Windows 8 to “Relaunch PC Gaming”

Techradar is running a story about how Microsoft intends to “use Windows 8 to relaunch itself at the forefront of PC gaming”, with the recent Games For Windows Marketplace overhaul and upcoming release of Fable III and other titles used as examples for the first signs of the coming PC battle.

A relaunched Games for Windows marketplace was a recent fillip, but it is the hiring of Rahul Sood, the founder of gaming computer brand Voodoo PC and previously an outspoken critic of the Redmond company’s attitude towards PC gaming that underlines what TechRadar has been told about Windows 8.

“Windows 8 will represent a real new push into PC gaming,” the source told TechRadar. “Gaming will be a key component for the whole OS.”

Along with the new store, Microsoft has shown signs of waking from its PC gaming slumber in the course of 2010.

The announcement of a new Age of Empires game, along with Fable 3 and an updated Flight Simulator appear to be the green shoots of the new attitude.