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Microsoft says it's fully behind PC gaming now after relaunching the Games For Windows web site last year and planning to release at least two PC games this year (the PC port of Fable 3 and Age of Empires Online). Now an internal Microsoft video has been leaked that shows some possible future plans for PC gaming via Windows.

The video was discovered by ZDNet which states that was first made back in May 2010 which means that some, if not all, of the things in the video may have been changed or dumped since then. The video from the Windows Gaming Experience team shows Xbox 360-like avatars doing things like purchasing more avatar outfits via Microsoft points, playing games on Facebook, finding new games to play and getting invites from friends to join online games. It's all pretty tame stuff, actually, and nothing that isn't available already via third party programs and companies.

Oh, and apparently Microsoft doesn't know how to spell "pwned".

[Via PC Gamer]

Microsoft has been hyping up its Games For Windows branding for PC games for over two years now. However it looks like the company is trying to regroup and focus its energies on yet another resuffling of their PC gaming efforts.

MTV's Multiplayer blog reports that they received a Christmas card from Microsoft with the "Windows Gaming eXperience" logo (reproduced to the right) on the back side. The blog site at first thought it might be a new name for the Games For Windows brand but according to Microsoft that's not the case. A spokesperson said it was an internal group name for all of Microsoft's PC gaming efforts, including Games For Windows, Games For Windows Live, MSN Games and Windows Live Messenger Games.

Still one wonders why news of this new internal grouping of Microsoft's PC game efforts came on the back of a Christmas card instead of a formal news release. Hopefully in the new year we can find out more about this move.