{"id":733,"date":"2006-06-16T11:32:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T10:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/16\/msn-games-turns-ten\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T10:34:01","slug":"msn-games-turns-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/16\/msn-games-turns-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"MSN Games Turns Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year was 1996, and the Internet still had training wheels when Microsoft entered the realm of online games.\u00a0 Originally known as The Village, the site began as a retail matchmaking destination for massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs).\u00a0 But Microsoft quickly realized that a different kind of gamer was waiting to be cultivated the casual gamer who was interested in seemingly simple, but inevitably hard to master, gameplay.\u00a0 So the Village morphed into a casual games hub, the Internet Gaming Zone, Zone.com and MSN Gaming Zone before becoming what is today, MSN Games (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.games.msn.com\/\">www.games.msn.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And so because no significant birthday should go unnoticed, MSN Games has launched a month-long celebration to thank its loyal users for 10 years of puzzle playing, card dealing and trivia tackling.\u00a0 The online celebration (June 6 30, 2006) will include an instant win sweepstakes, downloadable wallpaper and buddy icons, promotional badges and a spotlight on some of the most tried-and-true game titles. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/games.msn.com\/\">http:\/\/games.msn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/gamerscoreblog.com\/team\/archive\/2006\/06\/12\/535667.aspx\">Gamerscoreblog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year was 1996, and the Internet still had training wheels when Microsoft entered the realm of online games.\u00a0 Originally known as The Village, the site began as a retail matchmaking destination for massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs).\u00a0 But Microsoft quickly realized that a different kind of gamer was waiting to be cultivated the casual gamer who was interested in<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/16\/msn-games-turns-ten\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MSN Games Turns Ten&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}