Gears of War, BioShock Added to GFWL Download
Microsoft is working on stocking quality PC games in Games for Windows - Live, including the original Gears of War and BioShock.
If you haven't checked out Microsoft's Games for Windows Live service for the PC lately, you might be in for a little shock. When the stand-alone client was first introduced last year, only a few PC games were available to purchase and download including Viva Pinata, Fallout 3, Shadowrun and a few others. Now the service offers 49 games to download--but only 9 demos to test drive. Go figure.
The latest additions to Live's Games on Demand library includes the original Gears of War title from Epic Games, costing $19.99 or 1600 Microsoft Points. Other new releases are BioShock for the same price, and the original Max Payne for $9.99 or 800 Microsoft Points. Take note that gamers won't need to pre-purchase Microsoft Points in order to buy and download a title from the Marketplace--the client allows for credit card payments and code redemption.
In looking at the hardware requirements, Gears of War will need 12 GB of hard drive space, a 2.4GHz Intel or 2.0GHz AMD processor, 1 GB of RAM, and a Nvidia GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X700 card to run the game--low requirements indeed. As for BioShock, PC gamers will need 8 GB of disk space, a 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor or compatible, 1 GB of RAM, and a Nvidia GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X1300 card.
Outside these three new additions, gamers can purchase and download LEGO Harry Potter, Age of Empires III, Batman: Arkham Asylum, GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, and many more. Don't have the stand-alone client? Go get it here.
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Steam has had all of these forever. Games for windows was dead in the water when it first turned up with the original Halo for PC release all those years ago.
GFW-L = Fail.
Yeah, what the hell took them so long?
Gears of War on steam? erm where?
thats fine adding good games to the GFWL system
but do that after you fix the buggy unreliable horrible to use invasive peice of crap content delivery system ive ever seen - sure steam was horrid a few years back but it was brilliant then compared to what GFWL is right now
i want to find the guy who made the GFWL removal tool and buy him a beer