Temple Run 2, the surprise sequel to mobile juggernaut Temple Run, has surpassed 20 million downloads in just four days. The game currently resides at the #1 spot on the Top Free charts, and #2 on Top Grossing. It’s also well on its way to taking over the world.

If there’s one word that can sum up the holiday season, it’s ‘giving.’  And since we’re always in the holiday spirit here at Gamezebo, we thought we’d embrace the giving tradition and ‘give’ you the chance to win a board or card games based on the smash mobile hit Temple Run!

Temple Run is a mobile game, so as long as you’re in your own home (or sharing space with an understanding friend), it’s legal for you to play it while you’re naked. But if you feel like ripping through an ancient temple in your birthday suit is a little sacrilegious, Imangi Studios and CafePress are offering you a chance to hide your shame with a selection of Temple Run merchandise.

You’re probably familiar with Imangi Studios. Heck, you’re likely old friends by now. Imangi developed Temple Run, the endless runner game that caught on with mainstream audiences to the tune of 40 million downloads on iOS alone. And with great success comes great partnerships. Imangi is teaming up with W3i to offer Android players a chance to earn Temple Run coins with partner offers.

Temple Run developer Imangi Studios has teamed up with Spin Master Games to create Temple Run Danger Chase, a board game based on the massively popular mobile game.

There was a time when toy stores were filled with ridiculous items like shoddy Mario alarm clocks and Sonic bath toys. It may not have been pretty, but it was the golden age of games merchandise. Companies like Rovio and PopCap have tried to carry the torch, providing us with items like plushies based on game characters. But a whole slew of games have missed out on what we consider obvious merchandising opportunities, and we're here to fix that.

If there is any stronger argument for the value of trying free-to-play than Temple Run, I can’t think of it. Imangi’s treasure-filled endless runner launched on August 03rd, 2011 as a $0.99 download, and while popular, failed to explode in the way its developers knew it could. On September 18th of that year, they took the game free. Three days later? It was on 1 million devices. 

On the heels of this week’s announcement that Ape Entertainment will produce a SQUIDS comic, Ape has announced their plans to translate another popular mobile IP into a graphic novel.

The folks at Imangi Studios have had a lot of time to think about their next move. After all, with a game like Temple Run under your belt, you can afford to take the time to carefully consider what you’re going to do next. And while they’ve turned down other licensing deals before (read more about that in our interview), when Disney came calling, they did so with a property that Imangi would have been crazy to say no to: Pixar’s upcoming animated blockbuster Brave.

The number of games on mobile devices now numbers in the hundreds of thousands. But break that down to the games that really matter – the games that everybody plays and that never seem to wear out their welcome – and that list gets considerably smaller. Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Jetpack Joyride – they’d all make the cut. And yet, it’s the endless running of adventurer Guy Dangerous that has seemed on the tip of everybody’s tongue for the last six months.