Merged: GFW and Xbox.com

Microsoft on Friday merged its GWF Marketplace, the company's digital delivery store for PC games, with Xbox.com. There is no further details except the statement that "now you can get all your gaming needs in one place".

Tomshardware.com reported that the forum on Xbox.com surprisingly remains calm. Commenters only said that they hope the merge will provide more cross-platform compatibility.

Microsoft's PC games are less lucrative than Xbox 360 and Xbox Live service. The library for game videos, demos, downloadable contents and digital-only PC games, is small.

It is possible that Microsoft will make more mergers in the future and gather all of its diverse game marketplace into Xbox.com. Windows Phone 7 Apps/Zune Marketplace can be the next candidate.

If Xbox.com is really to become a one-stop-shop venue for all of Microsoft's games, there will be greater chance for cross-platform games. If such cross-platform capability is exist, then customers will be able to play the games on Xbox 360 console, a Windows 7 PC and a Windows Phone 7 device.

Angry Birds in Chrome

Angry Birds is available in Chrome. Well, yes, I am really un-up-to-date Netizen. It has been around for sometimes, I guess. And the Chrome Web Store also showed me a figure of more than 1 million players already. Available here, I first play the game on my friend's iPad. I though that I would play it on my own computer someday and it has became a reality with this.

The version is unlocked. Some hackers has been able to unlock the levels so that a player does not have to complete one level in order to be able to continue to the next level. I had not been successful in opening the game though. There are two versions available when you have installed it into your browser, namely the SD version and the HD version. I've chose the HD version and it load very long time.

I googled some tips for playing the game and I found this tips. Cheating? Oh yes, surely. Not now but since I have to make myself accustomed to the game first -- and wait for the game to load. :-(

UPDATE: I have been able to play the game and it took my precious 1 hour!