A band of intergalactic outlaws with a noble cause, the Guardians of the Galaxy seem like the sort of group that doesn't take any crap. Perhaps that's why their mobile game doesn't come with any. This is a game that takes your money and runs. » 7/17/14 9:20am 7/17/14 9:20am

If you've ever wanted to make C-3PO part of an elite strike force, now's your chance. » 3/27/14 9:40am 3/27/14 9:40am

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. » 3/03/14 9:40am 3/03/14 9:40am

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. » 1/28/14 12:18pm 1/28/14 12:18pm

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. » 2/07/13 9:55am 2/07/13 9:55am

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. » 1/31/13 8:55am 1/31/13 8:55am

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. » 1/24/13 8:55am 1/24/13 8:55am

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. » 1/17/13 9:15am 1/17/13 9:15am

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… » 1/10/13 1:15pm 1/10/13 1:15pm

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… » 12/03/12 6:00am 12/03/12 6:00am

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. » 11/29/12 9:55am 11/29/12 9:55am

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. » 11/15/12 9:55am 11/15/12 9:55am

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. » 11/08/12 9:55am 11/08/12 9:55am

WSJ: Microsoft Is Testing Its Own Smartphone [updates.gizmodo.com] » 11/02/12 7:05am 11/02/12 7:05am

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. » 10/25/12 10:55am 10/25/12 10:55am

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… » 10/18/12 9:55am 10/18/12 9:55am

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. » 4/23/12 4:30am 4/23/12 4:30am