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Space Ape’s Rival Kingdoms hits 1M mobile downloads in less than a week

Space Ape said today that its Rival Kingdoms: Age of Ruin has been downloaded more than a million times in less than a week. The mobile real-time strategy game is the latest test for hardcore gaming on smartphones and tablets, and it represents the studio’s attempt to knock Clash of Clans out of the No. 1 spot on the top-grossing games list.

The game from the London-based developer saw more than 750,000 downloads in its debut weekend alone. YouTubers posting “lets plays” videos have gotten as many 120,000 views over the past few days and generated thousands of tweets.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.