Leaked Video Shows Microsoft's Harrowing Vision of the Future of PC Gaming
Warning: the following video is not for the faint of heart. Or – for that matter – PC gamers. At least, not any that we've ever met. And yet, here it is in writing: “The future of PC gaming is upon us... Are you ready to change the world? We are.” Well, Microsoft, we're thinking “change” might be a relative term, because this looks like the re-heated leftovers of a meal we already spat back onto your table.
So, you've now seen the future, and it's worse than you could have possibly imagined. Before you start hammering together time machines and sending an increasingly convoluted series of killer robots into the past, though, sit down and take a breather. See, here's the thing: by our measure, that video – while leaked very recently – is at least a year old. Between the games on display and the dated Avatar designs, it's entirely possible that Microsoft has since decided to veer off this sterilized, saccharine course altogether.
And if not? Well, keep a close eye on your mouse-and-keyboard. They say gamepads hunt at night, after all.
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April 04, 2011 at 11:26pm
GFWL is total sh*t, and the sooner it dies, the better. MS, get your cr@p outta here. Your downright hideous looking duplo avatars and stupid baby-toy interface is visual diarreah. No one wants your puke infesting PC gaming, so go back to your sh*t console market and stay with the other R-tards.
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March 23, 2011 at 4:47pm
This terrifying image should serve to remind us why PC Gaming in it current incarnation needs to be supported with every possible effort. The facebook game playing casual audience grows bigger and more powerful every day.
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June 28, 2011 at 11:33am
This game is so weird I would delete it with regcure and everything else I've got if I had it on my PC. I hope games won't turn out like that, because they would be a major loss of money if so. As for the Facebook games, they are dull and simply clicking on items and whatever you have to do to play them really doesn't help your mind improve itself.
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March 23, 2011 at 3:00pm
microsft your not gona make it here steam has all gamers need and then some and there constently adding new featurs and all i want for an avatar is a pic and a page i can go crazy with or not just go back to working on windows 8 and stop trying to consolize pcs
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orca11
March 23, 2011 at 8:51am
This is nothing more than a conceptual mashup of Facebook and Sims using kinect for a controller. From a user interface perspective the kinect gesture cotrol implied here is pretty cool, but I really wouldn't worry about the content, they're just playing on popular trends to excite the rather massive casual audience.
We'll still be blowing up photorealistic zombie heads with wasd and a mouse for a while, but maybe we'll be opening our email and surfing the web on the bigscreen tv with a literal flick of the wrist before too much longer.
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March 23, 2011 at 7:27am
Oh please god no. :(
Actually it probably wouldn't be as bad as all the doom and gloom I'm going to spout, but still!
Less social, more exploding zombie heads plz. :D
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March 23, 2011 at 8:40am
Personally, i dont see that there is any way this could be implemented.
One of the great things about windows vs the consoles is you arent forced thought some arbitrary on-line system.
then of course is the unfortunate problem, everyone has thier own...lol
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