is to blame for the problems that gamers have had recently when trying to browse and purchase content from both Xbox Live and from Games for Windows Marketplace.
Features likes online gamep... |
26 May 2011
04:47 GMT |
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This week Microsoft has confirmed that it had acquired communications company Skype and that it plans to deploy the service on platform like Windows-powered PCs and the Xbox Live service for the Xbox 360 home console.
Recently, Microsoft has also made a lot of noise, not all of it actually backed by actions, bein... |
14 May 2011
05:21 GMT |
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One of the leading developers working at studio Lionhead on the PC-based version of the action and role-playing mix Fable III has said that his team is determined to make sure that the release is more than just a simple port and takes advantage of the exclusive feature of the platform.
Josh Atkins, who is the lead... |
14 April 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has once again promised to PC gamers that its special Games for Windows Live service will continue to improve and is going to be supported through a variety of great games.
Microsoft pledged to help PC gaming many times before, but, almost every time, its efforts were misdirected or didn't really en... |
9 March 2011
03:15 GMT |
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Bulletstorm is on the receiving end of a pretty great deal if you opt to get it from Microsoft's Games for Windows Live marketplace digital store, as you'll be receiving a free copy of Gears of War on the PC alongside the new first-person shooter.
Bulletstorm is one of the big all-new intellectual proper... |
21 February 2011
03:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is keen to reinvigorate the PC platform once more, in terms of gaming, as it has realized that it hasn't been really supporting the Windows platform as a viable gaming one, and favored the Xbox 360 console in front of the PC.Microsoft, as the developer of the main software for the PC, the Windows opera... |
27 September 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Developer Relic has announced that it will be delivering a beta stage for its Retribution expansion for the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II real time squad based strategy title in the early days of 2011 and that the new content will include support for Steamworks, the Valve developed system that allows chat, matchma... |
20 September 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Five months after the introduction of Games for Windows LIVE Setup 3.2, Microsoft is offering customers an update, kicking the version of the client up a notch. In this regard, gamers that have been leveraging Games for Windows – LIVE are now able to download and install a new release of the app. According to t... |
27 May 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Microsoft has finally delivered confirmation that Fable III will be coming to the old PC, through Games for Windows Live, while also announcing a new Collector's Edition package which, in a weird move, will only be offered to those who are planning on enjoying the role playing game on the Xbox 360 home console. ... |
26 May 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Rockstar and Microsoft have partnered up to offer Grand Theft Auto IV through the Games on Demand service, which is part of the Games for Windows Live Marketplace. The game costs just 29.99 dollars but it is not clear whether this is a limited time offer or whether this will be the standard price of the Games on Dema... |
3 March 2010
08:12 GMT |
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Microsoft is announcing that beginning with today, Friday, February 26, those who have a Gamertag and have downloaded the Games for Windows Live client can pick up last year's Batman: Arkham Asylum for the low, low price of 12.49 dollars, which is 75% off the 59.99 that players usually have to pay for the videog... |
26 February 2010
04:24 GMT |
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It's hard to believe it but Games for Windows Live is two years old and Microsoft seems determined to push the service forward, despite claims from gamers that it provided lousy matchmaking and that it was badly integrated with videogames.Last week, the Redmond-based company released version 3.0 of the software,... |
10 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Bethesda has explained that it's not its fault that Broken Steel is unplayable at the moment. Those who got the DLC pack and attempted to run it have been hit with a message reading “cryptographic message is not formatted correctly.” Apparently, this is related to Games for Windows Live and not to Br... |
7 May 2009
12:51 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the most popular series of video games ever created, gathering a huge amount of fans across the world. Now, with one of its latest installments, Grand Theft Auto IV, its developer, Rockstar, has gained critical acclaim for the solid and immersive game it has offered to fans. ... |
27 April 2009
03:24 GMT |
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The current state of PC gaming isn't the best, but with the PC Gaming Alliance posting decent revenues and more and more companies joining the non-profit organization, things are looking up. Also, we've seen two of the biggest online services for the old platform, Steam and Games for Windows Live, receive n... |
27 March 2009
03:24 GMT |
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During this week, the Game Developers Conference is in full steam at San Francisco in the United States. It is there that a lot of companies involved in the gaming industry make a lot of important announcements related to upcoming titles, but also brag about the future things that they will release.Yesterday, we saw ... |
26 March 2009
03:18 GMT |
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PC gaming has been plagued by a lot of analysts that proclaimed it dead and were quick to deem consoles as the main platforms for which developers would create games. But, as we've seen yesterday, thanks to the PC Gaming Alliance, in 2008 the PC was pretty successful and managed to generate a big amount of profi... |
25 March 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft announced that Games for Windows Live was turning into a free service and everybody started to wonder whether the company will do the same with its Xbox Live service, too. It seems that, even though at the moment there's no such thing as "completely free" for Silver members, they do have the... |
28 July 2008
15:06 GMT |
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If you plan to log on into any part of the Xbox Live service on April 1, starting with 9 AM GMT, you'd better postpone that plan for some time. Specifically, you'd better postpone it for about three hours, because that's the period for which Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Live services will be d... |
31 March 2008
06:16 GMT |
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