Cortana has a Different Look on the Windows Phone
Cortana, the digital consigliere coming to Windows Phone 8.1, won't be represented by the light blue apparition of a woman. Cortana will, appropriately enough, be a halo.
This is Star Wars: Assault Team, coming this spring to Android, iOS and Windows 8 devices. What is it? Not a clue. All we've got is this image from the official Star Wars Twitter. I'm thinking free-to-play collectible card game. As long as it's better than Star Wars: Force Collection I'm game.
Ten Games To Play Instead Of Candy Crush Saga
2013 was the year of Candy Crush Saga. It was on television, in music videos, and — most importantly — it was in the hearts and minds of millions of mobile gamers around the globe. Let's see if one of these ten alternatives can't dislodge it.
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This Week's Windows Phone Charts: I Need Your Skulls
What does it take to unseat Angry Birds from the top of the Windows Phone game charts? How about something smart, sexy and exclusive? Skulls of the Shogun's stylish real-time strategy cuts a wide swath through this week's top ten list.
This Week's Windows Phone Charts: Begone, Where's My Water?
Last week Disney's duo of dirt-digging water puzzle games, Where's My Water? and Where's My Perry? stormed the Windows Phone charts, taking the two top spots and displacing Rovio's ever-present Angry Birds. This week? They've been disappeared.
This Week's Windows Phone Charts: Where's My Angry Birds?
Week two of the new and improved Windows Phone game charts is the perfect place to stage a coup against long-time paid app front-runner, Angry Birds. Disney double teams its way to the top of the paid charts with the double threat of Swampy the Alligator and Perry the Platypus.
This Week's Windows Phone Charts: In With the Old, Out With the New
It's not that the Windows Phone platform isn't getting new games—it's just that the older ones are just that good. We'll run with that as the weekly Windows Phone charts return sleeker, sexier and more 5-hittier than ever before.
Skulls of the Shogun—Microsoft Surface's Best Hope for a Good Video…
If you've got a device with a Microsoft logo on it, you'll be able to play 17-Bit's action/strategy title, Skulls of the Shogun. The long-brewing game—playable on Xbox 360, PC, Surface and Windows Phone, complete with asynchronous turns—will be out at the end of the month. Come for the great music and fun character…
Cloud and Boy Might Seem Familiar, But It's Still Great Fun
I don't get to play a lot of Windows Phone games, mostly because I don't own a Windows Phone and because there aren't enough of them to warrant buying a Windows Phone. However, during last month's game developers conference, I got to play a Windows Phone exclusive game developed by a student team from Taiwan. The game, …
This Week's Windows Phone Charts: Oh How I've Missed You, Ilomilo
One of the warmest, most wonderful games I've played shows up on this week's Windows Phone charts, granting me a comforting nostalgic rush and hopefully distracting all of you from noticing I didn't do the Windows Phone charts last week.
This Week's Windows Phone Charts: Windows Phone 8 Defeats Angry Birds…
Angry Birds Star Wars has topped the iPad charts, the Android charts and the iPhone charts since its release last week, but it doesn't dominate the Windows Phone charts, thanks to Windows Phone 8.
This Week's Windows Phone Charts: Pacman 8 is So Much Better Than …
Dear Namco Bandai, you should probably pay more attention to the Windows Phone platform, if only to make sure people don't get confused about Pac-Man continuity.
Another week down, only all of them left to go! Join me next week, when the theme will be …WSJ: Microsoft Is Testing Its Own Smartphone
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This Week's Windows Phone Charts: Cracking Sands and Circling Words
Welcome to the second-ever Kotaku Windows Phone game charts. In this second installment of this thrilling series we explore how the game rankings ebb and flow from week to week.
This Week's Windows Phone Charts: Gold Coins and the Flow Free…
Bring the mobile game ranking charts back to Kotaku this week has taught me a lot about the various mobile platforms. The iPhone and Android players have similar tastes. Windows Phone players can't get many of the games from those other platforms, so they go insane. Oh, and everybody loves Flow Free exactly the same…
Microsoft Rejects Game Because it Made Toilet Sounds
A Windows phone game, developed by Austrian Christian Zangl, has been blocked from release in China not because it contained contentious political commentary. It's been blocked because it featured the sound of a flushing toilet.
This Isn't Some New Snake. It's the Old Snake.
While people had been trying to put games on mobile phones for years, it wasn't until Nokia's humble little version of arcade classic Snake in 1997 that the idea was taken a little more seriously.
It's now 2012, and with thousands of games available on various phones, some looking as good (and almost playing as good)…
Wife of Rovio Exec Wears Angry Birds Dress to Finnish State Gala
Angry Birds don't just make good games, they're also great for formal dress, it seems.
