Actually games is probably one of the few things it might already have going; windows 7 was spectacular for a lot of those. Even I was surprised to see the Compatibility mode thing make UT work.

I don't play to many new games, and I like shotguns and chainsaws, so UT and DooM are generally it. DooM and Quake don't work on it, but the UT games did. With one click on Compatibility. So 8 should at least support that.