After Wild Tangent sent out that email saying that essentially the only web games that seem to work on Vista are theirs, I decided to check it out for myself.

Hit the jump for the report on Real Arcade, MSN, Yahoo Games, AOL Games, and yes, even Wild Tangent. Brian Crecente

Real Arcade
Installation: Infested my computer with Googleware, after warning me, but otherwise installed without issue.
Game Explorer: Doesn't seem to recognize Real Arcade as a game. Not sure if I would argue the point. ZING!
Game Test: I downloaded the demo of Bejeweled 2. Installation was fine, game was fine. No difference that I noticed.

Yahoo Games
Installation: No issues
Game Explorer: No recognition
Game Test: I downloaded Beetle Bomp, it worked just dandy.

AOL Games
Installation: No issues
Game Explorer: No recognition
Game Test: I downloaded Atlantis Quest, it worked fine.

MSN Games
Installation: No issues
Game Explorer: No recognition
Game Test: I downloaded Sudoku, it worked fine.

Wild Tangent
Installation: No issues
Game Explorer: Recognized Blasterball 2 Holidays when I played it.
Game Test: I downloaded Blasterball 2 Holidays, it worked fine.

Ok, to summarize, the only difference between Wild Tangent and all of the others is that when I played a game using their service it popped in into the Games Explorer. While I'd agree that means Wild T provides better support of Vista I think it's an extreme overstatement to send out a press release that says "Vista is breaking games."

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