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iPhone and Words with Friends save a life

by Chris Rawson (Jan 16th, 2012)

The widely-played word game Words with Friends has a built-in chat feature that lets players talk to each other, and that may well have saved a man's life. According to KCTV, a player in Missouri named Beth Legler was chatting with a fellow player from Australia named Georgie Fletcher who claimed ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPad game

by Steven Sande (Dec 28th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Words with Friends now a Facebook game

by Chris Rawson (Aug 13th, 2011)

When Facebook gaming giant Zynga bought Newtoy and rebranded it as Zynga with Friends, it was only a matter of time until games from the "with Friends" franchise started popping up on Facebook. Sure enough, Words with Friends is now playable on Facebook as of a couple weeks ago. The game's ...

The best iOS apps I used in 2010

by TJ Luoma (Dec 29th, 2010)

After looking back over Mac and Mac/iOS hybrid apps, it's time to look at the best iOS apps of 2010. As before, this list comes from my particular experience over the past year with these apps. 1) iCab Mobile (US$1.99, universal) is a replacement for mobile Safari. While it is hindered by the fact ...

Zynga buys Newtoy, studio rebranded as Zynga With Friends

by Mike Schramm (Dec 2nd, 2010)

Well how about this -- Facebook and social game giant Zynga has bought up iPhone developer Newtoy, makers of the popular Games with Friends apps, including Words with Friends and Chess with Friends. Newtoy has now been rebranded as Zynga With Friends, and will apparently be working on new titles ...

GDC Online 2010: Interview with Newtoy's David Bettner

by Mike Schramm (Oct 11th, 2010)

Last week, during GDC Online in Austin, Texas, I saw a panel run by Newtoy's David Bettner. Later in the week, Bettner himself met up with me to talk about the company and its popular Games With Friends titles for the iPhone. Though the company is doing great with its own App Store games (Words ...

GDC Online 2010: Newtoy and Words with Friends' 10 million downloads

by Mike Schramm (Oct 6th, 2010)

Newtoy is the company behind the popular Games With Friends brand on the App Store, featuring Chess With Friends and the extremely popular Words With Friends. If you're on Twitter, you probably already knew that Words With Friends was popular (it's all over the service), but you might not have ...

iPad game announcements out early and often

by Mike Schramm (Mar 30th, 2010)

The trickle of iPad games released last week has now become a flood of iPad software news. Everybody is climbing over themselves to get the word out there about launch titles. Mobile Entertainment has what's probably the biggest news: another new swarm of titles has been found in the App Store's ...