Apps

Apple on Wednesday announced a host of (RED) charity efforts to mark World AIDS Day -- Dec. 1 -- with varying proceeds going to the Global Fund, which as part of its anti-AIDS efforts funds initiatives like testing, prevention, and medication.

The makers of Smash Hit have a new free-to-play obsession worth flipping over.

This beautiful, bizarre point-and-tap puzzle game is well worth your $5.

Grieving parents turn the loss of a child into a beautiful, yet devastating game.

Tower defense is swapped for card combat, but this is a very strong freebie.

If YouTube stardom is nothing but ticking timers and video ads, then count us out.

China is now Apple's greatest source of revenue for the iOS App Store, after the country not only topped the U.S. in the third quarter but generated the highest-ever App Store revenue for any country.

Fox's cartoon heroes meet in this amusing, yet microtransaction-fueled concoction.

Pick your path through Gotham as both Batman and Bruce Wayne.

Classic toys and a classic 16-bit template, albeit with some modern touches.

Ethical groceries to helping fund cancer research -- these nine apps have got you covered.

Doughnuts meet Candy Crush, the perfect app for book nerds, virtual reality awesomeness and more

The iPhone 7 is a lot like its predecessor. It looks identical, save a slightly different camera on the standard model and an additional lens on the iPhone 7 Plus. And when put in a case, you wouldn’t be able to tell this year’s Apple product from last year’s, even if you ordered one with the new "jet black" finish....

Bots may not have turned out to be as world-changing as some of the tech giants wanted you to believe, but there’s still something inherently fun that comes from talking with an AI (especially if it’s the virtual embodiment of a seasonal Starbucks beverage). The concept still has a ways to go before people start doing the majority of their banking or trip planning in Facebook Messenger, but the often silly nature of bots means that they’re potentially well-suited to gaming. This week, two new...

As it did with Siri, Apple has granted developer access to the Messages API in iOS 10, opening the door to unique app integrations. AppleInsider has compiled a list of ten candidates that expand the new iMessage app's abilities.

The gaming icon nearly stole Apple's thunder at the iPhone 7 event this week.

It's not like the classic entries, but this tactical battler has some appeal.

This week's app roundup.

This is the last dog app guide you'll ever need.

The surging Pokémon-esque series hits iPhone as a fast-paced and fun ghost-battler.

One of the most popular games available on a smartphone plays a bit like Tinder, though in Reigns, the stakes are higher than a hook-up. Entire kingdoms rise and fall with the familiar left and right swipes of the popular dating app....

For the 30 short stages of Hidden My Game By Mom, a mother hides a little boy’s Nintendo DS, and you must help find it. This is, at least at first, a traditional hidden object game, a genre indebted to Where’s Waldo and decades of Scholastic magazines. By tapping the 2D artwork, you move books and furniture or collect stools and brooms from the living room, gradually adjusting accumulating the right tools to find the hidden treasure. Except it’s not quite so simple, and after a few rounds, the...

This Two Dots sequel brings along new friends, along with free-to-play tweaks.

This clever puzzle-platformer uses portals for the perfect touchscreen controls.

I was intrigued when I first heard that Telltale — the studio known for its adaptations of The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones — was publishing a video game based on the USA series Mr. Robot. As it turns out, the clunkily named Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltratiOn isn’t the kind of dramatic adventure title that Telltale is known for. It’s developed by Oxenfree creators Night School Studio, and it’s a $2.99 text-based iOS and Android game that runs over the course of a week....