Microsoft's Sleazy Tactics in the Video Game Industry?

Dyrandia asks: "I'm currently working on a Legal and Ethics course for my software engineering degree and have decided to write about microsoft's tactics of buying up video games and companies in order to keep games limited to their own platforms (pc and xbox). I am currently using the following games as examples: Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee; Halo (Microsoft bought the developers, however rumour has it that Halo will actually make it to PC next year); and Shenmue 2 (they even bought the rights to it so that it couldn't be released for the Dreamcast in the US, even though it was released in Japan and Europe). Does anyone know of URLs for sites that would have more information and possibly other games Microsoft has used similar tactics on?"

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Age of Empires

[n-baxley]

I've become seriously hooked on Age of Empires II. Does anyone know an alternative that can let me break out of the MS control, even if it's something on Windows?

Single out M$ because it's a monopoly

[yerricde]

10 LET M$ = "Microsoft"

Sorry, Microsoft is just playing the game in this case:

There are some specific games that Microsoft is not allowed to play under United States law. Microsoft has been convicted of using a monopoly to create another. Leveraging its Title 17 monopoly on Windows software into a monopoly on the broader market for x86 PC operating systems is one thing; leveraging that monopoly into new areas (XboxOS is based on Windows 2000 Embedded) is another. Bill Gates III does not like to talk to the judge.