Appy Entertainment & OpenFeint Support Japan Relief Effort

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Normally it’s wall-to-wall goofball silliness here at Appy Place, but today we’d like to be a little serious. It’s been more than a month since Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, but Japan’s need for assistance in clean up and relief operations remains acute. In association with OpenFeint, Appy Entertainment is supporting the Japanese relief effort [...]

Prove Your Candy Mastery!

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Our free 1.1 update for Candy Rush universal app on iPhone/iPod touch and iPad is available today! This FREE update adds leaderboards and achievements for Game Center AND OpenFeint! Game Center achievements Veteran players will find that many of their accomplishments in the game will already have received achievement awards, while others may need to [...]

These ARE The Droids You’re Looking For

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

We have a holiday surprise today for our friends who don’t have iPhones (or friends of our iPhone friends who prefer other phones) — FaceFighter Gold is now on Android! You can read some of the details in the press release from OpenFeint posted at Android Central this morning, and you can see an honest-to-gosh [...]

Do Free Apps Help Sell Paid Apps?

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Version 2.0 of FaceFighter Lite (the free version of FaceFighter) hit the App Store last night. Click HERE to get your copy. This new version of FaceFighter introduces the first major content update we’ve made to the app, adding Okie Dokie as a pre-built fighter, alongside Big Ben. Okie Dokie is familiar to owners of [...]

FaceFighter Lite Goes Up A Weight Class!

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Two days and two product announcements here at Appy Place. Today we’re pleased to announce that a major free update for FaceFighter Lite (the free version of everyone’s favorite iPhone fighting game) is now available for download. Following on the heels of email, Facebook, and Twitter integration for FaceFighter Lite some time ago, we have [...]

FACEFIGHTER GOLD IS HERE!

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

THIS is the FaceFighter you’ve been waiting for!! Already downloaded nearly four million times, the FaceFighter family of games is the #1 fighting game on iPhone and iPod touch. Now, FaceFighter Gold brings you the ultimate FaceFighter collection — ALL of the premium content, ALL the fighters, ALL the weapons, and ALL the finishing moves [...]

When Good Tweets Go Bad

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Anyone watching Appy’s Twitter stream on Saturday afternoon would have been both fortunate and unfortunate to see this blast of nonsense: Fortunate … because this would have given you a sneak peak at our next game — FaceFighter Gold (and more about that later this week!). Unfortunate … because the first setting for this new [...]

Independence Day

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Appy Entertainment is seven guys in a rented office over a pub. five of the seven guys, actually in the pub Appy Entertainment is the publisher of ten games for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Appy Entertainment is a self-funded startup. Appy Entertainment is … what, really? Are we an “indy?” Or are we, “The [...]

Long Distance Runners

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Tune Runner has been in the market for about a month and distinct cultures are starting to develop around the game. There are players making a specialty of playing one particular artist’s tunes — like “minnttz,” who you will find near the top of most Lady Gaga songs. There are the monomaniacs, like the mysterious [...]

Militant Optimisim Award: Gavin Bowman

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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 [...]