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Angry Birds Space Not Coming To Windows Phones Anytime Soon

March 23, 2012 | By Pradeep

Last week we speculated that Angry Birds Space may come to Windows Phone platform later after the release on iOS and Android devices, but its not going to happen. Rovio Entertainment, the developer behind Angry Birds franchise has told Bloomberg that they have no plans to develop this game edition for Windows Phones.

Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer of Rovio told,

“We’re the No. 1 app in the Windows Phone app store, but it’s a big undertaking to support it, and you have to completely rewrite the application,”

“If you look at activations, Apple’s iOS and Android are clearly bigger than any other platform,”

“We want to be on all screens, but we have to consider the cost of supplying the smaller platforms. With Windows Phone it’s a lot of work to technically support it.”

I think the lack of native code access & openGL support in the current Windows Phone OS version makes the game developers job tough to port their games from other platforms. I hope Microsoft will solve this issue with Windows Phone Apollo.

Source: Bloomberg

Thanks to Matti for the heads up.

Update: Rovio Chief Executive Mikael Hed has confirmed Rovio is working on Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone, but did not announce any delivery date.

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Release – Geometry Conflict an tower defence arcade for WP7

March 9, 2012 | By boostadv

Save the geometric world from the enemy invasion, go through the dangerous corners of the universe where you will face different obstacles, make the army to complete your mission!

Enjoy with this geometric stylized tower defense arcade with amazing in-game techno music!

Gameplay

In Geometry Conflict main aim of the player – do not allow the enemies break defense. To do this, a different types of helpers units presented for player – the defenders, which differ in offensive and defensive capabilities, the main players unit – circle (only it can change its position on the field). The field of player is divided into nine cells, in six of which he can place a helpers units. When the game begins – opponents units (“Polygons”, they also differs from each other)move to player position and their number increases with time. If the defense is broken, or the main unit (Circle) will be destroyed – the player loses.

Features

5 game modes
30 levels
More than 10 types of units
6 tracks soundtrack
Beautiful space background
Geometric style

Marketplace link – here

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Popular RPG AvalonWar Now Available In Windows Phone Marketplace

February 16, 2012 | By Pradeep

AvalonWar, a Massive Multiplayer Role-Playing Game which is available on iOS & Android platforms is now available in Windows Phone Marketplace.

Game Description:

Avalon Wars is a free massively-multiplayer strategy game (mmo). It takes only 3 minutes to learn, and is extremely fun!

The unique beauty of Avalon Wars is that it always gives you plenty of choices – there is no ‘must follow’ development pattern or ultimate troops. You can decide your own favored troop combination and technology path, and achieve victories by reading your enemies and adjusting your strategies!

Year 2094, with the discovery of domistal, a powerful crystalline energy form on planet Avalon, people started struggling with each other and trying to seize control over the rare elemental. Three huge interest groups emerged, the Federate, the Terrans, and the Syndicate. As a newly recruited commander, you will settle your fortress on Avalon, rally a great army of biotics, mechanics and air forces, sweep over the rigid surface of whole planet, and prove yourself a true hero on the battleground of chaos.

Featuring different factions, cutting-edged techs, and deepest strategies, Avalon Wars is the best science fiction strategy game you ever look for.

GAME FEATURES:
- A well designed guide that helps you learn the game in 3 minutes.
- Futuristic concept and Sci-Fi Interface.
- Free to download and update.
- Interaction with thousands of players.
- Draggable interface with growing structures.
- Three major unit types with different advantages and disadvantages.
- Customized regiments with various formations of different effects.
- All kinds of captains equipped with numerous items from five major categories.
- Three different worlds with different environment and challenge rates.
- Real time battle replay.
- A sophisticated legion system.

Download the game here from the marketplace.

via: mobilitydigest

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Xbox LIVE Deal Of The Week : COLLAPSE

February 8, 2012 | By Pradeep

COLLAPSE is a little puzzle game where you destroy clusters of three or more blocks to win. This game comes with a great greast play. Under Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week, Collapse will be on sale for $1.99 instead of $2.99.

From our review of this game,

COLLAPSE is very simple, and can practically be played by tapping madly on the screen until you clear everything. However, it also has some more challenging gameplay modes like the Strategy modes, and it presents new Expert goals for each level, giving you unique targets to shoot for when playing. The most important thing about the game is that it’s actually fun to play. Once you get about thirty minutes into the game, you are really drawn into it thanks to the always changing gameplay style. There are boss levels, puzzle levels, double sided levels, and more. There are even upgrades you can buy using points earned from playing the game. It’s an extremely fun and easy to play puzzle game.

You can read our full review here. And you can find the game here from the marketplace.

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Preview – Geometry Conflict an tower defence arcade for WP7

February 7, 2012 | By boostadv

Geometry Conflict – defense minimalistic style arcade game for Windows Phone Mango mobile platform which is presented in 30 exciting levels with beautiful space backgrounds and amazing dynamic techno music.

Gameplay

In Geometry Conflict main aim of the player – do not allow the enemies break defense. To do this, a different types of helpers units presented for player – the defenders, which differ in offensive and defensive capabilities, the main players unit – circle (only it can change its position on the field). The field of player is divided into nine cells, in six of which he can place a helpers units. When the game begins – opponents units (“Polygons”, they also differs from each other)move to player position and their number increases with time. If the defense is broken, or the main unit (Circle) will be destroyed – the player loses.

Features

5 game modes
30 levels
More than 10 types of units
6 tracks soundtrack

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Thomas the Tank Engine, Angelina Ballerina and Barney comes to Marketplace

January 30, 2012 | By Surur

It appears 3 major children’s titles have just been ported to Windows Phone 7.

Hit Entertainment has brought the original licensed versions of Thomas the Tank Engine, Angelina Ballerina and Barney the Dinosaur to Windows Phone 7.

For Thomas kids have to:

All aboard for the newest adventure on the Island of Sodor with 3 new games featuring Thomas and his friends. Start your little engineer on the right track with matching games, puzzles and mazes, guaranteed to entertain for hours.

The challenge for Angelina is:

Play 5 games in 1 in "Dress Up with Angelina Ballerina". Help Angelina, Gracie and Viki get ready for their dance performances. Explore hundreds of possible outfits and accessories for tap, ballet, hip hop or mix and match your own fashions.

And for Barney kids have to:

Have a Super-Dee-Duper Fun Day with Barney and his dinosaur friends in three brand new games. Try on Silly Hats with Barney, create cloud shapes with BJ and help Baby Bop make Yummy Cookies.

All three games are $1.99 each, which MobilityDigest notes is actually for once $1 cheaper than on iOS.

Thomas the Tank Engine can be found here, Angelina Ballerina here and Barney here.

Via MobilityDigest.com

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Xbox LIVE Deal Of The Week: Flight Control

January 19, 2012 | By Pradeep

Flight Control is an addictive game for some people while some others hate it. Anyway, in Flight Control you need to guide aircraft to their landing zones but don’t let them collide. This game is now available for sale under Xbox LIVE Deal of the week. The deal price is $1.99 down from regular $2.99 price. You can read our review here.

Find the game here at Windows Phone Marketplace.

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Dance Central 2’s Dance*Cam Now In Windows Phone Marketplace for free (US)

January 14, 2012 | By Pradeep

Microsoft has released the Dance Central 2’s Dance*Cam app for Windows Phone devices.

The app may be one of the first which allows one to both create and edit videos on Windows Phone 7, and allows one to record yourself or others dancing along to dance hits and then remix, light up, and transform your performance into a personalized dance video.

The videos can then be uploaded to Facebook and used to challenge friends and enemies

Game Description:

FEATURING:
- La Roux – ‘Bulletproof’
- Montell Jordan – ‘This Is How We Do It’
- Electric Valentine – ‘Body To Body’
- Sean Kingston – ‘Fire Burning’
- Armanni Reign – ‘Reach’
- Far East Movement – ‘Like A G6’
- Enrique Iglesias – ‘I Like It’
After you’ve proven yourself to your friends, see if you can handle yourself in the game. With a killer soundtrack, the best routines, and all-new multiplayer features, Dance Central 2 is sure to get your party started. Visit www.xbox.com/dancecentral2

Download the app here from the marketplace.

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CNN Mobile a Nokia Exclusive for 90 days – a clue to the exclusivity period for other apps and games?

January 13, 2012 | By Surur

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CNN is releasing an app exclusively for Nokia’s Lumia handsets.

The CNN App for Windows Phones will provide the latest news and video from CNN’s reporting around the globe.

The panorama app will allow sections to be pinned to the home screen and offer a live tile for real-time news updates, and direct access to iReport, CNN’s participatory news community. Users will have the ability to submit an iReport while simultaneously capturing the event.

CNN has in a press release also revealed the length of the timed exclusive – a full 90 days before the app will be made available for other Windows Phone 7 handsets.

Of course the CNN app is not the only one coming exclusively to Nokia handsets. There is also a long list of great games which are also timed Nokia exclusives, but the length of these exclusives were not revealed.

If those were also 3 months it would certainly be long enough to make new Windows Phone 7 users want to choose Nokia handsets over other OEMs, but not so long as to make other WP7 users resort to piracy.

Do our readers agree? Let us know below.

Via AllaboutWindowsPhone.com

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A list of the 27 EA games with timed Nokia Lumia exclusives

January 11, 2012 | By Surur

MonWindowsPhone has collected a list of 27 EA games which will be coming to Nokia’s Lumia handsets and which will be exclusives for a limited period.

The games include:

Mirror’s Edge
Real Racing 2
Tiger PGA Tour Woord
The Sims Medieval
Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition
Spy Mouse
Yahtzee
The Game of Life
Vampire Rush – The Adventures of Captain. Greg
Parking Mania
Picnic Wars
FIFA 12
Madden 12
NBA Jam
Dead Space
Bejeweled 2
Connect 4
Risk
Trivial Pursuit
Game of Life
Yahtzee
Bop It!

With some great tittles in there I sure hope that exclusivity period is not too long!

Via MonWindowsPhone.com

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Taptitude hits 100,000 installs, near $100,000 revenue

January 6, 2012 | By Surur

While we are on the topic of Marketplace success stories, mini-game maker FourBrosStudio has tweeted that they have now reached 100,000 installs of their app Taptitude.

Taptitude is a collection of themed mini-games which is updated weekly with further game content, and at present includes 53 seperate mini-games. All the users has allowed the company to earn revenue close to $100,000 from ads from the free games and produce another mini-game every week.

The company has posted that the secret of mobile games ad monetization is to keep users coming back every day so the ad revenue pays off vs. selling the app.

With Tapitude the company has tied the numerous mini-games together by using a common coin system which earns you stars for unlocking other games or to spend on upgrades such as ‘double jump’ or ‘pimp hat costume’. They also have a few characters that star in several of the mini-games like ‘bally bounce’, ‘bally ninja’ or ‘bally drop’.

The company believes they will continue to be successful with their approach, which benefits from not having each mini-game fighting its way up the charts with each release, as it would have to if it was released separately.

While the correct approach for extracting value from Marketplace remains debatable, what is not is that the Windows Phone 7 user base has gained enough scale to start making serious money for developers, which should only help draw more of them to the OS.

Via WPSauce and MobilityDigest.com

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Casual Game Maker Arkadium Signs Multi-Year Partnership With Microsoft Studios

January 4, 2012 | By Pradeep

Arkadium, one of the leading casual game makers in the industry today announced a multi-year, multi-game partnership with Microsoft. As per the partnership, Arkadium will bring casual and social games on multiple platforms to be launched by Microsoft Studios. This will include Windows Phone, Windows and Xbox platforms of Microsoft. Arkadium already has a good relationship with Microsoft by developing games for Microsoft properties such as MSN/Bing Games, etc,.

To support the new partnership, Arkadium will create a new division and plans to hire 15 to 20 employees in its offices in New York, Ukraine and Toronto. The Toronto office opened last summer and caters exclusively to mobile games. Some of Arkadium’s current 130 employees will also be shifted to the division that will deal with the partnership. Ms. Rovello expects the team will grow to about 30

Arkadium will continue to develop games for other platforms but the games developed for Microsoft will remain as exclusive titles.

More info from Crainsnewyork.

Press Release after the break.

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Rainbow Rapture Expands From Windows Phone To Xbox LIVE Indie Games

January 3, 2012 | By Pradeep

Rainbow Rapture is a fun and addictive game with neat graphics. After 3 months of its release in Windows Phone Marketplace Rainbow Rapture is expanding its presence to Xbox LIVE Indie Games section as well.

Game Description:

Rainbow is unhappy with the way things turned out down below. He wants a clean slate. Help him wipe humanity off the face of the Earth.

- Slide down hills to build momentum
- Master gravity to get awesome air
- Smash into three kinds of power-ups
- Play new hills every time you start up
- Eat lots of people
- Conquer 45 challenges
- Dominate Scoreloop leaderboards

The game also features Fast app switching and Live Tile support ! ! You can download the game here from the marketplace.

Source: Kindling Games

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