Archive for the 'announcements' Category

Farewell Ralph McQuarrie

Monday, March 5th, 2012

A true legend has passed away: Ralph McQuarrie died on March 3, 2012. All of us at Appy Entertainment are saddened by this news. It doesn’t matter if we are artists, programmers, game designers, or even CFOs: Ralph McQuarrie’s work and vision touched all our lives at a time when our young imaginations were thirsting, [...]

Watch Out!

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Nice news from England as PocketGamer.biz has named Appy Entertainment one of their “Top Ten Mobilie Developers To Watch In 2012.” PocketGamer’s expectations for the year ahead are exceeded only by our own! Thanks to PocketGamer for this recognition and we’ll try to live up to the honor! Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare [...]

Appy Talk!

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Appy Entertainment will be making two conference appearances in March — hopefully you can come out and meet us! Appy’s Brand Director, Paul O’Connor, will be presenting a talk at GDC 2012 in San Francisco: Premium To Freemium — Pivoting Monetization Method For Best-Selling Apps: The tide is irresistible. The market is speaking with its [...]

An Open Letter from Appy Entertainment

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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 [...]

VOTE FOR SPELLCRAFT!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

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 [...]

Free Holiday Gold For Your Favorite Games

Sunday, December 25th, 2011

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 [...]

Straight From The Sargie’s Mouth

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

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 [...]

Stop The Presses!

Monday, October 10th, 2011

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 [...]

Get Ready For Free Gold Friday!

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

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 [...]

10 Million Downloads

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

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 [...]