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Windows Phone and Windows 8 Deal Thread

One Xbox game for Windows Phone and a different one for Windows 8 goes on sale every seven days as part of the weekly Red Stripe Deals. The Red Stripe Deals change every Thursday. Red Stripe Deals are open to all Windows Phone and Windows 8 owners.

Xbox Windows Phone Red Stripe Deal of the Week
January 23

  • Collapse - $2.99 $.99

Windows Phone Price Drops - Updated 04/02/13

WP7 Xbox Live Release Schedule - Titles listed from oldest to newest
2011 release dates
  • March 02, 2011 - I Love Katamari - $6.99
  • March 09 - Burn it All - $2.99
  • March 16 - Full House Poker - $2.99
  • March 23 - Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 - $2.99
  • March 30 - Fable Coin Golf - $4.99
  • April 6 - Super Monkey Ball - $4.99
  • April 13 - Centipede - $2.99, Harbor Master - $2.99
  • April 20 - Asteroids Deluxe - $2.99
  • April 27 - Pitfall! - $2.99
  • May 4 - Enigmo - $2.99
  • May 11 - Lunar Lander - $2.99
  • May 18 - Pac-Man Championship Edition DX - $6.99
  • May 25 - Hydro Thunder Go - $4.99
  • June 1 - Doodle Jump - $2.99
  • June 8 - geoDefense - $2.99
  • June 15 - Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I - $6.99
  • June 22 - Plants vs Zombies - $4.99
  • June 29 - Angry Birds - $2.99
  • July 6 - Twin Blades - $2.99
  • July 13 - Beards and Beaks - $2.99, Nokia exclusive: Mirror's Edge - $2.99
  • July 20 - Tentacles - $4.99
  • July 27 - Sally's Salon Luxury Edition - $4.99
  • August 3 - Cro-Mag Rally - $2.99
  • August 10 - Minesweeper and Sudoku - Free!
  • August 17 - IonBallEX - $2.99
  • August 24 - No US release
  • August 31 - Fight Game Rivals - $2.99
  • September 7 - Gravity Guy - $2.99
  • September 14 - Collapse! - $2.99
  • September 21 - Implode! - $2.99
  • September 28 - Burn the Rope! - $2.99
  • October 19 - Jet Car Stunts - $2.99
  • October 25 - Orbital - $2.99
  • November 2 - Kinectimals - $2.99
  • November 9 - Fusion: Sentient - $2.99.
  • November 16 - Let's Golf 2 - $4.99
  • November 21 - Farm Frenzy 2 - $2.99
  • November 28 - Ghostscape - $2.99, Shuffle Party - Free
  • December 7 - Hasta la Muerte - $2.99
  • December 14 - Battlewagon - $2.99, Doodle God - $2.99, Breeze - Free
  • December 21 - MiniSquadron - $2.99
  • December 28 - Spider Jack - $2.99

2012 release dates

  • January 4, 2012 - Zombies on teh Phone - $2.99
  • January 11 - Bug Village - Free
  • January 18 - TextTwist 2 - $2.99
  • January 26 - Fragger - $2.99
  • February 1 - Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - $4.99
  • February 8 - Bullet Asylum - $2.99
  • February 15 - Chickens Can't Fly - $2.99
  • February 22 - Splinter Cell: Conviction - $4.99
  • February 29 - Toy Soldiers Boot Camp - $2.99
  • March 7 - Dodonpachi Maximum - $4.99
  • March 14 - Gerbil Physics - $2.99
  • March 21 - PES 2012 - $4.99
  • March 28 - iStunt 2 - $2.99
  • April 4 - Civilization Revolution - $2.99
  • April 11 - Pirates! - $2.99
  • April 18 - Monster Island - $2.99 (pulled)
  • April 25 - Wordament - Free!
  • May 2 - Pac-Man Kart Rally $2.99
  • May 9 - Feed Me Oil - $.99
  • May 16 - geoDefense Swarm - $2.99
  • May 23 - Droplitz Delight - $.99
  • May 30 - MonstaFish - $.99
  • June 6 Battleship - $2.99
  • June 13 Final Fantasy - $6.99
  • June 20 Fling - $.99
  • June 27 Super Monkey Ball 2 - $2.99
  • July 4 - Mush - $2.99
  • July 11 - Gun Bros - Free
  • July 18 - Contract Killer - Free, Lode Runner Classic - $2.99
  • July 25 - Asphalt 5 - $2.99
  • August 1 - Pool Pro Online 3 - $2.99
  • August 8 - Sally's Spa - $2.99
  • August 15 - Little Acorns - $2.99
  • August 22 - Shoot1UP - $2.99
  • August 29 - Roll in the Hole - $.99
  • September 5 - Galaga Legions DX - $6.99
  • September 12 - Crimson Dragon Side Story - $.99
  • September 19 - Contre Jour - $2.99
  • September 26 - Real Soccer - $2.99
  • October 3 - Extraction - $.99
  • October 10 - Babel Rising 3D $2.99
  • October 17 - Cracking Sands - $2.99
  • October 24 - Carcassonne - $2.99
  • October 31 - Big Buck Hunter Pro - $2.99
  • November 7 - Cut the Rope - $.99
  • November 9 - Nokia Exclusives: Game of Life, Jet Set Go, Parking Mania (all $2.99)
  • November 14 - Sonic CD - $4.99
  • November 20 - Nokia Exclusives: Spy Mouse, Trivial Pursuit (all $2.99)
  • November 21 - Turn N Run - $.99
  • December 4 - AlphaJax - Free
  • December 19 - KenKen - $4.99
  • December 21 - Nokia Exclusive: iBomber Defense - $2.99

Check out post # 2 for more info about Windows Phone games.

 
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tylerh1701 said:
Woohoo, got $26.62 for 12 games. Took about 25 minutes but it was worth it. Should have been closer to $34, but what am I gonna do, complain about free money I don't really feel I'm entitled to? Hell NO! Thanks ncogneato, still the best avatar on the site!

This also leads to another question. Using ncogneato's links, I realized I still have access to my Microsoft account history, and it shows I have $18.80 still on my account (which was how much was on there when I was banned). Any possible chance I can try and request a refund for this? I doubt it, but maybe someone knows. Otherwise, is there anything else I can possibly spend it on besides content on Xbox?
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Did they refund your credit card? I always assumed they would just add credit to your MS Account, which wouldn't help you at all.

 
bob101910 said:
Did they refund your credit card? I always assumed they would just add credit to your MS Account, which wouldn't help you at all.
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They refunded my card. All my purchases were made from my card so I think that's probably the only way they would want to issue the refund.

 
Wallace and Gromit for the 360 were delisted today. So if any of you bought them you may want to get back on the phone again.

 
ooga said:
Wallace and Gromit for the 360 were delisted today. So if any of you bought them you may want to get back on the phone again.
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I assumed it would only work for phone games as once they are delisted you can't get them back.

Also damn, I might have bought that at some point.

 
Oh yeah. Forgot about that! However, if you only have a few of the episodes you can argue that the product now is incomplete since you cannot technically "finish the game". Depends who you talk to though.

 
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eastx said:
Mugen Power Battery Case for Lumia 920 Review - largest phone case ever! Mugen actually makes some great battery solutions for various Windows Phones, though this particular case has some design issues.

Gone from there too.
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Wow, I can't get a Lumia currently but that case looks crazy (especially in size!). It is weird that such an expensive case has a cord set up like that for the charging as well.

As for Wallace and Gromit, can still be gotten here for $3 on PC http://www.gog.com/game/wallace_gromits_grand_adventures

 
I just recently return to WP after a stint with Android and iOS and while its good to be back, whats up with the power consumption for the Solitaire app? What the heck is it doing in the background while I am just flipping cards?

 
TctclMvPhase said:
I just recently return to WP after a stint with Android and iOS and while its good to be back, whats up with the power consumption for the Solitaire app? What the heck is it doing in the background while I am just flipping cards?
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I have no idea. I noticed it as well. The phone gets hot and burns battery life fast. Seems like most games that I've been playing have found a way around this problem, then Solitaire comes along.

On WP8 I'm most impressed with Chaos Rings lately. The loading screens are lightning fast, doesn't make the phone hot, doesn't drain battery fast. I'm loving it so far with about 6 hours played.

On W8.1, the new Minesweeper update is really impressive. The adventure mode is something I've never seen before and is a great idea. I'm sure it's been done elsewhere, but this is the first time I'm seeing anything like it.

 
I really want Chaos Rings, but it's not meant to be. I freed up 2.5 GB on my Lumia 900 and I still get the message that says I don't have enough free space even though the game shows it only needs 916 MB. I can't get rid of anything else non-essential on my phone and the 7.8 update takes up a lot of storage.

 
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GunstarRed said:
I really want Chaos Rings, but it's not meant to be. I freed up 2.5 GB on my Lumia 900 and I still get the message that says I don't have enough free space even though the game shows it only needs 916 MB. I can't get rid of anything else non-essential on my phone and the 7.8 update takes up a lot of storage.
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That's awful - you're within the 500 MB range, in all likelihood. What about removing the GPS app or stuff like that and putting them back later?

 
bob101910 said:
Minesweeper for 8.1 got new achievements. Haven't played the update yet. Adventure mode sounds interesting.
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I saw that a few days ago but held off on getting it. I am not a big fan of "play the game every day for a month" achievements.

Ham Salad 360 said:
It looks like that Win 8 Disney Infinity Toy Box game does have achievements after all:

http://www.trueachievements.com/Toy-Box/achievements.htm

It's free by the way.
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Yeah, I have enough useless plastic gaming crap around the house. I don't need to add plastic figurines to the piles of stuff I have.

 
So I downloaded the Avengers game, and upon launching it was told that it needs to download additional game assets before play that will take up to 4 gigs of free space. Seriously? I only have 3.6 gigs free. Is this one of those situations where it requires 4x the actual storage to download? And why the hell wasn't it in the original download? Anyone DL this game and see what the actual storage is after downloading?

 
Feeni said:
So I downloaded the Avengers game, and upon launching it was told that it needs to download additional game assets before play that will take up to 4 gigs of free space. Seriously? I only have 3.6 gigs free. Is this one of those situations where it requires 4x the actual storage to download? And why the hell wasn't it in the original download? Anyone DL this game and see what the actual storage is after downloading?
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Checked how much space I had left before the update, 10.something so we'll just say 11gb left. Now I have 9.71 after the update.
 
ooga said:
Upon further review it turns out that you do not need to have the console version to play Toy Box or get the achievements.
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Thanks, I would've avoided the game completely if you didn't tell me this. Looks like people are finding a way around the console requirement by using community creations. There's supposed to be a good one for achievements up right now "The BIG Room", but Disney can rotate to new maps at any time. I hope it's still there by the time I get to play it.

 
bob101910 said:
Checked how much space I had left before the update, 10.something so we'll just say 11gb left. Now I have 9.71 after the update.
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Thanks. I'm working on freeing up some space so I can do the download. Good to know it won't actually fill up my phone once it's done.

Edit: hmm, after downloading the update it increased my install size by 2 GB! The entire game takes up 2.7gb. Not sure why mine is so much larger but I will most likely be uninstalling. Seems ridiculous for this one game to take up 10% of my phone's total storage.

 
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Does Disney Infinity Toy Box freeze up constantly for everyone else? I can get a game loaded after several tries, but it freezes more often than not.

So I managed to free up 3 GB of space and it STILL won't let me download Chaos Rings!!! Not sure how much space the game requires over the 916 MB it says it needs. I'm officially giving up deleting stuff off my phone to try and accommodate that game.

 
GunstarRed said:
Does Disney Infinity Toy Box freeze up constantly for everyone else? I can get a game loaded after several tries, but it freezes more often than not.

So I managed to free up 3 GB of space and it STILL won't let me download Chaos Rings!!! Not sure how much space the game requires over the 916 MB it says it needs. I'm officially giving up deleting stuff off my phone to try and accommodate that game.
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Toy Box crashed once for me.

That sucks about Chaos Rings. Sounds like quite a few people are having problems with it in the reviews anyways, so maybe it wouldn't work out for you. Personally, it has only crashed once on 1020, but the game knew that it crashed and was able to load me right back to where the crash occurred. I'm more impressed by that, it not heating up my phone, and barely consuming battery life than the actual gameplay lol. All games need to start doing this.

 
I don't think Big Buck Hunter is even possible to play with only a mouse. Glad I played the demo first and saw how bad the mouse controls were, or I would have definitely regretted buying it.

 
GunstarRed said:
I don't think Big Buck Hunter is even possible to play with only a mouse. Glad I played the demo first and saw how bad the mouse controls were, or I would have definitely regretted buying it.
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I've seen another guy say this, but I just don't know where the complaint comes from. The cursor moves where you move the mouse, left clicking fires, and right click or spacebar reloads. That's exactly how the game should control.

 
Collapse is Red Stripe on WP. I missed the last few sales and easy gamerscore is what I like.

After 12+ hours I found a fault with Chaos Rings. It turns off your music. At school, I always listen to music to relax me before bed because it is hard to fall asleep in the dorm. Sleeping beats Chaos Rings, so this might have to go on back log.
 
So sorry to bring this back up but about the refund thing? I have 20 of those games that are delisted, and bought probably 15 of those. Am I able to get all the info I need right off that purchase history page? It'd be nice to get $30 or $40. Also do you have the option to tell them you want it backing a credit card or in ms money? Because I used multiple credit cards. Can I get your insight on this Tyler? I also thought you had to be logged into your ms account which you can't do seeing as your banned.any help would be appreciated. Thanks
 
So sorry to bring this back up but about the refund thing? I have 20 of those games that are delisted, and bought probably 15 of those. Am I able to get all the info I need right off that purchase history page? It'd be nice to get $30 or $40. Also do you have the option to tell them you want it backing a credit card or in ms money? Because I used multiple credit cards. Can I get your insight on this Tyler? I also thought you had to be logged into your ms account which you can't do seeing as your banned.any help would be appreciated. Thanks
 
FlamedLiquid said:
So sorry to bring this back up but about the refund thing? I have 20 of those games that are delisted, and bought probably 15 of those. Am I able to get all the info I need right off that purchase history page? It'd be nice to get $30 or $40. Also do you have the option to tell them you want it backing a credit card or in ms money? Because I used multiple credit cards. Can I get your insight on this Tyler? I also thought you had to be logged into your ms account which you can't do seeing as your banned.any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Always happy to help someone bilk money out of MS.

The purchase history page that nCogNeato linked (https://login.live.com/ppsecure/secure.srf?lc=1033&sf=1&id=287467&ru=https://commerce.microsoft.com/%3fredirectUrl%3dhttps://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Transaction&tw=0&fs=0&kv=0&cb=&cbcxt=&wp=SA_20MIN&wa=wsignin1.0&wreply=https://commerce.microsoft.com/%3fredirectUrl%3dhttps://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Transaction I believe) went all the way back to 2011 for me when I got my phone and first games. I was able to get purchase dates and names of all the games, which is all I was asked for by the MS rep.

I didn't request where the refund went. I actually got 10 separate refund transactions across two different credit cards, one for each game I bought that was delisted. What this suggests to me is that they are just going to refund whatever the payment method you used was (if you use carrier billing I'm not sure how it would work). I changed my CC on file with them about half way through my tenure owning the phone, and they seemed very precise in issuing each refund to the card that paid for the game originally. You may be able to ask for MS credit, I didn't try for obvious reasons.

My MS account is still active, I regularly use Hotmail and can also buy things off the Windows 8 App store and probably the Windows Phone store if I wanted to, I could also buy from the Microsoft Store using that same account. I can't buy anything from the Xbox Store (which includes console stuff as well as Xbox Music and Xbox Video unfortunately) nor can I even log in to view my profile there. So my MS account is actually still active, it's just the Xbox portion that was banned (cough*cocksuckers*cough).

Also, when I chatted with the rep, I told him I was planning on upgrading to Windows Phone 8 and had noticed that many of the games I had previously owned weren't available to re-download. I asked him if re-downloading was possible, to which he said no and offered me a refund instead. I'm not sure if going in and requesting a refund directly would have yielded different results, but I figured it was better to feign ignorance about the whole situation.

 
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Ugh so I'm hoping I used the wrong contact site because they weren't helpful at all and kept telling me to call a number. Got two different numbers and everyone I talked to was confused. Is there a direct link to the live chat that you guys used? And did they make you dial a number? The steps you all went through could really help me out. Thanks
 
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