Launched in 2007, Microsoft's Games For Windows Live was a maligned game launcher designed to unite PC and Xbox Live users. That meant Xbox achievements on PC, Xbox social features on PC, but more ...

Fallout 3 has finally been freed from Microsoft's Games For Windows Live service. Bethesda recently published a forum post to the Steam page of Fallout 3, notifying players that the game "no ...

has removed the nightmarish service from Fallout 3 entirely. Games For Windows Live initially launched in 2007, meant as a way to connect the people playing their games on the Xbox 360 and those ...

Microsoft's defunct Games for Windows Live (GFWL) platform is no longer plaguing Fallout 3. The 2008-released hugely impactful RPG by Bethesda received an update out of nowhere on Steam that ...

but my copy of Fallout 3 ran into a bug that was related to Games for Windows Live, not the game itself. Any time I tried to play it, at a certain point in the game it would simply crash.

Remember Games for Windows Live? It's a name I've not heard for a long time, but something which was still plaguing Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition on PC until just this week. Games for ...

Fallout The New Vegas remake of the Fallout 3 that never was just got its first demo, not to be confused with the straight-up remake of the cancelled Fallout 3 or, indeed, Fallout 3 Fallout ...

Surprise, Microsoft’s quietly updated Games For Windows Live to version 3.0 and added scads of new features to tickle your facet-fetish. For starters, there’s now an in-game marketplace ...

Games For Windows Live was discontinued in 2014, and since then Fallout 3 has been notoriously difficult to play through Steam. Trying to launch the game without Games For Windows Live would often ...

Why it matters: Just two weeks shy of Fallout 3's 13th birthday, Bethesda seems to have pushed a minor update, removing its dependency on Microsoft's defunct Games For Windows Live service.