Windows: Games For Windows Live Gets Revamped Look, Marketplace

Windows: Games For Windows Live Gets Revamped Look, Marketplace: "Games for Windows Live, that free Microsoft service for social gaming stuff on your PC, has gotten a face lift—partially because the original version, being more or less an Xbox Live port, wasn't actually PC-user friendly. Now the new interface is supposed to be designed 'with PC gamers in mind.' GWL will keep Achievements, TrueSkill matchmaking, voice and text chats and gamertags, but adds a special marketplace (similar to Xbox Live's Marketplace) for buying trailers, demos and add-on game content. Check out a multitude of pics of the updated interface at Kotaku.

[Game Daily via Kotaku]

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Gears of War PC - Games for Windows Live only

This just in for those that don't have an Xbox 360. Gears of War for the PC is going to be online also, but it will only be Games for Windows Live only. This may irk some people that are used to having a freedom of choice in PC online gaming, whether it be Gamespy or the like. But Games for Windows Live is free, and you can pay $50 a year for the Gold. With the Gold you also get achievements, multiplayer matchmaking, Trueskill matchmaking, in addition to cross platform play.

No official word on when this comes out, but so far it seems the new Games for Windows Live games are going pretty well. If you listened to me earlier, you should have taken advantage of Halo 2 for Vista and Shadowrun for only $40. Each one comes with a 30 day trial for Gold.

This is an excellent game, I have it for 360 and I throughly enjoy it.

Link to the article here.

Learn more about Games for Windows Live here.