Apps

The top 1 percent of earners don't just control the lion's share of money in the U.S. economy -- a similar disparity between the haves and the have-nots has emerged in Apple's own App Store economy, a new study reveals.

Good news: not only is Popcap Games announcing a new Bejeweled, but the game is also out right now on both iOS and Android. Called Bejeweled Stars, the new game is an iterative take on the iconic match-three puzzle game, adding just enough new stuff to make the age-old formula fresh. And don’t worry: even though this latest entry is free-to-play, you won’t find yourself frustrated if you don’t spend any cash....

Miitomo was an odd starting point, but the real games are coming this fall.

Piano Tiles is so much easier when you're able to perfectly process and react to 120 frames of motion per second. Unfortunately, most of us can't get anywhere close to that (though I'm sure a StarCraft player somewhere would claim to have that ability). So someone went ahead and built a machine to see what'd happen....

The bad news: it's Monday. The good news: Twitter user @sakata_77 uploaded a handful of images of cats performing their own form of dance. In the word of Nippon.com, the cats have "ballet ambitions."...

What works (and doesn't), how Apple can help further, and the prognosis ahead.

Casual gaming, say hello to super-duper casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center – yes, without even unlocking your phone – is now the #15 top game in Apple’s U.S. App Store and flirting with becoming a top 50 Overall app. Called “Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur Widget Game,” the game is a very simple…

This week's list includes Yahoo's new esports app, an app that tracks TV shows for you and an app that lets you put your face on celebrities' heads.

Chameleon Run launched a little over a week ago and has been heavily promoted by Apple. Admittedly, I love this game and I am not the only one. Chameleon Run is an auto-runner where you fly through the air bouncing off platforms, see-saws and slides to make your way to the end of each level. It costs roughly $2 on both iOS and Android and there is no free version. Yet, it’s on the paid…

You owe it to your eyes to play this pretty, innovative puzzle game. Get it—if and when the price drops.

Apple on Thursday launched "Apps for Earth," an App Store promotion which will direct all of the proceeds from a small collection of apps and in-app transactions to the World Wildlife Fund during the month of April.

For a limited time, a whole bunch of iPhone and iPad apps will have bonus green-themed content.

While not the game you'd expect from the cartoon series, it's hard to find fault.

Writer Ernest Cline may be best known for his 2011 sci-fi novel Ready Player One (with a Steven Spielberg-directed film adaptation in the works), but his most recent book — 2015's Armada — is full of similar, self-aware geeky fun. The paperback version of Armada comes out today, and to celebrate the fact, publisher Penguin Random House has released a web browser version of the mysterious in-novel video game Phaëton....

When tiny studio Hipster Whale created the smash hit mobile game Crossy Road, it did so over the course of just 12 weeks with a team of just three people. But the follow-up, the recently announced Disney Crossy Road, isn't quite so small. The game, which launches today on iOS and Android, took nearly a year to create, a collaboration between Hipster Whale and developers at Disney. It features nine different worlds based on franchises like Toy Story and Zootopia, and nearly 150 characters to collect and...

For some, the stock market can be a tricky and seemingly dangerous place. Even with apps like Robinhood, that make buying and selling stock super simple, users still have skin in the game. With Vestly, you get the same fun of playing the stock market without putting up any money. Here’s how it works:Users log on to the platform and give up some basic information, via a required…

Jeremy Williams, who previously designed light-up video game pixel art, has built a virtual reality pinball controller from scratch. He designed it to work with the game Pinball FX 2 VR, currently available on the Oculus Rift. Williams posted his finished rig to Twitter earlier this week. Now he's shared with The Verge a few extra snaps of what he's named the PinSim....

Apple turned 40 today — and the iOS App Store turned seven years, nine months, and about three weeks. It's not exactly the same round number, but it did get me thinking about my years and years of really odd downloads. So I decided to look back at my purchase history....

Two popular games from other platforms -- "The Trace" and "Sonic the Hedgehog" -- launched for the fourth-generation Apple TV on Thursday, with Sega promising that more Sonic titles would be making the trip shortly.

Slice and dice—and a mostly nice business model, too.

You don't have to be a fan of the show to enjoy this weird, funny, and oddly enjoyable iOS game.

Super powers, construction, hormones, timers, and selfies: This licensed game has it all.

This low-cost platform lets you enjoy immersive apps and games using your own phone.

Kendall and Kylie Jenner, of Kardashian / Jenner family fame, have a new mobile game out today. It's called Kendall and Kylie, and it was made by Glu, the same company that made Kim Kardashian's game, Katy Perry's game, and will make Taylor Swift's upcoming game. Intrigued and resigned, Kaitlyn Tiffany and I decided to check it out. We thought we knew what to expect from the game — but we didn't know what to expect from ourselves....

The Apple Watch is good for many things – quickly answering texts and incoming calls, receiving important notifications, navigating your way through city streets, and more. But it hasn’t been seen as much of a gaming platform, for obvious reasons. However, there’s now a new game that might actually be fun to play on the device’s small screen thanks to its simple nature…