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Read More »Monument Valley racks up over 21m downloads in 2015
24 million users now own mobile puzzle game, with over a third of iOS users also buying Forgotten Shores expansion
Read More »Grow Home breaks Ubisoft download records on PSN
Ubisoft has said that Grow Home has become its fastest ever downloaded game on the PlayStation Network. Grow Home was initially released on Steam in February. A possible console release was touted should the PC release prove successful enough. This came to fruition last month when the game won the …
Read More »Angry Bird 2 reaches 20m downloads
Rovio has announced Angry Birds 2 has amassed 20m downloads during its launch week. The milestone follows the mobile gamenetting 1m players in its first 12 hours outon the App Store and Google Play. "When we were developing and testing Angry Birds 2, we had good reason to believe we …
Read More »Angry Birds 2 racks up 1m downloads in 12 hours
Rovio has announced Angry Birds 2 has already been downloaded 1m times in its first 12 hours out on mobile platforms. The studio revealed the news on Twitter, with the figure combining the very early totals of iOS and Android releases. According to Apple, the original Angry Birds has been …
Read More »Rocket League climbs to 5m downloads
Rocket League has hit 5m downloads in only a matter of weeks, developer Psyonix has announced. Polygon reports on the milestone, which is made up by the combination of PC and PS4 purchases with PS Plus downloads. According to the studio, the figure doubles the lifetime downloads of Supersonic Acrobatic …
Read More »Mobile game Cooking Fever surpasses 50 million downloads
Lithuaninan developer Nordcurrent has revealed that its mobile title Cooking Fever has been downloaded over 50 million times. The title launched last August and is available on both iOS and Android. At the time of writing, Cooking Fever ranks at No.26 in the UK iPhone games chart and at 28th …
Read More »Angry Birds Stella hits 30m downloads
Downloads for Rovio’s Angry Birds Stella spin-off series have now hit 30m, the Finnish games giant has said. The release of Angry Birds: Stella Pop last month has helped it past the milestone, thanks to five million downloads of its own. The company will also soon launch an update to …
Read More »Chinese iOS app downloads overtake the US for the first time
Apple’s successful Asian strategy has seen Chinese iOS owners download more apps than their American counterparts for the first time. VentureBeat speculates that last year’s launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus was the catalyst, with Chinese consumers typically preferring smartphones with larger screens. Both models featured bigger …
Read More »Storm8 racks up 1bn downloads, rebrands as Storm8 Studios
Mobile game network’s library has hosted 76bn game sessions
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