Start with a small town, build it up, and use a motley band of so-called heroes to defend it from the colourful cartoon hordes that surround it in the countryside. This is Adventure Town, and it starts with the standard mix of RPG and freemium, and adds in some very colourful graphics. That's enough to make the game work well, but the financial balance of the title is a little bit off.
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You know the scene. It's an action movie and the hero is in traffic, speeding through by swerving violently from lane to lane, sometimes ever veering onto the opposite carriageway, against the traffic, amidst beeping horns and with a pulsing soundtrack. Well, perhaps not quite so dramatic, but it's roughly the aim here in Traffic Racer - you've seen lane-hopping driving games before, but never one that's this realistically rendered, I promise...
When I wrote earlier this week about Flickr's lack of support for Windows Phone, I suggested that the space was open for another service to step up and become the social app of choice to show off your photos. Could 500px be the app of choice?
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Driving games have always held a fascination for gamers, especially on mobile devices. A good driving game keeps players coming back for more, shows off the graphical ability of a platform, and allows developers to prove just how good they are. It's also very easy to get everything wrong. Unfortunately AE GTO Racing falls into the latter category. It is utterly average in every respect, and that's no longer good enough for a Windows Phone game.
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Poki is a Windows Phone client for the popular 'read it later' service Pocket (www.getpocket.com). Pocket allows you to bookmark content while reading on your computer. This could be in a web browser, or from a desk-bound Twitter and Facebook client, or from the various extensions and apps available to download. These links are synced with Pocket clients from the central server, and are able to be read at your leisure. Which is where Poki comes in.
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Readit brings you the same feature set as you would find on Reddit (reddit.com), but wraps it up inside an application instead of an HTML-based page. That allows the Readit designers to work with Windows Phone 8 and create a much richer experience to read, navigate, and interact with. It's one of the best looking Reddit clients on Windows Phone, but are these good looks backed up by smart and usable code?
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Here's a nice 'grower' for you. Steve popped in Mobot Studio's latest platform game Paper Monsters into the flow of short stories here on All About Windows Phone, and after that popped over a note to me saying that I really should review it because I would like it. He was right, and you know what? I think the majority of our readers will like it too.
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And so, one month after iOS and Android, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas arrives on Windows Phone. It's a stupidly big title, and Rockstar's vision in getting this on a mobile device should be commended. They've made all the code work, but does it still feel like a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) title?
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Let's get the jokes out-of-the-way now, because I'm not going to check every single word in this review with the app (and in any case I would blame it on transcription errors if you found a mistake), but Dictionary.com is a handy app to have on your phone. It's not just for writers, thanks to the inclusion of some cool connected features. It's nowhere close to being an application that you would buy a Windows Phone for, but it is an app that you can keep coming back to, day after day.
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Tower defense games are rather popular on smartphones. There's a lot of room to innovate new ideas, or to implement the classic ideas very well. Zero Defense focuses entirely on the latter angle, and this title shows that you can put together a great game by covering all the bases and not adding in anything stupid. This is tower defense as you would expect it, but done with enough style and passion to make it enjoyable.
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