June 8th, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough 
While Games for Windows Live has been around for awhile now, the Games on Demand side of it is still relatively new. That part of the service is being expanded.
Microsoft has announced that they will now be carrying games on their Games on Demand marketplace that don’t use Games for Windows Live. Until this point, only titles utilizing GfWL were sold through the store.
The first additions to the catalogue that don’t actually use GfWL : Age of Empires III Complete, Splinter Cell : Conviction, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, Max Payne 2, Borderlands, Assassin’s Creed 2 and Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas. Also, Prince of Persia : The Forgotten Sands, and two earlier games in the PoP series : The Sands of Time and Warrior Within, both of which are marked down.
So it seems that Microsoft is getting serious about PC digital retail. What’s yet to be determined is whether or not they’ve waited too long to really jump on board.
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