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, [...]

Why do we do what we do? Awhile back (nearly a year ago, actually), I wrote bit called “Militant Optimism” — all about how crazy you had to be in order to start a company from scratch, particularly in the Great Recession. Since I blathered about this, 70,000 apps have been added to the app [...]

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 [...]

We were delighted to learn yesterday that Apple has featured Zombie Pizza as a “Hot New Game” in App Stores around the planet! This is tremendous news for us, as this kind of visibility can make all the difference for an independent micropublisher like Appy Entertainment. This is the third time one of our Apps [...]

It’s been awhile since we done a Militant Optimism award here at Appy Place, and with the release of his latest game — Eyegore’s Eye Blast — now seems a great time to publish our appreciation of Gavin Bowman of Retro Dreamer! The Ulm outlines the creed of Militant Optimism in this blog post, but [...]

A couple nights ago we were happy to report that FaceFighter has been identified as “What’s Hot” by Apple on the U.S. and Canadian App Stores. We crossed our fingers this recognition would help propel FaceFighter up the U.S. sales charts. How did we do? Well, here’s what hourly sales rankings in the U.S. App [...]

We Twittered about this stuff last night, but rather than cast such a crunchy update to the vague winds of that ephemeral service, it occured to us that it made more sense to speak of our future plans here before the loyal Appy Army. We’ve been in Stan Lee Overdrive pimping up Appy Newz these [...]

D’oh! Received word this morning that we violated one of Apple’s rules relating to content and thus failed submission with our first iPhone App. WHAT forbidden content will you now never see? WHAT senses-shattering secret must remain unrevealed to the ravening masses of the Appy Army??? (TV Land doesn’t show Batman any more, but they [...]

(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 …) Our post last year about Militant Optimism has proven one of the most popular and enduring here at Appy Place, and our first Militant Optimism Award, [...]

(Note: First-time visitors click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) Blog posts have been thin on the ground this week because I’ve been on a family vacation in the wilds of Orange County. We visited The Mouse’s Kingdom (and it’s club-footed cousin), experienced a painfully hip bowling [...]