Snoop Dogg Explains Why His Virtual Weed Costs Nearly $100
Back when we first covered the "Snoopify" app
In case you missed it over the long weekend, there's now a YouTube app for the 3DS. One step closer to a golden age where every game console has the ability to display adorable kitten videos. Waiting on you, PlayStation 4.
The Best Black Friday App Deals
Black Friday's not just for real-world goods
People Are Paying Nearly $100 For Virtual Weed
If you thought that paying nearly forty dollars for a weed emoticon on Steam was ridic,
DC Just Announced Plans For Choose Your Own Adventure Style Digital…
When the big two introduced motion comics a few years back, everyone had a good laugh at how terrible they were. They were difficult to read, watch and, generally, sucked all-around. Tonight in New York, DC is fixing all that and taking it a step further with DC2 (aka Dynamic Content) and DC2 Multiverse technology…
Popular Plastic Surgery Apps Cause Concern in South Korea
Plastic surgery? That's an app for that! In South Korea, there are apparently many apps for that. And according to Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun, their popularity is making some individuals worry.
Stan Lee's The Week in Gaming Apps
Legendary comic book creator Stan Lee only had his hand in one of the five Gaming Apps of the Day this week, but I'm pretty sure the rest of them were probably his idea at some point anyway.
A Wretched Hive of Scum and Gaming Apps
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Week in Gaming Apps. Its continuing mission — to explore strange new apps, seek out new games and game applications; to boldly make thematically incorrect quotes in an article with a Star Wars title.
Mobile Gaming Apps Are The Beanie Babies Of Our Age
Remember Beanie Babies?
Four Splendid Gaming Apps... and NFL Pro 2013
As Owen Good often reminds us, not every Gaming App of the Day is a good one. For every Bad Piggies, The Room or Bar Story 2 there are a dozen NFL Pro 2013s, and he seems to wind up playing them all.
Google Play Celebrates 25 Billion Android App Downloads with $.25 Apps
With an impressive 15 billion apps and games downloaded in the past year alone, Google has every reason to celebrate reaching the 25 billion apps milestone. And so do Android gamers, as a celebratory sale delivers titles like Angry Birds Space Premium and NFL Kicker 2013 for a quarter of a dollar.
Airplanes and Monsters in the Week in Gaming Apps, I Could Really Use…
Witch right now. Witch right now. I could use some spears or some monsters or a witch, or to get back to some gaming apps much simpler than this. Because after all the crashin' and matchin' and thrashin', the monster bombin' and the droppin' and hack-and-slashin'... Okay, that's enough of that. It's the Week in Gaming…
In The Future, Even Dating Is An App. And It Runs On Your Eyeballs.
I can't decide whether this is incredibly terrifying, or incredibly cool. I'm pretty sure it's a mix of the two.
This futuristic world—represented in this video project created by graduates of Bezaleal Academy of Arts—is probably a fairly accurate reflection on our current relationship with technology, though…
YouTube Comes to Vita and Brings Sexy With It
Today's PlayStation Store update brings a free YouTube app to the Vita, with a style that puts other portable video playing devices to shame.
Yule Love These Holiday Fireplace Apps for Gaming Consoles and Mobile…
In 1966, TV station WPIX filmed a a fireplace at New York's Gracie Mansion, canceled $4,000 worth of advertising, and broadcast it for two hours on Christmas Day as a gift to viewers who had no fireplaces in their apartments. Its spirit lives on screens large and small to this day.
Bag It! Magically Finds the Joy in an Unrewarding Menial Task
Some 21 years ago I spent the summer as a bag boy, filling paper sacks with other people's groceries. It was the most boring and demeaning summer of my life. Hidden Variable Studios has somehow transformed these bad memories into a hell of a good time. I might hate them.
Inertia Catapults From Xbox Live Indie Darling to Android Excellence
If you're not moving forward you're doing it wrong. That's the philosophy that launched Inertia: Escape Velocity from its humble beginnings as an Xbox Indie student project
Go Grab Jetpack Joyride for Free
Right now, the makers of Jetpack Joyride are running a Facebook promotion that gives you the game for free. Run over there, click like, get a download for the game on the iOS platform. This is a savings of only 99 cents because, like, the game is only 99 cents. For more on Jetpack Joyride, see our impressions of it…
I Can Put Up With Ads While I Hang, Thanks
The newest addition to Zynga's game family is Hanging With Friends, an app for iGadgets big and small. It's a twist on classic hangman, with elements of Scrabble and other word games thrown in.
The Android Dogfighting Sim That Even Michael Vick Disagrees With
A recently released video game for Google's Android platform has drawn the ire of the Humane Society for its violent content that includes the ability to train, electrocute and fight virtual dogs. Kage Games' Dog Wars (not pictured) has even been frowned upon by former dogfighting enthusiast Michael Vick.
The Gossip's Lead Singer Beth Ditto Is A Fellow Fruit Ninja Enthusiast
The last page of Marie Claire's May issue features Beth Ditto talking about what's inside her handbag. The contents are refreshingly down-to-earth: "101" straggler earrings; a maxi pad; a Burger King receipt; a screwdriver. But Ditto also has an iPhone. On which she plays Fruit Ninja. She says:
Buttload of EA Mobile Games — Including Dead Space — Go On Sale For A…
Dollar days appear to have just begun for EA Mobile's offerings on the iTunes App Store, where Dead Space, including its HD version on the iPad, is just 99 cents. FIFA 11 is likewise a dollar on both platforms. Dollar apps for iPhone only include NBA Jam, Fight Night Champion, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12, Need for Speed:…
Atari's Greatest Hits Shoves the Loot of a Thousand Garage Sales Onto…
Atari just dropped a whirling, aliased asteroid in the iTunes App Store: Atari's Greatest Hits brings 100 classic titles to iOS in a single application.
Dragon Age II Coulda Used Dave's Mapper
Maybe Dragon Age II, criticized for its repeating dungeon structure, could have benefitted from something like this nifty dungeon randomizing web application. Not that I'm any better at it myself. I suffered the same criticism the only time my D&D friends, all older than me, let me DM an original dungeon. "Is there a…
The Week In Gaming Apps
Kart racers, panda launchers and shuriken dodgers lead this week's mobile games for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. There's even a non-game on this week's list of gaming apps, thanks to the official PlayStation Network app for iOS and Android phones.
Everything Your New iPad Needs Right Now
Well, weren't you a good boy and/or girl this year! That iPad's going to be your favorite new toy no matter what, but here's how to squeeze the most out of it from day one.
The Best Racing Game Apps
When people argue that smartphones are on the level with Playstation or DS portable as gaming platforms, they'll usually whip out a racing game. With good reason! iOS and Android's racing games are actually some of their best, period.