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With the new “Avengers Initiative” game from Marvel Entertainment, available now in the Windows and Windows Phone Stores, you can play as either Captain America or the Hulk to track and take down super villains like Abomination and The Skrulls, both of whom have escaped from The Vault (a top-secret S.H.I.E.L.D. facility in the Rocky Mountains).

To make sure indies have the tools they need, the Xbox One add-on for Unity, when it’s released in 2014, will be available at no cost to developers in the ID@Xbox program.

As for the Silverstone Circuit, it was originally a Royal Air Force airfield used in World War II and was home to bomber groups that utilized its long runways to get airborne with heavy munition loads. After the war was over, car enthusiasts abounded and the airfield was leased to the Royal Automobile Club. Ever since the first crude race course was established, cars have been flying around its tarmac.

In just four months, Tel Aviv’s Project Management office, using the city’s vision for innovation and Microsoft’s CityNext solutions, “built a multi-functional, cloud-based system that integrates several systems into one place,” David-Pur writes Tuesday on the Microsoft in Government Blog.

Games make up a third of all Windows Phone downloads, and indie games are seeing downloads increase by 253 percent on average every month. Because of that, the Windows Phone Developer Blog has kicked off a series of posts with advice from developers of some of the best titles in the Windows Phone Store.