Sesame Street has reached the Windows Phone Marketplace as a trio of apps have been launched featuring the characters that kids the world over know and love. Abby In Wonderland is offered as a free trial, retailing at $1.99. In the game, kids read aloud in an interactive experience in which Abby Cadabby falls asleep and follows Elmo the Red Rabbit down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, where Elmo meets Counterpillar and the Cookie Cat. Then Abby has a tea party with Grover the Mad Hatter, after which find her magic wand so she can get back to Sesame Street, but Oscar has other ideas. Color Carnival is also free to try and sells for $1.99. In it Elmo and his friends visit a very colorful [...]

The developers Amused Sloth have released a follow-up to Chickens Can Dream, Chickens Can't Fly, bringing a great mix of humor and nice graphics, and the sharp responsiveness of the controls means Chickens Can't Fly should be a hit on the Windows Phone platform. The developers have provided more than 50 levels set across five themed laboratories - there's a Hatchery world, a Butchery world, Cemetary and Military laboratories, and a Physics lab for users to battle through. Gameplay features numerous obstacles and ppower-ups as well as power-downs. Players can earn XBox Live Achievements and strut their way up the XBox Live leaderboards. There's even a Global Weekly Challenge where users can [...]

Although Windows Phone Tango devices are only just starting to appear, applications are quietly being updated to incorporate support for the platform update. Such as Microsoft's weather app, which has been rebuilt from the ground up, with new features, to comply with Tango's specifications. HTC launched China's first Windows Phone smartphone this week - the HTC Triumph (a re-branded version of the HTC Titan) which is shipping with Tango as standard - and Nokia will release WP7 handsets in the People's Republic before the end of the month.   [...]

PrimeTube is a Windows Phone 7 YouTube client app which emulates the look and feel of the Windows Phone Metro interface. amongst the features are Search for Videos, Filter and Sort results, Like/Dislike videos, and comment functionality. Videos, playlists or authors can all be pinned to give live tile support for instant access. Videos can be shared via social networks, email or SMS. The app also lets users create playlists and manage subscriptions. PrimeTube offers multi-region support and supports fast-app switching. The developers behind the app, Applyf, state that PrimeTube adheres to YouTube's Terms of Service agreement and that the app will be updated to keep pace with API changes [...]

Great news for the Windows Phone platform - the developers behind Angry Birds Space, released this week, have announced that a version for WP7 is under development, just hours after saying they had no plans to release Angry Birds Space on Microsoft's mobile ecosystem. However, Rovio Mobile's CMO Peter Vesterbacka’s admitted porting the world's most popular mobile game on Windows Phone OS would mean 'a lot of work to technically support it for minimal return.' On release earlier in the week, Angry Birds Space for Android and iOS shot to number one download, but Windows Phone support was eerily absent, and asked whether the omission was a deliberate snub, Vesterbacka complained [...]