We’ve been so wrapped up finishing our next App (almost there) that we nearly let May get behind us without our monthly installment of “What We’re Playing.” Here’s were we give an informal round-up of the games that are commanding our attention here at the Secret Worldwide Headquarters of Appy Entertainment (aside from Appy Newz, [...]

When we moved Appy Newz to the “Photography” category of Apple’s App Store a couple weeks ago, we did a sweep of iPhone-oriented photography sites to drum up interest for our App. One of the sites that really caught our attention was Greg Schmigel’s Just What I See — a site displaying the remarkable photos [...]

Word came late last week that our friends at BrainZoo Studios received a well-deserved Sports Emmy Award for their design and animation work on Fox Sports News “Sports Science” series. BrainZoo CEO Mo Davoudian Farzad & Em go way back with Mo, so we are especially proud to see BrainZoo earn this recognition. Of course, [...]

A busy month here at the Secret Worldwide Headquarters of Appy Entertainment — April has nearly slipped out the door, and we haven’t done a fresh edition of “What We’re Playing.” Well, praise for the other guys sounds just the tonic for an uncertain Monday. And so … What We’re Playing! First up, there is [...]

Another month, and another snapshot of the Apps that are getting played here at the Secret World Headquarters of Appy Entertainment. And what better way to convey a snapshot than with a literal snapshot of the most coveted real estate in the iPhone universe — my main home screen! There are a few new entries [...]

It’s the beginning of a new month so we thought we’d take a snapshot of what new games are capturing our attention here at Appy Entertainment’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters. We download a lot of Apps at Appy, but only a precious few get under our skin and elbow their way onto the front pages of [...]

(Note: First-time visitors to Appy Place click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) Big kudos to friend-of-Appy Dave Wilkins and creative partner Kevin Munroe on news that their Dark Horse comic series El Zombo is headed to the silver screen! Dave was a stand-out 3D [...]

Dig back far enough into the history of any idea and you’ll find either a guy in a toga, or Al Gore. Everything comes from someplace. The act of creation often isn’t so much to collect lighting in a bottle as it is to collect mushrooms from all over the forest and put them together [...]

Received email from Trevor Grimshaw that his company, Planet Moon, has released their first iPhone game: Booty Blocks. I don’t know a thing about the game (though AppCraver loves it) but I know a lot about Grimshaw, having worked with him a bit in our Alexandria Inc. days way back in the early 1990s, when [...]

I used to work retail. I wasn’t good at it. I broke things, and I fought with the customers. I was fired, many times. This new game from Blurst captures my retail experience exactly. Go play it. Brilliantly done, Blurst! Back tomorrow with a post that might actually be about the iPhone or games development! [...]