1）据mobile-ent报道，在苹果最近公布的2012年度最佳iPhone/iPad游戏榜单中，采用Unity引擎创造的游戏占据了17个席位。这些基于Unity的上榜游戏分别是：

年度最佳游戏：《The Room》（Fireproof Games）

the room(from gawkerassets)

最佳休闲游戏：《Mini Motor Racing》（The Binary Mill）、《Bad Piggies》（Rovio）

最佳新玩法：《Slingshot Racing》（Snowbolt Interactive）、《Total War Battle》（The Creative Assembly）、《Splice:Tree of Life》（Cipher Prime）、《Tentacles:Enter the Dolphin》（Press Play）、《Beat Sneak Bandit》（Simogo）

最有趣的奔跑类游戏：《Ski Safari》（Defiant Development）、《Pitfall!》（动视）

最佳免费游戏：《CSR Racing》（NaturalMotion）

最佳展示游戏：《ORC: Vengeance》（Big Cave Games）、《Dead Trigger》（Madfinger Games）、《Air Mail》（N-Fusion Interactive）

最佳隐藏游戏：《Triple Town》（Spry Fox）

iPhone年度应用营收冠军：《Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North》（Kabam）

年度付费应用冠军：《Temple Run: Brave》（Imangi Studios）、《Bad Piggies》（Rovio）

年度应用营收冠军：《Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North》（Kabam）、《CSR Racing》（NaturalMotion）

2）韩国游戏发行商Gamevil日前宣布旗下游戏在移动平台下载量已达2亿次。

GAMEVIL-Logo(from egmnow.com)

此外，该公司还宣布任命Won Il Sue为公司美国高级副总裁，由其监管业务发展和发行部门。在此之前，Won Il Sue是Nexon美国公司的业务发展副总裁，Nexon韩国公司的首席执行官。

Gamevil成立于2000年，在今年11月份发布的财报中指出，公司在第三季度销售额为166亿韩元（1530万美元），增幅为66%。

3）Ofcom最新报告指出，英国移动网络使用率超过日本，位居全球第一。

英国用户通过手机和平板电脑下载数据的频率超过其他地区，有16%的英国网络流量来自移动设备。

mobile-social-media(from qrcodepress.com)

此外，网购在英国的人气也超过了其他任何国家，英国用户每年在网购上的平均投入资金超过了1000英磅。

18-24岁的英国人是全球最活跃的移动社交网络用户群体，其中有62%用户通过移动设备访问自己的页面，这一比例远超其他国家用户的水平。

4）DisplaySearch最新报告预测，苹果iPad在2013年出货量将达1亿部。报告指出iPad面板制造商（包括三星、LG Display、夏普和Innolux）在2012年的9.7英寸iPad面板出货量将达7000万份，其中有2300万属于iPad 2 XGA面板，还有4700万属于新iPad QXGA面板。

Apple-new-ipad(from gadgetgain.com)

尽管苹果打算以新iPad取代iPad 2，但由于iPad 2持续强势的市场需求，导致这些制造商不得不缩减新iPad面板供货量以便持续制作iPad 2面板。

据报道，苹果要求这些制造商在今年第四季度的面板出货量超过1200万，以便满足其设备的市场需求。

5）comScore最新数据指出，欧洲五大移动市场（法国、德国、意大利、西班牙和英国）发展已到达临界点，这五国的智能手机普及率已达55%，智能手机用户为1.315亿（游戏邦注：comScore调查时间为截止10月31日的三个月，调查样本是至少达到13岁的欧洲五国用户）。

西班牙的智能手机普及率最高，达到63.2%，几乎比去年增长15%；英国智能手机用户比例为62.3%，德国则是48.4%。

苹果是英国最具人气的智能手机品牌，但其所占优势并不明显；去年苹果在该国智能手机市场份额为26.6%，排名第二的是RIM和HTC。但今年苹果所占份额为28%，仅增长1.5个百分点。与此同时，三星占比达到24%，同比增长12.8个百分点。诺基亚的市场份额则首次降幅超过10个百分点。

从智能手机平台来看，Android在英国市场仍处于领先地位，占比46.6%，其英国智能手机用户达3090万。苹果iOS则占比28%，微软则占比3.1%，RIM和Symbian所占份额均呈下降趋势。（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）iOS App Store dominated by Unity-powered games in 2012

by Daniel Gumble

17 Unity-produced games make Apple’s best games and apps list.

Apple’s App Store Best of 2012 list has been dominated by games powered by Unity Technologies, with 17 of its games making the final list.

Among the many member of the Unity development community to make the list was Fireproof Games, whose game The Room was crowned as the overall Game of the Year on iPad.

“It’s incredibly satisfying to see Unity empowering so many developers to create such an incredible variety of creative and engaging titles,” said David Helgason, CEO, Unity

Technologies. “We’re even more proud that so many of these games are seeing such critical and financial success. Congratulations to all of the developers and thank you for making us look so good!”

Take a look to the list below for the full rundown of Unity-authored games honoured in the App Store Best of 2012 list:

Game of the Year: The Room by Fireproof Games (iPad)

Best Casual Games: Mini Motor Racing by The Binary Mill (iPhone and iPad), Bad Piggies by Rovio (iPhone)

Best New Ways to Play: Slingshot Racing by Snowbolt Interactive (iPhone), Total War Battles by The Creative Assembly (iPhone), Splice: Tree of Life by Cipher Prime (iPad), Tentacles: Enter

the Dolphin by Press Play (iPad), Beat Sneak Bandit by Simogo (iPad)

Best Fun Runners: Ski Safari by Defiant Development (iPhone and iPad), Pitfall! by Activision (iPhone and iPad)

Best Free to Play Games: CSR Racing by NaturalMotion (iPhone and iPad)

Best Showpiece Games: ORC: Vengeance by Big Cave Games (iPhone), Dead Trigger by Madfinger Games (iPhone and iPad), Air Mail by N-Fusion Interactive (iPhone)

Best Hidden Gems: Triple Town by Spry Fox (iPhone and iPad)

Top Grossing App of the Year, iPhone: Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North by KABAM

Top Paid: Temple Run: Brave by Imangi Studios (iPhone and iPad), Bad Piggies by Rovio (iPhone and iPad)

Top Grossing: Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North by KABAM, CSR Racing by NaturalMotion (iPhone)（source：mobile-ent）

2）Gamevil reaches 200M downloads mark

Scott Reyburn

South Korean mobile game developer and publisher Gamevil announced today that it reached the 200 million downloads mark on mobile devices.
The company attributed the high download mark to its Partner Fund. Gamevil’s Partner Fund, which Gamevil has invested $20 million into so far, helps external and third-party game developers build a strong lineup of smartphone games. The program currently has more than 40 developers in its portfolio. Games from the program are distributed across both Apple’s App Store and Google Play.

Gamevil also announced that it has hired Won Il Sue as senior vice president of Gamevil USA, where he’ll lead the corporate development and publishing division of the company. He was recently the vice president of corporate development at Nexon America and before that he was the CEO of Nexon Korea.

Gamevil, which was founded in 2000, reported in November its biggest quarter where it had 16.6 billion KRW ( $15.3 million) in sales, a 66 percent growth for Q3 2012.（source：insidemobileapps）

3）UK is world leader in mobile web use

by Daniel Gumble

New Ofcom report shows UK has leapfrogged Japan to top the mobile web use chart.

A new Ofcom report reveals that the UK has taken over Japan as the world leader in mobile use.

Consumers are downloading more data on their mobiles and tablets than any other major nation, with 16 per cent of all website traffic in the UK coming from mobile devices.

Internet shopping is also more popular in the UK than any other country, reports Ofcom. UK consumers have now broken the £1,000-a-year spend barrier on internet shopping.

“Our research reveals that the UK leads the way in using the internet on the move. Increasingly, it’s mobile devices like smartphones and tablets that are driving this growing demand for data – and in the UK it seems to be social networking sites that are behind this in particular,” said Ofcom’s director of research James Thickett.

“We have a long history of catalogue shopping in the UK, and as many daily activities are increasingly carried out online, the internet has become the new destination for many shoppers.”

Ofcom’s latest report shows that British 18-to-24-year-olds are among the world’s top mobile social networkers, with 62 per cent accessing their profiles from mobile devices – a higher proportion that any other country analysed.（source：mobile-ent）

4）iPad shipments to hit 100 million next year?

by Daniel Gumble

Tablet panel production continues to be dominated by Apple.

With the iPad maintaining its dominance of tablet PC panel production in 2012, a new report from DisplaySearch has indicated that Apple is aiming to reach total iPad shipments of 100 million in 2013.

The Quarterly Large Area TFT Panel Shipment Report suggests that panel makers including Samsung, LG Display, Sharp and Innolux will ship 70 million 9.7” iPad panels in 2012. 23 million of these will be iPad 2 XGA panels, while 47 million are thought to be new iPad QXGA panels.

Apple’s new iPad was initially intended to replace the iPad 2, yet on-going strong sales have led to panel manufacturers downscaling new iPad panel production while maintaining production of iPad 2 panels.

Apple came in for criticism earlier this year following the launch of the iPad Mini, as many deemed its $329 price as too expensive for a 7 segment tablet PC, especially when considering the arguably more competitive 7” tablet PC offerings on the market, such as the Amazon Kindle Fire, Google Nexus, ASUS, and several private labels.

However, despite such criticisms, Apple’s hardcore fan base remains insatiable when it comes to new products. The iPad Mini was recently voted one of the hottest consumer products of 2012 in Japan, while Apple is asking panel makers to ship over 12 million in Q4’12 to meet such high demand.（source：mobile-ent）

5）ComScore: Smartphone Penetration In Europe’s Big-5 Markets Now At 55%, Samsung Is The One To Beat

Ingrid Lunden

Europe’s mobile market has reached a tipping point: the top-five markets in the region collectively have a majority of consumers using smartphones, according to the latest numbers from comScore, and that proportion only continues to grow. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK are now reporting a 55% smartphone penetration, or 131.5 million users, according to comScore’s MobiLens research — an online survey of a “nationally representative” sample of mobile subscribers aged 13 and up.

The numbers cover the last three months ending October 31, 2012. ComScore tells me that the first time European users tipped into a smartphone majority was in July.

But while Apple has continued to hold on to its lead in the biggest market among them, the UK, the tides that have seen Android become the most dominant platform have also put Samsung on to a strong trajectory. It looks like it will soon overtake Apple for pole position in the UK — as it already has across all of Europe.

Looking at individual countries, Spain is at the top of the pile for smartphone usage: 63.2% of all mobile phone users now on smartphones, a rise of nearly 15% percentage points on last year. It was also in the lead a year ago. Historically, Spain has always been a strong market for mobile penetration, with fewer landlines proportionately than other European markets because of the high degree of fixed-to-mobile substitution.

The UK, another market where many have simply done away with their landlines, has also seen an almost-similar rise, with 62.3% of consumers here now using smartphones. The only market that has yet to break the 50% barrier in the group is Germany, at 48.4%.

comscore big 5 euro smartphone penetration

comScore is sending me numbers on how specific handset makers and platforms are performing across all of Europe — for some reason it chose not to include these in today’s data release. What it did do was draw out those numbers for one market in particular: the UK. [Update: it's now provided those numbers; more info below.]

In the UK, Apple has managed to hold on to its lead as the most popular smartphone brand, but just barely. Whereas a year ago it had a comfortable lead over the competition — Apple was at 26.6% of all smartphones, with RIM and HTC (!) tied for second — today the picture is very different. Apple is at 28% as of October 2012, but that was a rise of only 1.5 percentage points. Meanwhile, Samsung is now at 24%, a more dramatic rise of 12.8 percentage points. All others declined, with Nokia for the first time dipping below 10% of all smartphone usage.

comscore uk smartphones

Keep in mind that these numbers cover the three months ending October 31, so there is a chance that the holiday shopping season, where Apple has always seen a bump in sales, could see a flip, or at least a narrowing of some of these margins.

When it comes to platforms, unsurprisingly Android continues to remain in the lead in the UK.

Android now accounts for 46.6% of the 30.9 million smartphones in use in the UK, comScore says. Most of that increase is owed to Samsung’s prowess in the market: Android rose by a nearly identical amount to Samsung, itself up 12.4 percentage points over last year.

Apple, now at 28%, remains a strong number-two competitor, underscored by the fact that the next two in the rankings, RIM and Symbian, continue to decline. A glimmer of hope for Nokia, though: Microsoft was up by half a percentage point. It’s now at 3.1% of all smartphones in use in the UK.

comscore top smartphone os UK oct 2012

ComScore is sending over European numbers, but for now a spokesperson notes that in fact, the UK is not actually all that representative of what’s happening in the region overall.

If you compare the UK market against recent figures from Kantar Worldpanel, which measures smartphone sales rather than which devices are actively in use, you get an interesting picture. Kantar places Android at over 60% of all purchases in the EU5, with Apple at just 21%. That implies that we may be seeing further falls for Apple ahead at the expense of Google’s powerhouse mobile platform and how it’s getting implemented, specifically by Samsung.

Update: I now have the stats across the big-five markets in Europe, and while Apple has continued to hold on to the lead in the UK in the last three months, it’s not the case in wider Europe.

There, Apple has around a 20% share of the market, but Samsung is at over 30%. Given that Apple’s share has remained almost equal with its share a year ago — when it was in the lead — Samsung has effectively been the most successful in picking up ex-Nokia users. Although all other major OEMs have declined, Nokia has seen the most drastic drop.（source：techcrunch）