1）投资银行Digi-Capital最近报告指出，手机及平板电脑游戏在游戏行业投资额中占比超过80%。

Digi-Capital总经理Tim Merel表示，游戏投资市场仍处于与2012年相似的水平；第一季度游戏行业合并及收购交易发展迅速，在今年前10大游戏合并&收购交易中，非美国买主占据6个席位。

尽管主机游戏销售额有所下滑，但游戏行业总体收益呈乐观发展态势，预计2016年增长至830亿美元，其中移动和在线游戏占比55%（480亿美元）。

q1-2013(from venturebeat)

2013年第一季度游戏投资额额增长35%，达到1.91亿美元；达成40笔交易，交易量下降4%。在第一季度投资额中，手机/平板电脑游戏公司占比65%，促成技术和游戏化项目则占比24%。从交易量上看，手机和平板电脑游戏公司占比38%，促成技术和游戏化项目占比35%。平均每笔交易额增长35%，达到730万美元。

2012年游戏合并&收购交易额超过40亿美元，今年第一季度该领域交易额为9.73亿美元，下降7%；交易量为28，增长33%。主机、PC、手机/平板电脑、MMO游戏在合并&收购交易量中所占比例最高，平均每笔交易额为3470万美元，下降30%。

2）据pocketgamer报道，Telltale Games日前成为2013年GDC国际手机游戏大奖最大赢家，旗下游戏《行尸走肉》摘走杰出故事奖和最高荣誉奖项。

The-Walking-Dead(from fanboygaming)

Fireproof Games旗下游戏《The Room》也获得视觉效果大奖以及大众精选奖。

Big Fish Games游戏《Fairway Solitaire》获得玩法大奖，King游戏《Candy Crush Saga》则收获最佳社交游戏奖。

Henry Smith游戏《Spaceteam》获得杰出创新奖，WeWantToKnow AS游戏《DragonBox+》获得最佳严肃游戏奖。

3）《游戏开发者杂志》最近报告显示，2012年开发者平均薪资为8万4337美元，比2011年增长近3100美元。超过三分之二受访者称自己在2012年收入有所增长，有29%自称收入水平没有变化，7%认为收入有所下降。

除了薪水之外，开发者的医疗等福利待遇也增长了15%。

game-development-female(from g4tv.com)

平均来看，除了编程领域，男性开发者收入普遍高于女性（游戏邦注：在所有接受访问的程序员中，女性仅占比4%）。

2012年有12%开发者遭遇失业，但这一比例已经比过去3年下降了7%。

独立开发者在2012年均收入为2万3130美元，低于2011年的水平。

4）据AllThingsD报道，黑莓全球联盟及业务开发副总裁Martyn Mallick最近透露，20%的BlackBerry 10应用实际上都是重新包装后的Android应用。

黑莓不久前曾宣布BlackBerry 10应用数量已超过10万，按照Mallick所述，这意味着该平台有2万款应用属于Android产品。

BlackBerry-10-Apps(from softpedia.com)

黑莓一直在不遗余力地鼓励开发者向BlackBerry 10平台发布内容，支持他们针对这一平台重新包装Andorid 2.2.3应用也是其中的一个举措。

5）InSites Consulting最近调查报告显示，平板电脑用户现在更常看电视新闻，有43%平板电脑用户自称比5年前看更多电视内容，多数人一边看电视一边使用平板电脑（游戏邦注：该调查样本是澳大利亚、新加坡、印度、UAE、南非、波兰、德国、法国和美国的3600名用户）。

25-34岁平板电脑用户最喜欢看新闻；42%用户观看新闻的首选途径是电视，29%选择的是台式电脑，18%选择智能手机，10%选择平板电脑。

News consumption(from InSites Consulting)

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1）Mobile dominates new game sector investments in Q1

Dean Takahashi

Mobile games have come to dominate investment in new game companies, according to a report compiled by investment bank Digi-Capital on first-quarter investments.

Digital games (or “connected games,” as Digi-Capital calls them) continue to grow as a category in both mobile and online, with the highest rate of investment happening in high-engagement mobile and tablet games. Mobile and tablet accounted for more than 80 percent of value of game industry investments.

Q1 game investments are mostly in mobile

“The top line is that there is a significant connected games investment gap, despite strong underlying growth, exits, and returns,” said Tim Merel, managing director at Digi-Capital, which tracks the game market and handles investment banking for the sector. “It’s something we’re looking at very closely.

Rumors of big investments are circulating. Supercell, maker of Clash of Clans (pictured above)  is reportedly raising more than $100 million at an $800 million valuation.

Merel said that the game investment market has stabilized at levels that are similar to 2012, after a dramatic 56 percent decline from 2011 levels. Investments are happening in mobile/tablet games, enabling technology (such as game middleware), and gamification. Game mergers and acquisitions were robust in the first quarter, non-U.S. acquirers accounting for six of the top 10 game M&A deals this year.

Overall, despite the decline in console game sales, Merel is optimistic for the overall sector. Game revenues are expected to grow to $83 billion in 2016, with 55 percent of that, or $48
billion, coming from mobile and online games.

Q1 2013 investment in games grew 35 percent by value to $191M and declined 4 percent in the number of transactions (40). By value, mobile/tablet game companies dominated with 65 percent share of all game investments in Q1. Enabling technology and gamification accounted for 24 percent. In terms of the number of deals, mobile and tablet game companies were 38 percent, with enabling technology and gamification at 35 percent.

The average transaction size increased 35 percent to $7.3 million. By contrast, average transaction sizes declined last year. Digi-Capital reported that game M&A was above $4 billion in

2012. On a pro-rata basis, Q1 M&A declined slightly by 7 percent in value to $973 million. It grew 33 percent in volume to 28 transactions. Console, PC, mobile/tablet, and massively multiplayer online games accounted for most of the M&A transactions by volume, with average transaction value falling 30 percent for M&A deals to $34.7 million.

Merel figures that game companies are on a two-year cycle for initial public offerings, with the last major IPOs happening in 2011. A fresh round might happen again in 2014, he believes.（source：venturebeat）

2）Telltale Games and The Walking Dead win big at IMGAs

by James Nouch

Organisers behind this year’s International Mobile Gaming Awards – which took place in San Francisco alongside GDC 2013 – have lifted the lid on the winners, with some familiar names coming out on top.

The biggest winner of the night was Telltale Games, which took home the Excellence in Storytelling award and the Grand Prix prize for its episodic undead opus The Walking Dead.

As well as some handsome trophies, Telltale was awarded a package of $650,000 worth of media coverage from IMGA sponsor ProSiebenSat.1 Games.

Fireproof Games also took home two prizes, walking away with the Excellence in Visuals award and the People’s Choice Award for The Room.

A hand for the winners

The Gameplay award went to Big Fish Games for Fairway Solitaire, while King’s Candy Crush Saga took the Social Gaming prize.

Henry Smith’s collaborative curio Spaceteam won an Excellence in Innovation award, and WeWantToKnow AS’ DragonBox+ was awarded the Best Serious Game gong.

The jury – which consisted of journalists from 148Apps, IGN, TouchArcade, Joystiq and Pocket Gamer – also gave honourable mentions to 1337 Game Design’s Devil’s Attorney and Six to Start’s Zombies, Run!（source：pocketgamer）

3）Salaries are up for game developers but women don’t make as much as men

Jeffrey Grubb

For the sake of all game developers everywhere, let’s hope Notorious B.I.G. wasn’t right when he said: “The more money we come across, the more problems we see.”

If those immortal lyrics hold true, then developers are in for more trouble than they came across last year.

In a major survey, Game Developer Magazine revealed that the average developer salary was up to $84,337 in 2012. That’s an approximate increase of $3,100 from 2011. More than two-thirds of respondents noted that they received a bump in pay in 2012. Meanwhile, 29 percent reported they made the same, and 7 percent claimed a decrease.

In addition to the rise in pay, health benefits rose 15 percent in medical, dental, and vision coverage.

On the fair-pay front, men make more than women in every development job in the survey except for programming. Of all the programmers surveyed, only 4 percent are female.

As common as layoffs seem, they are the one area of the industry that is receding.  While 12 percent of developers experienced layoffs in 2012, that’s actually down 7 percent over the last
three years.

Finally, as much as the press has shifted to cover indie developers, they still don’t make very much money. The average indie only brings in $23,130 a year. That’s actually down from 2011.（source：venturebeat）

4）20% of all BlackBerry 10 applications are actually repackaged Android apps

by James Nouch

Martyn Mallick, BlackBerry’s VP for global alliances and business development, has revealed that 20 percent of all BlackBerry 10 applications are actually Android apps.

At the US launch of BlackBerry 10 and the Z10 handset last week, BlackBerry celebrated passing the 100,000 app milestone on its new OS.

But Malick’s comments, made in an interview with AllThingsD, seem to suggest that 20,000 of those apps are, in fact, Android-based.

Android in disguise

BlackBerry has been extremely active in encouraging and incentivising developers to bring their apps to BlackBerry 10. Offering developers the ability to repackage their Android 2.3.3 applications for BB10 is one part of this push.

Repackaged apps are emulated in an Android runtime on the user’s device, although the Z10 drew some criticism at launch for its ability to run these emulated apps smoothly.

Malick notes that the state of Android apps on BB10 is improving, though, explaining that developers such as Amazon are updating their repackaged apps to take advantage of BlackBerry 10 features such as the BlackBerry Hub.（source：pocketgamer）

5）INFOGRAPHIC: The world’s largest news consumption study

by Daniel Gumble

INFOGRAPHIC: The world’s largest news consumption study

25-34 year-olds emerge as the biggest news enthusiasts.

BBC World News and BBC.com/news have today (March 26th) lifted the lid on the results of the world’s largest ever study on news consumption habits across multiple devices.

Conducted by InSites Consulting, the study saw over 3,600 owners of digital devices surveyed in Australia, Singapore, India, UAE, South Africa, Poland, Germany, France and the US, in a bid to underastand the growing impact of TV, smartphones, tablets and laptops on people’s news consumption habits.

The study found that tablet owners watch more TV news, with 43 per cent of tablet users saying they consume more TV than they did five years ago, and most saying they use tablets alongside TV.

It was also revealed that the 25-34 year old demographic boasts the keenest news enthusiasts.

TV came out on top as the most popular means by which to consume news (42 per cent), compared to laptops (29 per cent), smartphones (18 per cent) and tablets (ten per cent).

Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News, commented: “Avid news consumers are hungry for information wherever they are and expect to stay in touch on all the devices they now own. There’s been speculation for years that mainstream uptake of smartphones, laptops and tablets will have a negative impact on television viewing, but this study has found that the four devices actually work well together, resulting in greater overall consumption rather than having a cannibalising effect.”（source：mobile-ent）