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TUAW's Daily App: Gun Bros

by Mike Schramm (Nov 12th, 2010)

Freemium has earned kind of a bad name on the iPhone -- a lot of people see it as a nickle-and-dime kind of thing, where if you don't pay out a buck or two to the game every once in a while, you don't get to have a full-featured experience. But there is a way to do it right: have a full game ...

Booyah releases InCrowd for iPhone and iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Sep 1st, 2010)

Booyah has released an iPhone and iPod touch version of its Facebook game, InCrowd, and it's now available on the App Store. The app, like the very popular MyTown, uses location check-ins to create a game around social networking. But unlike MyTown, this app was originally released as a Facebook ...

Booyah releases MyTown 3.0, adds friends lists and social features

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2010)

Booyah has released version 3.0 of their MyTown location-based social networking app on the iPhone. As Keith Lee told me at GDC a few weeks ago, this app makes up the largest number of location-based social users on the platform, eclipsing even Foursquare and Gowalla in terms of users. And version ...