Microsoft gets back into PC gaming
Age of Empires Online and Flight will join Fable 3 as Microsoft attempts to breathe life into Games for Windows Live.
Ever since it launched the Xbox, Microsoft has had a fickle relationship with Windows as a gaming platform. On one hand PC gaming is a major driver of hardware and operating system sales, but on the other hand the PC is inherently less secure than the Xbox console, with piracy much more likely to impact sales of a PC title than a console one.
Over recent years we have seen Microsoft make several half-hearted attempts to nurture PC gaming. Games for Windows Live has been an attempt to bring some of the success of Xbox Live to the PC, and while many games have shipped with support for Games for Windows Live it hasn't exactly been a favourite of PC gamers.
