Big news! Farmville coming to Windows Phone 7! (also Xbox Live gaming to be WP7’s hook)

October 1, 2010 | By Surur

Farmville coming to Windows Phone 7! Venturebeat has written a rather long article on how Microsoft sees the importance of gaming on Xbox Live, but completely buried the lead.

Besides Matt Thompson, general manager of developer and platform evangelism for Microsoft’s statement that Xbox Live will be the “the hook that helps sell Windows Phone 7 devices and unseats Apple’s iPhone iOS operating system, BlackBerry OS and Android as the dominant mobile platform”, they also go on about how Xbox Live will allows gamers to “carry their online persona into the real world”.

They of course completely miss the importance of the big news – Zynga’s Farmville is coming to Windows Phone 7!

The iconic game is the most popular Facebook application, with 62 million active users and over 24.6 million Facebook application fans, used by more than 10% of Facebook users, including your mother

Having the game on Windows Phone 7 is clearly a major win, right up there with Angry Birds and Plants versus Zombies

Of course that was not the only game Thompson name-dropped. He also demoed the popular Babylon Twins game at the GigaOm Mobilize conference (video of the game on the iPad after the break).

Do our readers think Microsoft is doing a good job getting the right key games and applications on their new platform? Let us know below.

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Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged farmville, game, software, video, windows phone 7, zynga

GP007

OSNAP! HUGE! Let all the Facebook players know right away MS!!!! This could help push sales quite a bit actually, never underestimate gamers love for a specific title fool you. Games like this alone could drive a boost in phone sales by a good %.
milad

I hope Mafia Wars makes it as an app….
captobie

Maybe two years ago I would have been all over that… now I'm just over it.
http://www.singoramareviews.com singorama

Windows Phone 7 is so NICE!!
cbs500

Still waiting for Farmville and who knows if Angry Birds will even make it to Windows after all that debacle between Microsoft and Rovio.
lee

really need help getting some games like assassins creed on my windows 7 phone anyone able to explain the process to me ?
http://www.facebook.com/dave.verlee Dave VerLee

where are all the big Xbox titles? port them on over to wp7. halo ce, gears, gta, etc. that's what I expected when xbox live on a phone was first announced. They got a few of them, but we want more!

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