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Windows 7: What Happened To Gaming?
2:47AM Brian Crecente | In 2006, then Microsoft Vice President Peter Moore apologised for what he called a dereliction of duty to the company’s number one gaming platform: The PC. More »
News
Yes, Microsoft Will Still Publish PC Games
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Microsoft used to publish lots of PC games. Now, though, they mostly don’t. Sure, there’s Gears of War, and a three years late port of Halo 2, but aside from that? Not much. More »
Hands On
Empire: Total War Review: A Whiff Of Grapeshot
4:30AM Luke Plunkett | Hrm. An Empire: Total War review. Where to start, where to start… It’s tough! Tough like trying to sum up War & Peace in Haiku. More »
News
Epic Explains Gears Meltdown
8:00AM Owen Good | A digital certificate that expired on Wednesday borked the original Gears of War for PC players; Epic is working up a fix. Meantime, VP Mark Rein has given an explanation and an apology. More »
News
Is Your Copy Of Gears Of War PC Busted? Here’s Why
8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Owners of the “Games For Windows” release of Gears Of War have found themselves unable to play the game they own today. The reason? An expired Windows digital certificate, which went digitally sour yesterday. More »
Rumours
More Microsoft Layoffs Hit Game Testers, Games For Windows Group
12:00PM Luke Plunkett | Sorry. More Microsoft layoff news. Seems in addition to the Flight Sim and Gamerscore sackings, Microsoft have also laid off a number of testers, as well as members of the Games for Windows team. More »
The Last Remnant Gets Windowsed In Spring
8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Square Enix’s “strategically sound, technically flawed” role-playing game The Last Remnant is coming to Games for Windows in the Spring, the company announced today. Expect “features previously not available” on the Xbox 360 version. More »
DirectX 11 Won’t Repeat The Windows-Exclusive Sins Of It’s Father
3:00PM Luke Plunkett | When Windows Vista shipped, it shipped alongside DirectX 10. DirectX 10 would only run with Vista. It wouldn’t run with the faster, more stable, more popular Windows XP. This made those running games on XP unhappy. Well, fast forward a few years, and the next release of a Windows OS – Windows 7 – won’t be repeating the same mistake. Microsoft’s Product Marketing Manager Windows, Ben Basaric, has gone on record saying that while Windows 7 will be shipping with DX11 support (which will add features like allowing a graphics processor to process more than just graphics), it will also run on Windows Vista. So no need to go upgrading. Well…unless you’re one of millions still using XP… DirectX 11 confirmed for Windows 7 – Microsoft revised statement [PCGH, via Voodoo Extreme] More »
News
Microsoft Plans To Compete With Steam Via Live Marketplace
11:00AM Michael McWhertor | Games for Windows Live general manager Chris Early tells Shacknews in a soon-to-be published interview that Microsoft has designs on digitally distributing full PC games via Live Marketplace, saying selling games a la Steam is “on our road map.” A forthcoming update to Games For Windows Live will bring about the capability to download demos, media, and microtransaction calibre content. More »
