The latest PointAbout creation – the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s Windows Phone 7 app – hit the market this recently, and the good people at Microsoft like the app enough to list it on their Featured Apps page. Congratulations to everyone in the PointAbout family who worked on the app. You know who you are. An official press release from the ESRB is below, along with a video promo for the app. Check them out,… Read more »

Check out PointAbout’s most recent case study below, on the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board), a non-profit regulatory agency that assigns age and content ratings for video and computer games. The case study gives an overview of the nonprofit’s journey from mobile website to iPhone application to Android application, with a Windows Phone 7 app on the way. The case study covers why the ESRB decided to create native apps in the first place, what… Read more »

My friend and confidante Kevin Moore has a favorite joke that goes something like this: “How many developers does it take to put together a new desk?” (pause) “None. It’s a hardware problem.” Cue laugh track. But seriously, we had a snowstorm/desk assembly party this week here at PointAbout’s east coast headquarters. A wrench was thrown into the master plan when the desks we bought to expand our workspace didn’t come with a necessary piece… Read more »

The iPhone and Android apps our team developed for the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) were released to the public today, just in time for the holiday season. The ESRB came to PointAbout looking to give parents a reliable tool that would ensure the video and computer games they’re buying for their children are age-appropriate. The app we collaborated with them to create allows parents to search a database of 20,000+ titles by name or… Read more »