Wow – what a groundbreaking idea.  Wait, didn’t Valve start publishing video game content online via Steam back in 2002 and have to fight off Vivendi Universal for the right to do so?

Microsoft has announced plans for a new Web version of its Games for Windows Marketplace. Come November 15, Windows PC users will be able to use the online portal to buy digital copies of video games from their browser, with 100 titles available from the likes of Rockstar and 2K Games, among others. The new marketplace will require a Windows Live ID and users will be able to purchase games with their Microsoft Points or a credit card.

via Microsoft readies browser-based Windows store for PC games.ars technica

In the interest of full disclosure I will state that I’ve long been a die-hard Valve fan, having built my first home PC from scratch mainly to play the original Half Life, but the addiction certainly didn’t end there.