Category:Windows
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Manufacturer | Microsoft |
Released | 1985 |
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Total Games | unknown (2,957 present) |
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Windows is the collective name for Microsoft's immensely popular line of operating systems. As well as being widely used by businesses, Windows is the primary operating system PC games are developed for. It is the successor to MS-DOS, which previously held a similar market share in both the home and business markets.
New versions of Windows generally maintain a high degree of compatibility with software developed for past versions of Windows (and limited compatibility with MS-DOS), and new software releases will often work on older versions of Windows. This changed with Windows Vista; some releases (such as Halo 2) are specifically designed to only work with Windows Vista, and so cannot be used on previous versions of Windows.
- Consumer product line
- Windows 1.01 (1985)
- Windows 2.0 (1987)
- Windows 2.1x (1988)
- Windows 3.0 (1990)
- Windows 3.1x (1992)
- Windows 95 (1995)
- Windows 98 (1998) and Windows 98 Second Edition (1999)
- Windows Millenium Edition (2000)
- NT product line
- Windows NT 3.1 (1993)
- Windows NT 3.5 (1994)
- Windows NT 3.51 (1995)
- Windows NT 4.0 (1996)
- Windows 2000 (2000)
- Windows XP (2001)
- Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003 (2003)
- Windows Server 2003 (2003)
- Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (2006)
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (2005)
- Windows Vista (business versions; 2006)
- Windows Home Server (2007)
- Windows Vista (home versions; 2007)
- Windows Server 2008 (2008)
- Windows 7 (2009)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (2009)
- Windows 8 (2012)
- Windows 8.1 (2013)
- Windows 10 (2015)
- Windows 11 (2021)
Games for Windows[edit]
Games for Windows is a brand owned by Microsoft and introduced in 2006 to coincide with the release of Windows Vista. The brand represents a standardized technical certification program and online service for Windows games, bringing a measure of regulation to the PC game market in much the same way that console manufacturers regulate their platforms. The branding program is open to both first-party and third-party publishers.
This was later expanded to include Games for Windows – Live, the online gaming service for Games for Windows-branded PC titles. Not all Games for Windows will have "live" content, but those that do will have access to Microsoft's Live network for online play and other features, including voice chat, messaging and friends lists, accessed from an in-game menu called the "Guide". Users can log in with their Xbox 360 gamer-tags to gain Games for Windows achievements and play games and chat across platforms (not every game supports cross-platform play.) Some features, including cross-platform multi-player and multi-player achievements, initially required a subscription to Live Gold.
However, on July 22, 2008, Microsoft announced at Gamefest 2008 that Games for Windows Live is now free of charge. This means that all users are able to access features that would normally be available to only Gold members, such as the features listed above. In addition, Microsoft also announced that a Games for Windows Live Marketplace will launch this fall. Like its console counterpart, Xbox Live Marketplace, users will be able to download content such as game demos, add-ons, and gamer pics. Some items will be free, while others will need to be paid for using Microsoft Points, as determined by the publisher of said items. Microsoft also plans to make the Games for Windows Live interface more PC friendly, and reduce the technical requirements for developers. This is in direct competition with the leading digital distributor on computers, Steam.
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Pages in category "Windows"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 2,957 total.
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- Strider (2014)
- Strife
- Strikers 1945
- Strikers 1945 II
- Strikers 1945 III
- Strikers 1945 Plus
- Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
- Stronghold (2001)
- Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
- Stupid Invaders
- Subterranean Animism
- Sudden Attack
- Suikoden
- Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars
- Summoner
- Sunes Sportlov
- Sunken Fossil World
- Super 3D Noah's Ark
- Super Baseball 2020
- Super Bomberman R
- Super Bomberman R 2
- Super Bomberman R Online
- Super BurgerTime
- Super Dodge Ball (Neo Geo)
- Super Double Dragon
- Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission
- Super Meat Boy
- Super Meat Boy Forever
- Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
- Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania
- Super Neptunia RPG
- Super Puzzle Bobble
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
- Super Robot Wars 30
- Super Sidekicks
- Super Sidekicks 2: The World Championship
- Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory
- The Super Spy
- Super Street Fighter II
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
- Super Thunder Blade
- Superliminal
- Supreme Commander
- Supreme Commander 2
- Surgeon Simulator
- The Sushi Spinnery
- SWAT 4
- Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
- Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
- Sword of Fargoal
- Sword of the Stars
- Sword of the Stars II: Lords of Winter
- Sword of Vermilion
- Swords of Chaos
- Syndicate
- Syndicate: American Revolt
- System Shock
- System Shock 2
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- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
- Taiji
- Taiko Risshiden
- Taito Legends
- Taito Legends 2
- Take Command: Second Manassas
- A Tale in the Desert
- Tales of Arise
- Tales of Berseria
- Tales of Monkey Island
- Tales of Symphonia
- Tales of Vesperia
- TalesWeaver
- Tangle Tower
- Tank Force (2017)
- Taz: Wanted
- Team Fortress 2
- Team Fortress Classic
- Team Sonic Racing
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
- Teitoku no Ketsudan III
- Tekken 7
- Tekken 8
- Tempest (2016)
- Tempest Rising
- Ten Desires
- Tengai
- Tennis Club Story
- TERA
- Terminator: Resistance
- Terra Nil
- Terraria
- Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
- Test Drive 6
- The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
- The Case of the Golden Idol
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
- The Devil's Calculator
- The Entropy Centre
- The Forgotten City
- The Great Green Mouse Disaster
- The Maze of Galious
- The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
- The Quiet Man
- The Sexy Brutale
- The Silent Age
- The Walt Disney World Explorer
- The Witness
- Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943
- TheHunter
- Theme Hospital
- Thief: The Dark Project
- Thievery UT
- This Starry Midnight We Make
- Thrash Rally
- The Three Stooges
- Thrillville: Off the Rails
- Tibia
- Tiger Knight: Empire War
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
- Tiger-Heli
- Tigger's Honey Hunt
- Tinker
- Tiny Barbarian DX
- TIS-100
- Titan Quest
- Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
- Titanfall
- Titanfall 2
- TMNT
- TMNT X Justice League Turbo
- ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
- ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!
- Togainu no Chi
- Toki Tori
- Toki Tori 2
- Tokimeki Memorial
- Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Pazurudama
- Tokyo Ghoul: re Call to Exist
- Tokyo Xanadu
- Tom Clancy's EndWar
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
- Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Tomb Raider
- Tomb Raider (2013)
- Tomb Raider I-III Remastered
- Tomb Raider III
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary
- Tomb Raider: Underworld
- Tomba!
- Tomboys Need Love Too!
- The Tone Rebellion
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
- Tony Hawk's Underground 2
- Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
- Top Player's Golf
- Top Spin
- Torchlight
- Torchlight II
- Total Annihilation
- Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics
- Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
- Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency
- Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Tough Guy
- Touken Ranbu Warriors
- Toukiden 2
- Toukiden Kiwami
- Tower of Guns
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!
- TrackMania² Canyon
- Transformers Universe
- Transformers: Devastation
- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Transformers: The Game
- Transformers: War for Cybertron
- Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
- Treasure Stack
- Trials of Mana (2020)
- Trials Rising