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 ...

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 ...

"2048" (center) was inspired by the game "1024" (right), which was also a clone of the game "Threes!" (left) Photo Illustration/IBTimes Step aside, “Flappy Bird.” There’s a new game in town, and it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 new game has come to town. Following the trend of simple yet surprisingly frustrating is the web-based 2048, a math and puzzle game has kept many procrastinating web-surfers hooked for hours. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember the game 2048? You slide numbered tiles around on a grid, combining them until you have one tile with a value of 2048 (although it’s possible to go higher). Legend has it that 2048 was ...