Microsoft has announced the first set of games that will be released under the Windows 8 Xbox label when the new operating system launches in October. Of the 40 titles on the list, 29 are developed or published by Microsoft Studios, and a handful will be exclusive to Windows 8.

The first wave of games will be available on October 26th, but Microsoft has yet to announce specific dates for individual titles.

• 4 Elements II Special Edition
• A World of Keflings
• Adera: Episode 1
• Adera: Episode 2
• Adera: Episode 3
• Angry Birds
• Angry Birds Space
• Big Buck Hunter Pro
• BlazBlue Calamity Trigger
• Collateral Damage
• Crash Course GO
• Cut the Rope
• Disney Fairies
• Dragon’s Lair
• Field & Stream Fishing
• Fruit Ninja
• Gravity Guy
• Gunstringer: Dead Man Running
• Hydro Thunder Hurricane
• IloMilo
• iStunt 2
• Jetpack Joyride
• Kinectimals Unleashed
• Microsoft Mahjong
• Microsoft Minesweeper
• Microsoft Solitaire Collection
• Monster Island
• PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX
• Pinball FX 2
• Reckless Racing Ultimate
• Rocket Riot 3D
• Shark Dash
• Shuffle Party
• Skulls of the Shogun
• Taptiles
• Team Crossword
• The Harvest HD
• Toy Soldiers Cold War
• Wordament
• Zombies!!!

Judging by that list, this seems to be more about rebranding Windows 8′s game store than anything else. A few of the titles on there, like ilomilo and Skulls of the Shogun, are actually ports of 360 games, but most of them are just mobile or pack-in Windows games that have been lumped together under the Xbox banner.

I, for one, am looking forward to the day I have to explain to my grandmother that a round of Solitaire doesn’t count as “playing Xbox”