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Report: Forza Street in development for mobile
Turn10 Studios and Electric Square helming the project
Come Together
Report: Apple wants to combine Mac, iPad and iPhone development with new SDK
Codenamed Marzipan, could be about to make life much easier for software creators
Stark Rabbid Mad
Ketchapp utilises Ubisoft IP for new Rocket Rabbids mobile game
Keep calm and Bwahhh
Epic Win
Fortnite surpasses $500 million for iOS in less than a year
Game took 326 days to hit the milestone
Soulful
Netmarble’s Blade and Soul Revolution tops iOS grossing charts in South Korea one day after launch
The MMORPG will launch globally in 2019
Revenue
Fortnite swoops past $200 million revenue on iOS five months after launch
Rapid success puts the battle royale on equal footing with Clash Royale’s performance
Not Bad
Apple becomes first public company worth $1 trillion
The iPhone manufacturer hit the market value on Thursday
Feast On This
Dead Island: Survivors gets worldwide release after two-years in soft launch
The zombie action game soft-launched on iOS in November 2016 with an Android beta following soon after
10 Years
App Store users have spent over $4 billion on Supercell’s Clash of Clans
Supercell is just behind majority owner Tencent in terms of consumer revenue made per company
Not Bad
Fortnite bags $100 million in its first 90 days on iOS
And it still has not launched in China or on Android
Connected
Apple launches App Store Connect for developers as it transitions from iTunes Connect
The apps portal has a website and an app and comes with an analytics suite
Ported
Apple to make iOS apps portable to MacOS in 2019
The tech giant showed off MacOS 10.14 at WWDC 2018
Hit That Subscribe Button
Developers can now set up trials for non-subscription apps on the iOS App Store
The latest update also tackles rules around multi-platform apps such as Steam Link
Taking Back Control
iOS 12 Screen Time lets parents set daily gameplay limits on their children's devices
Apple surprisingly brings in features to restrict phone usage
Data Klaxon
75% of spending in the iOS App Store came from games over the past 10 years
In terms of downloads games took 31 per cent
Not Too Shabby
Featured iOS apps can see up to 800% more downloads
A report by Sensor Tower delves into the download rates of featured iOS games
Big Spenders
US iPhone users spent an average of $58 on apps in 2017
The figure marks a 23 per cent increase from the previous year
Doors Open
Habbo Hotel developer opens new MMORPG Hotel Hideaway on iOS and Android
Studio to bring AR functionality using Apple’s ARKit in spring
Mobile Madness
Madfinger’s Shadowgun Legends launches globally on Android and iOS
The first-person shooter/ RPG hybrid was originally announced back in August of 2016
Like Nite And Day
Invitation-only Fornite Mobile nets more than $1 million in-game on iOS within three days
Epic Games’ battle royale is currently top of the iOS charts in over 40 different countries
All On Board
Armello launches on iOS and Android
Free-to-play digital board game offers players in-app-purchases and subscription options
Decked Out
Valve set to bring Source 2-powered card game Artifact to mobile in 2019
Title will be premium, not free-to-play
Singular Roi Index 2017
Snapchat emerges as key player for high ROIs in mobile marketing on iOS
Facebook, Unity and Google Adwords still on top
App Store 2017
Developers on the App Store earned $26.5 billion in 2017
January 1st 2018 sees $300 million in sales alone
Simogo Goes
Device 6 developer Simogo stepping back from mobile games to focus on console development
Points to issues surrounding perpetually updating games for new hardware
Android Market Share
Android's US market share grew 8.2% in October 2017 while iOS faltered
Kantar Worldpanel blames November launch of the iPhone X
Search Ads Basic
Apple launches stripped-back pay-per-install Search Ads Basic service in the US
Designed for smaller developers with small budgets
Changes In Ios 11
A handy guide to what the changes in iOS 11 mean for mobile developers
Not sure what's new? We've got you covered
Ios Ar
Apple unveils augmented reality development framework ARKit for iOS devices
Only works on iPhone 6S and up
Android Global Sales
Android sales in China accounted for 86.4% of all smartphones sold between December 2016 and February 2017
Kantar Worldpanel breaks down sales around the world
Bye Bye 32-bit
Apple could be ending support for 32-bit apps in iOS 11
Should make performance better on newer devices
Get Updated
Mobile developers can now respond to App Store user reviews in iOS 10.3
Smoother, faster, better
We Heart Indies
Apple celebrates indies with launch of 12 new games on the App Store between March 9th and 20th
A new title released and featured every day, even at the weekend
Fiksu Cpms January 2017
CPMs are falling on Android and iOS but users aren't sticking to new apps for long
Fiksu digs into the data
Singular Roi Index
Facebook Ads deliver the highest ROI across both Android and iOS
Singular indexes the top advertisers in terms of return on investment
Rate And Review
Apple to allow users to rate and review games without leaving the app in iOS 10.3
Also adding developer replies and hard limits to rating notifications
A Lotta Cheddar
Apple expected to reach $1 trillion in lifetime revenues from iOS devices in 2017
So says Asymco
Android Everywhere
Android sales decline in the US while iPhone 7 becomes the best-selling phone in China
Kantar World Panel breaks it all down
Cpms November 2016
CPMs on iOS and Android dropped below $6 in November 2016
Fiksu looks at the surprising shift
Super Mario Thirds
Super Mario Run made up 30% of all iOS spending during its first three days
More numbers from the hottest new game
App Uninstall Rates
Android users are more likely to uninstall apps than iOS users
AppsFlyer sets the cat among the pigeons
Super Mario Launch
Super Mario Run to launch on iOS on December 15th for $10
Plumber makes his way to mobile next month
Q3 Smartphone Sales
iPhone 7 sales push Apple's market share in the US to 34.2% in the US in Q3 2016
Continues to struggle in China
China In October
NetEase and Tencent continued to dominate the App Store in China in October
Newzoo's report breaks it down
Get Them Cheap
High quality users are cheaper to acquire on iPhone than Android
According to Verto Analytics
Vungle Fever
Vungle helped increase rewarded ad revenues in Magic Jigsaw Puzzles from $200 to $6,000 a day
Revenues rise by 29x
Heart Eyes Emoji
Apple outlines huge upgrades to Messages and more when iOS 10 launches on 13 September
We hope you like emoji
Let Me Know
Super Mario Run App Store listing notifies players of release and sheds new light on gameplay
Follows the free-to-start model outlined by DeNA
Winding Back The Clock
Paid game subscriptions now live on iOS
Can subscriptions thrive in a F2P world?
Up And Down
Apple smartphone sales see small growth in US and Europe, but continue to stumble in China
Poor launch of iPhone SE partly to blame