Microsoft reckons it’s found a way to stop pirates in their tracks, announcing tweaks to its Games for Windows service to block out online software thievery.
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Steam, the online game delivery platform from Valve, now offers in-game DLC for PC gamers. The download service, which has long sparred with Games for Windows LIVE, has now taken another nod from its Microsoft rival in dishing up downloadable content.
The first game to get Steam in-game DLC treatment is The Maw, a cutesy 3D platformer which will get a couple of extra levels to add to its storyline.
Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage, Bethesda’s first piece of Fallout 3 DLC, is now available for PC and Xbox 360 players via their respective LIVE marketplaces. Operation Anchorage is packed with additional weapons and quests, along with a brand new perk. The expansion also gives you the chance to earn four new achievements to add to your all-important Gamerscore.
Xbox LIVE has been a stunning, benchmark setting, generation defining success. Games for Windows LIVE has so far been, well, somewhat less so, and has been out manoeuvred repeatedly by rival services including Steam and Xfire. But Microsoft hasn’t given up on it yet, and it has big plans for the coming year. The first phase has been an overhaul of the current GfW LIVE front end to match the NXE redesign, and soon it will be adding exclusive DLC content to its arsenal from big titles like Fallout 3 and GTA IV.
Megasite IGN has been forced into a massively embarrassing climbdown over a US reviewer’s treatment of the Football Manager 2009 PC game by angry fans. The aptly-named Avi Burk gave the game 2.0 on IGN’s infamously lenient scoring system (a 7 is poor, a 6 is dreadful). Oddly, the UK arm of IGN, run by some far more capable journalists apparently, gave the game 9.1.