Rumor: Live Support Coming to Solitaire and Minesweeper
Microsoft [http://www.microsoft.com] is rumored to be adding Live functionality and Achievements to the free games that come with Windows: That's right, I'm talking about Solitaire, Minesweeper, Freecell and all the rest.
As far as I can tell, this is not a horribly late April Fool's joke: According to Games for Windows Live [http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/06/rumor-microsoft-live-support-coming-to-free-windows-games/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fjoystiq+%28Joystiq%29] treatment, including Achievements, online chat and leaderboards.
The idea, apparently, is to gently ease new PC owners and non-gamer types into Live by building it into the games that virtually everyone gets around to trying sooner or later. Register a free GFW Live account, start building a Gamerscore by playing Spider Solitaire, meet a few people online and blammo, you're hooked. So the theory goes, anyway, and it sounds pretty solid to me.
It's only a rumor at this point, but Joystiq claims that its source has a 100 percent accuracy rating thus far, with successful predictions including Tecmo Bowl: Throwback [http://store.steampowered.com/app/32410/]. True or not, Microsoft needs to do something if it wants to start building credibility for the piece of crap that is GFW Live; this would certainly be an interesting place to start.
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Microsoft [http://www.microsoft.com] is rumored to be adding Live functionality and Achievements to the free games that come with Windows: That's right, I'm talking about Solitaire, Minesweeper, Freecell and all the rest.
As far as I can tell, this is not a horribly late April Fool's joke: According to Games for Windows Live [http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/06/rumor-microsoft-live-support-coming-to-free-windows-games/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fjoystiq+%28Joystiq%29] treatment, including Achievements, online chat and leaderboards.
The idea, apparently, is to gently ease new PC owners and non-gamer types into Live by building it into the games that virtually everyone gets around to trying sooner or later. Register a free GFW Live account, start building a Gamerscore by playing Spider Solitaire, meet a few people online and blammo, you're hooked. So the theory goes, anyway, and it sounds pretty solid to me.
It's only a rumor at this point, but Joystiq claims that its source has a 100 percent accuracy rating thus far, with successful predictions including Tecmo Bowl: Throwback [http://store.steampowered.com/app/32410/]. True or not, Microsoft needs to do something if it wants to start building credibility for the piece of crap that is GFW Live; this would certainly be an interesting place to start.
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