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Carcassonne's online multiplayer makes a dramatic recovery

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By Paul Acevedo, Monday, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:29 am

As bargain hunting Xbox Windows Phone gamers are surely aware, the fairly new Carcassonne is part of Microsoft’s Black Friday week sale which ends today. Until now, we’ve had mixed feelings about Carcassonne due to its ridiculously grindy Achievements and broken online multiplayer. Thankfully, one of those issues is now fixed at last. Carcassonne’s online multiplayer now works!

Celebrate Black Friday with a massive Xbox Windows Phone and Xbox 360 sale

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By Paul Acevedo, Friday, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:46 am

Last year’s Windows Phone Xbox Live Black Friday Week Sale wasn’t terribly exciting, but it did put three games on sale at once, a quantity only equaled in the Countdown to 2012 Sale a month later. A lot has happened between then and now, and today Microsoft has really upped the ante. The 2012 Black Friday Week Sale is live and includes a whopping six discounted Xbox Windows Phone games!

Head past the break for sale details, game impressions, and Xbox 360 Black Friday news too.

Carcassonne: Xbox on Windows Phone Review

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By Paul Acevedo, Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:14 am

People living outside of France can probably be forgiven for a lack of familiarity with the real-life town of Carcassonne and its historical significance. According to my best friend Wikipedia, the town was fortified by walls and was strategic significant from about 100 BC to 1659. Fast-forward to the year 2000 and a German board game designer named Klaus-Jürgen Wrede created a game about building medieval cities and kingdoms by the same name. The single console adaptation of Carcassonne to date has been the XBLA version, which came along in 2007 from Sierra Online. German developer Exozet Games created their own version for Android and Blackberry in 2011, which they’ve now adapted to Windows Phone.

Carcassonne now available for Xbox on Windows Phone complete with online multiplayer

By Paul Acevedo, Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:52 am

It’s always nice when a game launches a bit earlier than its Wednesday release date. Last week, Cracking Sands appeared in the morning (facilitating our timely review the next day), and now Carcassonne from Exozet and Microsoft Studios has done the same. Are you ready for some board game goodness?

Carcassonne bringing board game goodness to Xbox on Windows Phone on October 24

By Paul Acevedo, Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:33 am

Way back in February, Microsoft announced a handful of Xbox Windows Phone games. Only two of those games have yet to be released: Pinball FX2 and Carcassonne. The Windows Phone version of Pinball FX2 still needs more development time, but the good news is Carcassonne has gone gold at last. It even has an official release date: Wednesday, October 24.

Pinball FX2, Carcassonne, and more Xbox Live games coming to Windows Phone

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By Paul Acevedo, Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:33 pm

The Must Have Games 2012 promotion is nearly over, but that doesn’t mean the Xbox Live games will stop coming once March rolls around. Microsoft has just announced several new mobile Live titles.