Author: Adam Z. Lein

“Shuffle Party” is another new Xbox LIVE game coming out tomorrow, and it’s a lot of fun. The game features a few different styles of shuffle board game play. There’s a bowling style mode where you have to knock over pins with a shuffleboard puck. You’ll see your Xbox LIVE avatar show up here once in a while. There’s also a “Challenge” mode, which puts obstacles and coins and different scoring areas on the shuffleboard …

One of this week’s new Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone is called Ghostscape. It costs $2.99 and a free trial will be available tomorrow as well. The game is a mystery solving type game where you’ve got to explore a haunted house, find clues, and photograph ghosts that you might find. Most of the scenery is very two dimensional with a few 3D parts added about. You play by tapping different areas and picking …

Don’t forget to check out the Marketplace section of your Zune Desktop software for some Black Friday sales. In the videos section, you’ll find a selection of movies on sale for 400 Microsoft Points (about $5), as well as a selection of new releases on sale for 800 points (about $10), and a number of TV shows for around 1600 points per season ($20). The movies and TV shows that you buy can be synced …

The Microsoft Store is having a pretty nice Black Friday sale today through Monday while supplies last. Amoung other good deals on PCs, Xbox bundles, games, and accessories, there’s also some free Windows Phones. Of course, that is to say free with a new contract (or upgrade), but still that’s pretty good. The free phones available are the new HTC Radar 4G on T-Mobile, the HTC Trophy on Verizon, or the HTC Arrive on Sprint. …

Since so many stores are having big sales to kick off the holiday shopping season this Friday, this week there are a few extra sales on Xbox LIVE games in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Usually, we only have on deal of the week on games, but this week you’ll find three additional games on sale. The normal deal of the week is Tetris again. You’ll find Tetris in the Marketplace for $2.99 this week, down …

The Nokia Lumia 800 is probably the most highly-anticipated Windows Phone ever. We’ve been wishing and hoping for Nokia to use a powerful Windows-based mobile operating system since 2003, and finally we see the incredible phone manufacturing expertise from Finland merged with the gorgeous new Windows Phone software. It’s not all good news, though, since Nokia only recently decided to go with Windows Phone around 6 months ago, and that means they really did not …