Of the 14 best WP applications of 2014 (according to Microsoft), ten are games.
The dozen includes the following projects: Minecraft, Age of Empires: Castle Siege, Cloud Raiders, Candy Crush Saga, Shadow Fight 2, FIFA15: UT, “The World is on Fire”, Modern Combat 5: Eclipse, Ashpalt 8: Take off! and “Despicable Me.”
As a criterion for getting into the Top 14, a Microsoft representative to the publication App2Top.ru named the following: “high ratings, high number of downloads and IAP purchases.”
We were also told that over the past year, “the total number of downloads has increased by 60%, and the number of app downloads has increased by more than 2 times – by 110%.”
The “Games” category accounts for 42% of all downloads.
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- Microsoft Corporation is one of the largest companies producing software for personal computers, game consoles, PDAs, mobile phones and others, the developer of the Windows family of operating systems.
The company was founded in 1975.