As for Lou, Flappy Bird 2048 was an exercise to show how it easy it is to re-iterate on the Web. That’s something that is important to him. He thinks that game developers should embrace the Web ...

The HTML5 game, which can be played in a mobile or desktop browser for free, took off earlier this month when 19-year-old Italian programmer Gabriele Cirulli published it on GitHub, playable on a ...

Like Bejeweled, Candy Crush, and countless puzzle games before it, 2048 has eaten up hours, days, weeks of our lives. It's not just about sliding numbered blocks into simple sums.

But "2048" likely became so popular because it's free — "Threes" costs $2.99 these days. "2048" was originally created by a developer named Gabriele Cirulli, but the mobile version most people ...

Oddly enough though 2048 is itself a clone of a clone. The tiles-in-a-grid mechanism seems to have originated with paid iPhone game Threes, which has a slower pace of play but adds charming ...

That game contained a fatal flaw, in that it cost money ($1.99). Another game called 1024 came out shortly afterward, followed by 2048, which is free to play on the Web.

In fact, the existence of something like “2048” is why we have things like “Candy Crush” — a game that extracts real money from its users with the gameplay equivalent of water torture.

You don't need a math degree to play this hit mobile game. March 24, 2014— -- “Flappy Bird” may be on the rebound, but a new time-suck of a game has made it to smartphones. “2048” is ...

The free game challenges users to combine tiles into larger numbers, an element of “2048,” while making sure they don’t crash into columns that appear as the numbers fly through the screen ...

There are online strategy guides for 2048 if you want to beat in style. The 2048 game by ketchapp is available for free from the iOS App Store. It is compatible with the iPhone or iPad.