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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though the “Flappy Bird” craze may be winding down — currently, there’s only one “Flappy Bird” knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store — the longer-lasting effects of the viral game and all ...

The Threes-like puzzle game sucks you in by making it seem easy to hit the magic number. Turns out, though, that it actually is easy -- if you understand the game's logic. Nick Statt was a staff ...