Microsoft Solitaire comes to mobile

I remember the days when I’d waste so much time playing Solitaire on my Windows PC. Now, Microsoft wants us to relive those days on our mobile phones. The built-in Solitaire game—along with Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, and Tripeaks—are coming to both Android and iOS. Called the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, the games will have Daily Challenges to let you play “guaranteed solvable” challenges daily in all the five gaming modes with varying and multiple levels of difficulty. Of course, awards will be offered for your effort.

Aside from the Daily Challenges, the collection gets Xbox Live integration. This means you can sign in with your Xbox Live gamertag or Microsoft account to earn Xbox Live achievements and Gamerscore, compete with friends, and even continue playing on your varied devices as your data is saved in the cloud.

Source: BGR

‘Lego City Undercover’ to be re-released on new platforms

Lego City Undercover will be making its way to more consoles in the “Spring of 2017.” The game, which originally launched as a Wii U exclusive back in March 2013, is going to be re-released on the Nintendo Switch, PC, Microsoft Xbox One, and Sony PlayStation 4. Lego claims the game is both a “re-release” and a “remastered” version but it won’t say yet if it’s a direct port or if there will be improvements to be made. Lego City Undercover is unlike other Lego video games as it is based on an original story where you’re left to play as undercover police officer Chase McCain.

Source: GameSpot

Telltame Games’ ‘The Walking Dead’ third season tipped for December 20 release

After pushing back the release date for a few weeks, Telltale Games has announced that The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – A New Frontier will launch its first episode on December 20. The episodic adventure game based on The Walking Dead comics will follow a new character called Javier. He’s described as a “young man determined to find the family taken from him” and he encounters a slightly older Clementine in this new adventure. We’ll be able to see extended gameplay clip on December 1 as part of the livestream of The Game Awards.

Source: Android Authority

Twitter puts down more hurdles for law enforcers wanting to access your tweets

Twitter is making it crystal clear that they don’t want law enforcement to spy on you and your activities on its platform. The social network issued a warning that developers who use its public programming kits or Gnip data for surveillance will get limited access or will be suspended from the service entirely.

Twitter reasons that just because tweets are public, it doesn’t mean these should be harvested. They say their company is devoted to “social justice” and have law enforcement track protesters using public data curbs freedom of expression. Of course, that still won’t stop authorities from using other means to get data but at least this time they can’t gather so much information with just one program.