1）据serkantoto报道，日本游戏开发商Ateam日前宣布旗下手机社交卡牌战斗游戏《Dark Summoner》（英语及日语版本）目前下载量已达100万次。该游戏于今年2月23日发布，历时150天实现100万次下载量。

Dark Summoner(from serkantoto)

该游戏率先推出的是iOS版本，直到7月18日才向英语及日语市场推出Android版本。

Ateam表示《Dark Summoner》是仅次于《Rage of Bahamut》的第二大日本社交卡牌游戏，每月收益约130万美元，但并未绑定Mobage或GREE等手机社交平台。Ateam于今年4月进行了IPO，公司目前市值达1.3亿美元。

2）Capcom公布的2012财年第一季度（截止2012年6月30日）报告显示，公司该时期净销售额为186亿日元（2.38亿美元），同比增长55.8%，净收益达13亿日元（1660万美元），同比上年增长290.2%。

digital contents(from Capcom)

该公司数字内容部门净销售额达137亿日元（1.753亿美元），同比上年增长78.8%；营业收益达24亿日元（3070万美元），同比上年增长175.6%。

Capcom有4款手机社交游戏用户突破490万，公司旗下的Beeline工作室目前下载量已超过6500万次（其中多数来自热门手机游戏《Smurfs Village》），超过了2011年第四季度时的5600万次。

Digital contents performance(from Capcom)

该时期Capcom移动内容销售额达29亿日元（3710万美元），增幅为141.6%（上一财年同期销售额为12亿日元），预计2012财年Capcom移动内容销售总额将达120亿日元（1.535亿美元）。

预计Capcom整个财年净销售额将达1050亿日元（13.4亿美元），净收益为98亿日元（1.254亿美元）。该公司上一财年销售额为820亿日元（10.4亿美元），净收益为67亿日元（8570万美元）。

3）据venturebeat报道，发行商EA及开发商Harmonix日前宣布将于7月31日关闭《摇滚乐队》iOS版本，将停止在iTunes App Store出售该系列的《摇滚乐队》和《摇滚乐队：重装上阵》这两款游戏（游戏邦注：这两款游戏售价为4.99美元，另外还推出0.99美元的IAP内容）。

rockband(from venturebeat)

EA呼吁玩家尽快将游戏备份到iCloud上以便继续体验游戏，如果玩家没有将其存储到iCoud或者下载到iOS设备上，到该项目撤下App Store时玩家就无法找回自己的游戏数据。

4）据《纽约时报》报道，苹果高管最近正商谈将收购Twitter一事。Twitter目前用户超过1.5亿，去年估值为84亿美元，有知情者透露苹果收购Twitter出价可能超过100亿美元。

Apple Twitter(from maureenogara.sys-con.com)

苹果首席执行官Tim Cook最近曾表示，“苹果没有自己的社交网站，那么苹果是否需要社交化？当然如此。”而实际上苹果已经拥有自己的社交平台Ping，但这个音乐社交网站却在以Facebook、Twiiter为主导的市场中败下阵来。观察者据此认为苹果在社交领域需发挥更大作为。

5）据venturebeat报道，苹果博客iMore（曾准确预测新iPad及iPhone 4S预订日期）最近消息称苹果将于9月21日公布新款iPhone和iPad mini。

ipad-mini(from venturebeat)

观察者认为如果这一日期准确无误，那么新iPhone亮相恰好与iPhone 4S面世相隔了11个月。iMore消息还指出新款iPod Touch也将同时登台，但目前尚无法得知这一新设备有何独特之处。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Global Card Battle Game Hit Dark Summoner Hits 1 Million Downloads [Social Games]

by Dr. Serkan Toto

Dark Summoner, a mobile social card battle game available in English and Japanese, has racked up 1 million downloads, maker Ateam is reporting.

What’s interesting is that Dark Summoner was released on February 23 this year (in Japan and elsewhere), meaning the title took just about 150 days to hit the milestone.

The number is especially noteworthy when considering that the game was available on iOS only for a long time: in fact, Ateam released the Android version just a few days ago (on July 18, to be exact, in English and Japanese).

As usual with Japan’s “event-crazy” social game developers, Ateam is running a special in-game campaign to commemorate the one millionth download: the campaign makes it easier for users to lay their hands on hard to get monster cards through July 31 (Dark Summoner features over 700 cards currently).

Atem recently said that Dark Summoner, the second biggest made-in-Japan social card game (globally) after Rage Of Bahamut, is pulling in about US$1.3 million per month – without using the Mobage or GREE networks.

The company went IPO in April this year (current market cap: US$130 million).（source:serkantoto）

2）Capcom’s Q1 net income up 290% Y-over-Y to $16.6M

Kathleen De Vere

Capcom’s 2012/2013 fiscal year is off to a booming start, with the company reporting net sales of 18.6 billion yen ($238 million), up 55.8 percent year-over-year, and a net income of 1.3 billion yen ($16.6 million), an increase of 290.2 percent year-on-year.

The company highlighted the strength of its digital content division, which saw net sales increase 78.8 percent year-over-year to 13.7 billion yen ($175.3 million) and operating income of rise 175.6 percent year-over-year to 2.4 billion yen ($30.7 million).

Capcom’s mobile and social games contributed heavily to its earnings, with the Mobage title Minna to Monhan Card Master and the GREE title Resident Evil: Outbreak Survive both maintaining steady sales. Four of Capcom’s Japanese mobile social games have now surpassed 4.9 million users.

The company’s Beeline brand also continued to do well, having now passed 65 million downloads, up from the 56 million downloads Capcom reported in Q4 2011. The unit has been extremely successful turning well-known brands into some of the most popular (and profitable) titles on iOS and Android — particularly its flagship title Smurfs Village, which still accounts for most of Beeline’s 65 million downloads. Capcom reports both Smurfs Village and Snoopy’s Street Fair have brought the company steady fees.

Capcom’s mobile content sales hit 2.9 billion yen ($37.1 million) during Q1, an increase of 141.6 percent over Q1 2011’s 1.2 billion yen in sales. Overall, Capcom is predicting mobile content sales to hit 12.0 billion yen ($153.5 million) for its 2012/2013 fiscal year.

The company is forecasting a record high fiscal year target, with net sales of 105 billion yen ($1.34 billion) for the fiscal year, with net income of 9.8 billion yen ($125.4 million).

Capcom finished its previous 2011/2012 fiscal year with 82 billion yen ($1.04 billion) in sales and 6.7 billion yen ($85.7 million) in net income.（source:insidemobileapps）

3）You have one more week to buy Rock Band in the iOS App Store

Giancarlo Valdes

Publisher Electronic Arts’ licensing agreement with Rock Band developer Harmonix will cease to exist as of next week. After July 31, the mobile versions of the popular rhythm-based music series, Rock Band and Rock Band Reloaded (not pictured), will no longer be sold in the iTunes App Store.

Warning notices are already in place on both games’ App Store descriptions, where they still retail for $4.99 each, along with a library of $0.99 song packs as in-app purchases. EA also explained details of this delisting on its website, where it urges customers to back up their games to iCloud before July 31 if they want to keep playing or restore previous purchases. If the games aren’t already stored in iCloud or downloaded to a local iOS device, players will be unable to recover their data once the deadline has passed.

Harmonix retains the intellectual property rights for its games (which also includes Dance Central) as part of an agreement with its former parent company, Viacom, who sold off the studio in 2010.（source:venturebeat）

4）Apple to buy Twitter?

by Zen Terrelonge

Speculation grows – and could push the mini-blog’s value past $10bn.

The New York Times believes Apple execs are in talks to invest in Twitter – a social network that still loses money, despite more than 150m users.

Twitter was valued as $8.4 billion last year, and the sources reckon funding from Apple could drive the valuation past $10bn.

Observers suggest Apple needs to do more in social, noting that CEO Tim Cook recently said: “Apple doesn’t have to own a social network. But does Apple need to be social? Yes.”

Of course, Apple does own a social network in the form of Ping.

However, the music-focused portal on iTunes has failed to make much of a dent in the domination of Facebook and Twitter.（source:mobile-ent）

5）iPhone 5 & iPad mini likely launching Sept. 21

Tom Cheredar

Both the next generation iPhone and a new, smaller version of the iPad are rumored to be announced during an official Apple event September 12, with a retail release to follow on September 21.

The news comes from sources obtained by Apple blog iMore, which has correctly predicted both the iPad 3 launch and iPhone 4S pre-order dates in the past.

The launch date of the next generation iPhone (referred to by most as the iPhone 5) would make sense because of the leaked iPhone 5 parts that were recently assembled and photographed, as VentureBeat reported. If the launch is just over a month away, it seems more likely that parts for the device could be obtained. If the announcement/launch dates are correct, it would mark 11 months since the company announced the iPhone 4S.

As for the new iPad product, many are speculating that Apple will release a 7.85-inch iPad that has essentially the same specs as the third-generation 10-inch iPad. The smaller iPad version would naturally compete with other popular 7-inch tablets, such as the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7.

IMore’s sources also indicated that a new version of Apple’s iPod Touch could debut during the event but didn’t give any specifications on what would be different about it.（source:venturebeat）