Next month will see a Games for Windows get revamp in order to begin to compete with the big digital distribution players like and Direct2Drive.

The new update for Games for Windows Live will hit on November the 15th with promising it just in time to pre-order a mystery big new title most probably III.

Microsoft's Peter Orullian explained to Joystiq: "We got a lot of feedback and responding to that feedback, there are some central things we think we're solving with this. The most important thing maybe is bringing the transaction component right to the web. Today you go on, and we have a website that talks about games, then we have a client. Feedback we heard is that's not always the easiest experience, so we're bringing the transaction component right to the web. The client will still exist, but it'll exist to manage really really large files that aren't maybe so easily managed through the web, and it'll be your transaction history; so if you need to re-download a game, you can go and do that. But it's not going to be necessary to go and look at and buy games."

He added: "Definitely you should show up on day one, because we're going to have a great pre-order on a title you may care about."

By Ewan Aiton