Microsoft adds new features to Xbox LIVE gaming on Windows Phone

Microsoft has announced a few new features that will be coming to the Xbox LIVE gaming section of the Windows Phone platform during the Gamescom conference this week. In addition, Microsoft announced a bunch of new gaming titles that will arrive for Windows Phone later this year.

New features found in the Xbox LIVE gaming experience include downloadable add-on game content, turn-by-turn asynchronous gameplay between two users, achievement badges that can be pinned on Avatars, and new parental controls to limit access to games intended for mature audiences. These new features will arrive on the platform after the Mango update has been released.

The list of new games includes "Toy Soldiers Boot Camp" (Microsoft Studios), "Chickens Can't Fly" (Microsoft Studios), "Twist Text 2" GameHouse), "Beards & Beaks: Cave Area" (Microsoft Studios), "Kinectimals" (Frontier Developments, Microsoft Studios), "MUSH" (Microsoft Studios), "Farm Frenzy 2" (Microsoft Studios), "Fight Game Rivals" (Microsoft Studios), "Orbital" (Microsoft Studios), "Burn the Rope" (Big Blue Bubble), "COLLAPSE!" (GameHouse), "Gravity Guy" (Miniclip SA), "Bug Village" (Glu Games), and "IonBallEX" (Ironsun Studios Limited). Gamers can expect to see these new games in the Windows Phone Marketplace by the end of this year.

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