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 Send to email | GFW Live Goes Free, DirectX 11 Unveiled [Games For Windows - LIVE] in Games for Windows - LIVE Microsoft News PC Top Vista Xbox 360 |  By Brian Crecente
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Games for Windows - Live multiplayer features are free, effective today, Microsoft announced at today's GameFest 2008 conference in Seattle. The move to free means that achievements, enhanced "truskill" matchmaking, cross-platform play with the Xbox 360, voice and text chat, friends lists, are all now free to Windows gamers. This change to free is for all Games for Windows LIVE titles, past and future. Microsoft also announced plans to introduce Games for Windows - Live marketplace this fall, which will include free and paid downloadable game content, demos, trailers and "more." Finally, the company said they are working to streamline the interface for the PC and reduce technical requirements for developers. Too little, too late? Too early to tell, I say. In other news from GameFest, DirectX 11 was unveiled. The company calls DirectX 11 a "big step forward for gaming, adding features onto existing DirectX 10". Key components of DirectX 11, will include: o Full support (including all DX11 hardware features) on Windows Vista as well as future versions of Windows
o Compatibility with DirectX 10 and 10.1 hardware, as well as support for new DirectX 11 hardware
o New compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor
o Multi-threaded resource handling that will allow games to better take advantage of multi-core machines
o Support for tessellation, which blurs the line between super high quality pre-rendered scenes and scenes rendered in real-time, allowing game developers to refine models to be smoother and more attractive when seen up close
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| GFW Live Goes Free, DirectX 11 Unveiled [Games For Windows - LIVE] | | Games for Windows - Live multiplayer features are free, effective today, Microsoft announced at today's GameFest 2008 conference in Seattle. The move to free means that achievements, enhanced "truskill" matchmaking, cross-platform play with the Xbox 360, voice and text chat, friends li [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jul-2008 by Brian Crecente in Games for Windows - LIVE Microsoft News PC Top Vista Xbox 360
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| Rumor: XBL Silver Now Allows Free Online Play? [Xbox Live] | | OK, this is hard to run down exactly, because there's a Live Weekend going on right now, which means you can play online for free on Xbox Live. But reader Draco, a Silver level gamer, says that he's been playing cross-platform multiplayer games for free since Wednesday night, which precedes the Live We [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jul-2008 by Owen Good in Xbox Live Microsoft Multiplayer News Pc Gaming Top
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| Aplikasi Desktop Windows Live Software Suite | | Microsoft akhirnya mengeluarkan paket aplikasi desktop Windows Live Software Suite sebagai pendamping layanan Web 2.0 mereka yaitu Windows Live. Hal ini merupakan jawaban Microsoft terhadap Google dan Yahoo yang selama ini menguasai layanan Web 2.0.Berikut daftar aplikasi yang terdapat dalam paket Windows Live Software Suite:*Windows Live Photo Gallery*Windows Live Mail*Windows Live Messenger*Windows Live Writer*Windows Live OneCare Family Safety*Windows Live ToolbarUnified Installer Product juga berfungsi sebagai lokasi pusat u [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Sep-2007 by annis in General
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| Windows Mobile Live comes to Nokia S60 |  Using Windows Mobile Live suite of applications on your Nokia S60 enabled handset is now possible thanks to, well, Microsoft. They’ve released an official version of Windows Live Messenger, Live contacts, Spaces, and Hotmail tailor made for Nokia devices, and the software suite automatically syncs your phone contacts with your Hotmail contacts. You can also [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-May-2008 by Joshua Karp in HSDPAHandsetsNokiaHotmailS60Windows Live
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| Live Webcasters: Big Noise, Few Viewers | | Thanks to a boisterous group of startups, it's never been easier to broadcast live video on the Web -- for free. The live streamers have been adept at soaking up venture funding, even though meaningful revenue has been elusive. Now th [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Mar-2008 by Silicon in General
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| More On The New Xbox Live - Copy Games To HDD [E308] | | Xbox LIVE GM Marc Whitten followed-up Microsoft's E3 press conference with a letter posted over at Larry Hryb's site, which further details the new Xbox Live experience that's coming our way this fall. Among the innovative new features is the ability to load your games from th [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Jul-2008 by Mike Fahey in E308 dashboard update Microsoft News Xbox 360
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| And The Worst Games To Play On Xbox Live Are... [Xbox Live] | | You pop in your Halo 3 disc, you fire up Xbox Live, and you won't have any trouble finding somebody to play against. Same goes for Call of Duty 4. And Grand Theft Auto IV. But what about the other end of the multiplayer spectrum? What games are you least likely to find somebody still playing in [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Aug-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Xbox Live Microsoft News Xbox 360
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| All Xbox Live iPhone Apps To Be Free [IPhone] | | Microsoft has decided that if you want to make an Xbox Live app for the iPhone, you will have to give it away for free. The coders behind the 1337pwn Friends List were contacted by Microsoft and were told they could keep their [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Aug-2008 by Stuart Houghton in iPhone 1337pwn Friends List app store Apple Microsoft News Xbla Xbox Xbox Live
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| G4 And Microsoft Partner For Shows On Xbox Live [TV On Live] | | G4 and Microsoft are hooking up to make several of the tech entertainment network's shows available on Xbox Live, the companies announced today. Episodes of "Code Monkeys" - including a "never-before seen" free episode - snowboarder reality show "The Block" and a weekly episo [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Leigh Alexander in code monkeysG4MicrosoftTV On LiveXbox 360Xbox Live
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