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MSN Games (also known as Zone.com - formerly known as The Village, Internet Gaming Zone, MSN Gaming Zone, and MSN Games by Zone.com) is a casual gaming web site, with single player and multiplayer online games, as well as PC download games. Games are available in free on-line versions, trial versions, and full feature pay-to-play versions. MSN Games is a part of Microsoft Studios, a partner of the MSN portal, and is owned by Microsoft corporation, headquartered in Redmond WA. == History == The first version of the site, which was then called "The Village", was founded by Kevin Binkley, Ted Griggs, and Hoon Im. In 1996, Steve Murch, a then-employee of Microsoft, convinced Bill Gates to acquire the small online game site, then owned by Electric Gravity. The site was rebranded to "Internet Gaming Zone" and launched in 1996. It started with a handful of card and board games like Hearts, Spades, Checkers, Backgammon, and Bridge. For the following 5 years, the Internet Gaming Zone would be renamed several times and would increase in popularity with the introduction of popular retail- and MMORPG-games, such as ''UltraCorps'', ''Age of Empires'', ''Asheron's Call'' and ''Fighter Ace''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MSN Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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