Logogarden buy

LogoGarden has bought Whoosh! interactive from the founders of Franktown. Story here.

Healthways and MeYouHealth.com

Nashville-area HQ'd Healthways is backing Boston-based MeYouHealth.com, which uses gaming to drive engagement in healthier lifestyles and practices. HT: NashvillePost.com. Mass High Tech reports.

Nick, Jax terminate GPS Assassins biz

Nick Holland and Jackson Miller (L-R, at left) pulled the plug on their local effort around GPS Assassins, their location-driven games play, according to NashvillePost. GPS Assassins had been approved by the iPhone Apps Store in June 2009. They sold the property for an undisclosed amount to games startup Worldblender. Holland told the Post they'd reached their limits, given other obligations and the fact there's not much ecosystem here for the games sector. Our earlier story on the Holland-Jackson venture. "Big Cheese" Holland's unwavering focus remains on CentreSource, while Miller, a retail franchisee himself, as well as a Geek, is launching a franchisee-oriented BI platform, which he's incubating in the Entrepreneur Center.

VandyLAN gaming tourney today

The VandyLAN 2010 gaming tournament for faculty and students is today at the VU School of Engineering. Details here.

Brainwave opens Game category

Brainwave Studios may be launching wih FranktownRocks.com, but it could be the first of a series of products that will breathe new life into the smattering of gamer-driven cyberproducts in Middle Tennessee -- if they succeed in raising $3MM. The story's here.

TechCrunch blowsup NV firm

Nashville-based Nicholas Holland and Jackson Miller's (at left) gpsAssassin game for iPhone gets one helluva sendup on TechCrunch, by writer Jason Kincaid. Here's our earlier story on the game's launch. A year ago, Jackson Miller was presenting in the TechCrunch demo pit, a startup showcase, and hoping to launch Statzen, which has taken somewhat of a backseat to gpsAssassin, which recently passed the 10,000 simultaneous users milestone.

Knox ivi videocaster launches

[Updated] Knox ivi, an Internet video channel, has set up shop in Market Square in Knoxville, in the space previously held by another short-lived videocaster. The KNS reports the story here.

gpsAssassin passes 10K users

gpsAssassin, which as reported earlier by VNC was developed here locally by Nick Holland and Jackson Miller (at left), has passed the 10,000 simultaneous gameplayers mark, according to a release this morning.

More on iPod apps

[Updated June 15, 10:44 a.m.] Our earlier story on Nicholas Holland's and Jackson Miller's gpsAssassin obviously only uncovered the tip of the iceberg. For more, check out today's NBJ page-one piece (subscription), which includes not only gpsAssassins, but DeepWell developers and others. And, this Forbes piece says Apple's making at least $10MM per day from its cut of iPhone Apps Store proceeds.