Windows Phone Game Round-up: Platformer Games

This week's roundup takes a simple approach on things. We'll take a look at the top platformer games for your Windows Phone. With no rhyme or reason, we tapped half a dozen of the top fifty platformer games. We have a rolling ball, a running dude, ninjas without legs and temples of death.  Most are fast paced, entertaining games that are challenging enough to keep you interested without being too frustrating.Keep in mind that if an app doesn't make the roundup it should not reflect poorly on things. These are just a collection of apps or games that have stood out to us. If we've missed an app that you think should have been included, sound off in the comments.  With 100K titles, we'd be scrolling for hours to cover them all in one...

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Windows Phone Central Ringtone Contest Winners! (Updated)

While we had hoped to announce the winners of the Windows Phone Central Ringtone Contest yesterday, judging proved to be more difficult than expected. We had a lot of quality entries submitted over in our Forums Discussion.  Nonetheless, after listening to all the entries our Ringtone Contest Winners are:All have won a Nokia Play 360! We are dispatching emails to get everyone's shipping information and will get the Nokia Play headed their way shortly.We would also like to extend our congratulations to Elvis7 and Kyle H for being randomly selected for our weekly prizes, WPCentral Accessory Store gift card, during the contest period.Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest and if you didn't win, don't give up hope. We've got a...

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Fresh iPhone Apps for June 29: Dead Trigger and Kingdom Rush

We’ve got a pair of interesting games for you to take into the weekend: Dead Trigger, a first-person zombie shooter with awesome graphics, and Kingdom Rush, a slick tower defense game that made a big splash when it was initially released on iPad.Zombie-shooting games are a pretty well-worn genre in the iTunes App Store, but Dead Trigger sets itself apart first and foremost by carrying great graphics. The game was created by the same developer that made the recently released Shadowgun, another beautiful title using the Unity Engine, and like that game, it brings lots of shooter action in great 3-D environments.Each level in Dead Trigger follows the story of a character working to survive the zombie apocalypse, taking out enemies by blasting...

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Windows Phone Game Review: Ape The Wall

Ximad has released some interesting games for our Windows Phone such as Bubble Birds, Pandas vs. Ninjas and De-Bugs Pool. Ape The Wall follows suit and is another entertaining game from Ximad that has hit the Windows Phone Marketplace.The object of Ape The Wall is to guide your ape up the sides of buildings, canyons, or trees. All the while avoiding balconies, satellite dishes, alley cats, coyotes, tree limbs and various objects that mysteriously drop from above. There are two game modes and a hand full of power-ups to help you climb higher.All in all, Ape The Wall is an entertaining game from Ximad and a nice time waster.The main menu of Ape The Wall has options to enter the game, access the game's settings (sound/music on/off), view...

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Could a new “Want” button be coming to Facebook soon?

New "Want" button found buried in the site's codeWhile Facebook is the world's largest social networking site with nearly 1 billion users, newcomer Pinterest is giving the site a run for its money. Pinterest has become something of a showcase for people's wants — the go-to site for posting what wedding dress you'd like to wear, or what cupcakes you want to eat. Rather than cede that market to Pinterest, Facebook appears ready to compete with it via its new "Want" button.As of now, though the button appears in the code, the functionality is not yet working. After trying to add a Want button to his site, web developer Tom Waddington told Mashable, "The button displays on the site, but clicking it shows an error...

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What is a Windows Phone VIP?

Very Important People. That is what VIP means to everyone, but what is a Windows Phone VIP Ambassador? Microsoft created a training website called Expertzone, where Retail Sales Professionals could log in and take training courses on selling Microsoft products. In 2010, Microsoft created the Windows Phone VIP program and BIll Bush was at the helm building a new Windows Phone community. The program has grown to over 13,000 VIP's and nearly 100 Windows Phone Ambassadors. Retail sales professionals can join  this exclusive site to get first hand knowledge, special events, contests, and fellow windows phone users to bond with. With a small amount of users of Windows Phone, there was an even smaller...

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Games, platform exclusives, clever in-app purchases, delightful animations, and other lessons from the 2012 Apple Design Awards

The 2012 Apple Design Awards were interesting because of the fantastic apps that got the exposure and recognition of an ADA. They were also interesting in what they revealed about Apple priorities and predilections when it came to the award selections. In the Mac and iPhone categories, 2 our of 3 of the winners were games. In the Educational category, both winners were as much fun as they were facts. In the iPad category, one of the games was counterpointed by a music app that's also a lot of fun. Games and game-like books and experiences don't represent the majority of the App Store, but they represented the majority of the winners. Apple also pointed out more than once when a title was exclusive to iOS. With the recent porting...

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iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S Everything you need to know about Apple's 5th generation iPhone 4S Apple's 5th generation iPhone 4S was announced on October 4, 2011. While the iPhone 4S looks like the previous year's iPhone 4, it has a a faster processor, better optics, a new antenna array, and Siri, Apple personal virtual assistant, making it an impressive upgrade. iPhone 4S review iOS 5.1 for iPhone and iPad update Ultimate guide to iCloud Key features: Apple A5, 8 megapixel/1080p video, F2.4 iSight camera, HSPA+ 14.4 networking, Siri virtual assistant. Pricing: $199/16GB, $299/32GB, $399/64GB on contract. $649/16GB, $749/32GB, $849/64GB off contract. Availability: 100 countries, 240 carriers. 2012...

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iOS 6 flyover and turn-by-turn navigation limited to iPhone 4S and iPad 2/3

Yesterday, Apple threw this little event called WWDC, where the tech giant showed off many new things, one being a revamped Maps app in iOS 6. The good thing about the revamped Maps app is its much improved look and functionality. The bad news is, not every iPhone user will get the chance to use it. Yes, you heard correct people. It looks like Apple will have some fragmentation issues with this new feature. Word is the awesome features that were announced in the new Maps won’t be supported on hardware released prior to 2011. To be brief, you’ll need at least A5-enabled iOS devices to use Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation. So in simple terms, you’re out of luck if you don’t have an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 (wipe that grin off your...

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The new iPad (2012) review

It's not thinner, it's not lighter, it's not perceptibly faster; indeed the new iPad sacrifices all of those things in the pursuit of one ferocious goal -- to be better. The new iPad is just that. Not iPad 3. Not iPad HD. Certainly not iPad 2S. It's the 3rd generation tablet from Apple, released March 16, 2012, and the simplicity and focus of the name tells you almost everything you need to know about the product. The iPad. Better than any iPad -- any tablet -- that's come before. That's not to say there aren't compromises or criticisms, because there are plenty of both. But everything about the new iPad confirms once again how Apple envisions the future of personal computing, and how they'll continuously, relentlessly drive themselves,...

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