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Minesweeper Now Available Worldwide

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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:46
The FREE WP7 title is no longer a US only game

For those of you wielding the almighty Windows Phone 7 device, and who haven't been able to pick up your FREE copy of Minesweeper (WP), now is your time to do so as the title has finally been released worldwide!

After it was announced that Minesweeper was going to be a free title packed with ten achievements worth 50g, our wonderful community got pretty excited about the news. Unfortunately, upon the release of the game, it was discovered that the game was only available through the US Marketplace, and gamers outside of the US had to make do without a WP7 release to satisfy their cravings for the week.

For this week there will be no new WP7 release for the US unfortunately, but this should be a one-off and 'normal service' should resume come next week.

For anyone else waiting to get there grubby phone fingers on this sweet freebie, Minesweeper is available right now!

Credit goes to Musquito for this story
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huzzah!
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:48, Edited on 24 August 11 at 14:50 by maiden of haste
oh yea!! got 20g already!!

Now where is suduku??

also, does anyone know what WP7 DotW is yet?
ok ok i've got one....... whats the difference between jam and marmalade?
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:49
Nice, what about the other one
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:50
No word on Suduku yet people.
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:53
For this week there will be no new WP7 release for the US unfortunately.So does that mean we get to complain this week like everyone else did two weeks ago? laugh
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maiden of haste said:also, does anyone know what WP7 DotW is yet?Super Monkey Ball
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:54, Edited on 24 August 11 at 14:54 by Dat Boi Treezy
xPut Name Herex said:For this week there will be no new WP7 release for the US unfortunately.

So does that mean we get to complain this week like everyone else did two weeks ago? laugh
Yeah sure let it all out, it's only fair, right? lol.
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:56
Great news

now bring out suduku
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 14:58, Edited on 24 August 11 at 15:01 by maiden of haste
Musquito said:maiden of haste said:also, does anyone know what WP7 DotW is yet?Super Monkey Ball Cheers, cheep as chips! where is the best place to find out WP7 DotW? nothing up anywhere about this weeks as far as i can see


Dat Boi Treezy said:xPut Name Herex said:For this week there will be no new WP7 release for the US unfortunately.

So does that mean we get to complain this week like everyone else did two weeks ago? laugh
Yeah sure let it all out, it's only fair, right? lol.
yeah go on moan about it's so unfair how MS has done this tiny deed to try make things fairer for their international customers, oh you poor hard done by USA. jesus h christ why don't you get it?
ok ok i've got one....... whats the difference between jam and marmalade?
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:01
Cool, now can the US please get WWTBAM? Thanks.
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:10
Congrats to those who missed out when it was first released, too bad there is no new games coming out this week though, very disappointing news, especially since there are so many cool games coming soon that could be seen from the TA news about a week ago. Featuring several screenshots of new games coming out.
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:11
Sly Toad said:Cool, now can the US please get WWTBAM? Thanks.Agreed, but you're never going to get anywhere with that polite post. No offense but you need more bitching and whining. It may help to look at the Minesweeper/Sudoku thread from a couple weeks ago for some tips wink
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:13
I'm in the US so I have both already, but curious... why no sudoku?
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:17
My American and European friends.

The rest of the world (I'm in Canada), did not receive Minesweeper, Sudoku or WWTBAM. I even speak 2 of the languages of WWTBAM fluently (the other is French). I think that WE would have the right to bitch.

Thank you
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:25
maiden of haste said:where is the best place to find out WP7 DotW? nothing up anywhere about this weeks as far as i can seeNormally when you go into the Marketplace on the phone and press Applications on Wednesday early morning, it will tell you. Most of the time it comes up as early as 1 or 2am in the UK even though the price doesn't actually change till around 6/7am.
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:34, Edited on 24 August 11 at 15:35 by KitsuneChaos
So does this mean that the bitching shall now come to a halt?

St Tony22 said:My American and European friends.

The rest of the world (I'm in Canada), did not receive Minesweeper, Sudoku or WWTBAM. I even speak 2 of the languages of WWTBAM fluently (the other is French). I think that WE would have the right to bitch.

Thank you
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:50
about time
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 15:57
St Tony22 said:I think that WE would have the right to bitch.The Netherlands still doesn't have Xbox live enabled or a working marketplace for the WP7 games... angry

The right to bitch because of one game? You should be glad you even have games on your phone. warning
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Posted on 24 August 11 at 16:04
Guess it shouldn't be so surprising now that a worldwide release (except Canada apparently) of a previous US only game has turned into another round of "Who has it worse on the WP7?".
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