Microsoft
Status: active
Country: USA
aka(s): Microsoft Games Studios, Xbox Game Studios, Microsoft Games
Microsoft transitioned the Games Group into a wholly separate division named Microsoft Games around March 2000. The studio then rebranded itself on February 5, 2019 as Xbox Game Studios, as to reflect Microsoft's intent to use the Xbox brand to support gaming across all the devices it supports.
Platinum member of the Linux Foundation
It is known for Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Arkedo Series, Banjo-Kazooie, Battletoads, Close Combat, Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dofus, Doom, Dungeon Siege, Fable, Forza Motorsport, Gears of War, Geometry Wars, Half-Life, Halo, Jetman, Kingdom Under Fire, Lode Runner, Mech Commander, MechWarrior, Metal Gear, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Minecraft, Mutant Storm, Ori, Pac-Man, Portal, Shenmue, Silpheed, Tao Feng, Tenchu, The Magic School Bus
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Common gametypes
Top platforms
Windows | 94 | ||
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X360 | 62 | ||
Xbox | 52 | ||
MS-DOS | 18 | ||
Win3.1 | 13 | ||
Mac OS Classic | 10 | ||
Xbox One | 7 | ||
Apple II E | 7 | ||
OS/2 | 7 | ||
WinCE | 5 | ||
NEC PC9801 | 4 | ||
TRS-80 | 3 | ||
GBC | 3 | ||
Mobile | 2 | ||
iOS | 2 |
WIN 1997
XBOX 2004-09-14
DOS 1981
WIN 1995-08-24
W31 1994
W31 1994
WIN 2000-11-24
W31 1991
WIN 1997-10-13
XBOX 2003-04-24
W31 1990
W31 1992
Microsoft best rated games
Jade Empire | 2005 | xbox | |||
Top Spin | 2003 | xbox | |||
Braid | 2008 | x360 | |||
Project Gotham Racing 3 | 2005 | x360 | |||
Age of Mythology: The Titans | 2003 | win | |||
Rallisport Challenge | 2002 | xbox | |||
Shenmue II | 2002 | xbox | |||
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: Century Of Flight | 2003 | win | |||
Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House | 1994 | w31 | |||
Amped 2 | 2003 | xbox |
Microsoft worst games
Microsoft Pinball Arcade | 1998 | win | |||
Flight Simulator 2000 | 1999 | win | |||
Fuzion Frenzy | 2001 | xbox | |||
International Soccer 2000 | 1999 | win | |||
Flight Simulator X | 2006 | win |