It’s that time of year when blog traffic is low and everyone posts generic holiday greetings. I don’t have a specific Happy New Year image on hand, so I’ll spotlight this genuinely frightening photo of Sarge from our Christmas party, courtesy of our Flickr Photostream: Oi! Appy Olidays, wanker! We’ll likely go dark here until [...]

(Farzad, like a proud papa) sign_is_here Originally uploaded by Appy Entertainment Yeah, yeah, I know … what kind of “Secret World Headquarters” has a sign? (The landlord made us get one.) But it came out real cool. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this [...]

From buzzings and bleepings on the TV and the intertubes I gather there might be cold weather out there somewhere, but here at the Carlsbad Secret World Headquarters of Appy Entertainment, the sun is shining and the boys are back at work. (stole this image from a site hawking a San Clemente beach rental … [...]

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Examples of English superiority to USA: #287 Earlier this week, Manchester United Football Club (that’s proper football played primarily with the feet, not American Throwball, my colonial brethren) became World Club Champions of Club Football. To accomplish this feat, they had to do the following: Win the English Premier League, playing against the best teams [...]

No, Sarge isn’t in jail. (I hope). I’m using “arrested” in the sense of meaning that something has been stopped — in this case, development. Not our development as a developer, mind you — I’m talking about our development, overall. Confused? Let me start again. I’ve written before about how I am a card-carrying nerd [...]

We soft-launched the website over the weekend, so some of you may have already seen this, but everyone else should beat a path to our spiffy new official website here. While you’re there, take time to register with the site so we can fill your email boxes with Viagra offers and Nigerian banking opportunities. (“Message [...]

(Editor’s note: Sarge has returned to the land of his ancestors for the holiday, and today files his first remote blog from the Sceptred Isle.) I have, as they say, been around the block a few times. Although I am a relative newbie compared to Paul, my first game was still early enough in videogame [...]

(Note: First-time visitors click here for more startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) This week we kick off a new feature: Fridays With Farzad. It won’t be EVERY Friday — the guy has work to do, and despite what our banner may lead you to believe, he is only one [...]

(Note: First-time visitors to Appy Place click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) One of my CEO responsibilities here at Appy Entertainment’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters is to keep an eye on industry trends, particularly as involves Apple. The other day I was intrigued by this [...]