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January 18th, 2021, 23:06 Posted By: wraggster
A new report shows that core gamers generated two thirds of all mobile games revenues last year, despite the games themselves only accounting for a fifth of all downloads.
That's according to App Annie's State of Mobile 2021 report, which shows that 66% of consumer spend on games across iOS and Android were spent on core games like PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings.
By comparison, casual titles -- with examples given including Roblox, My Talking Tom Friends and Among Us -- only accounted for 23% of all gaming revenues, and casino apps for 11%.
App Annie also reports that events were the biggest driver of in-game spending in 2020, accounting for $53 billion -- a big increase over the $1.99 billion spent on in-game events the year before.
Looking at Android only, 55% of time spent playing on mobile was dedicated to core games, with 43% for casual and 2% for casino.
However, casual still dominates in terms of downloads, accounting for 78% of all installs across iOS and Android last year. Core games only accounted for 20%, while casino was at 2%.
According to App Annie's data, PUBG Mobile was the global leader in terms of monthly active users, outranking Candy Crush Saga, Ludo King, Among Us and Garena Free Fire, which filled out the rest of the top five.
Garena Free Fire was the most downloaded game in the world, followed by Among Us, Subway Surfers, PUBG Mobile and Gardenscapes.
Core gamers generated 66% of mobile revenues in 2020 | GamesIndustry.biz
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January 18th, 2021, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Apple has also released a statement to GamesIndustry.biz, in which the company said:
“For twelve years, the App Store has helped developers turn their brightest ideas into apps that change the world. Our priorities have always been to provide customers with a safe and trusted place to download software and to apply the rules equally to all developers. Epic has been one of the most successful developers on the App Store, growing into a multibillion dollar business that reaches millions of iOS customers around the world, including the United Kingdom.
"In ways a judge has described as deceptive and clandestine, Epic enabled a feature in its app which was not reviewed or approved by Apple, and they did so with the express intent of violating the App Store guidelines that apply equally to every developer and protect customers. Their reckless behavior made pawns of customers, and we look forward to making this clear to courts in the UK.”
Epic Games takes legal action against Apple and Google in UK | GamesIndustry.biz
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January 18th, 2021, 22:41 Posted By: wraggster
The start of a new year often brings with it a number of interesting info-dumps, as various companies and organisations that track the industry's vital statistics show us how their corner of the world measured up in the previous year. This year is no exception, and January has already bestowed upon us a host of stats that give us a sense of how 2020 measured up for the industry -- and especially for the industry's sales and revenues.
Perhaps the most striking nugget of data from what's been released thus far is a stat from mobile app tracking service App Annie, which reported that around two-thirds of the revenues from mobile games last year were from what it classified as "core games" -- titles like PUBG Mobile and Honour of Kings, which are competitively oriented, and focused largely on the teen and young adult male demographic that was the industry's traditional bread and butter, and which generally wouldn't look out of place on a PC or console. Combine that statistic with another, which pegged the percentage of overall mobile revenues coming from game software at around 72%, and you've got roughly half of the money pouring through Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store being spent on these core games.
The triumph of mobile core games heralds a demographic shift | Opinion | GamesIndustry.biz
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January 11th, 2021, 22:28 Posted By: wraggster
The WebAssembly portable binary format will now have wider support from Wasmer, the server-side runtime which "allows universal binaries compiled from C++, Rust, Go, Python, and other languages to run on different operating systems and in web browsers without modification," reports InfoWorld:Wasmer can run lightweight containers based on WebAssembly on a variety of platforms — Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, iOS — from the desktop to the cloud to IoT and mobile devices, while also allowing these containers to be embedded in any programming language. The Wasmer runtime also is able to run the Nginx web server and other WebAssembly modules...
Wasmer was introduced in December 2018, with the stated goal of doing for WebAssembly what JavaScript did for Node.js: establish it server-side. By leveraging Wasmer for containerization, developers can create universal binaries that work anywhere without modification, including on Linux, MacOS, and Windows as well as web browsers. WebAssembly automatically sandboxes applications by default for secure execution, shielding the host environment from malicious code, bugs, and vulnerabilities in the software being run.
Wasmer 1.0 reached "general availability status" with its release on January 5, and its developers are now claiming "out of this world" runtime and compiler performance.
"We believe that WebAssembly will be a crucial component for the future of software execution and containerization (not only inside the browser but also outside)."
https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/01/10/0242244/wasmer-10-can-run-webassembly-universal-binaries-on-linux-macos-windows-android-and-ios
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January 8th, 2021, 13:22 Posted By: wraggster
Call of Duty: Mobile generated over $14 million in player spending during its debut week in China.
Activision's mobile hit finally launched in China on December 25th, and ranked at No.4 in the country's top grossing mobile games charts for the week ending on December 31, Sensor Tower reported.
It was beaten to No.1 by Tencent's Honor for Kings, which made $64 million during that week. PUBG Mobile ranked at No.2 with $24 million, followed closely by Fantasy Westward Journey at $23 million.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-week-in-china
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January 8th, 2021, 13:18 Posted By: wraggster
Facebook released its latest report about mobile gaming, analysing players' behaviours following the peak experienced in March 2020 due to COVID-19 social distancing restrictions.
Germany, South Korea, the US, and the UK all saw a significant growth in their mobile gaming audience between March and July 2020, the study highlighted. The increase in the number of mobile players varied between 25% to 34% in Germany, the US, and South Korea, but it was much more significant in the UK, with a 50% growth representing 8.6 million new mobile gamers.
Number of mobile gamers increased 50% in the UK due to COVID-19 | GamesIndustry.biz
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January 8th, 2021, 13:13 Posted By: wraggster
The Federal Trade Commission has warned against the power of Apple and Google hold over mobile developers, suggesting this is partly responsible for the rise of harmful monetisation practices.
In a statement regarding the recent order for mobile ad platform Tapjoy to better police fraudulent campaigns, FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra commented on the market in general, noting that Tapjoy was "not the only platform squeezing developers" and dubbing it a "minnow" next to Apple and Google.
"By controlling the dominant app stores, these firms enjoy vast power to impose taxes and regulations on the mobile gaming industry," he wrote.
"We should all be concerned that gatekeepers can harm developers and squelch innovation."
Chopra said the clearest example is the "rent extraction" seen in Apple and Google's 30% commission fee on all sales and in-game purchases, as well as their power to ban developers for "trying to avoid this tax through offering alternative payment systems."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ing-developers
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January 4th, 2021, 18:18 Posted By: wraggster
Apple removed 39,000 mobile games from the Chinese iOS App Store on New Year's Eve as it completed its crackdown on unlicensed titles.
Reuters reports it is the biggest removal ever to occur in a single day, and was carried out alongside the removal of 46,000 non-games apps.
The publication cites research firm Qimai, which claims only 74 of the top 1,500 paid games on iOS avoided removal.
Among the games affected were Assassin's Creed Identity and NBA 2K20, the firm claims.
Apple has been clamping down on all titles that did not have a valid publishing number -- or ISBN (International Standard Book Number) -- from China's National Press and Publication Administration, the government body that handles approval for game releases.
Apple removes 39,000 games from China store in biggest single-day takedown | GamesIndustry.biz
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January 3rd, 2021, 12:07 Posted By: wraggster
Gearboy v3.2.0 is released. Gearboy is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator written in C++. The emulator is focused on readability of source code, but nevertheless it has good compatibility. A lot of effort has gone into this in order to follow OOP and keep it as simple as possible.
Gearboy Features:
- Highly accurate CPU emulation, passes cpu_instrs.gb from blargg's tests.
- Accurate instruction and memory timing, passes instr_timing.gb and mem_timing.gb from blargg's tests.
- Memory Bank Controllers (MBC1, MBC2, MBC3 with RTC, MBC5), ROM + RAM and multicart cartridges.
- Accurate LCD controller emulation. Background, window and sprites, with correct timings and priorities including mid-scanline timing.
- Mix frames: Mimics the LCD ghosting effect seen in the original Game Boy.
- Sound emulation using SDL Audio and Gb_Snd_Emu library.
- Game Boy Color support.
- Integrated disassembler. It can dump the full disassembled memory to a text file or access it in real time.
- Saves battery powered RAM cartridges to file.
- Save states.
- Compressed rom support (ZIP deflate).
- Game Genie and GameShark cheat support.
- Multi platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, iOS and as a libretro core (RetroArch).
https://github.com/drhelius/Gearboy
http://www.emucr.com/2020/12/gearboy-v320.html
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January 3rd, 2021, 11:57 Posted By: wraggster
GearSystem v3.2.0 is released. GearSystem is a Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator written in C++ that runs on iOS, Raspberry Pi, Mac, Windows and Linux. The main focus of this emulator is readability of source code with very high compatibility.
Features:
- Highly accurate Z80 core.
- Multi-Mapper support: SEGA, Codemasters, and ROM only cartridges.
- External RAM support with save files.
- Automatic region detection: NTSC-JAP, NTSC-USA, PAL-EUR.
- SMS2 only 224 mode support.
- Internal database for rom detection.
- Sound emulation using SDL Audio and Sms_Snd_Emu library.
- Integrated disassembler. It can dump the full disassembled memory to a text file or access it in real time.
- Compressed rom support (ZIP deflate).
- Multi platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi and iOS.
https://github.com/drhelius/Gearsystem
http://www.emucr.com/2020/12/gearsystem-v320.html
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December 24th, 2020, 23:47 Posted By: wraggster
Apple has warned developers of the imminent removal of thousands of mobile games and apps from the Chinese App Store -- the second wave of removals this year.
The Wall Street Journal obtained an official Apple memo that was sent earlier this month, warning developers that they needed to submit proof of a Chinese government license on or before December 31, 2020.
This is the reemergence of an issue from July, when at least 15,000 games were removed from the Mainland Chinese App Store in a single month.
To avoid removal, developers and publishers needed an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) from China's National Press and Publication Administration -- a relatively slow process, which all but guarantees the failure of many companies to comply.
In a statement issued to the Wall Street Journal, Apple acknowledged that it receives requests for the removal of apps in various regions.
Apple reportedly warns devs of more app takedowns in Chinese App Store | GamesIndustry.biz
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December 18th, 2020, 13:59 Posted By: wraggster
SSF PreviewVer R18(V8) is released. SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows systems using DirectX 9.0b. The current version claims near-complete implementation of the Sega Saturn hardware (not counting emulation bugs), and can emulate the Saturn based Sega Titan Video arcade hardware too. As with most emulators, CDs or disc images are not included and have to be owned separately. The BIOS is also not included; as of 0.07 Beta R3, games run without the BIOS however. The usage of BIOS files is optional but recommended for better compatibility, and needed for tasks such as management of the contents of the internal memory of the Sega Saturn, or setting the system clock.
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http://www.emucr.com/2020/12/ssf-previewver-r18v8.html
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December 18th, 2020, 13:42 Posted By: wraggster
fMSX v5.9 is released. fMSX is a program that emulates MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers. It runs MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ software on many different platforms including Windows, Android, Symbian, MacOS, Unix, MSDOS, AmigaOS, etc. I started developing fMSX in 1993 when there were only two other MSX emulators available, both exclusively for MSDOS. From the very beginning, I developed fMSX as a portable program able to run on many different computers. The initial development, for example, was done on DEC Alpha workstations running Unix. Since then, fMSX has seen quite a lot of updates and been ported to many systems. It is still being developed, although not as actively as before because most features are pretty much complete now.
fMSX v5.9 Changelog:
Added simple CPU-based linear scaling algorithm.
Added -linear command line option.
Added drag'n'drop files functionality to fMSX-Windows.
Fixed fMSX-Windows loading disk and tape files on click.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...d=com.fms.fmsx
http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/
http://www.emucr.com/2020/12/fmsx-v59.html
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December 17th, 2020, 00:26 Posted By: wraggster
A year dominated by a global pandemic has seen five mobile games break $1 billion in revenues so far, according to Sensor Tower.
In a post on its blog, the mobile data firm said Tencent scored the two biggest hits of the year with PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings, which have brought in $2.6 billion and $2.5 billion so far this year, respectively.
(Those numbers do not include revenue from third-party Android stores in China or other regions, but the PUBG figure does include revenues from its Chinese localization Game for Peace.)
The PUBG Mobile number represents a 64.3% jump year-over-year, while Honor of Kings is up 42.8%.
There was a considerable gap between the top two performers and the next best-performing mobile game of the year, Pokémon Go. Ninantic's adaptation of the monster collecting title has brought in $1.2 billion year-to-date, up 31.5% year-over-year.
Five mobile games topped $1b in revenue this year - Sensor Tower | GamesIndustry.biz
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December 15th, 2020, 22:47 Posted By: wraggster
Apple yesterday introduced new app privacy labels on its stores, which allow users to see what type of data is collected by the applications they download and use.
As reported by TechCrunch, these new labels mean developers now need to disclose their privacy practices when they submit an app to the App Store. The new policy applies to apps made available to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS.
Announced at WWDC 2020 in June, these labels take the form of an App Privacy summary available on each product's page (see image right), disclosing the "types of data the apps might collect, whether that data is shared with third parties, and the option for users to opt out," Apple said. This information is displayed across three categories: data used to track you, data linked to you, and data not linked to you.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ng-transparent
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December 9th, 2020, 23:00 Posted By: wraggster
Mobile games were the top category for growth on app stores this year, App Annie reported.
In its latest report, looking back at the mobile market for 2020, the analytics company highlighted that for every dollar spent on iOS and Google Play, $0.71 were for games this year. Gross consumer spend reached $112 billion on mobile in 2020, $81 billion of which came from games.
They represented 40% of mobile app downloads across Google Play and App Store this year, that is to say 53 billion downloads were games out of 130 billion overall.
Looking at the breakdown of that figure between the two stores, 45% of all Google Play downloads were games (an increase compared to last year's 40%), representing 42 billion downloads out of a total of 94 billion. On iOS, games were only 30% of all iOS downloads, that being 11 billion game downloads out of 36 billion total. The figure was the same in 2019.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...mes-at-usd81bn
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December 9th, 2020, 22:57 Posted By: wraggster
Honor of Kings returned to the top of the mobile games revenue charts in November with $250 million in total spending.
That's up 62% year-over-year, and sees 96% of its total revenue coming from China according to numbers shared by Sensor Tower.
At No.2 was PUBG Mobile, which grossed about $174 million, up 4% year-over-year and with 54% of total revenue coming from China's version of the game, Game for Peace. 11% of revenue was from the US.
In the third spot is last month's top game, Genshin Impact, which generated $143 million on mobile in its second month after launch. The majority of its revenue was from Japan at 27%, while 25% came from China.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ts-in-november
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December 2nd, 2020, 22:42 Posted By: wraggster
Italian regulators have fined Apple $12 million for making misleading and unfair claims about iPhone water resistance. The fine was imposed by L'Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), which translates literally as the guarantee authority for competition and the market. This is the competition watchdog responsible for ensuring that companies treat both consumers and competitors fairly.
First, it says, Apple made water resistance claims without making it clear to consumers that these were true only in ideal laboratory conditions, and phones had not passed the same tests in real-life conditions. [...] Second, and more seriously, Apple made iPhone water resistance claims in its marketing, but then refused warranty service on phones which suffered water damage.
Apple has been fined ten million Euros, and additionally ordered to publish a notice on its Italian website through a "Consumer protection information" link. The potentially opens the way for similar rulings in other European Union countries, and could conceivably lead to class action lawsuits in the US and elsewhere, now that the issue has been highlighted. SetteBIT notes that the ruling references three Apple ads. Apple tends to delete older ads from its YouTube channel, but the site archives its own copies, providing proof of the claims originally made.
Italy Fines Apple $12 Million For Unfair Claims About iPhone Water Resistance (slashdot.org)
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December 2nd, 2020, 22:32 Posted By: wraggster
Apple unveiled its list of the best apps and games of 2020, with MiHoYo's Genshin Impact being named iPhone Game of the Year.
Riot Games' Legends of Runeterra won iPad Game of the Year, while ZA/UM's hit Disco Elysium was named Mac Game of the Year.
RAC7's Sneaky Sasquatch was the first recipient of the Apple Arcade Game of the Year prize. Finally, Raw Fury's Dandara Trials of Fear won Apple TV Game of the Year.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...me-of-the-year
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