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Asphalt 8: Airborne now free for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms

Asphalt 8: Airborne now free for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms

By Robin Sinha | Updated: 21 January 2014 19:18 IST

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Asphalt 8: Airborne, a popular trending racing game for mobiles and tablets, has now been made free to download for Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms.

The game, created by Gameloft, takes up a size of 800MB on Windows Phones and around 1GB for Windows 8.

The franchise's eighth edition, Asphalt 8: Airborne, which was released on Microsoft operating systems in November 2013, includes a lot of new features as compared to the seventh edition, Asphalt 7: Heat.

Asphalt 8: Airborne features 47 racing cars to choose from, out of which around 80 percent are new cars with revamped sound effects. The game also includes a brand new game physics engine, and nine different exotic racing locations like Venice, Guiana and the Nevada desert, with various racing shortcut tracks.

Airborne, for hardcore gamers, comes with a career mode, which features a total of 8 seasons and 180 other events. The multiplayer feature of the game can support up to eight opponents.

You can download Asphalt 8: Airborne for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 from the aforementioned links.

Disney has also made seven of its gaming titles free for Windows Phone devices, available for a limited time via the Windows Phone Store. These seven games from Disney include Where's My Mickey?, Tor Story: Smash It!, Where's My Perry?, Where's MY Water?, Wreck-It Ralph, Monsters University and Avengers Initiative. Previously, most of these games were priced ranging from $0.99 to $4.99.

While game titles like Wreck-It Ralph, Where's My Water?, Toy Story: Smash It! and Where's My Perry are sized below 50MB, other games like Monster University, Avengers Initiative and Where's My Mickey will take up a size of 82MB, 763MB and 110MB respectively.

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