Platform
Simulation
Microsoft
Xbox
Microsoft's on-again off-again affair with PC gaming is finally the real deal
Microsoft's history in PC gaming is decades long, but strangely divorced from the hobby it helped foster. It created Windows, the bedrock of PC gaming, but the company hadn't shown interest in championing the platform until the last few years: For its first 20 years of existence, at least, games were at best an afterthought.