{"id":57360,"date":"2013-08-17T01:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57360"},"modified":"2013-08-17T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:22:21","slug":"microsoft-closing-games-for-windows-live-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57360-microsoft-closing-games-for-windows-live-marketplace","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft closing Games for Windows Live marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox.com PC marketplace, also known as the Games for Windows Live Marketplace, will be shutting down.<\/p>\n

The closure is part of Microsoft\u2019s push to restructure its marketplace strategy, which also saw the transition away from Microsoft Points to real regional currency.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has said that no purchases may be made after 22 August, however, previously purchased games and items may still be downloaded after that date.<\/p>\n

The marketplace closure will have no effect on Games for Windows Live authentication or multiplayer servers for the time being.<\/p>\n

This news comes in the wake of a former Valve employee joining Microsoft<\/a>; Jason Holtman was instrumental in the success of Valve’s Steam digital distribution platform, and in brokering deals with publishers.<\/p>\n

With a new console on the horizon and a strong push into the digital marketplace, Holtman may well prove vital to Microsoft’s digital distribution success.<\/p>\n

Source: Xbox Support<\/a><\/h6>\n

More Microsoft news:<\/h3>\n

Former Valve employee now works for Microsoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Turn any surface into a touchscreen with Kinect<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Xbox One SA launch heading for 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Xbox One boasts overheating prevention<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Games for Windows Live getting an overhaul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":57361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1657,21,91,11006,2791,243,10065],"class_list":["post-57360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-games-for-windows-live","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-pc-marketplace","tag-windows","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57395,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57360\/revisions\/57395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}