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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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TrueAchiever Review - TrueAchievements app for WP8! Great for Achievement fans.

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captaintek3304 said:
Amazon has a couple WP8 Go Phone options today as their deal of the day. The 520 is down to $40. Not sure if that's a great price, but seems ok for a cheap backup if you want one.
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$40 is great for the 520. So is $55 for the 521. Cheapest the 520 has been before is $50. It's not an excellent gaming phone, but it will get better when Microsoft enables installing games to SD cards next year. Still won't run games that require 1 GB of RAM though.

Sadly, it looks like Amazon ran out of stock on these phones. Maybe they'll refresh later in the day.

ooga said:
Ugh! Retreads that were cheaper not too long ago. No Christmas money for Gameloft from me. Bah humbug!
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This is actually the best you can do for Order & Chaos Online, which is an awesome game. But it won't run on 512 MB devices, unfortunately.

 
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Mass Effect Infiltrator is $3.99 on sale. I don't see anything else that went on sale with it though.
 
FlamedLiquid said:
Bought myself an iPhone 5 c today. Think I may start trying for achievements on Game Center games. It's not the same but damn what a large selection of games and a lot of free ones. Don't know what I'm going to do with my brick of a windows phone now though.
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What model is your non-working Windows phone?

 
thenutman69321 said:
It's a fine cheap phone. Lots of games require 1 gb of ram though (for example in the current Gameloft sale only 4 of the 9 games can be played on a Lumia 520) so you won't be able to play some games since it only has 512mb.
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Where do they usually list the requirements for RAM?

I just got a cheap 520. I don't plan on getting too many games. But in case I do, where are the required specs typically listed?

 
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Agent Orange said:
Where do they usually list the requirements for RAM?

I just got a cheap 520. I don't plan on getting too many games. But in case I do, where are the required specs typically listed?
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You have to go to WindowsPhone.com and search for the game there to see the specs. I usually don't bother though. Temple Run 2 for example, is not listed as requiring 1GB of RAM. If you search for a game on your 512MB phone and can't find it then it needs 1GB of RAM. As an owner of a 521, I really am not very bothered about the handful of games my phone can't run. Other than the Batman game, Order & Chaos, and Chaos Rings the rest of the games are of marginal interest to me. I have 40+ games on my phone, so I am not exactly hurting for games to play on the go.

 
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thenutman69321 said:
It's a fine cheap phone. Lots of games require 1 gb of ram though (for example in the current Gameloft sale only 4 of the 9 games can be played on a Lumia 520) so you won't be able to play some games since it only has 512mb.
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Sounds good.

I was going to recommend it to someone looking for a cheap phone but wanted some opinions on it first.

 
Gives me hope that maybe XBL isn't quite dead on WP.  Although it takes awhile for games to work their way down the pipeline to release so who knows.  I'll definitely be picking it up.

 
gatordeve86 said:
no it doesn't stop taking you to review page.. I originally gave it a good review but after a while the taking me to review page got annoying so I changed review accordingly
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Same here. I'm guessing that a screen is supposed to pop up saying something like "would you like to write a review?" with replies "yes" and "not now", but something went wrong.

Might have to pick up Rabbids Big Bang, but the achievements look like they were designed to troll. Hopefully they are easy.

 
I'll probably never get my wife's Lumia 920 fixed, but I just ordered her a "new" one last night for what I would like to think is less money than repairs would cost.  Looks like I'll probably be coming by here a bit more often now.  I haven't really had much reason to frequent the thread since I can't download games on my phone and I can't remember the last time they released a game for WP7 anyway.

 
So I can get a new phone next week finally, out of the two Sprint phones (8XT and ATIV S Neo) is there one that is better? Or are they both good choices?

 
MoCiWe said:
So I can get a new phone next week finally, out of the two Sprint phones (8XT and ATIV S Neo) is there one that is better? Or are they both good choices?
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I recall the ATIV S Neo being way better. I think the 8XT only has like 8GB built in storage, meaning only about 4-5 usable Gigs.

 
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tylerh1701 said:
I recall the ATIV S Neo being way better. I think the 8XT only has like 8GB of RAM, meaning only about 4-5 usable Gigs.
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Hmmm alright, yeah looking them over the 8XT has 8GB and the ATIV has 16GB. The 8XT can be got free right now while the ATIV would be $50, I thought I heard somewhere that the 8XT was better when it came to getting Windows 8.1 and HTC is a bit better at updating their Windows Phones over Samsung, but that might be wrong.

 
This might be a horribly stupid question, but do you need to have a service contract to pay and download games or would it be possible over wifi without service?

 
Trenchalicious said:
This might be a horribly stupid question, but do you need to have a service contract to pay and download games or would it be possible over wifi without service?
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You can do it without contract. You can even sideload the games onto the phone yourself if you have a model with a removable SD card and wifi isn't an option.

http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/flow/item/16305_Side_load_app_and_game_xap_via.php

Although you do need a wifi/data connection to activate/install the software. I used this option to get around out of memory issues when Halo Spartan Assault came out.

 
MoCiWe said:
Hmmm alright, yeah looking them over the 8XT has 8GB and the ATIV has 16GB. The 8XT can be got free right now while the ATIV would be $50, I thought I heard somewhere that the 8XT was better when it came to getting Windows 8.1 and HTC is a bit better at updating their Windows Phones over Samsung, but that might be wrong.
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Yeah, if you plan to install games or apps, the device with 16 GB of storage (not RAM, Tyler!) is the way to go. 8 GB (with only like 5 GB available to the user) will limit you to tiny apps and nothing else.

ooga said:
Wow, very interesting. I may actually bite on this one.

BTW, Microsoft Bingo is coming out soon for Win8.
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A friend tells me Bingo is super buggy. We'll see!

 
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eastx said:
A friend tells me Bingo is super buggy. We'll see!
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I played one quick game. Although I had to try a couple of times to connect to LIVE successfully, I didn't run into any other bugs. You can try it yourself if you want. You'll have to switch your region to Canada to find the game first.

I feel like I should be complaining about my hip and eating Tapioca pudding while I play this game. Maybe that's DLC. :)

 
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After a period of semi-drought of WP games I find this avalanche of new games a bit overwhelming. I honestly don't know what to play now because of the choices. Achievements are no cake walk either. Win 1000 games of Solitaire? Yikes!

 
A new Minesweeper achievement:

"Win a game on any difficulty while holding the phone so that the screen is facing the ground."

WTF!!

 
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Bought Asphalt 8 with plenty of room, and it still says not enough clear space, won't install.  Has anyone else had this problem?

 
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