Microsoft employees may eat their own dog food , but they won’t have to code cross-platform Windows Phone 7 games in their spare time — Redmond job postings recently revealed that there’s a studio for that, which will develop and publish first- and second-party titles on the company’s dime. According to job descriptions, the newly-christened “MGS Mobile” will develop “showcase” Windows Phone 7 titles with an emphasis on connected play , and also incubate titles from indie devs and partners like the original Microsoft Game Studios, its older Xbox-based sibling. Interestingly enough, games won’t necessarily be limited to Windows Phone 7 devices, but may appear on “emerging mobile platforms” as well — the idea being to advance Microsoft’s position in the mobile gaming space rather than just pimp the WP7 platform

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Microsoft to open mobile games studio, develop and incubate Windows Phone 7 titles







