Back in August of 2014 Sunnyside Games launched The Firm [$0.99], a twitch arcade game that had you frantically buying and selling stocks before they stacked up too far on your desk and your company fires you. You'd buy a stock by swiping it right and sell it by swiping left, and The Firm felt like the lovechild of Timberman and Tinder. The setup was simple: There are red and green stocks, and you want to buy the green ones when they're on the rise and the red ones when they're on the decline. The opposite was true for stocks you want to sell. As you progress in the game the speed that the stocks are sent to your desk increases, and although it's a simple task of recognizing what to do with each type of stock, once things start to speed up The Firm turns into a truly manic high-scoring game. Check out the trailer.
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In February of 2015 a significant update was released for The Firm which added some new features and a new gameplay mechanic in the form of Urgent Reports which would occasionally pop up in your stack of stocks and require you to tap the report a certain amount of times and then either swipe it up or down depending on what the report called for. Basically, it was a monkey wrench thrown into your careful stock-trading concentration, and it added a lot to the game. Aside from a 64-bit compatibility update this past July, we haven't seen anything new for The Firm since that big update in early 2015. That changed thi...