Perfect World is putting Xbox One multiplayer battler Gigantic on Windows beyond Microsoft’s app store

One of the Xbox One’s most interesting-looking free-to-play games is also coming to nearly every active version of Windows thanks to a new partnership.

Developer Motiga is teaming with publisher Perfect World, the company responsible for massively multiplayer role-playing games like Star Trek: Online and Neverwinter, to bring the competitive hero-based online arena battler Gigantic to every 64-bit version of Windows. Perfect World will include the game in its Arc game launcher, and it will build its own standalone launcher as well. Microsoft was already helping Motiga bring the game to Xbox One and Windows 10 through the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), but Perfect World will now ensure that people on Windows 7 and Windows 8 can also start playing the game. This should increase Gigantic’s exposure, and that should help it have a better chance of succeeding in a worldwide gaming market that is worth $99.6 billion.