One 
of the annoying parts about being a grown up is that finding the time to learn new things can be a challenge. If you’re trying to take up a second language, the AccelaStudy app lets you do so on the go, with smartphone-based interactive quizzes and memorization tricks.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Apptastic: Fooducate
While it’s pretty easy to find the calorie and fat content in foods you buy at the grocery store, it’s less simple to know exactly how nutritious an item is.
More moms turn to video games to relax
Kids 
are stressful — and no one can testify to that better than a mother.
That tension has been a boon to countless spas and gyms in the past, but now it looks like the video game industry might be the latest beneficiary. A new survey from a leading Mommy blogger site finds that more and more moms are unwinding with a controller or iPad in their hands.
Apptastic: Trip Tracker
Airlines talk a lot about their on-time records, but even semi-frequent flyers know delays are commonplace. TripTracker gives real-time status updates on flights (including gate and baggage claim numbers) and pushes those alerts to you. It also tracks your hotel and rental car confirmation numbers – and it’s all done automatically, meaning you don’t have to enter all of those reservations by hand.
Star Wars blasts away at WoW subscriptions
The 
Sith are doing a number on the Horde.
Blizzard Entertainment has acknowledged that the December launch of EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic is a notable part of the reason subscriptions to World of Warcraft have been on the decline lately.
U.S. House calls for warning labels on video games
Just 
days after the Smithsonian opened an exhibit celebrating the art and cultural achievements of video games, a pair of U.S. representatives is renewing the effort to restrict them.
On Monday, Reps. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) and Frank Wolf (R-Va.) introduced The Violence in Video Games Labeling Act (H.R. 4204), a bill that would force games ranging from “Grand Theft Auto” to “Tetris” to carry a warning label for parents.
Telltale’s Dan Connors talks a new kind of freemium
Telltale 
Games has never been a company to walk the well-beaten path. While publishers like Take-Two and THQ have run screaming from licensed content, Telltale has embraced it – and found profit in it. And while the PC is finally starting to become chic once again to some game makers, Telltale has always used it as the base of its operations.
So it makes an odd amount of sense that as the video game industry focuses obsessively on freemium and free-to-play games these days, Telltale is looking at the category with a slightly different perspective.
Apptastic: Lose It
By now, that New Year’s Resolution about dropping a few pounds may have fallen by the wayside but LoseIt can help you get back on track.
Is the video game industry Apple’s next victim?
While 
Apple has a well-earned reputation as the inventor of new markets, it’s also something of a serial killer.
The company’s advances in digital music players made the Walkman an afterthought. The introduction of iTunes sounded a virtual death knell for many record retailers. The iPad cut the legs out from under the once fast-growing netbook PC market. And the iPhone has put Motorola in a fight for its life.
Outrage over ‘Mass Effect 3′ ending reaches the FTC
Bioware’s 
Mass Effect 3 has earned plenty of praise from gaming critics, but a small, vocal percentage of players aren’t thrilled with the game’s ending, to put it mildly.
And now they’re bringing their issues to the Feds.
Chris Morris: Journalist 