Ad-Free version of Words with Friends and Draw Something now available for Windows Phone

Good news everyone! Zynga's two large hit games,Words with Friends and Depict Something, are both now available for Windows Phone (that's seven and 8). What's more than, these are the ad-gratuitous versions, which ways y'all'll take to fork over $2.99 for each. (An earlier, ad-supported version of Draw Something was released for Nokia just then pulled).

That may seem pricey only if we were going to play these frequently, nosotros would definitely drib the $iii to get back that screen space and not to use our data/bombardment—but that's us.

Words with Friends, for those of you lot who have missed faddish games, is a unproblematic Scrabble game that has online multiplayer capabilities and took the world by storm a year or two ago. While nosotros happen to like AlphaJax a bit better (and we can't wait for its Xbox upgrade), the benefit of Words with Friends lies in the ability to play your colleagues on iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Basically it makes Windows Phone users feel part of the crowd—fifty-fifty if we are really late to the party.

Also with Describe Something, which peaked in involvement a few months ago. The game is essentially Pictionary but for mobile devices and once again, the excitement lies in the ability to claiming friends across OS'south. Personally, we're terrible at drawing (even doodles) so we'll just stick with Words with Friends for now.

Speaking of, the games do look great on college resolutions displays institute on Windows Phone 8, but every bit far as we can tell these have no WP8 advancements e.g. no doublewide tiles, Lockscreen notifications etc. They exercise piece of work and play well though, and so there'south that.

You tin can pick upward Words with Friends hither and Draw Something here. There are no restrictions as far as we can tell. Each game will set you lot back $2.99 with no trial.

Big thanks to Xiao Qi for the links!

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