2048 took the web by storm when it debuted last month. Created by 19-year-old Italian web developer Gabriele Cirulli, the sliding numbers game challenges you to combine tiles and build a tile with the ...

Travis Kalanick's latest obsession is the puzzle game "2048." A new piece out Thursday from Bloomberg details Kalanick's final few months as Uber CEO and what he's been up to after being pushed out of ...

"2048" (center) was inspired by the game "1024" (right), which was also a clone of the game "Threes!" (left) Photo Illustration/IBTimes Step aside, “Flappy Bird.” There’s a new game in town, and it ...

Angry Birds was at least amusing. Flappy Bird was comical in its dumb futility. But there is really no explaining the appeal of 2048, the nerdy, minimalist, frustrating Internet game that a ...

Say goodbye to your free time. The latest game people have become obsessed with is 2048. Like Sudoku, it involves numbers. And like Candy Crush, it involves moving tiles around vertically and ...

The makers of Threes, the original game on which the original clone is based, have finally spoken out about being ripped off 2048, a simple puzzle game first released as a browser game in early March, ...

A few weeks ago, while all my friends still in school were in the midst of finals, I kept seeing all these Facebook statuses about how they couldn't stop playing this game called 2048 because it was ...

People love Threes and 2048. These insanely addicting mobile games require players to maneuver a series of tiles around a board to get a high score. They look the same on the surface, but looks can be ...

This post has been updated. See the note below for details. How long does it take to create a hit video game these days? Just about one weekend, if you ask the creator of popular puzzle game “2048.” ...