By Darren Allan
As the Creators Update looms large – and indeed is available now for those who want to manually download it for Windows 10 – Microsoft has made a move to ban game emulators from the Windows Store.
The news comes courtesy of NESBox, the developer of one such product called Universal Emulator (pictured above and below). The dev found that the app had been given the boot from the Windows Store, tweeting that: “Universal Emulator has been unpublished.”
The software emulated NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and GameBoy games, being available as a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app, and in a browser version.
NESBox pointed to the fact that at the end of last month, Microsoft updated the Windows Store’s official policies, with a new clause under the ‘Gaming and Xbox’ section which states: “Apps that emulate a game system are not allowed on any device family.”
Crystal clear
You can’t get much clearer than that, then, and yes, this pertains not just to PCs, but the Xbox One – although that’s no surprise, as last year, Microsoft was busy blocking game emulators that tried to make their way onto its console anyway – and indeed other devices which run …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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