Verizon has signed with Microsoft for a first grab deal on the game. Verizon customers using Windows Phone 8 now get to play the game before the rest of us. The Verizon deal is just a first grab deal which usually last 2-4 weeks tho speculation puts it at 8/16/2013 for broad release meaning 4 weeks. It certainly is a sad piece of information for the rest of us but we will just have to hang in there and hope its 2 weeks instead of 4 I suppose.