Android Market Sales, Are Those Tears or is it Raining in Here?

by Matt Hall on Android / iPhone /

There’s been a lot of speculation lately about the size of the Apple App Store, most recently based on some numbers from AdMob which are summarized over at GigaOM. They came to the conclusion that the app store is worth $200M monthly, whereas the Android market is worth a paltry $5M. As sad as that [...]

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Follow us on Twitter

by Matt Hall on LarvaLabs /

Just a quick note to suggest you follow us on our new Twitter account: @larvalabs
It’s where we’ll post things like:

News about app updates (like the recent Battle for Mars and RetroDefense map additions)
Upcoming apps (like CoverMosaic submitted to Apple)
iTunes promo codes (upcoming)

Now we’ve got a blog and a twitter account, truly we are masters of the [...]

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Beta Testers Needed

by Matt Hall on iPhone /

Our next iPhone app is almost beta worthy, so it’s time to put out the call for beta testers. Anyone interested can say so in a comment below. The requirements are as follows:

Have OS 3.0+ on your device (can be an iPhone or iPod)
Have a reasonably large music collection on your device (50+ albums minimum, [...]

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We’re nominated!

by Matt Hall on Android /

A whole bunch of Android sites got together and nominated their favorite apps on the platform, and they picked Retro Defense as one of the top games! So if you like Retro Defense go ahead and vote right here, or go check out the whole list.
Update: We didn’t win, but the open-path tower defense game [...]

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Retro Defense Level Design

by Matt Hall on Android /

We’ve had a number of requests for a level editor for Retro Defense, and while we don’t quite have the time at the moment to do something like that, we’d love to see what kind of levels people out there would dream up. So, as a little experiment I’m going to post the level format [...]

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ScreenPops Pro on Sidekick LX ‘09

by Matt Hall on Sidekick /

ScreenPops is one of our more popular apps for the Sidekick, so we’ve had a lot of requests for new features. ScreenPops Pro now available for the Sidekick LX ‘09 solves all those problems with sick billboard effects, total color control, photo effects and all the original ScreenPops features too. Take a look at the [...]

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