Author: Mike Schramm

I never thought I’d write two stories in one day about Apple attacking the comic book industry over adult content, but that’s indeed what’s happening today. The latest controversy comes from writer Brian K. Vaughn, who writes a terrific series cal…

Digital comics publisher Izneo has pulled much of its content from its App Store app, after being cautioned by Apple about selling adult content on the iPad. Izneo has been on the App Store since 2010, but Apple only recently reached out to the co…

Panic is one of our favorite Mac developers — they make the excellent Coda web editor, and Transmit, which is my OS X FTP client of choice. They have a new iPad app arriving this week, and word around the Internets is that it’s an iPad version of…

I saw quite a few really terrific indie games at GDC last week, but Third Eye Crime was one of my favorites on iOS. It’s being put together by a studio called Moonshot Games, made up of game industry veterans working on mobile games together after…

Last year, Witching Hour Studios (a team that’s grown to about eight people now) released Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion, a turn-based strategy title that felt way bigger than the little iPhone’s screen it played on. The gameplay is complex (ther…

Developer Kris Jones started out his iOS game design career at a company called Thunder Game Works, which made a popular early App Store game called Trenches before the company connected up with EA as a publisher. These days, Jones runs his own st…

Word games are probably my least favorite genre on the App Store at this point — I think they’re overused, and many companies these days are just kicking out half-baked spelling games in the hopes of reaching a large casual audience. But Letter R…

I first saw Drifter, developer Colin Walsh’s great space trading simulation, at last year’s GDC. Back then, the game was a great idea, though Walsh’s Celsius Game Studios had plenty of work to do. In the year in between, however, Walsh carried out…

Super Stickman Golf is a great title that I’ve been playing for years — it’s a big standby for games journalists in particular for some reason, and every time I come to a conference full of games writers, like this week at GDC, there’s always som…

I’ve met with David Marsh here in San Francisco a few times before, and somehow it always turns out that I meet with him right before his big releases. The last time was right before he and his brother Ian, the founders of NimbleBit, released Pock…

The Voxel Agents is a development firm that’s seen a lot of success with the Train Conductor apps, a set of puzzle games where you guide trains across a series of parallel tracks, attempting to keep them from crashing for as long as possible. The …

Velti is a firm that runs advertising on mobile platforms like iOS and Android, and they were paying close attention during last Sunday’s Super Bowl game to how and when mobile users were on their phones. The company has released a few tidbits abo…

After Burner Climax is a 2006 update of the popular old-school arcade game. It arrived in arcades upon first release and was later ported over to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

Now, Sega has announced it’s bringing the game to iOS. There…

Legendary Wars is a favorite around here. It’s an app put together by developer Orian Livnat and his team, and while he’s gone on to work on some other projects, Legendary Wars is still a great example of some talented developers just polishing a …

Time Magazine has posted its shortlist for the annual Person of the Year awards, and there’s at least one familiar face on there for Apple fans: Apple CEO Tim Cook has made the cut. Along with Barack Obama, Bill and Hilary Clinton and Yahoo CEO (a…

We’re rolling right up to Christmas next week, which means ’tis the season for big discounts and freebies on App Store titles, as publishers try to climb up in the charts going into the big gift-giving event.

Kingdom Rush (which some say is t…