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Thursday, March 08, 2007

GDC 2007: XBL accounts will work for Vista ...

This just in from one-less-reason-for-the-peasants-to-revolt (me being a peasant):

Microsoft's released details on the Live for Windows pricing, and it looks to be just like the Xbox Live pricing -- free for Silver, and ~$8 / ~$20 / ~$50 per month / three months / full year for Gold.

Better, Xbox Live Gold members can use their accounts for the Live for Windows features on their PCs -- surely vice versa is true, to? Brass tacks is it looks like we won't have to pay twice. Which would cause me to want to revolt. Against the Man.

No details yet on what Silver versus Gold will get you on the Live for Windows side, but hopefully, Microsoft has no plans to screw with the it's-free-to-play-PC-games-online model (excluding MMOs and the like, of course).

In related news, Halo 2 for Vista will have Achievements and a complete map editor -- two things the Xbox version (even playable on the Xbox 360) doesn't have.

Is it too much to hope those same features would be part of this spring's Xbox 360-only map pack download for Halo 2? Max? Please?

To get caught up, check out the updating GDC summaries below (and if you know of more / better ones, let me know):

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SOURCES: Gamespot.com, joystiq.com, kotaku.com, Xbox.com, IGN, GameInformer, Official XBox Magazine, CNN, gamesindustry.biz, and others.

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Thursday, March 08, 2007

GDC 2007: XBL accounts will work for Vista ...

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