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Can you keep up with this rapid animal runner… and build the sky zoo of your dreams?

Pick your path through Gotham as both Batman and Bruce Wayne.

We can't stop playing it.

Following the start of EA’s iOS sale yesterday, which has seen popular titles like FIFA 12, Dead Space, and Need for Speed reduced to just $0.99, other iOS developers are now throwing their hats into the ring. We got a list of titles from Sega, Capcom, Warner Bros. and more that are now on sale for July 4. Come and get ‘em while they’re cheap.

iOS game developers love nothing more than to celebrate with a sale, so it’s no surprise to use that a plethora of hugely popular titles are available for as little as $0.99 this week. However, we are surprised by the sheer number of games on sale this year, from big-name developers like Gameloft, Sega, Namco Bandai, and more. So that you don’t need to spend hours searching for these bargains yourself, we’ve compiled a huge list of the best reductions for you, featuring some of the most successful iOS t...

Entertainment Ho ho ho! Welcome to the most hectic and jolly time of year: the holiday season. The App Store has a variety of games that celebrate the season, including new...

Amid extra scrutiny from Congress around privacy issues, Apple this week has started rejecting apps that access UDIDs, or identification numbers that are unique to every iPhone and iPad. Apple had already given developers a heads-up about the change more than six months ago when it said in some iOS documentation that it was going to deprecate UDIDs. But it looks like Apple is moving ahead of schedule with pressure from lawmakers and the media. It can take more than a year to deprecate features because d...

Let’s face it, every blogger under the sun (even bloggers covering Microsoft) is going to be picking up an iPad. That said, which apps do they need to get right…

Joey Flynn is the designer behind Facebook's Timeline for mobile, which means he works on one of the most popular apps in the world. His hands are on everything from the way your mobile profile looks to the way it reacts to your taps and swipes. And he's a really funny guy, too. Flynn took a few minutes to talk to The Verge about the challenges of designing for a tiny screen, hearing people talk about you behind your back, and even about his muse, children's horror author R.L. Stine. You can find Flynn...

The end of the month is here, and that means it's time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Who will unceremoniously get the boot? WordLens: WordLens is a taste of the future. Point it at a sign in Spanish and it'll overlay an English translation on the fly while approximating the size and typeface of the original text. It's not perfect but it works well enough to blow your mind into a thousand little pieces. $10. Infinity Blade: Angry Birds may...

It's Friday, meaning it's time for the best iPad apps of the week. This week, we're wowing you with a navigational app for boaters, one that will teach you something, and another that will test your knowledge of pop culture. IBM Think: How did we get from the invention of the wheel to the personal computer? It's been a long road, marked by very important developments along the way. Based on IBM's Think exhibit staged in NYC last year, this app maps innovation in a beautifully-designed package. Free...

It's the end of the week, which means it's time for another grab bag of the best apps of the week. Reach inside and you'll find a photo taking tool, a couple of games, and much more....

There was this moment in the industry when people thought that games were a science, not a form of art,” said Ilkka Paananen, the CEO of red-hot Finnish gaming startup Supercell. “But inevitably, games are a form of art,” he said. “They have to be supported by strong analytics, but you have to lead with creativity.” With Zynga’s moment passed, a new generation of gaming startups like…

The "EA Big Holiday Sale" has taken up to 90 percent off the price of more than 55 games on the App Store, including hits like Madden, FIFA 13 and Need for Speed.

With big lights, great graphics, and a Jay-Z produced soundtrack, NBA 2K13 is all about the big stage, and it's one of the rare sports games that delivers an enjoyable experience on the iOS platform. Keeping the spirit (and much of the core gameplay) of its console version, NBA 2K13 raises the bar for basketball games on iOS devices. This $8 game is available as a universal app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch; devices must be running iOS 5.0 or later....

After debuting less than two weeks ago as an exclusive to the iOS App Store, "Temple Run 2" reached the 50 million download mark on Thursday, smashing the previous record set by "Angry Birds Space" in 2012.

In just the span of a few days last month, Real Racing 3 went from being one of the most-anticipated iOS games of the year to arguably one of the most-frustrating....

Chaotic Moon Studios, a mobile application company, has teamed up with former Zynga Vice President Andrew Busey to launch a brand new collectable card game called “Elements: Broken Lands.” This partnership is not a temporary situation — it’s actually something more permanent, as the two parties have agreed to create a new mobile gaming company called Team Chaos. The iOS app is available today in Apple’s App store....

If you’re a fan of endless runner games like Temple Run, starting today you’ll get your chance to do more than outrun a pack of demonic monkeys — you can take on your friends too, with Zynga’s new title Running With Friends. That’s the basic distinction that Travis Boatman, Zynga’s senior vice president of mobile, offered when describing the game to me. There’s already “a huge group of…

Dots, the most addictive iPhone game in recent memory, is now optimized for iPad and has added a multi-player option for both devices.

One of the most absurd stories this year has been the rapid rise of Gung-Ho, the Japanese gaming company that saw its stock surge by more than 6,000% because of a single hit mobile game called Puzzle & Dragons. The company is now worth $14.4 billion on public markets. That’s more than twice as much as Electronic Arts is worth and about seven times Zynga’s market capitalization. For…

Zombies are everywhere—not everywhere, as in “We’re surrounded, head to the roof!” Everywhere, as in all over movies, apps, games, tshirts, comic books, books, tattoos, toys. And I’m not complaining. I rock my “I heart Zombies” bumper sticker just as much as any other Romero-loving, Walking Dead-reading, World War Z-watching, Plants vs Zombie-playing zombie superfan....