Sometimes a success story can be something as simple as making something in a garage -- and Steve Jobs proved that.  In 1976, he helped build the world's first personal computer, revolutionizing the industry as we knew it -- even though it would take years to get started.  Now, Apple is practically everywhere with all sorts of tech, one of the world's biggest companies.  But alas, it is now without its leader, as Steve passed away earlier today at the age of 56, after a long-standing fight with cancer.

Disney Publishing Worldwide has launched its Disney Epic Mickey App for viewing Disney Digicomics on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch on the App store. The first Disney Digicomic available in the app is “Tales of Wasteland,” which comprise six eight-page short comic stories that take place in Wasteland, an alternate world made up of Disney’s forgotten creative efforts. Users get a preview of Wasteland and feature characters from the upcoming Disney Epic Mickey video game, including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney’s first cartoon star. Disney’s Warren Spector talks about the exclusive Wii game in this video interview.

Booyah’s popular location-based mobile entertainment app MyTown has ushered in more than two million to its rapidly expanding community of iPhone and iPod Touch users.  MyTown’s player stats and usage patterns have sparked interest from marketers as the population of the app grows more than 100,000 players each week and users spend more than an hour per day in the app, on average. 

There’s a reason Apple uses videogames to advertise its iPhone and iPod Touch. Check out a TV spot here to see the marketing message. More than 30,000 games have been released in the iPhone App Store since its launch in July 2008. With titles that consistently dominate the Top Paid and Top Grossing lists, according to technology research firm Flurry, there is no question that the games category is the most lucrative category in the App Store. Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry, said a new report from his firm focuses on how Apple has affected the market share of U.S. videogame and portable game revenue since the introduction of games sold through the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.

Gladiators are making a return to pop culture. Following the recent success of 300, which also had a PSP game, Artificial Life and Starz Digital Media announced the launch of the official mobile game for the Starz Entertainment TV series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand", which premieres on Jan. 22, 2010. The Artificial Life game, for the iPhone and iPod touch platform, will retail for $5 on the Apple App Store.