Booyah — a Silicon Valley start-up founded by former games industry veterans Keith Lee, Brian Morrisroe and Sam Christiansen — announced that they have raised $4.5 million in Series A financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ (KPCB) iFund. Those not familiar — until this article, myself included — should know that Booyah is creating…
USA Networks launches Letter Matrix iPhone game
USA Network’s digital team is out with their first iPhone game – Letter Matrix, designed for spelling/word game fanatics — “testing player’s speed, mental dexterity and ability to stay calm under pressure.” From the press release: Letter Matrix is a time-based word game that rewards the player for creating words from the English language. In…
300K text messages in a single month? This Cali girl did it!
Is it even possible to send more than 10 text messages for every minute of your waking day? According to one California girl, it damn sure is! Crystal Wiski has just laid claim to having sent out almost 304,000 SMS text messages in a single month. More precisely, Crystal claims to have sent 303,398 text…
Land of the Lost gets an iPhone game prior to movie release
With Will Ferrell’s remake of the 70’s TV classic “Land of the Lost” coming to theaters in June, the marketing machine behind the movie is in the full swing. Lately, we’ve found out that a dedicated iPhone game is ready and waiting for interested users in the AppStore. We’re talking about a casual puzzle game…
Greystripe’s quarterly Consumer Insights Report reveals the life of an iPhone app
Greystripe — which used to be known for its network of ad-supported apps and games and is now the rich media mobile advertising network — is out with their quarterly Consumer Insights Report. From there we’ve picked a single item that’s of most interest to us – it’s the information on the average usage of…
Compass App and Magnetometer in Next-Gen iPhone?
BGR has scored a few images (above) from one of their ‘ninjas’ clearly showing a compass feature (in a debugging menu) that could very well be built-in to the next-gen iPhone 3.0 firmware. The feature would work off of an on-board magnetometer jammed somewhere into the guts of the device. The screenshots look like the…
Nuclear Nova Software Updates GL Golf for iPhone
Looks like my bud Jake over at Nuclear Nova Software has been busy… And with good reason. The recent influx of new golf games (and mini golf games) to the App Store has meant stiff competition for his GL Golf title on the iPhone. GL Golf still remains one of my favorites, and the ‘Lite’,…
Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 will make your iPhone 3G’s camera better!
Bet you thought the 2.0-megapixel camera in your iPhone was little more than a barely decent shooter destined to take blurry shots forever. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. But, that doesn’t mean the iPhone camera can’t be improved. A bit of tooling around with the iPhone OS 3.0 has shown that the current iPhone hardware…
AT&T myWireless Mobile – Wireless account management for your iPhone
Well look what we have here. AT&T has gone live with a new iPhone application that allows iPhone customers to quickly and conveniently manage their AT&T wireless account. The AT&T myWireless iPhone application is now available (for free through the iPhone AppStore) to help iPhone users bridge the gap between online account management and on-device…
‘Lemonade Tycoon’ from Electronic Arts Arrives in the App Store
I know many of you out there will remember the classic game, ‘Lemonade Stand’. I know I had it for an early system, can’t remember off-hand which one it was now… But naturally when I noticed ‘Lemonade Tycoon’ in the App Store for free, I was intrigued. The game is simple. Buy your supplies, tweak…