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jpain333 on 03 February 2012
Darth Tigris said:
Since this is a gaming forum, I'll go ahead and post my speculation from several months back here too:

Serious first party Halo 4 related game to debut for new Windows Phone 8/Apollo devices in the fall of this year,


I seriously don't know why MS isn't throwing their big franchises on Windows Phone, make games like Halo, Gears of War, etc. for the platform! Would be awesome...



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Argh_College on 03 February 2012
crissindahouse said:
Argh_College said:
Im sick of so many ads about WP7 of Nokia Lumia and others WP7 Phones here in Portugal...

its getting ridiculous that those phones get so many ads and Xbox gets zero.

same in germany :) saw some this day alone on prime time they have to spend huge amounts for advertisement in europe (no clue about te rest of the world)

What´s most surprising is that Iphone and ipads and macs have no ads here... i cant believe that really and it sells...

i´ve seen more Move and WP7 Ads last week than i´ve ever seen Iphone ads all my life lol

How much are they spending on this nonsense pub? Where´s Xbox pub ?



NintendoPie on 03 February 2012

Good thing I didn't just buy a new phone. These WP are looking really good from what they used to be! ^o^



Darth Tigris on 03 February 2012
jpain333 said:
Darth Tigris said:
Since this is a gaming forum, I'll go ahead and post my speculation from several months back here too:

Serious first party Halo 4 related game to debut for new Windows Phone 8/Apollo devices in the fall of this year,


I seriously don't know why MS isn't throwing their big franchises on Windows Phone, make games like Halo, Gears of War, etc. for the platform! Would be awesome...

They only formed a division of Microsoft Game Studios for Windows Phone in August of 2010.  Takes time to conceptualize and develop a good game, especially one with limited touch interface.  I figure 2 years is enough, thus my prediction.



Rainbird on 04 February 2012
thranx said:
I plan on getting a windows phone soon. Is there a way to make sure the model i get cna be upgraded later on when win comes out?

All phones get all updates from Microsoft, even the Apollo update. Microsoft might drop support for some hardware when it gets old enough, but that hasn't happened yet, so just buy one of the newer models (Samsung Focus S/Focus Flash, HTC Titan/Radar, Nokia Lumia 900/800/710) and you'll be getting upgrades for a good amount of years.



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IamAwsome on 04 February 2012
jpain333 said:
Darth Tigris said:
Since this is a gaming forum, I'll go ahead and post my speculation from several months back here too:

Serious first party Halo 4 related game to debut for new Windows Phone 8/Apollo devices in the fall of this year,


I seriously don't know why MS isn't throwing their big franchises on Windows Phone, make games like Halo, Gears of War, etc. for the platform! Would be awesome...


I'd assume it's because theor development muslce is behind the 360/NexBox right now. The mobile studio they formed a while back made one game for WP7, but it wasn't a console style  game.