


The company stated, "Links is something that we're taking a hard look at what we need to do." At the end of 2004, Microsoft sold Indie Built (formerly Access Software) to Take-Two Interactive. In March 2004, Microsoft announced the cancellation of its 2004 lineup of sports games, allowing the company to focus on improving such games. It would be the final game in the series. A version for the Xbox named Links 2004 was released in November 2003. In 1996, Access Software introduced Links LS 1997, the first of several Links games to use the LS ( Legends in Sports) title. Several versions of the game and expansion packs (containing new courses and golfers mainly) were created for the Mac and PC over the years. The first game in the series, Links: The Challenge of Golf, won Computer Gaming World's 1991 Action Game of the Year award. The Links series was a flagship brand for Access, and was continued from 1990 to 2003. Microsoft also produced its own series of golf games based on Links, under the title Microsoft Golf.


Links is a series of golf simulation video games, first developed by Access Software, and then later by Microsoft after it acquired Access Software in 1999.
