Blast your way through the latest ORB update on Windows Phone for free

ORB

Developer Palladium Power has once over again made its popular Windows Telephone game ORB available for gratis on the shop. The game has recently been bumped to version 3, introducing a number of features too equally the price reduction. If y'all've never tried out this addictive time consumer, now'southward the perfect opportunity.

Should you exist unaware exactly what ORB is all nigh, the player is in control of a sphere and is tasked with navigating around obstacles, making full utilise of tilt functionality. Holes and traps are to be avoided using both reflexes and special tiles dotted around the courses. Information technology's highly addictive and can get rather tough.

Then what'southward new in version 3? We're looking at new stages:

Ability to unlock five stages with new tiles, ORB and score bonus
ORB live tiles displays the ORB the role player last controlled
Coloured highscore is present, showing what stage the player accomplished the score at

It's a welcomed update and the added phase unlocks are an interesting manner to speedily hop into more heated action. The Live Tile is a visually attractive addition to the game, supporting both small and medium sizes and displays the previous ORB used (depending on stage selection - it's basically a way to boast about where the player kicked off).

ORB App

This isn't the first time we've seen ORB on sale. We've previously covered the developer slashing the price of the Windows Phone game terminal year. There'due south a free (albeit older) version of the game, besides listed on the store, so exist certain to check that version out one time this sale comes to an end for a sense of taste of the gameplay.

You can download ORB from the Windows Phone Store (supporting both Windows Telephone 7.10 and 8). Thanks, jusatin, for the heads upwards!

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