It is likely that you won't need an Xbox Live Gold account to play PC games online. The main reason you have to pay for it on the 360 is because MS runs ALL of the servers that host you online matches, whereas on the PC those servers are run by the publisher, fan sites, clans, etc. And it seems, judging from comments in the article, that MS has realised ( and they don't seem to like it ) this and are looking at other ways to make money off PC users ( DL content, pay for patches, etc ).
That actually looks pretty good. When I first heard about the new art style I was worrying a bit, but that pic looks awesome and the different classes are WAY more distinctive that in other class-based shooters.
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