While the folks at the iTunes gaming division might have trouble rooting out copycat games, what they excel at is making lists. In creating a list of ten games that can take a mobile gamer from casual to hardcore, those Apple list-builders have created a mini history of gaming in portable form.

Barack Obama Would Probably Beat Mitt Romney in Letterpress, Too

Evan Narcisse

11/08/12 3:30pm

The thing I like about Letterpress is how it makes a field of letters turn into a vicious battleground, with two players vying to control more territory than the other via clever word-forming. Sounds a lot like something important that happened this week, no?

How Do You Spell Addiction? L-E-T-T-E-R-P-R-E-S-S.

Evan Narcisse

10/31/12 1:16pm

Word games? I love ‘em. Give me a jumble of letters and a grid and I'll go to town. One great thing about the advent of smartphones is how they've ushered in a major re-think of the word game DNA. So, last week, when a neighbor mentioned that a new iOS word game was spreading like wildfire through his workplace, I was…

There Was Only One Way to Respond to the N-Word in Letterpress

Mike Fahey

10/31/12 12:26am

I couldn't find the words to respond to the appearance of that most unacceptable of racial slurs in a random game of Letterpress on my iPhone this weekend. Luckily I found the right letters.