Frozen Free Fall brings Disney's latest movie to your Windows Phone with some very colourful match-three puzzles, the cast of characters from 'Frozen' along to help you through the 75 levels, and the distinct aroma of having seen it all before. Still, if you are going to be 'inspired', be inspired by one of the biggest grossing mobile games of all time.
What is a computer if not to compute? What is a smartphone if not to be smart. What is a calculator for if not to show 5318008 upside down? Put at least two of these together and you have Calculator3, a multi-function interface for all your numerical needs.
The stock Windows Phone lock screen offers a limited number of options - this is where Lockmix comes in. A lock screen customisation application, whose USP is the ability to add an ever increasing range of resizable widgets to your lock screen and also your Start screen.
Run as far as you can, collect as many of our chosen objects (in this case bananas), and avoid everything else that gets in the way. Oh, and you have three lanes you can run down, so swipe on the screen to switch between them. It's a well-worn concept of mobile gaming, and there are countless interpretations that are, frankly, a bit of a car-crash. That's not the case with Gameloft's latest release. Minion Rush does everything you would expect of an infinite runner, but it does it with such skill, panache, and branding, that this little movie tie-in game is threatening Temple Run as the definitive version of the genre.
iSwarm is an application that might seem superfluous to many, but for others it will be a vital tool in their online world. Developed by Ceiba Solutions, it sets out to look over the major social networks for set phrases, alerting you when they are mentioned online. Anyone monitoring a campaign or PR'ing for a product should be interested. Unfortunately, iSwarm is little better than a saved search on each service.
At last it exists. The perfect application for recreating the Dr Who theme tune - this is Grantophone, in its version 2.0 guise, with extra effects and arpeggiator. It's tempting to call it a musical application, except that even Grantophone's own description refers to creating "all sorts of interesting sounds". So not actual tunes then. Don't be put off though - this is a free application with which you can have enormous fun. And, perhaps, find the perfect sound effects for that school drama or garage band trance track.
Developed by Nitako, Move has already proven to be a popular albeit frustrating game on Android and iOS following its release in October. Now it's the turn of Windows Phone users to find out just how fun this infuriating 'brain shifting game' can be.
How long does it take a gamer to realise that a freemium game is boring? Developers want this to be as long as possible, but unfortunately Gameloft's latest hack and build RPG title, Kingdoms & Lords, manages to be boring after about four minutes, and never improves. Which is never a good sign, but it gets worse.
In the future, when the world waits for the arrival of Charlton Heston, the apes will gather in arenas across the continents to play devilish games of strategy and skill to the death. Starting as a lowly chimp, will you be able to survive the games and advance in the rankings?
Sometimes the best laid plans go astray - I'd planned a group test of the various photo-to-sketch utilities for Windows Phone, but it soon became apparent that one was head and shoulders above the rest. Ignore the naming confusion ('Sketch') and head for the one by thumbmunkeys, reviewed here. The results are somewhat... stunning, as you'll see below.
