Author: Mike Schramm

SlamBots is the latest title from Retro Dreamer, a company that’s been taking the one game a month idea very seriously this year. This title is based on a game Retro Dreamer put out back in February of this year, which took an endless jumping game …

The App Camp for Girls is a recently unveiled Indiegogo project that’s designed to provide support for young girls interested in putting together iPhone and mobile apps. The camp itself is planned for a run in Portland later this year, and will all…

Zynga announced yesterday that it was laying off about 18 percent of its work staff, or about 520 employees, which is bad news for any company. But it turns out that this set of folks includes most of the crew of OMGPOP, the company Zynga acquired …

My birthday was last week on May 6, and Firaxis must have heard about that because in recent weeks they’ve released not one, but two great turn-based strategy games. First, Haunted Hollow was released as a great, original free-to-play title, and no…

Finger Tied is an iPad app that arrived late last year. It’s put together by developer Owen Goss, and he says that a lot of users have asked him to create an iPhone version of the app, but given that it’s a game that uses the iPad’s big screen for …

We’ve talked before about how the iPhone can do a lot of things for you, but can it serve as a scope on a tactical rifle? That’s the idea behind the Inteliscope, a new accessory that connects your iPhone to an actual tactical firearm. You just clip…

148Apps recently had a nice chat with Hello Games, the makers of Joe Danger, a motorcycle stunt racing game first for consoles and then for iOS, and the company says that Apple’s platform has done very well for them. Throughout the app’s life, Joe …

There are quite a few “drum simulator” apps on the iPad and the iPhone — it’s one of the first ideas a lot of developers had when the touchscreen devices became available, and lots of devs carried that idea out to release. But Drums! is one of the…

Viber is a voice-over-internet app that’s seen some success on iOS already, but today the company announced a brand-new version for both OS X and Windows. Viber Desktop has all of the features of the iOS app, including free messages and calls to ot…

GDC is the Game Developers’ Conference that happens every year up in San Francisco, and the company also hosts a number of other GDC events all over the world. Usually, they do GDC Online in Austin, TX every fall, but that conference has recently b…

Jack Lumber is an excellent game that arrived on iOS last year. It’s reminiscient of Fruit Ninja, in that you drag your finger around the screen to chop through wood, though I think it’s an improvement on Halfbrick’s formula — it’s got a more comp…

BodyMedia, the makers of a few fitness trackers that work directly with the iPhone and other smartphones, has announced that it has been acquired by Jawbone, creators of the popular Up motion tracker and other Bluetooth headsets and accessories. Tech…

Little Inferno arrived on iOS in January. It’s a wicked, little satirical adventure about burning toys that’s gotten a lot of critical acclaim. Now, the game is available on the Mac. You can pick it up directly from the developer Tomorrow Corpor…

I first learned about Artkive last week at an event here in LA, put on by Technori and designed to show off some of the best startup ideas in the City of Angels. The company has been around for quite a while, and has picked up a whole lot of buzz …

SugarSync, which allows you to share your documents, photos, music and other files between computers and mobile devices, has updated its iOS app to version 4.0. The new version features a major redesign which, as you can see above, looks quick sli…

Zombies, Run! is one of the most creative running apps that you’ll find on the App Store, hands down. It does what many other running apps do, like track your time and distance. But it’s also a game. By combining sound effects, narratives, charact…