When you have a rather average karting game, you can work to make it a better game, or you can graft on a financially punishing in-app purchase mode to take as much money as possible from the users. Rovio's Angry Birds franchise reaches the karting space with Angry Birds Go, and unfortunately they've gone with the 'take as much money as possible' approach to the latest game from the rather cross Avians.
Subway Surfers has already been mentioned here on All About Windows Phone, in regards to scam-ware (see our editorial here) so it's a pleasure to finally have the title available on Microsoft's mobile platform. Subway Surfers has already built up a strong following on iOS and Android devices, and while it's not as strong as an Instagram or an Angry Birds, it's great to see more familiar titles arrive. The key will be Subway Surfers 2 and if it is released on all three platforms simultaneously. But for now, the review!
"This rings a bell", you may think, and you'd be right. Many months ago, I reviewed the Mugen 3000mAh version of this accessory - and the idea here is identical, yet with significant extra thickness and capacity, so if you read that earlier review then you know most of what there is to know - just add mm and mAh as appropriate. If you're new to Mugen's accessory then read on - this might just change the way you use your Lumia 920....
Oh there's nothing like a bit of festive tinsel and trappings to make an application feel just right for this time of year. Some apps go for an extra theme pack, or snow over the title graphics. Or you can go for a game that is all about christmas, which is the approach that Christian West has taken with Reindeer Round-up.
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.
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.
