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 ...

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 ...

Beating 2048 might be far easier than it seems. Featured Video Earlier, we showed you one strategy and a few tips for winning the addictive tile game. We still stand by that. But if you’re looking for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you do if you're a 19-year-old with some time to pass on the weekend? Make a game that becomes an unexpected internet hit, according to one teen tech whiz. Gabriele Cirulli, who just turned 20 ...

Say goodbye to your free time. The latest game people have become obsessed with is 2048. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Like ...

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 ...