Guitar Hero is was a pretty popular game across lots of platforms and…we can now talk about it in the past tense. From Xbox360Digest we learn that Activision has decided to ax it and move on to projects that it thinks are more profitable and have more room to advance. This is shocking as Guitar … Read more
And we have a release date! Here it is from the official press release and notice the avatar inclusion which is a first: Full House Poker” for Windows Phone 7 will be launching on March 16th for $2.99 in the Games marketplace. The mobile companion to the Xbox 360 title, “Full House Poker” for Windows … Read more
For all of those that think that Windows Phone games don’t make developers money, Elbert Perez is showing otherwise. He’s an Indie developer and has released a series of Windows Phone 7 games that are top rated. Although his games started at $.99 there are now free versions of all of his games and he’s … Read more
Vic Gundotra is a VP of engineering and a former general manager at Microsoft. He tweeted “#feb11 “Two turkeys do not make an Eagle.” #feb11 is a reference to the date that Nokia is unveiling their future plans and that’s the follow tag used on Twitter for the event. And he’s one of the people … Read more
I’m not really into too many games but these trial modes keep getting me hooked. I downloaded Balloon Gunner on the day it came out and tried the trial (which consists of the first three flight levels) and had a great time with it. Today, I took the plunge and bought it for $1.99…and then … Read more
We new it was coming today and now Tiki Towers is available for $3 with a free trial (like most Xbox titles) even though it’s now free for the iPhone (Tiki Towers 2 is $3): *** Winner of “Best Casual Game” – 5th Annual International Mobile Gaming Awards! *** Save the monkeys! Only you can … Read more
Arcane’s Tower Defense has received a lot of attention. Mostly because it looks sick. The dev was nice enough to drop me a tip that they’ve uploaded a new video on YouTube showing off their game progress. One of the most interesting aspects is a world editor. Pretty silk. Check it out and at the … Read more
Whoah what’s up with that title? OK, a new app called PIM is in the Marketplace and in it’s simplest terms, it’s a fancy-as IM client for Windows Phone users. You can send text, pictures and voicemails and it even uses push notifications so that means, even though there’s no multitasking, you can get notices … Read more
I finally read the letter that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop wrote to his company. Am I the only one who thinks he’s not talking about Windows Phone 7? Here’s his text, from Engadget: Hello there, There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He … Read more
I’ve noticed that not all apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace are routinely updated. While some apps really don’t need updates(very simple ones), I find myself scrolling down to the version number before I download any app nowadays. If I notice that the app was relased over 2months ago and its still on version 1.0 … Read more