If the internet is good for one thing, it's good for humour. There are countless sites out there, all with their own mix of humour. 9gag has been around for five years, racks up over a billion page views a month, and is generally seen by many as one of the drivers of many popular 'memes'. And now you can browse it through a new Windows Phone app by Rudy Huyn.
If it's all about getting to your information quickly, then diary hounds will want to check out MyWeek, a lock screen application that will give you an overview of your appointments for the next week.
Cricket games don't always fare well on computers, let alone phones, with their smaller screens. So many players and styles and possibilities to model and control. Yet World Cricket Championship, reviewed here, handles the classic English sport almost faultlessly. It's true, it's slanted massively towards modern styles of play, with big strokes commonplace and super-short matches, but this is easy to forgive in a phone title, for which a ten minute game session is just about perfect.
There's a certain cheeky slice of humour on show in Rubicon Mobile's tactical combat title 'Great Big War Game'. From the moustached generals to the cheeky soldiers reporting in from the battlefield, Rubicon play their fighting hand with a light touch that makes this title accessible and fun to play.
In this review we take an in depth look at the Nokia Lumia 625, the latest addition to Windows Phone device line up. The combination of the biggest screen on any Windows Phone 8 device and LTE connectivity is an alluring combination. How this has been achieved, while maintaining a sub £200 price point, and whether it will be successful, are the questions at the heart of our evaluation.
You can't really fail in your game when it comes to Zombies - it's the ultimate survival situation, there's very little description or story needed beyond 'OMG Zombies!' and you have a huge range of tropes and clichés that will be expected. But if you're a Bristol-based game developer called Chris Roberts, then you look at the genre zombie and decide that what the gaming genre really needs is... a collectible card game.
It's called Tower Defense. Striving to be the default version of a popular genre is a bold claim, but this 'self-titled' Tower Defense game has probably earned the right to that moniker. If you're looking for a slice of retro infused tactical gaming on your Windows Phone, this is the one to buy. Here's why.
TuneIn Radio is an American service that allows you to stream audio from around the world. Primarily set up to allow you to listen to international streaming radio, it also allows for some podcasting and fixed audio programming to be played in the interface. If you're looking to listen in on a station from anywhere outside the transmission range, this is the app for you.
Some words for the weekend? Only if you're ready to challenge your friends to find the most words! As the summer continues to shine down, let's take a closer look at Ruzzle, the multi-platform wordsearch game from Sweden's Mobile Access Group.
The 'can you name this' genre of games is a popular one in the Windows Phone store, and we've mentioned a few before (such as 4 Pictures 1 Word). They can be quick to program, but they all need a bit of polish to become more than a distraction. Movie Junkie has that style, along with some tricky puzzles and a forgiving text parser that helps it to stand out from the pack.
