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Daily iPad App: Drawn: Trail of Shadows is a simple, beautiful puzzle game

by Mike Schramm (Oct 22nd, 2012)

The Drawn series is hard to describe, really -- I've mentioned one of them here before, but I don't know if I quite gave the series a good description. Fortunately, if reading this post doesn't work, I've included a video of me playing the game down below, so you can take a closer look at just ...

Big Fish Games scores a hit with Fairway Solitaire

by Mike Schramm (Mar 14th, 2012)

My meeting with Big Fish Games' Patrick Wylie was one of my last meetings at GDC, but it was also one of my most satisfying. It turns out I'm not alone in my esteem for the great Fairway Solitaire app this company has put together; "This game is growing our audience," Wylie told me. That's quite a ...

Daily iPad App: Tiny Places HD

by Mike Schramm (Jan 3rd, 2012)

Tiny Places is the latest title from Big Fish Games, which typically releases games on PC (mostly casual stuff like find-an-item and puzzle games), but lately has been making a big push on iOS as well. What's interesting about Tiny Places is that it borrows from from iOS games rather than Big ...

Daily Update for November 23, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 23rd, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple [doesn't allow] subscription-based iPad gaming for the first time (Updated)

by Chris Rawson (Nov 22nd, 2011)

Update: The app has been pulled from the store. John Gruber hypothesizes that the app was actually approved in error, with the App Store screening team not realizing that they had made a policy shift. Bloomberg reports that Apple has allowed Big Fish Games to begin offering its games in a ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Haunted Manor: Lord of Mirrors

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2011)

We've posted about Big Fish Games before. It's a casual gaming company that has produced a ton of titles for the PC already, and it's in the process of both bringing those over to iOS and creating an original library of titles for Apple's mobile devices. This weekend, Big Fish is having a sale ...

TUAW's Daily App: Drawn: The Painted Tower

by Mike Schramm (Mar 14th, 2011)

A little while back at GDC, I was introduced to a market for games that I'd never known much about before. There is a whole ecosystem of casual game companies out there that make PC games that appeal to an audience outside of the usual gaming crowd (read: usually older and female). Big Fish ...