Unreal Fest highlights
Friday, October 4, 2024 by Richard Harris
Epic Games' Unreal Fest Seattle keynote concluded, celebrating the developer and creator ecosystem and the remarkable projects being built with Unreal Engine and Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). The goal was to provide the same powerful technology used to create games like Fortnite to developers, aiming to collectively shape the future of entertainment and interac...
Mobile tower defense game stats
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 by Richard Harris
One of the most popular genres in mobile gaming is tower defense games. The mobile tower defense games market is especially popular on smartphones and tablets, where gamers can easily take them with them wherever they go. In addition, tower defense games are great for keeping people occupied on long road trips or flights, as they require little to no interaction from th...
GameRefinery makes its iOS download and revenue data available free
Thursday, December 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
The data elves at mobile game insight and analytics specialist GameRefinery are bringing some much-needed Christmas cheer to all mobile game developers by making its download and revenue data for 100k iOS games available for free. Following its acquisition of market insight provider Reflection in early 2020, GameRefinery has been gradually integrating the data into its ...
Buildbox game creation software bought by AppOnboard
Thursday, June 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
AppOnboard, a company which focuses on app creation software has purchased Buildbox, the low code game creation platform that just released version 3.0. Jon Zweig, the CEO of ApponBoard and Trey Smith, CEO of Buildbox, both share the same belief that No-Code is the future of development.
Jonathan Zweig is the founding CEO of AppOnboard and was previously CE...
Study Shows That Games Are Still Top Performers for iOS and Android Apps
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 by Richard Harris
In its Q3 2015 Mobile Benchmarks report adjust, a mobile analytics company, is reporting that that app users are typically spending 2-10 times more time in games than any other type of app. Over 10,000 apps were included in the study, which is now available publicly on the company website.Other insights from the study show that books and magazines retain more users afte...
Newzoo and Priori Data Show You Top Games By Revenue and Downloads
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
Newzoo is offering a new monthly listing of top iOS games by revenues covering the US, China and Europe. Newzoo’s new top iOS games by revenue ranking is based on its proprietary analysis and modeling of app store data in combination with its predictive global revenue model which provides projections for smartphone and tablet gaming on a global, regional and countr...
New Report Says that Android Developer’s Games are Now Almost as Profitable as iOS
Thursday, January 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
A recent report from DAU-UP, a game user acquisition platform for mobile and social game developers, is showing that Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for Android games is close to being equal to the ARPU for iOS games when factoring in media costs. The company is reporting that ARPU for Android games increased from 25% of the ARPU of iOS games in Q1 2014 to approxim...
Enough Flappy Bird Knockoffs: Apple Encourages Better Apps with New Designing Great Apps Hub
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
On million apps and going strong is a ubiquitous thing. Lots of apps - lots of great apps not so much.So you might have heard the Apple has published a new portal to help developers make better apps. The “Designing Great Apps” site is an obvious attempt to prod developers to do a better job of submitting higher quality apps.On the heals of an onslaught of Flap...
Amazon Introduces App Developer Case Studies Program
Saturday, March 1, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon is launching a new blog series centered on developer case studies. The new page showcases how developers are utilizing Amazon services, from building and engaging users to promoting and monetizing apps. Amazon plan to make these case studies a regular series.Outlined here are a couple of sample case studiesIn-App Purchasing (IAP)My Singing Monsters: Bry...
Marmalade Revolutionises Mobile Games Porting with 'iOS on Android' SDK
Thursday, March 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
Marmalade - the award-winning cross-platform development tool – today announced the launch of Marmalade Juice, a unique technology that entirely replaces the need to port iOS games to Android and other platforms.Marmalade Juice breaks down the barriers for iOS developers looking to target other ecosystems by allowing them to recompile Objective-C and native OS APIs...
If Apple ran the video game business, this is what is would look like.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
A CNN report claims that tablet computers are the future of the video games industry, and given Apple's stronghold over the tablet industry that means the iPad (for the foreseeable future) is going to be the future of gaming. Not just handheld gaming, mind – all gaming.If this comes to pass – and it's requiring something of a mental leap from ourselves – ...
