To Our Loyal Appy Army, Last Thursday, all of us at Appy’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters were, for lack of a better word, SHOCKED to learn that SpellCraft School of Magic was nominated for “Best Social Mobile Game” at the 8th International Mobile Gaming Awards. Then on Friday, we jumped around and threw papers in the [...]

Thanks to YOUR support, Appy Entertainment’s newest game — SpellCraft School of Magic — has been nominated in two categories in the 2011 148apps Awards. SpellCraft has been recognized both for Best Role Playing Game, AND in the overall category of Best App Ever for 2011! Now we need your votes on the final ballot [...]

Happy Holidays from Appy Entertainment! We’d like to extend holiday wishes and special thanks to our many players for their generous support of Appy’s games this past year! To celebrate the season, we’re giving away FREE GOLD for our most popular games (FaceFighter Ultimate, Trucks & Skulls, and SpellCraft School of Magic) to the first [...]

We told you last month that Steve Sargent would be speaking at GDC Austin, and with the conference going on right now, Sargie has made some news. this cartoon looks NOTHING like Sarge, aside from the ears and the green skin Sarge’s comments on porting FaceFighter to Android made news with The Appside, PocketGamer, Gaming [...]

Appy got some ink from the San Diego Union-Tribune today, including a horrifying photo of two of Appy’s six founders. It’s nice to be in the newspaper. Drop a couple quarters and check us out. And for those of you outside the greater San Diego area, there’s an online edition, too. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this [...]

Appy Entertainment recently enjoyed our ten millionth download, and by way of celebration, we’ll be offering a “drawing” of sorts for FREE GOLD in our FaceFighter Ultimate and Trucks & Skulls NITRO games this Friday, September 30th! Gold will be offered for a limited time and on a first-come, first claimed basis. How do you [...]

Late last month, Appy Entertainment crested the 10 million combined downloads number for all of our games. Today we sent out a press release about it — you can read it over at Reuters, and many other sources. Ten million is a big number, and we’re happy to take a little victory lap, but the [...]

Appy Entertainment’s Executive Producer — our own beloved (and loveable!) Steve Sargent — will deliver a talk at GDC Online in Austin, Texas on Monday, October 10th! Sarge will be addressing cross-platform development challenges in his talk, “From An iPhone To An Android: Converting FaceFighter!” Appy friends attending the show should definitely drop by Sarge’s [...]

Continuing our round of recent speaking engagements, Appy Entertainment will be presenting a talk and appearing on a panel at iKids in Santa Monica, CA, on June 2nd.     Chris Ulm will be part of the “Great Model Debate: Brand vs. Original” panel, looking at the pros and cons of creating original properties versus [...]

Appy Entertainment CEO Chris Ulm is quoted over at Scott Steinberg’s Game Theory blog today. In an article entitled, Video Game Business Strategy: New Secrets To Survival, Ulm says, “For Appy, it’s all about building a running dialogue with fans, which creates a robust direct marketing channel that may someday be capable of self-sustaining any [...]