GAME Reward app now available for Windows Phone 8

Leading UK video game retailer GAME has released an app for Windows Phone 8. It's a useful tool for those who wield a GAME Reward bill of fare and can have full advantage of offers and points collected through purchases and other ways of accumulation in the loyalty programme.

Earlier we get into how crawly the app is, unfortunately it's nearly incommunicable to utilize with a light theme enabled in Windows Telephone settings. Text input fields and forms are only viewable in a dark theme configuration. Should you connect your carte du jour to the app, it's then possible to brand utilise of the features using the lighter setting - just behave information technology in mind when opening the app for the outset time.

With that upshot out of the manner, the app itself is very nice. Making employ of Metro elements, the UI definitely looks similar to first-party apps and is easily recognisable every bit running on Microsoft'due south platform. GAME customers are able to connect their Advantage cards (and Gamestation cards) to the app to brandish balance data and applicable reward details. A reward QR code is also presented for use.

Besides as business relationship residual readouts, those who have accounts tin cheque out the nearest GAME store to any given location, with a map available to view stores beyond the land (total addresses are listed with distance from current location). Adding gamer tags and organisation login information when registering an business relationship will enable the retailer to reward those who attain achievements and complete other tasks in the time to come - pretty corking.

It'south well worth checking out the app should yous be a frequent customer with the retailer and concur an business relationship to make use of the reward capabilities of the loyalty program. We'd like to come across Game meliorate the app with more than features and possibly the add-on of an easily accessible online shop.

You can download GAME Reward from the Windows Phone Store for free.

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