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Games For Windows Live may have once been the neglected member of the growing "PC gaming portal" community, but the removal of subscription fees and the renewed dedication to the platform on the part of Microsoft has the company's offering looking better and better by the day. A significant Games For Windows Live update is planned for the platform later this fall...
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Short News submitted before 169 days, 17 hours i 31 minute from www.edge-online.com
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During Microsoft's Gamefest 2008 in Seattle on Tuesday, the company seemed to finally answer year-old criticisms about its pricing strategy for Games for Windows Live. Microsoft said that it would no longer be charging for "premium" online features in Games for Windows Live titles, such as TrueSkill matchmaking, cross-platform gameplay and multiplayer achievements.
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The video game Spore begins its life cycle Tuesday. For its first baby step, the game's Spore Creature Creator goes live at www.spore.com. The program, for Windows and Macintosh PCs, lets players design creatures using the game's editing tools. Those creations will populate the world — actually, the galaxies — of Spore when the full game launches Sept. 7.
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Short News submitted before 172 days, 14 hours i 31 minute from news.cnet.com
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(Credit: Newegg)As a general rule, I despise paying monthly fees for anything. But a little over $3 per month for an Xbox Live Gold subscription? I can live with that. Newegg has 13-month Xbox Live subscription cards on sale for $39.99, with 3-7-day shipping included free. In case you're new to the Xbox scene, a Live Gold subscription enables you to play games online against others.
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Short News submitted before 168 days, 17 hours i 24 minutes from arstechnica.com
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Microsoft made a series of announcements this week that the company hopes will reinvigorate the PC gaming market, including the announcement of DirectX 11 and the advent of free Windows Live gaming. Ars spoke with Microsoft's Kevin Unangst about the company's present and future plans, including DX11, Games for Windows Live...
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T-Entertainment's UE3 project is codenamed L2, and is the second Seoul-originating MMORPG announced this year that will be using the widely-used game engine. T-Entertainment's past games include the MMORPGs Laghaim and Last Chaos. L2 will take elements from MMOs and real-time strategy games. L2 is slated for worldwide release on PC in 2010. In March, another Seoul, South Korea-based game maker...
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Nintendo will be adding new games to the service each Monday, just like Virtual Console releases. The service is launching with six games: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King for 1,500 points, LostWinds for 1,000 points, Defend your Castle for 500 points, Pop for 700 points, V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack for 700 points, and TV Show King for 1,000 points.
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Short News submitted before 197 days, 16 hours i 4 minutes from www.gamespot.com
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This weekend, Blizzard Entertainment will be holding the first of its two conventions for 2008, and the last as a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Games. Held in Paris, France, the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational 2008 will be the first of its kind in Europe, and offer a host of event standards, such as tournaments, cosplay contests, music, and developer panels.
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Short News submitted before 169 days, 17 hours i 32 minutes from news.cnet.com
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Microsoft's Kevin Unangst(Credit: Microsoft)Q&A If you missed our earlier post on Microsoft's announcements from the GameFest 2008 conference, here's a brief recap:Games for Windows Live is now free at all membership levelsIn the fall...
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Short News submitted before 153 days, 10 hours i 36 minutes from arstechnica.com in Novosti Electronics
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Windows Live Expo may have been killed off, but another Windows Live service has just launched into public beta. Windows Live FrameIt beta is an RSS aggregator for digital photo frames. FrameIt allows you to send pictures from different photo sharing services, weather forecasts, and news to your digital photo frame.
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Short News submitted before 232 days, 5 hours i 45 minutes from www.next-gen.biz
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The XNA team has announced that a beta has begun for the "Community Games on Live" program.The program essentially enables bedroom coders to create and distribute their titles over Xbox Live. All users who sign up to the service as premium members will be able to participate in the creation and submission of community-developed titles for distribution over Xbox Live...
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Short News submitted before 169 days, 15 hours i 50 minutes from news.cnet.com in Novosti Computers
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Update: We found a press release in an unexpected Inbox folder that gives a few more details on Microsoft's announcements. All of the user-matching, cross-platform multiplayer, and other formerly-premium services via the Games for Windows Live Gold Membership should now be free (effective today, says Microsoft).
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An English teaser site has popped up for the upcoming Nintendo DS remake of Dragon Quest IV, confirming that the game is indeed coming to North America. There's not much to the site at the moment, but it does give a previously unannounced release date for the game, which should be making its way to the US on September 16, 2008.
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Short News submitted before 221 day, 22 hours i 54 minutes from arstechnica.com in Novosti IT
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Two weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled the prices for two of its products from the Windows Essential Server Solutions line. Both products are built on Windows Server 2008 and are aimed at businesses: Windows Small Business Server 2008 (for up to 50 PCs) and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (for up to 250 PCs).
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Chicago-based Midway said on Friday that it has launched for North America MidwayArcade.com, a site that offers classic Midway games including Spy Hunter, Robotron 2084, Super Offroad, Joust and Rampage. Games from Midway Arcade are sold in bundles of three for $5, five for $8, seven for US$10 or all 14 titles for $15. E-commerce firm Digital River built both of Midway's online storefronts.
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Short News submitted before 168 days, 17 hours i 27 minutes from www.gamespot.com
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Live is now free at all membership levels. In the fall, Microsoft will launch a digital distribution service called the Games for Windows Live Marketplace. DirectX 11 is official, and it will include support for GPU programming, among other new features. CNET had a chance to talk to Kevin Unangst, Microsoft's Senior Director of Global Gaming, and he provided some more details.
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Short News submitted before 181 day, 22 hours i 42 minutes from arstechnica.com in Novosti Computers
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As expected, the transition from.Mac to MobileMe began last night. A software update for MobileMe is available for some that will add OS integration for the MobileMe services, including an updated preference pane for setting sync preferences, iDisk access, and more. The description for the update simply reads, "The Mac OS X Update For MobileMe is recommended for users running Mac OS X Leopard 10.
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Short News submitted before 205 days, 12 hours i 31 minute from news.bbc.co.uk in Novosti Other sports
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Andrew Strauss will stay with England's squad for the second one-day match against New Zealand on Wednesday as cover for the injured Alastair Cook. Cook has been struggling with a right shoulder injury since the final Test at Trent Bridge over a week ago. He missed the Twenty20 victory over the Kiwis and was also ruled out of the first one-day match on Sunday, which England won by 114 runs.
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