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每日观察:关注Dailly应用的iOS游戏团购服务(5.10)

发布时间:2011-05-10 21:43:39 Tags:,,

1)法国游戏发行商Gameloft最近获得了漫画小说《Cowboys & Aliens》的授权,有意将该书改编成iOS和Android手机游戏。据称这款游戏将与同名故事片在7月份发布,该影片由Daniel Craig、Harrison Ford和Oliva Wilde等明星主演。

cowboys-and-aliens

cowboys-and-aliens

2)据Dan Zarrella最新调查结果显示,用户在Facebook发布的贴子中有33%来自手机平台。该调查还指出,多数贴子是通过m.facebook.com进行更新,而不是通过智能手机获得更新(游戏邦注:不过iPhone和Android用户发布的贴子所占比例接近9%)。而黑莓手机用户发贴比例超过了Android和iPhone用户,达到4.09%

mobile facebook posting clients

mobile facebook posting clients

3)苹果App Store最近通过了一款设计风格与马里奥极为相似的手机游戏《Monino Save Story》,该游戏的角色穿着打扮均与马里奥如出一辙,也扣着红色帽子,并带有经典的大胡子。有观察者认为,这已经属于一种公然侵权行为,但这并非App Store首次对山寨产品放行,也并非App Store首次出现的模仿马里奥的游戏。

Monino-Save-Story

Monino-Save-Story

4)芬兰开发商Rovio董事会成员及投资者Niklas Zennstrom最近荣登《星期日泰晤士报》评选的年度财富人物榜单,个人资产达到3.2亿英磅,他是今年3月份Rovio的4200万美元融资的主要支持者。

niklas-zennstrom

niklas-zennstrom

5)团购应用程序Dailly最近向iOS游戏领域拓展业务,支持用户使用Dailly的团购代码,仅花2美元购买原价为5.99美元的GAMEBOX+的1万个游戏币。Dailly之前也针对Facebook游戏和应用(以及一系列虚拟商品)提供这类交易服务。开发商仅需在应用中添加少量可连接到Dailly API的代码,就可以为用户推出这种服务。据Dailly创始人Luke Miler所称,开发商仅需花费10分钟就可以实现这种操作。

6)日本游戏发行商Namco Bandai宣布其2011财年(截止3月31日)净销售额约49亿美元,同比上一年增长4.1%,净收入为2200万美元。该公司虽未披露具体的手机游戏业务收益,但却公开了其在该财年的手机付费用户数量达229万,同比上一年下降了18%。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

1)Gameloft turning graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens into mobile game

Publisher Gameloft has acquired the licence to Platinum Studios’s top-selling Cowboys & Aliens graphic novel, with the intention of turning it into a mobile game – presumably for iOS and Android.

Set to launch alongside the feature film in July, the game will allow you to relive the graphic novel’s plot by fighting off hordes of aliens hell-bent on invading the Old West.

Created by Platinum Studios’s chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenburg, Cowboys & Aliens was the largest ordered graphic novel of 2006.

Speaking on the adaption, Karine Kaiser, vice president of marketing & licensing for Gameloft, said, “We are confident Cowboys & Aliens will translate into a great mobile game that not only stays true to the graphic novel, but brings a new experience to a classic license. Gamers and fans alike will be thrilled.”

The Cowboys & Aliens feature film stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde, and is executive produced by Steven Spielberg.(source:pocketgamer

2)33% Of Facebook Posts Come From Mobile Devices

According to new research completed by Dan Zarrella, almost 1 in 3 posts to the site come from mobile devices.

The research is based on a random sampling of more than 70,000 Facebook posts, large enough to generate a 99 percent confidence interval with a plus or minus .5 percent margin of error. In other words, this is likely to be fairly accurate.

Most surprising from the analysis was that the vast majority of these updates came through m.facebook.com, not through smartphone devices (although iPhone and Android accounted for close to nine percent total).

So how is this changing over time? Unfortunately, we aren’t sure, but I’d be confident in guessing that mobile Facebook usage is continuing to grow rapidly.

BlackBerry, the device that parent company Research In Motion has been taking a lot of slack for lately, was actually the third most popular mobile device.

Given that Facebook employees themselves used to mostly use BlackBerry, it’s not surprising to see such statistics.(source:allfacebook

3)Apple approves rampant iOS Mario clone Monino Save Story

It’s unlikely that Nintendo will take a similar view when it catches wind of Monino Save Story (Google translates the title as ‘Moni Nuo Save Story’, but the App Store description identifies the main character as Monino). A more blatant clone of Mario it’s hard to imagine.

Just look at the screenshots above. From the mustachioed, red-hatted man in overalls on the App Store icon to the angry-looking mushrooms, brick worlds, and portrait of Bowser (sorry, ‘Bowler’) in the background, this Monino Save Story is a breathtaking rampage of copyright infringement.

But significant offenders have been known to vanish. For instance, platformer Ricky, which came out in 2009 and featured Mario-esque mushrooms and a sprite that looked

more or less the same as Kirby, is no longer available.(source:pocketgamer

4)Rovio investor tops gaming Rich List

Niklas Zennstrom’s personal worth put at £320 million

Multi-millionaire Niklas Zennstrom has become the richest games industry Briton in the annual Sunday Times Rich List, having made a landmark investment in Angry Birds creator Rovio.

Early in March, Zennstrom was a key component of a $42 million Rovio investment round, and paid his way to become a board member of the mobile games giant.(source:develop-online

5)Daillly brings its couponing power to iOS games

Groupon-style shopping deals have become all the rage amongst digital deal hunters over the last few months, but few of these services have managed to offer deals on downloadable products. Daillly identified this gap in the market and quickly filled it, offering online deals exclusively for online products, services, and virtual currencies – and now they’re branching into the world of iOS gaming.

Starting tomorrow, Daillly users will have the opportunity to purchase 10,000 in-game coins for GAMEBOX+ for only $2 – a hefty savings from its usual price tag of $5.99. Players will be able to make this purchase using a Daillly coupon code in-app. Dailly has previously offered deals for virtual currency in Facebook games and apps (as well as a variety of other virtual goods), but this will be the company’s first foray into iOS-based virtual currency.

Implementing coupons into an iOS game might sound like a difficult proposition to get approved by Apple, but as it turns out developers only need to add a small portion of code that connects to the Daillly API to get this working. Interested developers should be able to integrate this into their apps in only 10 minutes, say Daillly founder Luke Miler.(source:gamezebo

6)Namco Bandai sees Japanese mobile game subscriber numbers drop 18% to 2.3 million

Japanese game publisher Namco Bandai (TYO:7832) has announced its FY11 financial figures for the 12 months ending March 31.

Net sales were ¥394 billion (around $4.9 billion), up 4.1 percent year-on-year.

Net income was ¥1.8 billion ($22 million), compared to a loss of ¥30 billion a year ago.

The mobile angle

Namco Bandai doesn’t break out its mobile business, filing the figures within its home video game software category.

However it does detail what it calls mobile pay subscriber numbers (Japanese-only).

At the end of its financial year, the total was 2.29 million, down 18 percent compared to 12 months ago.(source:pocketgamer


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