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. [...]

Fans of Appy’s own Farzad Varahramyan (and really, who ISN’T a fan of fantastic Farzad?) will be interested to know that our resident artistic maestro is teaming with several other industry luminaries to serve as a judge for the Dressed 2 Kill exhibition at the Laguna College of Art and Design. The juried exhibition of [...]

We’ve done our fair share of promoting zombies this month, positioning them as fun for the whole family in the form of our latest game, Zombie Pizza. We even went so far as to publish a roundtable asking if our pop culture has gone too far in taking the horror out of the walking dead. [...]

Editor’s Note: Today at Appy Place we are delighted to welcome guest blogger Michael Mayhew, a pivotal member of the Appy team, who is responsible for the product videos you’ve seen here and on our YouTube channel. Michael Mayhew directs the Appy Newz video shoot So. I’m the guy who directs and edits the video [...]

(Note: First-time visitors to Appy Place and degenerate search engines craving photos of Megan Fox’s naughty bits should click here for some ORIGINAL Megan Fox photos and here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, news of Appy Entertainment’s iPhone Apps, and more …) PAUL: It’s time for another installment [...]

It’s been too long since we did our last (and thus far only) “Friday With Farzad” — and more are coming, we promise — but in the meantime, perhaps this interview prior to Farzad’s appearance at CG Con 2009 will tide you over. Head on over there and check it out … and if you [...]

(Note: First-time visitors click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) PAUL: It’s time for another episode of NOT At The Movies, where we form arbitrary and heartfelt opinions about movies we haven’t seen, based only on hearsay evidence and our deepest fears. We’re batting .500 so [...]

Once every couple weeks we meet to review each project in development at Appy Entertainment. We call these our, “Go/No Go” meetings. Every product under review — be it a paper concept or an Alpha build — faces the same verdict at the end of the session. We either agree to “Go” to the next [...]

(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 [...]

(This is the third in our on-going series about Appy Entertainment’s home-grown marketing and PR efforts. We’ve previously examined why we think it’s a good idea to be elbow-deep in our own grey matter, and how we set out to define our Appy brand. Today we take a look at the role of this Appy [...]