Microsoft's Windows-based gaming service gets a long overdue facelift and the promise of downloadable trailers, demos, and add-on game content to follow shortly.

A significant Games For Windows Live update is planned for the platform later this fall, which will include a vast revamp of both the look of the service and its functionality.

Game for Windows - LIVE (GFWL) is an online gaming service for "Games for Windows"-branded PC games. It functions much like an Xbox Live, but for the PC. On Tuesday Microsoft announced a couple of ...

Owen S. Good is a longtime veteran of video games writing, well known for his coverage of sports and racing games. Microsoft has formally denied it will deactivate its Games for Windows Live ...

Unlike Xbox Live Silver, the free Games for Windows Live Silver membership level also includes online multiplayer through a server browser system. Upgrading to Gold, which runs $49.99 per year or ...

An update to the Age of Empires Online support page revealed that Games for Windows Live will shut down July 1, 2014, and with it, at least some of AoE Online's features, if not the whole game ...

The launch of the standalone Games for Windows Live Marketplace and desktop client is here, and the software is now available for download.

All of the user-matching, cross-platform multiplayer, and other formerly-premium services via the Games for Windows Live Gold Membership should now be free (effective today, says Microsoft).

Microsoft's tragically under-supported Games for Windows LIVE service gets full game downloads, but only launches with a handful.

Remember when Codemasters announced plans to remove Games for Windows Live from Dirt 3 and transition it to Steamworks instead? That was in 2013. I don't imagine anyone took them too seriously ...

Many developers have been ditching Microsoft’s Games for Windows Live service in favor of Valve’s Steamworks since last year, when Microsoft confirmed it will retire its PC Marketplace. DiRT 3 ...

Microsoft has addressed Games for Windows Live's "rocky launch" and again said it will continue improving the PC gaming service. Not for the first time and surely not for the last, Microsoft has ...