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Windows Phone 7 Launch Games and Live Features Unveiled
Xav de Matos
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At GamesCom 2010, Microsoft revealed its plans for its newest "major gaming platform." With details of Windows Phone 7 rather scarce since it was first revealed in February, Microsoft uncovered its strategy -- including Xbox Live functionality and launch software.

Its mobile OS, which will launch "this holiday season," appears to feature most functions promised during the platform's original announcement. Users will have access to familiar Xbox Live features, such as Gamerscore and Achievements, Avatars, messaging, friends list and turn-based multiplayer.

Windows Phone 7's lineup of software also feels familiar, featuring multiple titles already available on Apple's iOS and Android-based phones. Microsoft is also cracking open its own first-party catalog of franchises to bring to the mobile platform, including a tower-defense title in the Crackdown universe and a mobile version of Xbox Live's Halo Waypoint.

Engadget recently went hands-on with the new OS and has a handful of videos of the experience. A full listing upcoming titles for the platform are available after the break.

  • "3D Brick Breaker Revolution" (Digital Chocolate)
  • "Age of Zombies" (Halfbrick)
  • "Armor Valley" (Protege Games)
  • "Asphalt 5" (Gameloft)
  • "Assassins Creed" (Gameloft)
  • "Bejeweled LIVE" (PopCap)
  • "Bloons TD" (Digital Goldfish)
  • "Brain Challenge" (Gameloft)
  • "Bubble Town 2" (i-Play)
  • "Butterfly" (Press Start Studio)
  • "CarneyVale Showtime" (MGS)
  • "Castlevania" (Konami Digital Entertainment)
  • "Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst" (MGS)
  • "De Blob Revolution" (THQ)
  • "Deal or No Deal 2010" (i-Play)
  • "Earthworm Jim" (Gameloft)
  • "Fast & Furious 7" (i-Play)
  • "Fight Game Rivals" (Rough Cookie)
  • "Finger Physics" (Mobliss Inc.)
  • "Flight Control" (Namco Bandai)
  • "Flowerz" (Carbonated Games)
  • "Frogger" (Konami Digital Entertainment)
  • "Fruit Ninja" (Halfbrick)
  • "Game Chest-Board" (MGS)
  • "Game Chest-Card" (MGS)
  • "Game Chest-Logic" (MGS)
  • "Game Chest-Solitaire" (MGS)
  • "GeoDefense" (Critical Thought)
  • "Ghostscape" (Psionic)
  • "Glow Artisan" (Powerhead Games)
  • "Glyder 2" (Glu Mobile)
  • "Guitar Hero 5" (Glu Mobile)
  • "Halo Waypoint" (MGS)
  • "Hexic Rush" (Carbonated Games)
  • "I Dig It" (InMotion)
  • "iBlast Moki" (Godzilab)
  • "ilomilo" (MGS)
  • "Implode XL" (IUGO)
  • "Iquarium" (Infinite Dreams)
  • "Jet Car Stunts" (True Axis)
  • "Let's Golf 2" (Gameloft)
  • "Little Wheel" (One click dog)
  • "Loondon" (Flip N Tale)
  • "Max and the Magic Marker" (PressPlay)
  • "Mini Squadron" (Supermono Limited)
  • "More Brain Exercise" (Namco Bandai)
  • "O.M.G." (Arkedo)
  • "Puzzle Quest 2" (Namco Bandai)
  • "Real Soccer 2" (Gameloft)
  • "The Revenants" (Chaotic Moon)
  • "Rise of Glory" (Revo Solutions)
  • "Rocket Riot" (Codeglue)
  • "Splinter Cell Conviction" (Gameloft)
  • "Star Wars: Battle for Hoth" (THQ)
  • "Star Wars: Cantina" (THQ)
  • "The Harvest" (MGS)
  • "The Oregon Trail" (Gameloft)
  • "Tower Bloxx NY" (Digital Chocolate)
  • "Twin Blades" (Press Start Studio)
  • "UNO" (Gameloft)
  • "Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet" (i-Play)
  • "Zombie Attack!" (IUGO)
  • "Zombies!!!!" (Babaroga)

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • daggot legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    August 17, 2010 12:12 PM

    You'd expect that it's possible to have Achievements in phone games that feed back to your Gamerscore. But, you know none of those ports listed will take the time to do that. Oddly, this is the least you'd expect them to do, but they really need to do more to have a better platform.

    • Fred Garvin legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 12, 2010 2:46 PM

      Not sure what you mean. If you are logged in with your Live ID and you get achievements, they do count towards your score.

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