Archive for September, 2010

Crisis On Infinite Platforms — Part 2 of 2!

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Earlier this week our intrepid roundtable took a look at the changing landscape of the print publishing industry, with an emphasis on examining the perils and possibilities of our favorite form — comic books. Today, we freely spend other peoples’ money by suggesting risky and unproven ways to adopt to the new digtial paradigm! can [...]

Crisis On Infinite Platforms — Comic Book Publishing In The Digital Age

Monday, September 27th, 2010

The digital revolution has savagely torpedoed the old print establishment. Newspapers are struggling, magazine circulation is in a downward spiral, and book publishing is trying to figure out digital distribution. Bobbing about the wreckage in these oil-stained waters is the comic book industry. Long past the heyday when a popular comic book could sell in [...]

Ahead Of The Pack

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Appy Entertainment CEO Chris Ulm is running with the big dogs in an article over at Entrepreneur today. “How Gaming’s Upstarts Stay Ahead In A Changing Market” looks at ways game not named Halo: Reach are trying to carve out a piece of the gaming pie. The article cites industry luminaries such as Digital Chocolate’s [...]

Do Free Apps Help Sell Paid Apps?

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Version 2.0 of FaceFighter Lite (the free version of FaceFighter) hit the App Store last night. Click HERE to get your copy. This new version of FaceFighter introduces the first major content update we’ve made to the app, adding Okie Dokie as a pre-built fighter, alongside Big Ben. Okie Dokie is familiar to owners of [...]

Appy Insider — Coming Soon!

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

It’s been a couple months since we sent out an Appy Insider — our direct-email newsletter that offers inside dirt on all things Appy — but we’re making up for it with issue #10 of the newsletter warming up right now on the launching pad. Our next newsletter is loaded with free stuff for Appy [...]

Picture Perfect

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Those teenybopper squeals of delight you heard coming from Appy’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters this morning had nothing to do with Justin Bieber. That was the whole Appy Entertainment crew letting out a hearty “Hell, yes!” to Apple’s announcement of cameras in the new version of their iPod touch. We’ve had well over 4 million downloads [...]