Normally we wouldn’t need a lot of encouragement to go see James Bond, Indiana Jones, flying saucers, and cowboys all blended up together in a frothy popcorn-flavored summer movie cocktail … after all, we’re the guys that made Darkwatch! But this week’s pending release of Cowboys & Aliens has a special connection to Appy Entertainment. [...]

It’s an embarrassment of riches here at Appy Place, as we today have not one but TWO terrific new games to recommend. Casey’s Contraptions is the eagerly-anticipated new game from local developer and friend-of-Appy, Snappy Touch. In Casey’s Contraptions, you solve physics-based puzzles by positioning cartoony household objects on the play field, then set them [...]

New on the App Store this week is iQuarterback 2, an entirely new iPad game from fuzzycube software, recently reborn under Jeff Ruediger and Pete Parisi. We’ve played  early builds of Pete and Jeff’s game here at our Secret Worldwide Headquarters, and we’re all geeked up for the game’s official release! Use your rifle-armed quarterback [...]

Score one for the good guys — local iPhone developer and friend-of-Appy Ian Marsh has added another line to his impressive resume with the release of Pocket Frogs, a breezy, free-to-play delight which lets players breed, trade, and collect colorful virtual frogs. As half of the two-man operation that is Nimblebit (along with his brother, [...]

This blog has previously confessed our love of all things geeky … we offered up a review of Mark Barrowcliffe’s excellent Elfish Gene, and we speculated on the existence of the Nerd Gene in our own offspring (who just last week went off to play D&D without us … it was like the nerd equivalent [...]

A few weeks back we ran the announcement of the new Transformers game being developed by our old pals over at High Moon Studios. Now a few more details have emerged — the game will feature separate Autobot and Decepticon campaigns, and the story will delve into how Megatron’s quest for power turned him into [...]

Our friends and colleagues over at High Moon Studios can finally unveil what they’ve been creating behind closed doors: High Moon’s original take on Transformers goes beyond the movies to present a slick and original look at the Transformers universe. Click HERE to check out the jaw-dropping movie sneak over at Game Trailers! We’re delighted [...]

It’s just about December and all that undead stuff we chewed over here in the the run-up to Halloween is already seeming pretty distant, but we thought that those of you who enjoyed our “Fundead” conversation with Privateer Press impresario Matt Wilson would be interested in his interview over at Zombie Info.com. Matt talks about [...]

Time for an update to our irregular “What We’re Playing” series, with a focus on Appy Entertainment’s favorite season — Halloween! There is no end to the fine Halloween apps on offer in the App Store, and we don’t even pretend to offer a comprehensive or unbiased view of what you should be playing this [...]

(Note: First-time visitors to Appy Place click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, news of Appy Entertainment’s iPhone Apps, and more …) Secret agent, psychic cop … and iPhone developer? Most of us would be happy to be just one of those things, but Greg Grunberg is all [...]