WE CAN'T BE SURE how great the impact of adding access to Windows Live games over a mobile handset is likely to be, mostly because none of us uses a Windows handset of any kind.

That said, the Vole doesn't do its consumer research at the Inq head office, so the firm has indeed announced that it will offer premium games on mobile phones and tie handsets to any online gamertags, scores achievements and other applicable information. Like, we presume, how many noobs you no-scoped in your last game of COD.

What with the average phone user statisitically more likely to select any one of the other mobile phone platforms available to them, Microsoft will hope that this will entice gamers to use its phones.

Well, anything is worth trying once. µ