Games for Windows LIVE to support Windows XP now
WinInfo | at | by Mike
One major change with Windows did get revealed this week, but it concerns the previous Windows version, XP, and not current or future versions: Microsoft is opening up its Games for Windows LIVE service (which brings some of the functionality of Xbox Live to Windows) to XP users. One of the first Games for Windows LIVE titles to support both XP and Vista will be "Gears of War," the hit Xbox 360 title with a painful and little-discussed skeleton in the closet: Its multiplayer component is a joke. (That said, it's one of the best single player games ever made, behind, perhaps, just "Half-Life 2.") The PC version of Gears will include 5 new single player levels, a new multiplayer mode (hopefully one that isn't pathetic), and new LIVE Achievements. Woo!