OK ladies and gents; are you ready to be blown away with Rocket Riot™, on the spanking new Windows Phone 7? On the Thursday, October 21st, the new and improved mobile version of the awesome action-packed side-view shooter Rocket Riot, is available on Zune.

In this highly stylized eight-bit era style game, you have to blast your way through destructible environments, battle against the strangest (and coolest!) enemies, uncover tons of special power-ups  and use the regenerating environment to your own advantage.

What else is new? Besides the 48 single-player missions with progressively increasing difficulty, there is a new and unique Challenge Mode. In this mode you invite friends to take on specific challenges in order to get the highest score. And it’s all about the highscore right?

As you might know, the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) features a multi touch display, which utilizes the new control schemes of Rocket Riot perfectly. You can even use the Windows Phone 7’s tilt sensor for motion control! How cool is that?

And we’re not the only one that is excited about this new iteration of Rocket Riot. Our fellow Dutchman, Matthijs Hoekstra from Microsoft Benelux, made a nice blogpost about it. And there is even more excitement to share with you guys…

Prior to the release of Rocket Riot, we did some interviews with Mobile Tech World and Pocket Gamer. Make sure you don’t miss out, as they are an interesting read if we may say so.

Last but not least: if you want to show your appreciation for Rocket Rocket, please do on the 2010 Mashable Awards. The Mashable Awards celebrate major innovations and achievements in the digital and social media landscape by companies, people and projects via an open platform. Your vote will be much appreciated!

What? You’re still here? Go and get your hands dirty! Let the riot commence once again…

We think the first WP7 phones will be out in October already, so it won’t be long until you can carry our lovely pirate Blockbeard with you!

As said, last week four of us, traveled to Cologne (Germany) to visit Gamescom. We hadn’t even got off the train when Microsoft announced the first games on their new Windows Phone 7 platform. Rocket Riot is going to be one of them! They even demoed the game on their booth together with a bunch of other games. We think the game is getting pretty awesome. It is just as explosive as the Xbox version, so these new Windows phones are pretty powerful! Here’s some more information for you to digest about the announcement:

Exclusive preview on Engadget:

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First gameplay videos brought to you by BestWP7Games:

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Joystiq reporter wanting to steal a phone after playing Rocket Riot:

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And here is our producer Maarten playing the game on the show floor:

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We think the first WP7 phones will be out in October already, so it won’t be long until you can carry our lovely pirate Blockbeard with you!

Here are some pictures of Rocket Riot and the Microsoft booth: