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Disney releases Temple Run Oz, another branded take on Imangi's hit

by Mike Schramm (Mar 5th, 2013)

Just last week we were talking about Disney's potential for originality with a brand new Toy Story app, and now here the company is sticking like glue to some old habits. Disney has released a new app called Temple Run Oz, which, as you might imagine, is a mashup of Imangi's famous Temple Run ...

Temple Run: Oz the Great and Powerful (apparently) landing this month on iOS

by Randy Nelson (Feb 4th, 2013)

There's no place like home Twitter to let announcements slip before you're supposed to, because even if you delete a tweet, chances are good someone's already seen it. Such was the case when a Disney PR rep in France prematurely announced that the company is planning to release Temple Run: Oz ...

Daily Update for January 21, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jan 21st, 2013)

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 ...

Temple Run 2 racks up 20 million downloads in less than a week

by Randy Nelson (Jan 21st, 2013)

Imangi Studios has struck gold with Temple Run 2. The developer's latest iOS endless running game has been downloaded more than 20 million times since its release just four days ago. In fact, 6 million of those installs took place within 24 hours of launch on January 17. The free game's success ...

Imangi surprises with Temple Run 2: interview with developer Keith Shepherd

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2013)

Imangi Studios is one of our favorite game developers: Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova are a husband and wife team that have made some great titles for iOS, including Harbor Master, Max Adventure and the company's biggest hit, Temple Run. Since going freemium (and getting extraordinarily ...

Temple Run 2 appearing today on the App Store

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 16th, 2013)

Uber-popular game Temple Run's surprise sequel has hit is about to hit the US App Store. Released earlier today in the New Zealand App Store, Temple Run 2 builds on the success of the first Temple Run, while ratcheting up the graphics, physics and gameplay. TouchArcade got its hands on an ...

Daily Update for June 4, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jun 4th, 2012)

Disney taps indie studio for Temple Run Brave

by Mike Schramm (Jun 4th, 2012)

Disney Mobile has made a number of really smart moves over the past few years (starting with acquiring Tapulous, all the way up to allowing a game tester to make them a great game). Now here's another brilliant move: they've signed a deal with developers Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckynova ...

Imangi finds success, and more choices, with Temple Run

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2012)

Imangi Studios' Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova have been making solid games on iOS for years now, from their original hit Harbor Master and their charming dual-stick shooter Max Adventure. But it wasn't until Temple Run this past year (which I first saw in an off-the-record prototype form ...

Daily iPhone App: Temple Run

by Mike Schramm (Aug 9th, 2011)

The latest title from popular iOS developers Imangi Studios (creators of Harbor Master and Max Adventure) is called Temple Run, and was released to the App Store last week. We've watched the development of this one pretty closely -- I saw an early version of it at GDC, and we saw it again later ...

GDC 2011: The future of Imangi Studios

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2011)

The husband and wife team of Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova make up Imangi Studios, the iPhone developer behind line-drawing hit Harbor Master. We've been following the duo for a while now, and we last talked to them at WWDC, when they were pretty far along in development with a game ...

Fruit Ninja and Max Adventure for iOS updated with new content

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2011)

Two of TUAW's favorite App Store apps (and probably yours as well) have been updated with new content. Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja has a few new swords to play with, including one that plays piano music as you swipe. There are new leaderboards to fight your friends (and everyone else) on for the ...

TUAW's Daily App: Max Adventure

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2010)

Max Adventure has been quite a while in the making. I first saw it at 360iDev earlier this year, and then again at WWDC, where we met up with the husband-and-wife team of Imangi Studios to talk about how it was coming along during development. You may have also seen this video of a level being made ...

Watch a Max Adventure level get created in three minutes

by Mike Schramm (Aug 28th, 2010)

The good folks at Imangi Studios (husband-and-wife team Natalia and Keith) are hard at work on their latest iPhone game Max Adventure, and they've been sharing updates from the trials and tribulations of making a big iPhone game via their twitter accounts. Among those updates today was this ...