With all the new features to hit Mango, Microsoft kindly reminded us of features that still have not yet come to play on our new Windows Phone 7.5 OS. Avatar Awardables These are like wearable achievements for your avatar. Once they’re unlocked, avatar awardables will suddenly appear in your avatar closet and can be […]
NewsRecently Microsoft announced new features coming to the games hub via the Mango update. One in particular, Fast Async was aimed at multiplayer games. The service was built to facilitate multiplayer on the platform. Fast Async: A new Xbox LIVE service coming this fall that improves gameplay for multiplayer, turn-by-turn (or asynchronous) Windows Phone games. Since […]
Games, NewsMicrosoft Research is working on a system called Switchboard for mobile devices. It’s a matchmaking system for multi-player mobile games. The way Switchboard works is as a matchmaker tool, finding potential game players and assigning them to a group most similar for each player’s phone and network connection. Victor Bahl, director of the Mobile Computing Research […]
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