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Popular Flappy Bird Game Mysteriously Grounded
Dong Nguyen’s mobile app couldn’t have been hotter. It was downloaded more than 50 million times and making $50,000 a day. Then the little-known Vietnamese creator shut the game down, saying, “I just can’t keep it anymore.” What happened?
Google Buys Secretive A.I. Company DeepMind for $400 Million
The acquisition of DeepMind will add a few key players to Google’s growing ranks of AI experts
Microsoft’s Xbox One Access Requirements Create an Odd Double Standard
You can watch movies offline indefinitely, but games require 24-hour checkups.
Top 25 iPad Apps for Kids
The best in gaming, books, art, music and education, all at their fingertips
‘Draw Something’ App Downloaded 20 Million Times in First Five Weeks
OMGPOP’s new game Draw Something is only five weeks old and it’s already been downloaded 20 million times. Right now it’s the number one free app for Android and the number one paid and free app for iOS.
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The 10 Games I Want to Play Most in 2012
On Boggle App, ‘Queer’ Is a Bad Word
When I first downloaded the Boggle app, I was agog over all the unfamiliar words — AAL, AIS, ANE, etc. — the game showed me I could have found in the 16-letter jumbles. But a few hundred rounds later (yes, I’m obsessed), I’m more interested in the words the good people at Hasbro won’t let me play.
FART and CRAP are off …
Top 10 Must-Have iPhone Games
Whether you’ve just purchased your first iPhone or you’ve owned every version since 2007, make sure there’s an icon for each one of these games on your Home screen.
LEGO, Meet iPhone: ‘Life of George’ Uses iOS to Judge Building Skills
It’s called LEGO “Life of George,” and while it may not sound like it has anything to do with Apple’s iPhone or iPod Touch, it just so happens the two technologies—yes, LEGO technically counts as “technology”—are joined at the hip.
Imagine technology that could tell you if you’ve built something to spec, say a flag, or a car, or a …
GameStop to Buy and Sell iOS Devices, Finally Validate Mobile Gaming?
Games retail giant GameStop’s days are either numbered or nascent, depending on whether you see brick and mortar retail as a digital-proof future presence. Well GameStop’s not waiting around to find out. They’re the largest dedicated video games retailer in the country, they’ve cornered the used games market, plus they’ve presciently …
Facebook Gets Gaming Facelift in Wake of Google+ Games
Make no mistake about it: The timing of this is completely intentional. Facebook took to its blog to announce that it was giving its already successful gaming interface a facelift in the wake of Google’s own announcement that it was implementing games on Google+.
(MORE: Surprise, Google Plus Adds Games)
In efforts to make the …