Microsoft Launches Games for Windows Live Marketplace with Viva Pinata Demo

by Chris Faylor, Dec 03, 2008 1:46pm PST

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Microsoft today launched its Games for Windows Live Marketplace, a platform that will provide PC demos, games videos, add-on DLC, and eventually sell full games.

The Marketplace is part of the latest version of GFW Live, now available at FileShack. With the update, Games for Windows can now be launched as a stand-alone program.

At present, the North American Games for Windows Live Marketplace offers up a demo of Rare's garden-tending simulator Viva Pinata, which hit PC in 2007, while the European Marketplace offers IO Interactive's 2007 buddy-shooter Kane & Lynch.

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From what I've heard there's no friends list, no messaging, nothing that makes this worth installing.

They want me to install another tray application just to access the GFWL marketplace? Are they kidding me?

Dec 03, 2008 2:16pm PST

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From what I've heard there's no friends list, no messaging, nothing that makes this worth installing. ... : Bumpmapped
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  wassnt a friends list and the chatting part of the last update? : bdiddy74
  - Yeah, but you can only access that in a GFWL game like Fallout. This is a standalone application. : Bumpmapped
- Erm, LIVE is linked to your xbox live account... : kpxkrnjc
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  That'll all be for the "Gold" membership. : CoreContingency
  - Gold membership is free, there's only one type of account for Games for Windows : Chris Remo
- Don't you know, that's the part that requires a credit card and your first born... : JackAxe
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  Nothing that makes it worth installing? Nonsense, you can download the Kane and Lynch demo!
  
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  Dec 03, 2008 2:47pm PST
  
  Nothing that makes it worth installing? Nonsense, you can download the Kane and Lynch demo! Waitasec- : TomEdwards

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