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June 16, 2014
Spell W-I-N-N-E-R with rebuilt ‘Words With Friends’ on Windows Phone

The game is deceptively simple: Choose from your randomly selected tiles to create words and build more words connected to those words, or those made by your opponent. While you can certainly flex your massive vocab, I’ve also found you can earn even more points through savvy placement, especially over triple word and triple letter spots.

June 16, 2014
Yup, there’s a half-bug, half-woman who spits acid in ‘Mortal Kombat X’

Gameplay in “Mortal Kombat X” from NetherRealm falls somewhere between its previous “Mortal Kombat” and the developer’s more recent fighting endeavor, “Injustice: Gods Among Us” – it’s gross and gruesome, giving fighters an internal view of the damage they do to their opponents, writes Xbox Wire.

June 16, 2014
Designers and developers: Find out how an app can adapt to a user’s location

Sometimes an app’s user’s preferred language and settings don’t reflect where they are located, writes Gilles Peigné, program manager for Developer Ecosystem & Platform on the Windows Apps Team. They travel or regularly conduct international business, and while they want the apps to appear in their preferred language, they want the content to be relevant to their immediate surroundings.

June 16, 2014
Lync Room System update introduces new Room PC View

This optional feature is a button on the console that controls the display of the in-room PC screen share. If you want the screen share to display in the room, you can turn the button on; if you want to keep the screen share from displaying, turn the button off.

June 16, 2014
Forza Football among favorite new Windows Phone apps

Every Sunday, the Conversations blog lists its five favorite new Windows Phone apps and the latest set includes Forza Football, which supplies live score updates and video highlights from more than 400 international leagues and cups – including the current soccer extravaganza in progress in Brazil.