Plus, if you got mad every time you lost, you would pretty much be mad all the time. The game has been online for less than a month, but Cirulli says four million people have already played it some 42 ...

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 a sliding ...

The (Flappy) Bird is no longer the word -- the latest craze is all about a puzzle game called 2048. The game, which can be played through the Web, requires that users pair tiles containing similar ...

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 ...

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. Each 2048 session is ...

Sometimes mashups are better than the original. Take that one Girl Talk song that combines Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” with Youngbloodz’ “Damn.” That’s petty great — and now we have the ...

If you've never played 2048, I highly suggest you do. It's a addictive sliding-block puzzle-game and it's free-to-play (and I mean free, not like these games). It was so popular it received over 4 ...

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.” Gabriele Cirulli, an Italian Web developer, said he was able ...

Between Candy Crush Saga, the anticipated return of Flappy Bird, and Threes, it seems safe to say that society doesn't need another game to help pass the time. Alas, a new number-crunching puzzle game ...

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 ...

An insidious productivity-destroying monster is rampaging across the Internet. It’s called “2048” and it is a game. The simplest of games, really: a sliding puzzle in which a player matches numbers ...