Games for Windows Live update

By Robert Purchese Published 10 October, 2007

New features for upcoming games.

Microsoft has said that version 1.2 of its Games for Windows Live service will be spouted out across the Internet in November, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

It will let you obtain Achievements while playing offline and give you the ability to see if you can join friends in their games, along with some other user interface bits and pieces yet to be specified.

So far five games have been announced as supporting the updated service, including The Club and Universe at War from SEGA; Kane & Lynch from Eidos; and Gears of War and Viva Piñata from Microsoft.

Games for Windows Live update 1.1 introduced support for Russian, Polish, Czech, Norwegian and Dutch languages, 12 new gamer pictures, and a new Network Information Viewer to help you get to the bottom of connectivity issues.

Help yourself to more fact any time you like over on GamesIndustry.biz.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • TriggerHippie #1 4 years ago

    Games for Whatnow?

  • Xerx3s #2 4 years ago

    Lived in a cave, have we?

  • TriggerHippie #3 4 years ago

    You make it sound like I've missed out on something lol

  • Vice.Destroyer #4 4 years ago

    Achievements that you can gain for Windows, to display along Xbox-gained achievements? Let me get my pitchfork. Bill has gone too far this time. Unfortunates like me, who own a PC that crashes when it attempts anything more strenous than an Excel spreadsheet and have never gotten used to playing with a keyboard and a mouse are not happy.

    I want achievements to be Xbox-only.

    And I fully expect to have my voice ignored.

  • skillian #5 4 years ago

    Is GfW Live still insisting you pay to get matchmaking services? Do they really think people are going to pay for that?

  • T4RG4 #6 4 years ago

    I think the matchmaking / friend status/joinable etc multiplayer is useful. PC games are often complete rubbish when it comes searching for servers and joining. Some rules ala 360 setup would be much nicer for the average PC player.

  • skillian #7 4 years ago

    It might be useful, but when there's programs like Xfire and Steam around, I wouldn't pay £40 to actually buy the software, let alone £40 for every year I wanted to use it.