Last July Microsoft announced that its Games For Windows Live PC game service would ditch its paid "Gold" membership and turn into a completely free service to use. At the time Microsoft announced that they were also working on a revamp of the actual Games For Windows Live user interface. Today that revamp was officially launched with any Games For Windows Live enabled game automatically updating to the new user interface.

You can see the new UI in the above screenshot taken inside Fallout 3. One of the first things you may notice is that Games For Windows Live prompts you to update the game you are playing yourself if there any any patches available. The interface, instead of being in the center of the game, now rests on top of the game screen with menus and choices that fall down when selected. Games For Windows Live still has all of the features it had in the past, including chat, messaging, game achievements that can be tied into one PC/Xbox 360 Gamerscore tag and more.

Big Download will be chatting with Microsoft reps about the new update for Games For Windows Live later today and we hope to get more info about the future of the service, including possible plans to download full games, and what Microsoft has plans for game features for the upcoming Windows 7 operating system