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Alphajax Wins our Scrabble Clone Wars Then Wins Actual Award

February 21, 2011 No Comments

  Just Recently Alphajax beat out Spellit for scrabble clone supremacy. Now they actual won something to write home about.   AlphaJax wins Best Mobile Application Award Monday, 21 February 2011, 3:09 pm Press Release: Microsoft New Zealand AlphaJax wins Best Mobile Application Award AlphaJax for Windows Phone 7 has been named winner of the […]

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XNA-UK XAP to Give Developers a Way to Test Apps

February 20, 2011 No Comments

The only way so far for developers to test their apps was to hunt down different people with unlocked WP7 devices and share their XAP file. Even after that you would have to hope they would give you sometime of helpful feedback. Now the XNA UK user group has launched their XNA-UK XAP service which […]

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Game Review: Boss Launch 2

February 20, 2011 No Comments

Some games are made by cloning an already popular game and skinning just the surface. Boss launch 2 manages to take an Idea and create something new with it. The game plays a lot like Angry Birds. It has the same basic element and the same basic setup. But that's where the similarities end. In […]

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Game Devs Thrilled With Microsoft/ Nokia Deal

February 19, 2011 No Comments

We have heard from the press, investors, Symbian loyalists and the two companies partnering together. Now we get a better look at what some game developers have to say.   Mikkel Thorsted, partner, Press Play "Considering our situation, where we already have Max & the Magic Marker and our soon to be released Microsoft Game […]

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Twin Blades: Removed From the Marketplace

February 17, 2011 No Comments

The cartoonish but violent game, Twin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard has been pulled from the Windows Phone marketplace with very little explanation as to why. Karl Stricker, Business Manager of Mobile Gaming at Xbox LIVE, offered a brief summary of the situation via his personal Twitter account: “We had to remove it due to marketplace […]

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Alphajax Vs. Spell It! A Battle of the Scrabble Clones

February 17, 2011 No Comments

Alphajax and Spell It are both Scrabble clones. They both are played using the same exact rules. We all know about my adoration of word games. So naturally when two scrabble-esque games came out for WP7 I had to get them both and figure out which one reigned supreme. Both games let you have multiple […]

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Strike Out App Review

February 17, 2011 1 Comment

   Being a huge baseball fan I naturally gravitated to this game. Being able to judge the velocity of your pitches using the phone is amazing. Thing is it does the job exactly like that, by using your phone as the ball. Which can end very very badly for your phone, flat screen, family members, […]

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Game Review: Pixel Man Zero

February 17, 2011 No Comments

  When I didn't think games couldn't get anymore additively simple than Dodge. Nick Gravelyn releases another one, Pixel Man Zero makes it to the Windows Phone 7. The title might sound familiar to some of you, especially those with consoles. Pixel man first came out out the Xbox 360 as an indie game and […]

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Angry Birds Will be Coming to WP7… Eventually…

February 16, 2011 No Comments

  So we were right in our last article about Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7. Now it is a matter of when… Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka speaking to Pocket-lint, confirmed that Rovio was working on a Windows Phone 7 version of Angry Birds but that they still haven't come to an agreement to bring […]

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Xbox Live Game of the Week- Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night

February 16, 2011 No Comments

The Xbox Live game of the week is Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night! It is currently priced at $6.99, which is a bit much for a mobile game. If the price hasn't scared you away then below is the description for Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night! Take control of Alucard,son of Dracula, and […]

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HTC Radar: Promo Video

In addition to the HTC Titan promo video we posted earlier that HTC released to the public. We also...

HTC Titan & Radar (aka Eternity & Omega) – Hands On Videos

Engadget has gotten their lucky hands on the new HTC Titan & HTC Radar which were recently announced by...