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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Appy Entertainment will be exhibiting at APPNation at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this week, on Tuesday the 26th and Wednesday the 27th. We will be on the exhibit floor to meet and greet, so if you are at the show, drop by and say hey. We’ll be the eager looking guys in the Appy shirts [...]

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, [...]

In case you missed it … we launched a new app on Friday. The All-In-1 ZombieBox packs ten full-featured zombie apps into one .99 USD app. Our first weekend marked a solid start. With zero advance publicity, the app vaulted to the mid-50 ranks in the paid “Adventure Game” category in big markets around the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Did you hear the rumble of distant artillery this morning? The living room right now is a no-man’s land of standards and cables, universally poor and inconsistent user interfaces, huge numbers of channels, multiple boxes of hardware, hated cable companies, and multiple video game systems, each with its own proprietary hardware and expensive software. TV [...]