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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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Yea, I bit on Tetris for that price. Seemed to control pretty well during the trial. Guess we will see as I play more but for $3 and under I'll buy pretty much anything as long as the controls work.

I have found that the #1 factor that determines if I buy a game on WP7 is how well the controls work. I never had an iphone or ipod touch so I never really got the whole gaming with a touch screen phenomenon until I got my WP7 a few months ago. I always figured that there were some games that just wouldn't work or at least wouldn't work well enough to be fun. The PES 11 deal last week was a pretty good example of that type of game that just doesn't work. I passed on the Sims dotw as well due to the poor controls. Looking back I probably should have passed on Pac-Man, Glyde & Rise of Glory as well.

Also, they have delisted the two Star Wars games and Fast and Furious from WP7. If you have the trial versions on your phone you should still be able to buy the full versions.
 
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WTF is up with all these delistings without warning? I totally would have bought the cantina game and Fast and Furious if there had at least been a warning ahead of time.

But you're totally right about how some games just control like crap on phones, especially if they insist on just having motion controls. Super Monkey Ball and I Love Katamari would have been must-buys if they just included the option of having a stick on the screen control the action.
 
Picked up Tetris and Ionball, both seemed well worth $3.

Ionball EX seems especially good, I really like those Arkanoid style games.

Sucks about Fast and the Furious getting de-listed, I was just waiting for that to go on sale.
 
Yea, I need to hop on some more of the $3 releases instead of waiting on them. I picked up Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds and Beards and Beaks while I was on vacation and have really enjoyed all of them. The CAG in me always says wait for a deal, but I definitely think it is good for the platform as a whole if people support new games at launch.

The delistings are a bit worrisome to me, especially because some of these games have not been out that long. That said, just download all the trials onto your phone and you should be able to purchase the full versions through the game interface if they do get delisted. I know you might have to sort through a bunch of trial games to find the ones you want to play, but hopefully the updates coming to the XBL interface this year will make it easy to sort between full and trial versions of the game, much like you can do on the 360 dashboard.
 
[quote name='GLOCKGLOCK']Yea, I need to hop on some more of the $3 releases instead of waiting on them. I picked up Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds and Beards and Beaks while I was on vacation and have really enjoyed all of them. The CAG in me always says wait for a deal, but I definitely think it is good for the platform as a whole if people support new games at launch.

The delistings are a bit worrisome to me, especially because some of these games have not been out that long. That said, just download all the trials onto your phone and you should be able to purchase the full versions through the game interface if they do get delisted. I know you might have to sort through a bunch of trial games to find the ones you want to play, but hopefully the updates coming to the XBL interface this year will make it easy to sort between full and trial versions of the game, much like you can do on the 360 dashboard.[/QUOTE]

Wow, I wanted to check out the star wars. Oh well. I am with you, 2.99 and I'll bite and supporting the developers for win7 is important. I should buy more games but such a huge backlog. Also good news if you like avatar achievements, a windows live game announced will have avatar unlocks. I like having extras to unlock and on the go, awesome
 
We did cover the 3 games disappearing:

http://www.wpcentral.com/more-missing-xbox-live-games-fast-furious-star-wars-battle-hoth-cantina

The delistings are because the publishers lost the licenses to those games and so they yanked them. Of course they should have warned everybody in advance... Anyway, I'd post more stuff like that here, but I've seen very little indication that anyone reads or responds to them, so it's not worth the effort right now. I do still love you all though.
 
Man, I think I want to take back anything good that I said about the Tetris controls. Maybe I just need more time with it, or maybe I'm realizing that I must have secretly hated Tetris since the Nintendo World Championships from back in the days.

So are the rumors true that there is no release this week? Hope we still get a deal of the week.

One question for everyone out there, has anyone found a good protective case for the Trophy? Verizon carries nothing but iPhone and Droid accessories in the stores and there is next to nothing for sale on the Verizon website either.
 
What I don't get about delistings, is don't publishers realize that if they just gave gamers a warning of one week, their profits from those games would spike from all the people hurrying to purchase the games?

It just seems like terrible business to not give people any warning.
 
DrunkAgain, you're right that publicizing the delistings would have been way smarter. Chalk it up to those companies' mobile divisions having crappy PR (we've never been able to get a response from I-Play, Fast & Furious's publisher, on any topic).

There may be no Xbox Live release tomorrow, but I will have at least 3 cool gaming-related articles going up! Sean, at least, will enjoy them. >:)
 
It's not just an issue with mobile games though. Plenty of games have disappeared from Xbox Live Arcade with zero warning. Very, very annoying.
 
[quote name='eastx']DrunkAgain, you're right that publicizing the delistings would have been way smarter. Chalk it up to those companies' mobile divisions having crappy PR (we've never been able to get a response from I-Play, Fast & Furious's publisher, on any topic).

There may be no Xbox Live release tomorrow, but I will have at least 3 cool gaming-related articles going up! Sean, at least, will enjoy them. >:)[/QUOTE]

Hey, I pretty much lobbed up a softball sized question that let you link to your site today so don't think sean is the only person who checks out your site. ;) I couldn't remember if I saw the article on your wpcentral, TA or x360a. Figured it had to be one of those 3 since that is pretty much all I check on a daily basis outside of CAG. :D
 
Oh yeah, thanks man. Now if only some of my fellow CAGs would actually comment on articles... That's extremely important because it's developers/publishers' only way of gauging interest in the scoops and interviews they give us. More comments = more news, which is good for everybody.

Perhaps you'd like to know the Deal of the Week a little early?

Super Monkey Ball goes on sale, promptly rolls of a cliff
 
Nope, still 3 more things coming. 1 of them might get delayed depending on the developer, but definitely at least 2 (1 of which is an interview).
 
RE: Amazon's policies.

Off topic, but I ordered a Smartphone from Amazon last week (August 12th) for $99.00 even. It's been on backorder for a while.

Just two days ago I saw that the price dropped to $82.99, so the first thing I do is go to my page and try to cancel the old order and place a new one. However, the magical "Shipping Soon" status appeared on my order, meaning the option to manually cancel it is gone (after 10 days of just sitting there with no movement).

So I contact customer service to either cancel the order or credit me the $17 difference, but they won't do neither.

It's been on "Shipping Soon" status for the last 2 days now, and it's still on that blasted status today as I'm staring at it right now refreshing my page.

WTF Amazon?

This is the 3rd problem I've had with them in the last 2 weeks!

1) Misadvertising Sucker Punch 2-Disc as a 4-Disc
2) Pre-order guarantee of Deus Ex $20 promo credit not applied
3) And now this problem

They could've easily canceled my order 2 days ago with no incident rather than give me BS about not being able to cancel the shipping process! I want to contact them again and demand they cancel it or else I'll just return the item to place a new order for the lower price difference.

I've only done a return like once and I hate, hate, hate all the return hassle so I'm just hoping they could cancel my order for me to place a new one, or just credit me the difference.

Has anyone had a similar issue?
 
[quote name='Ratchet & CAG']RE: Amazon's policies.

Off topic, but I ordered a Smartphone from Amazon last week (August 12th) for $99.00 even. It's been on backorder for a while.

Just two days ago I saw that the price dropped to $82.99, so the first thing I do is go to my page and try to cancel the old order and place a new one. However, the magical "Shipping Soon" status appeared on my order, meaning the option to manually cancel it is gone (after 10 days of just sitting there with no movement).

So I contact customer service to either cancel the order or credit me the $17 difference, but they won't do neither.

It's been on "Shipping Soon" status for the last 2 days now, and it's still on that blasted status today as I'm staring at it right now refreshing my page.

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Has anyone had a similar issue?[/QUOTE]

I have not had a similar issue. The first pair of phones I purchased via amazon wireless was a good experience. I got a win7 phone and an android phone for my wife-intially it was 70 for both, a few days later they both dropped in price, called, and I was told they will lower but only once for this purchase so if the phones got cheaper in the next week or two they wouldn't adjust. So the cost to me when to only 25. I had to return the phones however due to Tmobile's service was horrible in my area. Did you buy it from amazon wireless? or through amazon in general? That may be the difference?

[quote name='GLOCKGLOCK']Hey, I pretty much lobbed up a softball sized question that let you link to your site today so don't think sean is the only person who checks out your site. ;) I couldn't remember if I saw the article on your wpcentral, TA or x360a. Figured it had to be one of those 3 since that is pretty much all I check on a daily basis outside of CAG. :D[/QUOTE]

I too visit the site.
@eastx-In fact I have the app on my phone. You mention more comments would be good, and I'll try to do just that. The other day I watched a video on wpcentral about the Mango update and the new tile for the website will allow comments with the live tile/push notifications. Then we won't have an excuse to not leave a comment! :)

BTW: I am on the fence w/ Monkey ball. The controls complaint are legit. The achievments will make or break the purchase for me.
 
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[quote name='MastrMeatWad']I have not had a similar issue. The first pair of phones I purchased via amazon wireless was a good experience. I got a win7 phone and an android phone for my wife-intially it was 70 for both, a few days later they both dropped in price, called, and I was told they will lower but only once for this purchase so if the phones got cheaper in the next week or two they wouldn't adjust. So the cost to me when to only 25. I had to return the phones however due to Tmobile's service was horrible in my area. Did you buy it from amazon wireless? or through amazon in general? That may be the difference?
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Thanks for the info.

Mine is just Amazon in general.

I'll contact them again and see if they'll give me credit/refund.
 
Ratchet, I highly suggest complaining again and mentioning that because your order has not shipped, you would like the price adjusted. That usually works for me. if not, refusing the shipment is the only answer.

For some reason my editor hasn't posted the really cool interview yet, but here's 3 gaming related articles anyway:

Cro-Mag Rally developer humbly details upcoming patch
Hydro Thunder GO update and Venice Canals map cross the finish line (that map was hard to get!)
Fight Game Rivals busts out on Xbox Live on August 31

MasterMeatWad, thanks for the support! Very cool of you. That's how to do it, everybody.
 
Read and commented.

You should get an interview with HalfBrick and demand Age of Zombies comes soon, along with the pomegranate update to Fruit Ninja!
 
Thanks Sean! Halfbrick consistently ignores my emails, argh. But I might be able to pull some strings and pressure them into an interview sometime.
 
WP7 Deal of the Week
Fable_Coin_Golf_Screens.jpg

August 31
 
[quote name='benjamouth']Is Fight Game Rivals still coming out today Eastx, checked WPCentral this morning but didn't see anything?[/QUOTE]

It's out now, but we haven't found a download link for it yet... We get those from certain websites like WP7applist, who hasn't listed the game on time for some reason.
 
[quote name='eastx']It's out now, but we haven't found a download link for it yet... We get those from certain websites like WP7applist, who hasn't listed the game on time for some reason.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I see it now, didn't see it this morning when I was downloading Fable Coin Golf.
 
[quote name='eastx']Ratchet, I highly suggest complaining again and mentioning that because your order has not shipped, you would like the price adjusted. That usually works for me. if not, refusing the shipment is the only answer.

For some reason my editor hasn't posted the really cool interview yet, but here's 3 gaming related articles anyway:

Cro-Mag Rally developer humbly details upcoming patch
Hydro Thunder GO update and Venice Canals map cross the finish line (that map was hard to get!)
Fight Game Rivals busts out on Xbox Live on August 31

MasterMeatWad, thanks for the support! Very cool of you. That's how to do it, everybody.[/QUOTE]
You are welcome. I like the site and the articles. Keep up the good work! I am excited for the new app with live tiles-push. Now if only Mango update will come sooner than later. :)

Love that fable golf is dotw. I downloaded the fight game rivals trial. Not bad actually. i was expecting something totally different.
 
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Picked up coin golf. Tried the demo for fight rivals. It seemed pretty cool. Has rocket riot always been $5? For some reason, I thought it was $3..
 
Thanks for the heads up on those Star Wars Zune links, but it looks like I'll have to wait to get home to download them. Hopefully they're still working then.
 
[quote name='TctclMvPhase']Fable Coin Golf was the one deal I was really waiting for, but now that its here, I can't bring myself to buy it.[/QUOTE]

Why not? If you're interested in the game, it makes sense to buy it while it's cheap...
 
How are the achievements for Fable Coin Golf? Are they annoying or hard to do?

EDIT: Just looked it up, gold rank in all holes? Sounds too brutal.
 
[quote name='eastx']Why not? If you're interested in the game, it makes sense to buy it while it's cheap...[/QUOTE]

I just don't use my phone for gaming enough to even justify the sale price. Do they ever have sales more than 50% off?
 
[quote name='TctclMvPhase']I just don't use my phone for gaming enough to even justify the sale price. Do they ever have sales more than 50% off?[/QUOTE]

No, 33% off is the maximum discount we've seen so far. Me, even if I didn't review phone games for a living, and I had a game I wanted to play on my phone, I'd just play it, either at home or on the go. Plus, Achievements.

Teeheehee, there is a Fable Coin Golf Achievement guide: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=304138
 
Fable Coin Golf actually looks pretty great. I'll download it at work today. Let's see if I can get that 75g achievement.
 
Hey eastx, those Zune links worked great to get the Star Wars games.

Any idea if there's a similar way to get Project Sunburst or the Fast and the Furious?
 
[quote name='Teeheehee']How are the achievements for Fable Coin Golf? Are they annoying or hard to do?

EDIT: Just looked it up, gold rank in all holes? Sounds too brutal.[/QUOTE]

I got 100% achievements in Fable Coin Golf. It really is not that hard. I played it for maybe 10 hours. It is a pretty fun game - challenging, but not frustrating. I definitely recommend it at the sale price.
 
[quote name='TctclMvPhase']I just don't use my phone for gaming enough to even justify the sale price. Do they ever have sales more than 50% off?[/QUOTE]

Fable Golf is awesome, and at that price is is worth it IMO. It has decent achievements, it is fun to beat friends on the leaderboards, it is well polished, and it to me is a game you can just pick up and play like angry birds and just have fun with on the go. What a wp7 game should be, again, imo. I have a psp and 3ds for handheld gaming. Plus at 2.99, that is well worth it. Buy!
 
[quote name='DrUnkAgAIn']Hey eastx, those Zune links worked great to get the Star Wars games.

Any idea if there's a similar way to get Project Sunburst or the Fast and the Furious?[/QUOTE]

I am too late. :( I am a sad panda. :cry:

another topic:
Does anybody read the reviews from people on the games. Like 1 star reviews on awesome games and such troll statements. What they type is just crazy. It isn't just wp7, but some of the comments are unique. on my apple same kind of nonsense, except you dont read "i should go back to android". Just was reading the reviews on the new fight game. I actually enjoyed it and I am glad it isn't like a typical fighter, how could that work and be great on a phone/touchscreen? eh.
 
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