MSN Games

MSN Games is a gaming website. It has single player, multiplayer, social casino video games, and downloadable content for PCs. These games are available for a free trial, and there are full-feature payable versions.

MSN Games is part of Xbox Game Studios and is linked to the MSN portal. It was made by MSN and Microsoft Corporation, it was created in 1996 by MSN Broadband. In the early year of 1996, Bill Gates introduced ''MSN Gaming Zone'' which would be on at MSN Broadband. 

 History 
The first version of the site, known as "The Village," was started by Kevin Binkley, Ted Higgs, and Hoon. In 1996, an employee of Microsoft Steve Murch convinced Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to buy the game site, which was owned by Electric Gravity. The site was renamed to "Internet Gaming Zone" and released in 1996.
 Discontinuation 
On January 10, 2009, MSN Internet Access was removed from Windows XP and Windows 2000 because it no longer ran MSN Gaming Zone. On July 31, 2019, later after the release, Microsoft announced that they would no longer continue servicing the MSN Internet Games Zone for Windows XP and Windows ME. It was removed from Windows Vista on August 2, 2019,  and from Windows 7 on January 22, 2020, after 5 days of ending support.

 Related pages 
 MSN

 References 

 Other websites 
 MSN Games homepage
 The book about MSN Zone by Dorothy Rosencrans

Category:Browser-based game websites
Category:Microsoft websites