Games For Windows Live stand alone client - briefly
(hx) 11:04 PM CET - Dec,03 2008
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As promised a few weeks ago, Microsoft has now released
a stand alone client for its Games For Windows Live service. Previously the
service was put inside PC games that supported Live but now you can download it
and have it ready to go on your desktop without having to start a game up.
Unfortunately, the application is criminally simple at the moment, serving as
little other than an OS-level store application. Users cannot access their
friends list from within the application, nor can they send or receive messages,
voice chat, or any of the other features that make Live worth supporting. Users
cannot even access their profile, in spite of the application's requirement to
log in with Live credentials.
At present, the Games for Windows Live Marketplace offers up a demo of IO
Interactive's 2007 buddy-shooter Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, along with videos from
the Epic and People Can Fly's PC release of Gears of War, which also hit last
year. Microsoft plans to use Games For Windows Live as a way to offer things
like add-ons for titles like Fallout 3 and they have also said that having full
games for download (a la Steam and Direct2Drive) is in the works as well. Still
this first stand alone client release seems almost like a beta with just a few
features implemented. |
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