The game features:

• Simple & Responsive Controls: Touch-and-tilt controls offer a fluid and responsive experience. Keyboard and mouse controls are also supported.
• Two Game Modes: The game features 15 story levels with boss battles along with 3 infinite worlds in Endless Runner mode.
• Competitive Play: Asynchronous challenges and leaderboards in Endless Runner mode enhance the social and competitive experience.
• In-app Purchases: Customize the Gunstringer and extend your experience with consumables and downloadable content.
• Connect Across Windows 8 Devices: Effortlessly continue gameplay across multiple Windows 8 devices for a seamless, connected experience.
• Player Customization: Spend your hard-earned gold coins and diamonds to unlock outfits and accessories to customize your Gunstringer, and then share photos of your Gunstringer with your friends.
• Rewards: Rack up coin and diamond rewards for multiple consecutive play-throughs. Each consecutive week increases the reward payout.
• Future Updates: Updates will include new power-ups, environments, customizable options, and more.

Source: Microsoft

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Crimson Dragon: Side Story has received a title update to now be playable on Windows Phone 8 devices.

Crimson Dragon is set on the planet Draco and is a shooter where you control dragons to defeat enemies. The game utilizes touch controls to pilot the dragon and target enemies.

In addition to now playing on WP8 devices, the game now keeps track of Dark Phantom enemies defeated that counts toward unlocking the “Dragon Master” achievement.

Source: PlayXBLA

You can get the game for $1 here.

Crimson Dragon available for Windows Phone 8 is a post from: Windows Phone Fans

You can see all of the discounted items here.

The Windows Phone games on sale are:

Sonic 4 Episode 1 – $1.99 (60% off)

Mush – $1.99 (33% off)

Gravity Guy – $1.99 (33% off)

Cracking Sands – $1.99 (33% off)

Carcassonne – $1.99 (33% off)

Assassin’s Creed – Altair’s Chronicles HD – $1.99 (60% off)

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So you’ve gotten yourself a brand spanking new Windows Phone 8 and you’re wondering what the killer apps are, well we here at Windows Phone Fans have put together an all star list of some killer apps to get you started! Full list after the break.

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Every week, the Windows Phone marketplace puts a new title on sale. Don’t miss your chance to get this deal.

This week’s deal is Zombies!!! by Babaroga. You can now get the game for $2.99, discounted from $4.99.

Zombies!!! is a video game adaptation of a tile-based strategy board game of the same name. The goal is to move your player piece on the zombie infested game board, trying to escape to the heliport. The shambling horde, of course, would like to stop you from doing that. A big part of your success depends on whether you decide to avoid or just simply slay the promenading dead you encounter. Pick your battles wisely and don’t let bloodlust blind you.

If one exclamation mark isn’t enough for you, check this game out here, for $2.99, or scan the tag below.

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This week’s deal is Civilization Revolution by 2K. You can now get the game for $1.99, discounted from $2.99.

In Civilization, you play as one of several world leaders who controls a civilization as it makes its way from the pre-historic era through the present and even into the future. You control how the culture will respond and react to other civilizations and can share technologies or wage war, however you see fit. The game welcomes multiple plays through and with the numerous world leaders and civilizations to choose from, the game will not easily grow stale.

You can get the game here, or by scanning the tag below.

Deal of the Week: Civilization Revolution is a post from: Windows Phone Fans

Carcassonne

The game will include:

• The expansion “The River II”
• Local and online multi-player
• Tutorials
• Xbox Live achievements and leaderboards

You can see some screen shots after the jump.

Source: PlayXBLA

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A quick Bing search of “Surface Phone” will bring up quite a few articles about this possible venture, along with a lot of analysis stating that such a move would be hurting their OEMs; especially Nokia, their most dedicated OEM.

Perhaps people are looking at it wrong.

Microsoft’s Surface Tablets

First, let’s have a gander at the reason that Microsoft is creating the Surface tablets. Windows operating systems have an unfortunate reputation for being buggy and slow. A consumer might go into a store and pick up what appears to be a decently fast PC, only to have a bad user experience when they actually try to get work done. This was especially prevalent during the popularity of netbooks.

PC manufacturers, better known as ‘original equipment manufacturers or OEMs, were notorious for including bloatware and cheap hardware in order to bring down costs. This resulted in a low specced computer being bogged down with too many running processes.

These same OEMs created Android tablets that run just as horribly. This didn’t help Android’s reputation when it comes to tablets.

In order to show consumers that a bad user experience is not the fault of Windows, Microsoft is releasing the Surface tablets to set the bar. If a user has a bad experience with a particular OEM’s tablet they’ll be able to look at Surface and realize that the problem isn’t the OS.

So when the “Surface Phone” rumors started circulating, tech pundits everywhere assumed that Microsoft’s strategy for the mobile space must be the same. But the problem in the smartphone space is that Windows Phone has been running great on all the existing handsets. The user experience is stellar. So the tech pundits assumed that Microsoft moving into the mobile space as a hardware maker would be a big mistake.

What if it’s not about setting the bar?

Microsoft does not need to set a hardware bar in the smartphone realm. It’s doubtful that Microsoft could come in and bring any more hardware innovation or quality than their strongest OEM partner, Nokia.

Instead, perhaps Microsoft is preparing to fill an existing void in their lineup.

Windows Phone’s marketshare isn’t exactly good. In fact, it’s pretty bad. As a result, OEMs cannot afford to take risks producing devices that aren’t targeted towards the mass market. A niche market for what is currently a niche operating system would be a guaranteed money loser.

What niche market would be worth losing money for?

It’s just business

Many business-people are still using Blackberry phones. It’s often not because people particularly like their phones, but because RIM has made an effort to create phones that serve business customers with phones with a strong communication system and strong security features. Most Blackberries are also pretty inexpensive. However, Blackberries are not quite up to par with other smartphones in other day to day features.

With RIM’s newest OS still nowhere to be seen, and their market share slowly dwindling, the corporate consumer is ready to try other options.

Microsoft will be most likely making a push to get businesses, big and small, to adopt Windows 8, Windows RT, Office 365, Azure, etc…

MS may also want a phone that they can add to their business pitch; a basic phone that doesn’t come with all the expensive frills, bells, and whistles that the upcoming consumer based handsets will have, but preloaded with the functionality that will make integration with Microsoft’s other business products smooth and effortless.

Imagine something that looks like the Dell Venue Pro with a smaller screen running Windows Phone 8. It would make a lot of sense.

What we could be looking at may be RIM’s worst nightmare.

Does a Surface Phone make sense? is a post from: Windows Phone Fans

Cracking Sands

The game comes with several game modes.

Normal Race: Compete against six other racers to gain first prize.

Head of the Pack: You get points for staying in front for a set period of time. However, if someone takes the lead prior to the point being awarded, the timer is reset. The first person to get the required points wins.

Elimination: Try to be the last man standing where after a lap is complete the person to cross the finish line last is eliminated.

Time Trial: Race against the clock on the track you choose. You can race against friends or “ghost” times downloaded through Xbox Live.

You can see some shots of the game after the jump.

Source: PlayXBLA

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Reckless Racing includes a huge selection of road and dirt tracks, single and multi-player maps, modded cars and trucks and various game modes. A trial for the game is coming soon.

Until then you can see some pictures here and the trailer below the jump.

Source: PlayXBLA

Reckless Racing coming soon for Windows 8 is a post from: Windows Phone Fans