How much Minecraft developers have earned on the mobile version of the game, which applications are the most popular on the App Store, data from the latest Fiksu report and why testing is so necessary for the “game as a service” – read our news digest for the holidays.
1. The creator of Minecraft earned about $ 50 million on the mobile market.Daniel Kaplan, who is responsible for business development at Mojang, announced yesterday that the number of copies of the mobile Minecraft – Pocket Edition sold exceeded 10 million.
2. Apple talked about the most popular appsThere are only a few days, if not hours, left before the milestone of 50 billion App Store downloads.
For the conditional celebration, Apple presented a list of the most downloaded paid and free apps from iTunes.
3. Star Wars games will be made by Electronic ArtsIn recent weeks, Disney has been under constant fire from network critics.
The reason is simple. Mickey Mouse closed the iconic Lucas Arts, and with it a couple of potentially strong projects based on Star Wars. As it turned out, they criticized in vain.
4. The number of daily downloads continues to fall in the App StoreLast March, the number of downloads decreased, according to Fiksu.
However, the price of a loyal user, on the contrary, increased after the February fall.
5. AppsFlyer told about the most popular types of promotionHow many types of advertising there are in total and which of them proved to be the most effective in the first quarter of 2013, the research company AppsFlyer said in its report.
We offer a short version of it in Russian.
6. The Dots game has gained 1 million downloads in 7 daysThe new game from Betaworks One has managed to enter the top 5 free downloads in 19 countries in a week since its release, and the number of its downloads has crossed the 1 million mark.
Read more about the project and its achievements in our material.
7. Testing and serviceThe phrase “games are a service” is already perceived as a banality today.
But when developing, it often happens that developers forget about it. And they continue to work with the game as an end product.
8. MAU of Fruit Ninja game in China has reached 50 millionThe number of Fruit Ninja downloads has surpassed the 500 million mark.
Moreover, 200 million of them were in China.
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