Category Archives: Windows Phone 7

A new Xbox Live promotion for Windows Phone will provide a range of five self-titled Must Have Games, geared for a staggered release across February.

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Harmonix has released something known as Dance Central Dance Cam for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. The app will allow users to pick previews of tracks on it, then practice them and be recorded whilst doing it. Videos can also be showcased for Facebook friends. Songs from the game are included, featuring I Like It, Bulletproof and Like a G6.

Get it from all respective marketplaces in the US now, with it coming to Europe soon. And no, I’m not touching it within a 50 mile radius.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Microsoft has posted a 5% year-on-year increase in revenue for the quarter ending December 31, 2011, with strong performance from the Xbox 360 division.

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Next Xbox announced! Not. All the details on Microsoft’s CES keynote: 66 million Xbox 360s sold and 44 million Xbox Live subscriptions, plus the debut of “two-way TV” and Metro-everything.

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One juggernaut dominated Xbox Live during 2011 – and it’s exactly what you expected.

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Microsoft has released a list of the most popular titles on Xbox services for 2011, and Black Ops was the number one title for the year on Live, based on unique users.

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During the holidays, Sega got official about the next episode of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 with a brief teaser trailer.

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An official Halo Waypoint app, showing Halo: Reach stats, service records and custom challenges, is set to launch alongside an map strategy app called ATLAS.

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A post on the Sony Online Entertainment forums has warned players of an imminent crackdown on those utilising exploits in the nearly 12 year old MMORPG, Everquest. The teams has “quietly invested significant behind the scenes effort” and advises cheaters to “take heed and reform. There will be no second chances.”

Thanks, Blue.

The Independent Games Festival has added a new gong to its list of honours, with a publishing deal on the cards for the winner.

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Microsoft’s announced it’ll release an Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone 7 handsets tomorrow alongside the launch of the Next Xbox Dashboard.

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According to a rumor posted over on tech site Win Rumors, Microsoft’s new Xbox Live dashboard update is set to launch next week. The site said it had a look at the update yesterday at the Nokia World event, and has posted a video of its hands-on with the update’s Windows Phone integration and Kinect features. It has been reported previously, that WP7 users can use the phone as a remote control with the dashboard via an app created for the service. A leaked PayPal memo posted back in September, while the dashboard’s beta was ongoing, pegged the new interface for a November 15 release. We’ll send a mail. Thanks, OXM.

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Microsoft has released its financial report for the quarter ending September 30, showing a rise in sales but a dropping off of profits for its Entertainment division.

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SEGA has released a new Sonic CD video, which shows the blue fella running around in an “adventure from the past, built for the future.” The re-mastered version of the 1993 Mega CD game is set for release this winter on Android, iOS, PC, PSN, WP7, and XBLA. It will include the original Japanese soundtrack as well as Metal Sonic and Amy Rose. Enjoy below.

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Whisperers believe Microsoft is to launch a “universal gaming platform” to rival streaming games service OnLive as early as next year.

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Not only did Microsoft announce new TV and film partners today, it also revealed a new Companion App for Windows Phone 7 which will allow users to search and control content from Xbox Live Marketplace through their Xbox 360.

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Sega’s formally announced Sonic CD following an earlier slip-up this week by Major Nelson.

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The latecomer to the smartphone party, WP7 at least benefits from having Microsoft’s significant gaming muscle behind it and the latest OS update will enhance the Xbox Live feature support yet further.

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Square Enix’s Takehiro Ando has said if developers can’t cope with the iPhone’s memory leaks and task switching they should give up on the platform entirely.

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Cave is currently developing a “new, original shooting game” for Japanese Windows Phone 7.5 devices, according to a press release issued by Microsoft.

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