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 Road to 2048 Starts at Threes Before “2048” and its numerous predecessors, there was “Threes,” a sliding-number puzzle game where players match numbers to create multiples of three.

A game developer has combined two of 2014's most addictive games — "Flappy Bird" and "2048" — into one addictive mashup called "Flappy48." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just about one weekend, if you ask the creator of popular puzzle game “2048.” Gabriele Cirulli, an Italian Web developer, said he was able to put together “ 2048,” his first game, in a ...

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 ...

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.

The same goes for 2048. "Games like 2048 offer players two of the biggest dopamine boosters," Willis says, which are: 1. The power of prediction: "The brain loves to make predictions," Willis says.