“I fixed the glitch,” the game’s creator wrote in an email to JTA’s teen correspondent. This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens ...

With apologies to Kojima, the original Snake was pretty solid. A killer app before smartphones were even a thing, the game transformed blocky Nokia handsets into persuasive handheld gaming devices.

Steven Howse, the 32-year-old developer of Slither.io, is struggling to keep up with the demands of his new creation. His app consists of a free multiplayer game that gives users control of snakelike ...