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Microsoft Reboots Two Classic PC Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the what's-old-is-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ever since it launched the Xbox, Microsoft has had a fickle relationship with Windows as a gaming platform. On one hand PC gaming is a major driver of hardware and operating system sales, but on the other hand the PC is inherently less secure than the Xbox console, with piracy much more likely to impact sales of a PC title than a console one. Games for Windows Live has been an attempt to bring some of the success of Xbox Live to the PC, and while many games have shipped with support for Games for Windows Live, it hasn't exactly been a favorite of PC gamers. After all these half-hearted efforts, the last thing anyone expected was for Microsoft to announce new PC-only reboots of two classic game franchises, Flight Simulator and Age of Empires. But yesterday it did just that, announcing a massively multiplayer version of Age of Empires and a new Flight Simulator called Flight. The big question is whether Microsoft can make Games For Windows Live relevant in a market where Steam has taken hold, or if it's too late."

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  1. Re:Wow i must be tired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just made thousands of Flash- and Microsoft-hating nerds knowingly enter a pure-Flash Microsoft site.

    Truly well played!

  2. That's something they are good at by Cigaes · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least, reboots are something Microsoft are very good at.

    1. Re:That's something they are good at by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Rebooting a dead horse.

  3. Re:What about Hearts, Freecell and Minesweeper? by dingen · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I can't really believe I bothered to go looking.

    I win.

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  4. In Soviet Russia, by smitty97 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You reboot Microsoft! Wait, that happens all over the world, not just Russia

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  5. Re:Wow i must be tired by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I insane or is the woman superimposed on the right hand side of the [weirdly purely flash] Flight site topless with propellers for nipples?

    That's nothing. Stare at the picture of clouds opposite the weird lady with propeller-nipples. Keep staring.

    After a while, you can clearly see a naked man bending over with his junk hanging out the back.

    Uh, nevermind.

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