Ah Chinese whispers. http://www.insideris.com/shocker-xbox-live-will-be-built-in-into-windows-8/ Here's the original source of the blog post in the OP. "Xbox Live Will Be Built In Into Windows 8".(sic) Move along people, nothing more to see here.
http://www.insideris.com/more-xbox-360-games-on-windows-8-details/ Thoughts? I would hate to see microsoft loosing sight of what pc gaming can do, just because they can add 360 games to be playable on a pc. I have some of those Windows Live games, like Arkham Asylum and Dead Rising 2, which give you achievements linked to…
That smells like a fake. If it were true, I'm not going to buy a xbox 360 videogame for a pc in windows 8... that's pointless for me (small textures, outdated graphics, bad gameplay for PC, etc.), and more with my actual hardware that demands quality. If we hate the bad ported games... PC gamers would not be buying old…
They are probably doing this so they don't have to add backwards compatibility to 360 games in the next console generation. I'm not familiar with the Xbox 360 API architecture, but if they were forward thinking, they may have made the 360 run an interpreter that is written specifically for the console instead of raw…