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Since OpenFeint has more or less died (thanks, Gree) it seems like most people are using Game Center for their basic leader boards / social...
Actually, from your graphs there are several other games that, within just a few days of launch, have their top grossing rank outpace top free....
A lot more attention to hardcore gamers -- more strategy & RPG games released, especially highly competitive ones. Just look at what's moving...
I loooove tower defense games. But I don't think my favorites are the most popular in the genre. The ones that come to mind are all on the web:...
Hey Mark -- we have been beta testing a multiplayer-only app for a while. Here's what I've learned: Definitely choose a country for open beta,...
Rumors about rankings fraud are months old. Several companies were accused of using bot networks to drive up their rank, and Apple cracked down. I...
Just one datapoint, but a lot of the companies that make sim-style games for iOS have settled for 10-20 FPS, especially in some older games, and...
No way of telling whether PopCap leadership is being completely truthful about why they reorged. Maybe they're choosing to take the heat for...
We're not live in the US ;) Doing the painstakingly-slow-live-iteration thing.
Congrats! Actually we just had a new version of our testing app go live too, and as it happens it's one with tutorial improvements. We've only had...
I've talked to people at Gree several times over the past 6 months and what they have to say is always the same: they've stopped development on...
I tend to think more knowledge is better. I doubt indies will have their souls corrupted by getting a clearer picture of the market. Hopefully it...
Yeah, actually ignore me on the complexity level of the game itself. That's probably fine, or even net positive, for people who like word games or...
Looks like they're just scraping data from the App Store, same as AppAnnie, so there's no reason it would not be accurate. I checked against an...
Hi Jeremy -- I'm a former game journalist and current game designer, so I thought I'd give a little feedback on both levels. As you suggest in...
