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Jack Lumber now available on Steam

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2013)

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 complex meta game, and the mechanic is a little ...

The Nomad Flex paintbrush stylus will let you paint on a touchscreen (as well as you already can)

by Mike Schramm (Oct 25th, 2012)

We've talked about the Nomad Brush before -- it's a capacitive paintbrush stylus that's designed to be used on a touchscreen canvas, letting you paint across your iPad's (or iPhone's, though the size of that screen makes it a little tougher) touchscreen with your favorite art-making app. Now, ...

Daily iPad App: Jack Lumber goes chop socky on trees

by Mike Schramm (Aug 27th, 2012)

Sega has just started publishing other developers' games on the App Store through an initiative called Sega Alliance with Jack Lumber, a game by the folks who made Smuggle Truck (or Snuggle Truck, if you caught it post-censorship). This is a title that's heavily inspired by the great Fruit ...

Sega Alliance launched, will provide marketing and production support for indies

by Mike Schramm (Aug 16th, 2012)

Sega has announced a mobile initiative that it's calling the Sega Alliance, which seems like a publishing division of Sega Mobile. Sega says the Alliance will "provide participating developers with comprehensive marketing and production support as well as creative consultation." In other ...