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November 22nd, 2019, 23:00 Posted By: wraggster
Though we don't have sales numbers on Google Stadia's launch, an extremely rough approximation can be gleaned from the number of downloads of the mobile app, which stand at over 175,000 according to Sensor Tower.
The app appears to be effectively necessary to use Google Stadia, as it is the only way to purchase games and allows users to cast games to their browsers or TVs via Chromecast. While those who have not purchased Google Stadia can still download the free app from the App Store or Google Play, without an access code received from purchasing Stadia, the app is useless.
Sensor Tower has shared that 90.7% of all downloads of the Stadia app were on Android, while the rest were on iOS. The platform split may be at least in part due to the fact that Stadia can only be played on mobile via Pixel phones, making it a more appealing prospect to those already going through the Play Store in the first place.
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November 22nd, 2019, 22:59 Posted By: wraggster
Minecraft Earth launched in the US last week, and though its slow rollout is sparking interest, it still has a ways to go before it catches fellow location-based AR giant Pokemon Go.
According to a report from mobile analyst Sensor Tower, Minecraft Earth saw 1.4 million downloads in the US since its launch on November 12. In total, US users represent 86% of all Minecraft Earth downloads, which globally stand at nearly 2.5 million.
Minecrafth Earth has had a slow-but-steady rollout, with a beta in select cities earlier this year and the initial launch in October starting in Australia and New Zealand.
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November 19th, 2019, 22:02 Posted By: wraggster
Apple's answer to the struggles of premium mobile titles, Apple Arcade, may have already managed to accelerate the decline of such titles not on its service, though said decline was already chugging well along on its own.
Sensor Tower reports that paid game revenue on the App Store declined 13% from the period of August 20 through September 18 this year to September 19 through October 18 -- Apple Arcade's launch month. Some of that decline can be accounted for by a normal seasonal drop, though the decline over the same period last year was only 4%.
That's still a significant difference, but it may also be attributed at least in part to the ongoing decline of premium titles on the whole, a process that's been steady since 2015. Per Sensor Tower's findings, premium games have grossed a total of $337 million on the App Store year-to-date as of September 30, which is less than 2% of all App Store revenue. That number was much higher in 2015, with full-year paid game revenue totals reaching nearly $642 million -- 5.4% of all revenue. Apple Arcade would need approximately 11.7 million subscribers paying for 11 months (after the one-month free trial) to equal the amount of money generated by paid games on the App Store in 2015.
In fact, free game revenue has increased each year from 2014 through 2018, while premium game revenue has declined both in dollar amount and share of all revenue since 2015. So have new game releases, with paid game releases on the App Store going from 26% of all new releases in 2014 to 7% of new releases so far in 2019. Currently, nearly 13% of all App Store games are paid.
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November 18th, 2019, 21:58 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo has revealed plans to introduce a two-tier paid subscription model to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
Released in October 2017, the mobile adaptation of one of Nintendo's flagship franchises has grossed around $111 million lifetime revenue.
However, following the surprise implementation of the subscription model in Mario Kart World Tour, Nintendo has given the greenlight for a similar system for Pocket Camp.
There is currently no information on the pricing and limited detail on features, but according to an in-game update the two tiers will offer very different perks around admin and storage.
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November 17th, 2019, 21:09 Posted By: wraggster
Tapping a large entertainment IP to drive interest and downloads in a mobile game is nothing particularly new in the mobile market. But as the world's top PC and console publishers increasingly take the space seriously, the impact of the biggest gaming properties is becoming ever more noticeable.
The two biggest mobile launches recently have been Nintendo's Mario Kart Tour and Activision's Call of Duty: Mobile, which have proved to be two of the most successful app releases ever.
During October, Call of Duty: Mobile generated some 148 million downloads, according to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence estimates, making it the top mobile game globally for unique installs. That's substantially more than Mario Kart Tour, which took second place with 40.3 million downloads. During September, Nintendo's latest had driven up 86.2 million unique installs.
While casual and hyper-casual games such as SayGames' Sand Balls continued to flood the top download charts, there was still room for other big console and PC IP like PUBG Mobile -- the fourth most downloaded game in October with 22.5 million installs, thanks in large part to its popularity in India.
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November 8th, 2019, 21:07 Posted By: wraggster
For the last few iOS releases, jailbreaks were always released a few months after the version(s) they support were made public with the exception of iOS 12.4 due to a blunder from Apple. However, things are just about to change as checkra1n, a jailbreak for iOS 13, will be coming next week!
According to numerous tweets, various jailbreak community veterans including xerub, siguza and ih8snow worked on making checkra1n with Luca Todesco (@qwertyoruiopz) leading the whole effort meaning that the jailbreak will doubtlessly be of very high quality.
Over the last few weeks, there have been numerous reports of progress being made with the jailbreak and in terms of features, these can be summed up as:
- The jailbreak has been demonstrated running on iOS 13.1.2, 13.1.3 and even 13.2
- Presumably, the jailbreak will also support future versions of iOS 13 and maybe even other versions of iOS as it uses an unpatchable bug found in the boot code which is flashed at the factory and read-only
- When you install checkra1n, an application for managing it is added to your home screen and this presumably lets you install the package manager of your choice
- From what?s currently known, the package managers provided include Cydia, Zebra (an package manager that takes many cues from Cydia) and Installer 5
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October 23rd, 2019, 18:31 Posted By: wraggster
The games industry may be a bit off-stride as it enters the holiday sales season. Superdata released its monthly sales report today, saying that worldwide digital spending on games in September was down 1% to $8.9 billion.
Part of that dip was attributable to new releases not living up to expectations, while another part was due to one established hit suffering a steeper drop. Superdata estimated that Fortnite revenue across all platforms was down 43% month-over-month, making it the worst month of sales for Epic's hit since November of 2017.
That decline was mirrored on Superdata's charts, where Fornite had been number one on consoles in August, but fell to seventh in September. On the PC charts, Fortnite slid from sixth to ninth.
As for the disappointing new releases, FIFA 20 did little to spark the series fortunes, as Superdata reported FIFA in-game spending declined slightly for the month. The firm attributed that to a tough comparison against last year's FIFA, which might have benefitted from launching in the wake of the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
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October 20th, 2019, 21:12 Posted By: wraggster
You'd think, given the inevitable backlash reaction, that we would have long since moved past the point where mobile game operators try to brag about how much money their biggest "whales" have spent. I guess that memo never quite reached Yodo1 boss Henry Fong, who blithely announced a few days ago that a player of Transformers: Earth Wars (which is developed by UK-based Space Ape Games but operated in China by Yodo1) has spent US$150,000 on the title.
These headline figures are probably meant to drive home the popularity of the game or the dedication of its fans, but inevitably, the conversation sparked has been quite a different one -- leading straight back to the increasing criticism and scrutiny of game monetisation practices which has gone far beyond consumer disquiet and is being actively taken up by governments around the world.
The reason it's terribly unwise to boast about these kinds of "high roller" numbers is, in part, that reactions to cases like this are always pretty extreme. There remains a fairly strong sense among a not insignificant chunk of game consumers that there's something intrinsically wrong with people playing a mobile game who end up paying out more than the cost of a full-price PC or console game. It's a position born to quite an extent from prejudice and the inability to see that their own perception of value is personal, not universal; "If you're paying that much money you could just have bought a real game" assumes a definition of "real games" that not everyone shares by any means. There are plenty of people who have the time and inclination to play mobile games but no desire whatsoever to engage with PC or console titles, and there's nothing wrong with that choice.
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October 14th, 2019, 23:06 Posted By: wraggster
Tencent's PUBG Mobile has become the world's top-grossing smartphone game, dethroning Arena of Valor.
According to the Q3 report from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, PUBG Mobile revenue spiked 652% year-on-year, grossing $496 million for the period.
Last month, Sensor Tower also reported that PUBG Mobile was the first battle roayle mobile title to surpass $1 billion lifetime revenue, spurred along by its relaunch in China under the moniker Game for Peace.
Meanwhile, rival top-grossing games Arena of Valor and Fate/Grand Order generated $377 million, and $354 million for the quarter.
Niantic's Pokemon Go however was the fastest-growing game in terms of revenue for the period, up 63% quarter-over-quarter.
These numbers tie into the overall growth in mobile revenue, which was up 20% year-over-year, reaching $16.3 billion for the period.
While games represented a marginally smaller share of total in-app spending for Q3, it still accounted for 74% of global revenue.
Spending increased on both Apple and Android, with the revenue split remaining roughly 60/40 in favour of the App Store.
Apple continues to enjoy the highest spending rates, despite a lower install base than Android, with total spend up 19% year-on-year to $9.8 billion. Meanwhile, user spend was up 21.7% year-on-year on Google Play, reaching $6.5 billion for the period.
Both Google Play and the App Store also saw increased downloads, with the combined number up 17.6% year-on-year to 11.1 billion.
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October 14th, 2019, 22:52 Posted By: wraggster
Fortnite is currently offline, though it's not an accident or a technical error that's rendered it unplayable.
Yesterday, the game's latest live event saw the entirety of the game's battle royale mode -- including its island location, players, Battle Bus, its lobby menu screens, and everything else -- devoured in-game by a black hole caused by a giant meteor. These events were visible both in the game as well as through a livestream on the official Twitch channel. Since then, Fortnite has been unavailable for play and simply shows a black screen with the dim outline of a black hole at the center when you start it up, with the same image being shown on Fortnite's official Twitter account and Twitch channel.
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October 10th, 2019, 21:59 Posted By: wraggster
axi0mX released a groundbreaking bootrom exploit called checkm8 around two weeks ago. This exploit, which uses an unpatchable vulnerability found in the bootrom of A5-A11 iOS devices, allows the execution of unsigned code at a very low-level thus making the creation of jailbreaks much easier since the boot process can be modified.
Checkm8 is currently doing wonders thanks to the work of big names such as Luca Todesco, s1guza, nullpixel, xerub and ih8sn0w
Over the last few days, Luca Todesco and other prominent iOS developers have been making lots of headway with the power that the checkm8 exploit gave them and these things include:
- Control of the framebuffer at a low level which allows for printing text on screen & custom boot logos
- Usermode code execution, the ability to obtain tfp0 and getting past AMFI
- Dynamic patch finding is being used to do this which means that offsets are found on the fly thus reducing the work needed to port tools/hacks using checkm8 to other vulnerable devices
- It is now possible to set the nonce generator via DFU mode thus making nonce setters effectively redundant
- A concise tutorial on how this can be done is found here
- Only the iPhone 5S and A10/A10X devices are supported as of right now
- Downgrading the iPhone 5S (and soon, other compatible A7 devices) to iOS 10.3.3 as this version is still being OTA signed for certain devices.
- A tutorial can be found here.
- According to this tweet, checkra1n might be the name of an upcoming jailbreak tool which we may be seeing in the near future considering the progress that’s currently going on
Without a doubt, the things above are all pretty exciting and Luca Todesco said that some tools will be released as soon as a couple of known bugs are fixed. With this in mind and the vast amount of people working with Luca, we might see an iOS 13 jailbreak in the coming weeks which is truly reminiscent of the limera1n days!
http://wololo.net/2019/10/10/news-ps...-in-user-mode/
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October 10th, 2019, 21:47 Posted By: wraggster
Jam City's Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery has made $153.5 million in gross revenue since launch in April 2018.
54% of that revenue came from iOS users with $83.3 million in revenue coming from Apple's platform, versus $70.2 million in revenue generated by Google Play users, according to Sensor Tower.
Breaking down these figures, it's worth noting that almost half of all Hogwarts Mystery sales came from the US, equivalent to $83.3 million. Following up was Germany with $13.4 million generated in revenue - 8.7% of the total - and finally the UK with its 8% share equaling to $12.3 million.
In terms of downloads, Hogwarts Mystery has been installed 54.6 million times across both iOS and Android. Interestingly, a majority of these downloads came from Android, despite Google's platform not generating as much revenue for Jam City.
53.7% of all installs came from Google Play, which equalled to 29.3 million downloads, versus 25.3 million unique installs coming from the App Store.
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October 9th, 2019, 21:34 Posted By: wraggster
A Canadian law firm has begun proceedings to open a class action lawsuit against Epic Games.
Acting on behalf of the parents of two minors, Montreal-based Calex Legal filed a legal notice late last week, claiming that Epic Games knowingly created Fortnite to be as addictive as possible.
According to the filing, the two unnamed minors -- aged ten and 15 -- have both developed addictions to Fortnite, spending around $600 and $500 respectively on the game over the past year or so.
Citing the World Health Organisation (WHO) gaming disorder classification, Calex Legal highlights comparisons to both heroin and cocaine addiction.
"Human psychology and manipulation of the human brain has been the epicenter of Fortnite development process that has been specially designed to be highly addictive," reads the filing.
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October 9th, 2019, 21:31 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft is now making its family control settings available on Android devices.
The company has already made it possible for parents to control how long and when kids play games across Xbox consoles and Windows 10. And today it's enabling parents to specifically control how children interact with individual games and apps -- whether that's Sea of Thieves or Netflix. This means that children who may have been given a time limit on a game cannot simply get around it by moving devices.
"The new App and Game limits feature goes further by enabling two key things," begins Microsoft's family audience product and strategy lead Mouna Sidi Hida. "It allows families to set limits at the app and game level. I can set a limit for a specific app or game, and not just a blanket device-wide limit.
"That was based on feedback from customers, who -- particularly on Windows 10 devices -- use their device for multiple reasons, such as gaming, entertainment and homework. The ability to set limits at the app or game level makes it easier to use the device for other things, like homework.""It is natural to want to protect kids across as many devices as possible"
To get the service working on Android, parents must install the Microsoft Launcher and sign into their Microsoft account, and that will work for all apps on that device.
"Our goal is for this feature to help families develop healthy habits and strike that balance that we know they want," says Hida.
Microsoft's family settings already include screen time, content filters, spending limits, online safety settings and more. Parents can control what websites are visited, who children can connect with, and how they engage with them. Microsoft says one of its focuses is to encourage discussion between the parent and child about online behaviour, and children can request extra playtime, which will result in a notification being sent to the parent(s).
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October 9th, 2019, 21:21 Posted By: wraggster
Neo Liu leads Tencent Games' North American publishing team, and while there are other projects on his plate and things planned for the future, right now his focus is on PUBG Mobile and growing the game's profile as an esport.
Needless to say, there are some challenges with that proposition. When Liu speaks with GamesIndustry.biz about those challenges, he readily acknowledges some of the hurdles in front of him. For one thing, the field of "mobile esports" is even less developed than PC and console esports in North America.
"In the US or the North American market, console and PC are still dominating," Liu says. "A lot of players use these devices, but the trend with mobile users is increasing and especially as more people have affordable mobile devices, more people will want to enjoy games on them."
He likens the situation to what happened in China earlier this decade, when mobile esports were just starting to gain traction. At the time, Liu says people didn't really take mobile esports seriously for similar reasons, but, "they eventually figured out mobile esports is something real, something capable of being accepted by a wider audience. But the way it's viewed through the public is a little different from the traditional console or PC esports, because people are more casual."
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October 9th, 2019, 21:21 Posted By: wraggster
Much has been made about Nintendo's latest mobile game launch. Mario Kart is one of Nintendo's crown jewels; a game that is both a system-seller for whatever generation of Nintendo device you can think of, as well as a game that continually sets the standard for what a fun racing game should be.
Nintendo games running on Nintendo's own hardware tend to be a seamless experience. However, shifting these games onto mobile has meant that the combination of classic Nintendo IP and free-to-play monetization has created a very different user experience.
Nintendo has already experimented with different monetization models. The first foray into mobile, Miitomo, used in-app purchases to allow players to customise their Mii avatar. This was quickly followed by Super Mario Run, which was positioned as a free-to-start game with a $10 price tag for the full experience. Subsequent games Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp make use of a stamina/energy system that is very familiar to many free-to-play games."Mario Kart Tour is probably the first implementation of a Battle Pass that puts a game mode behind a paywall"
For Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo has shifted its monetization approach once again, using its own take on the 'Battle Pass' approach. The hard paywall this has introduced to the game has already created plenty of negativity, but as we'll see, Nintendo is just the latest games company to use battle passes as their key monetization strategy.
Mario Kart's season (tours) last for two weeks and players have a limited time to complete and earn the rewards. Similar to any Battle Pass, the Gold Pass unlocks the "premium" reward track. One interesting difference from the norm, however, is the implementation of the gold pass as a monthly-based subscription, whereas other Battle Passes ask for a single transaction for the entire season (e.g. two months). Mario Kart Tour also puts the fastest racing class behind the paywall of the Gold Pass instead of just giving better season progression rewards.
Battle Passes are relatively new to the mobile gaming market. Fortnite was the first major title to introduce it back in spring of 2018 with the game's mobile launch. For a while, the feature was mainly seen in other Battle Royale games, but if we fast forward to today, its popularity has skyrocketed. The big boom started early this year, back in February only 2% of top 100 grossing games (iOS US) included a Battle Pass and today we are at 13% with a clear increasing trend.
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