{"id":654293,"date":"2013-04-24T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=145540"},"modified":"2013-04-24T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:01:51","slug":"alert-the-kids-ice-age-arrives-on-windows-phone-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654293","title":{"rendered":"Alert the kids! Ice Age arrives on Windows Phone 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ice-age-village.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ice age village\" width=\"548\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145562\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I find that having children is an excellent excuse for watching movies like Ice Age, Up, Cars and more. After all, I would feel a bit silly watching those flicks on my own, as I do with scary movies like Paranormal Activity, thanks to a wife and kids who would not sleep for a week if they joined me in front of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ice Age, and all of its classic\u00a0characters, like\u00a0Sid, Manny, Ellie, and Diego, are coming to your phone &#8212; providing that you are using a Windows Phone 8 handset.<\/p>\n<p>Today Microsoft&#8217;s Michael Stroh <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows_phone\/b\/windowsphone\/archive\/2013\/04\/24\/now-in-the-store-ice-age-village-for-windows-phone-8.aspx\" >announces<\/a> that Ice Age Village is arriving on the mobile platform. The game focuses on the characters attempt to build a new village for their friends. &#8220;Multiplayer options, side missions, and mini-games featuring Scrat, the nutter saber-toothed squirrel, keep things interesting&#8221; says Stroh.<\/p>\n<p>If you are installing this for your kids (okay to admit it is for you) then you will need to be aware that the game allows for multi-player mode and is not subject to Xbox Live parental settings. With that said, the game is free from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/ice-age-village\/f9d4703c-60fb-409d-80a6-423329322544?appid=f9d4703c-60fb-409d-80a6-423329322544\" >Windows Phone Store<\/a>. Install it. We will believe the game is for your kids who just happen to love sabertooth\u00a0squirrels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=zxHIoFJ42Gk:SJRKTkCCmgc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=zxHIoFJ42Gk:SJRKTkCCmgc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/zxHIoFJ42Gk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find that having children is an excellent excuse for watching movies like Ice Age, Up, Cars and more. After all, I would feel a bit silly watching those flicks on my own, as I do with scary movies like Paranormal Activity, thanks to a wife and kids who would not sleep for a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}