Carlsbadistan’s own iPhone/iPod Touch app developers Appy Entertainment have released their first (of many) applications for the Apple iPhone called AppyNewz.
This somewhat twisted app (which you can get here for $1.99) allows users to build their own tabloid news covers using their own photos and a few finger drags on the screen.
With Appy Newz, you spotlight friends and enemies on spoof news covers. Splice your best friend’s head onto a dog body; give him a Mohawk; then slap him in front of a trailer park with a UFO in the background. Add a snarky headline, then show off your creation to crack up your pals; make it your iPhone’s wallpaper; or email it around the world.
We’re kind of bummed we didn’t have this app for April Fools Day. We could have done some pretty funny stuff with it. Click here to download Appy Newz from the iTunes store, or follow the jump for even more details.
LAUNCH POP CULTURE FUNBOMBS WITH YOUR IPHONE
Appy Entertainment Publishes Appy Newz
CARLSBAD, California — April 10, 2009 — Make her laugh! Get even! Share your worst instincts! Appy Newz is a savagely funny entertainment App destined to break hearts and forge friendships through Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.
Unveiled by Appy Entertainment on their Appy Newz site (www.appynewz.com), Appy Newz is a new and surprising kind of entertainment — a toy and a toolbox for adventurous iPhone owners to speak to their friends or just express their feelings and frustrations in funny ways.
“Apple’s iPhone is a new entertainment platform, deserving new game ideas and genres,” said Appy Brand Director Paul O’Connor. “This is just the first of many Apps we are developing based around Appy Entertainment’s core values of humor, personalization, and friendship.”
With Appy Newz, you spotlight friends and enemies on spoof news covers. Splice your best friend’s head onto a dog body; give him a Mohawk; then slap him in front of a trailer park with a UFO in the background. Add a snarky headline, then show off your creation to crack up your pals; make it your iPhone’s wallpaper; or email it around the world.
Don’t have seconds to make a custom cover? With a flick of your wrist, Appy Newz lets you Shake It To Make It — Appy’s Montage technology mixes up images from the Appy Newz image vault with customized faces and backgrounds you’ve brought in from your photo library to create an instant fraudulent masterpiece.
“We make Apps that people enjoy for five minutes at a time, but return to hundreds of times,” said Creative Visual Director Farzad Varahramyan. Project Director Emmanuel Valdez agreed. “The possibilities are endless,” Valdez said, “because Appy Newz allows anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch to transform any photo into a bogus ‘news’ cover and share it via email, or post it on Facebook or Flickr. It’s both personal and highly viral — not unlike the common cold!”
“With Appy Newz, iPhone and iPod Touch owners reject the 24-hour news cycle in favor of their own twisted take on reality!” said Chris Ulm, CEO of Appy Entertainment. “Appy Newz users can control the debate on the entire range of human discourse, including politics, business, romance, science, sports and of course the vast conspiracies that underlie civilization! And all for less than the price of a Latte!”
About Appy Entertainment: Appy Entertainment, Inc. makes snarky stuff for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. Appy founders Chris Ulm, Paul O’Connor, Farzad Varahramyan, Rick Olafsson, and Emmanuel Valdez are long-time entertainment industry veterans and past co-founders of High Moon Studios, now an internal development studio for Activision-Blizzard. Their past credits include the original IP Darkwatch; video game titles The Bourne Conspiracy, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, and Oddworld; as well as numerous film and comicbook properties.
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