It's a question you may have asked yourself several times if you ever tried to play games like Shadowrun or Gears of War. These games are Games for Windows – Live enabled. If you want access to the full range of online features, you have to pay for Xbox Live. While console gamers are used to this, it's an odd structure to press on PC gamers.
Why does a gold account for Games for Windows – Live, the membership level required for full access, still cost money? IGN asked Kevin Unangst, Global Director for Games for Windows.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
"Anything's possible. But we are not confirming anything at this point."
Translation: We can't make it free unless we make it free on the 360 too, which isn't going to happen.
YES it should be free.
To play online should always be free, you pay for the hardware and the software (& your internet), you shouldnt have to also pay for the "privilege" of playing that software online.
you pay money for the game.. n play it however u want it, online or offline!
i bin using gamespy for years. that was free, although u cud pay i guess for more advance feature. Bt xbl dnt give u shaite!
who cares, use steam its set up better and has far better support anyhow. http://www.steampowered.com
and its free.
Both Windows and Xbox Live should be free