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Google Play now drives 25% more downloads than iOS app store, has 50% the revenue

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 31, 2013
2 min

Google Play is continuing its inexorable overtaking of the app store, with downloads now 25 percent higher, and app revenue that is slowly overtaking Apple's app sales. The reason is exactly the same one that impacts iOS market share: international markets.

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2 min

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GamesBeat asks: What emerging game technologies excite you the most?

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 28, 2013
2 min

GamesBeat recently asked readers what new gaming technologies excite them the most. Unsurprisingly, next-generation consoles and Apple devices were favorites.

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2 min

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Jens Begemann on Wooga’s plan to create million-dollar mobile blockbusters (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 28, 2013
9 min

Social-game developer Wooga found success on mobile with Jelly Splash, a color-tile matching game with more than 10 million downloads in eight weeks on iOS.

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9 min

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How Japan’s Line became an unintentional gaming-platform giant (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 27, 2013
10 min

Line's Akira Morikawa isn't targeting his messaging service at gamers, but they're playing a ton of titles on his network. Will that make it bigger than Facebook?

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10 min

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Making the PlayStation 4 controller, Apple’s new iPad Air, and GamesBeat 2013

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 25, 2013
4 min

This week, GamesBeat’s Editor-in-Chief Dan “Shoe” Hsu’s exclusive four-part series on the DualShock 4 controller explores how Sony designed and redesigned the controller. This in-depth...

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4 min

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The CEA’s Jim Barry: The old man and his gadgets (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 23, 2013
12 min

What gadgets will be hot at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show? The Digital Answer Man knows.

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12 min

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iPad Air: What Apple’s latest tablet means for mobile gaming

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 22, 2013
3 min

Apple's iPad Air has a 64-bit processor and improved graphics performance. Here's what that means for gaming.

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3 min

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs, times are still uneasy at Zynga, and mobile games soar in value

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 18, 2013
3 min

This week, Ubisoft delays two of its next-gen launch games (Watch Dogs and The Crew) perilously close to the new console launch dates, mobile...

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3 min

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The first iOS 7-only game built exclusively on Apple’s new SpriteKit game engine

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 17, 2013
2 min

When Apple released iOS 7 to developers, it also introduced its own game-development engine called SpriteKit that only works with the latest version of...

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2 min

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After 6 years, Anki launches slot car game with artificial intelligence

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 17, 2013
3 min

Anki Drive got a huge boost in recognition after Apple brought its team on stage this summer to show it off to the world.

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3 min