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As it is Monday I am hiding from real work in a few games of Dawn of War 2 Last stand, ping me on LIVE if you would like to join me.

Posted to GFWLMod's Blog by GFWLMod on Mon, Nov 2 2009

And thus began the end of days, for they gave the dyslexic misanthrope a blog. Apparently they want me blogging a bit, so i'll be occasionally commenting here about what's going on on our end of things, or seeing if I can grab some of you to play...

Posted to GFWLMod's Blog by GFWLMod on Wed, Oct 28 2009

Games for Windows - LIVE version 3.0 is now available!

I'm sure most of you have already noticed, but if you haven't please rush out and download it. Here's an article covering the major changes and upgrades, by our very own Eric: http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-us/aboutGFW/pages/gfw3intro.aspx

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Wed, Aug 5 2009

Call of Duty World at War Map Pack 2 available for PC now

I know I'm mega late on this since it released on like the 16th, but hey I had a root canal yesterday so I've been out of it lately! The Call of Duty: World at War map pack with the new maps, the imperial zombies, improved dog spawning, etc. is...

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Wed, Jul 22 2009

Resident Evil 5 for Games for Windows - LIVE

Well, the cat is officially out of the bag since Capcom Europse has announced RE5 and put a box shot on their site including the Games for Windows - LIVE logo at the top. ( Here. ) This is one of those titles that has been bouncing around as a possibility...

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Fri, Jul 17 2009

Excellent Dawn of War II event this weekend!

We had a good time on Saturday getting together to play Dawn of War 2! After some trouble getting everyone in the game (apparently as I was telling everyone to make sure they had the There is Only War stuff loaded, I did not myself!) we got a first game...

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Mon, Jul 13 2009

Winners of the Fallout 3 Sweepstakes announced!

Hey guys, I know it's been a while since the contest took place and people have been anxious to see who the winners were, so here you go: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-us/community/newsarticles/pages/fallout3sweepstakesenter.aspx

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Tue, Apr 28 2009

Empire: Total War is #1 in UK

The folks at Gamasutra have an interesting tidbit: Sega and Creative Assembly’s Empire: Total War has become the first PC title to hit the number one spot in the UK charts since Football Manager 2008 (also published by Sega) in October 2007. The...

Posted to Abashima by Abashima on Tue, Mar 10 2009

Filed under: Empire: Total War, UK

The first DX10-only game is...

Stormrise . Which is also a Games for Windows - LIVE title, by the by! Huzzah! Anyhoo, read more about this fact in an interview which you can read here !

Posted to Abashima by Abashima on Wed, Mar 4 2009

Welcome (back) to the Jungle: Fragging and getting fragged in the Quake Live Beta

Before World of Warcraft ate up the lives of gamers, id Software’s first-person shooter Quake swallowed countless hours of free time in homes, offices, dorms and…well, anywhere there was a PC. And, man, the fun ran deep. Nail guns, rocket...

Posted to DarthVegan's Blog by DarthVegan on Fri, Feb 20 2009

Filed under: online, free, frag, goo, quake

The inside scoop!

Unfortunately, the amount of inside scoops we're allowed to give is relatively small. I can't counterfeit anyone else's future info drops or press releases by saying too much about what's going on internally, I can't release info about...

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Wed, Feb 18 2009

CoD:WaW patch—and a cautionary tale!

There's a new patch for Call of Duty: World at War available now . It mostly addresses multiplayer issues but also has a new map, sort of. It's a daytime version of Makin. But be careful with this patch. I downloaded it and played around with...

Posted to Abashima by Abashima on Mon, Feb 9 2009

Filed under: call of duty, patch

Dawn of War II: Intermediate Tips

Alright, so I'm going to be writing an article about the Dawn of War II demo regarding strategy (expanding upon my previous article ) with more intermediate tips. I've covered most of the basic movement and grouping information, as well as cover...

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Thu, Feb 5 2009

Filed under: Dawn of War 2, tricks, tips

L2P

My latest article is up, about our adventures here at Games for Windows - LIVE learning to play Warhammer 40: Dawn of War II . Read! There are pictures! :) Coming soon I'm going to put up an article about turrets. 'Cause, you know...turrets!

Posted to Abashima by Abashima on Tue, Feb 3 2009

Dawn of War II

Man, am I having fun with this. It has definitely been too long since I really played an RTS (Starcraft was the last) as I've spent more time on TBS like Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic (yes, that old thing) and King's Bounty (PLAY THIS GAME) in...

Posted to Aaron's Blog by GFWModerator on Fri, Jan 30 2009

Filed under: Dawn of War 2

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