Archive for May, 2010

Appy In The News

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

It’s nice to make the news for something other than bringing our Twitter followers to their knees, and this week Appy Entertainment has twice made a little splash. Over at PocketGamer, friend-of-Appy Jon Jordan takes a look at a stealthy pricing experiment we tried with FaceFighter Face2Face awhile back … … and Appy also came [...]

When Good Tweets Go Bad

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Anyone watching Appy’s Twitter stream on Saturday afternoon would have been both fortunate and unfortunate to see this blast of nonsense: Fortunate … because this would have given you a sneak peak at our next game — FaceFighter Gold (and more about that later this week!). Unfortunate … because the first setting for this new [...]

Moving Day (RSS & Email Subscribers Please Note)

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

We’ve moved this Appy Place blog to a new address: http://www.appygamesblog.com. We’ve done this to improve our search rankings, and to enable some new features for the blog that we will roll out in the months to come. Thanks to the super-secret high-tech ninja team that has been toiling behind the scenes on this change [...]

Face Time For FaceFighter Face2Face!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Apple normally updates their App Store listings on Monday night, but this week they threw us a head-fake and slipped in a quick right hook by sneaking out their new promotions on Thursday night. And look who’s hot! It is nice to see FaceFighter HD Face2Face in the high rent district with other perennial iPhone [...]

Vikings, Lollipops, & A-Bombs (Oh, My!)

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

We have some goofy new content in FaceFighter, available for in-app purchase for iPhone/iPod touch customers, and provided as a free update to owners of our iPad version — FaceFighter HD Face2Face. Our newest additions to everyone’s favorite first-person cartoon fighting game include three new fighters, three new Legendary Fury weapons, and three new Immortal [...]

Perfectly Frank

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

We lost Frank Frazetta yesterday. He was in his eighties and lived a long and fruitful life, but it still feels too soon. I never knew Frank Frazetta, except through his work. This still feels like a personal loss. my personal favorite Frazetta — The Destroyer … anyone who has run a start up will [...]

Give Your Mom What She REALLY Wants For Mothers Day

Friday, May 7th, 2010

You know what your mom REALLY wants? She doesn’t want flowers, or candy. She doesn’t want to see that damn Babies movie. She doesn’t want a foot rub or slippers or a cheese log. You mom wants to beat you up. Think about it. Think about all the crappy, ungrateful things you did to your [...]

Beating The Crap Out Of Justin Bieber

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

We don’t condone this. What you do with FaceFighter in the privacy of your own cell is your business. But … … well, we do keep an eye on the FaceFighter Twitter feed. And lately, there’s been a trend. Lots of you guys are beating the crap out of Justin Bieber. FaceFighter is the fast [...]

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Appy Entertainment doesn’t do a lot of advertising, at least not in the conventional web-banner sense. But being a harebrained operation ourselves, we respond to the harebrained schemes of others, so when we read about the MillionDollarAppSite over at PocketGamer, we knew we had to be a part of it. You will see FaceFighter over [...]