Hooray!

Games for Win­dows Live is being relaunched again.

Con­sid­er­ing all the fun I had last time, I per­son­ally can’t wait for this. (more…)

Two weeks ago, I wrote a post that you might con­sider “mildly crit­i­cal”, dis­cussing the brand new Games for Win­dows Live web-based store, and the count­less ways in which it fell apart as soon as you looked at it.

Today, I went to look at their site again, as they have Deus Ex on sale, and, while it is a 10 year old game, and I already have it, I was inter­ested in see­ing if they’d opened up the store for peo­ple out­side Amer­ica and the UK yet. (more…)

Once again, Microsoft “relaunched” Games for Win­dows Live, either gam­bling that if they keep relaunch­ing the same thing, even­tu­ally every­one will just give up and start using it, or per­haps that if they keep relaunch­ing the same thing, even­tu­ally every­one will just give up and buy an XBox 360 instead. I don’t know. But it is really get­ting ridiculous.

Unlike the last time it “relaunched”, how­ever, this time it actu­ally has a new fea­ture as well: it is now pos­si­ble to view (and use) their store from a browser, or so they claim. And what’s more, games can now, appar­ently, be bought using money, actual human cur­rency, rather than imag­i­nary Microsoft Points.

In prac­tice? Not so much. (more…)

I’m sorry. This isn’t going to be pretty. (more…)