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Don’t change your sets or grab your getaway car hire yet, you probably won’t be playing Team Fortress 2 on a Microsoft application tomorrow, but this is interesting for us gamers nonetheless.
Microsoft‘s new service Games on Demand (Or G.O.D if you like) looks set to challenge Steam. It seems as if so far though, there are no huge gaming titles (other than Resident Evil 5) available on the service – but do they have the usual array of smaller, cheerful gaming titles.
What Microsoft had to say about it: “Our goal has always been to create a seamless online gaming experience for the Windows community, and Games on Demand is a great step toward that end.”
According to downloadsquad.com, the service will be a clone of Xbox Live (although the comments say it’s the same service, which sounds interesting) with achievements, gamerscores and voice chat.
What will Microsoft bring to the table to compete with Steam? Can they beat Steam’s already amazing offers on top selling games? Perhaps they will buy exclusive rights to certain titles?
I’ll be installing this when I get home and watching it for updates (that’s if it’s not as bad as things like EA‘s downloader).
On a quick and unrelated note: Since my phone is playing up at the moment (yay for paying the bill and still being disconnected) I’m going to be getting a free SIM from somewhere until mine works again – does anyone know if you’re able to temporarily swap your number over to free SIM cards and back again when you’re finished with them?
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