Perhaps the most disenfranchised Sonic the Hedgehog game, Sonic CD, will be the first to hit the Android and Windows Phone operating systems. Sonic CD, the ‘CD’ standing for the add-on device (Mega-CD) of the Mega Drive console that originally hosted the game, is a curious first choice from Sega. It was considered one of […]
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Wario’s Jewels: Gameboy emulator for Windows Phone 7
You know a mobile operating system has arrived when developers start writing classic video game console emulators for it. So it looks like Windows Phone 7 has arrived, because a Gameboy emulator called Wario’s Jewels launched last month. The app features a virtual gamepad, smooth graphics and frame-rates, and a file browser and game information […]
New Windows Phone 7 apps include Angry Birds, Kik Messenger, Gowalla
A number of top tier apps have finally found their way to Windows Phone 7. This week the popular Angry Birds game flew into the Windows Phone Marketplace, along with mobile check-in app Gowalla, cross-platform messaging service Kik, and cooking app Epicurious. The sudden rush of apps from big-name developers could be a sign that […]
Microsoft will bring some Zune HD apps to Windows Phone 7… if anybody cares
Windows Phone 7 includes a music player that looks strikingly similar to the software that comes on the Zune HD media player. Soon it looks like the video games and other apps designed for the Zune HD may also be available for Windows Phone 7. I reviewed the Zune HD a few years ago and […]
Windows Phone 7 Mango Live Tiles turned into a Tetris game
Windows Phone 7 is slated to receive more than 500 updates when Mango arrives this fall. Among those will be a handful of improvements to the Live Tiles system, which powers the quadrilateral icons on your WP7 smartphone’s home screen. Want some idea how much more is possible with Mango’s Live Tiles? Just check out the […]