1）据pocketgamer报道，Backflip最近发布信息图表指出，《DragonVale》在过去两年中跻身美国收益榜单前50名，目前下载量超过2500万次。

其中男性玩家占比48%，女性为52%。值得注意的是，该游戏在丹麦（人口为550万）和新加坡（人口500万）这种人口小国中的人均下载量相对更高，分别达7.3%和5.1%，在澳大利亚（人口2250万）和美国（人口3.1亿）的总下载量则相对更高。

dragonvale-downloads-per-capita(from Backflip)

2）据mobile-ent报道，《愤怒的小鸟》电影在2016年7月1日才会问世，但Rovio已经逐步邀请《辛普森家庭》编剧Jon Vitti、《冰河世纪》制作人Catherine Winder和《卑鄙的我》制作人John Cohen等人物加盟，由索尼电影负责发行事宜。该工作室日前又宣布将由Clay Kaytis和Fergal Reily执导这部3D CG动画电影。

Angry-Birds-Movie(from cumaini.com)

Kaytis拥有19年的迪士尼动画制作经验，曾参与电影包括《魔发奇缘》、《无敌破坏王》、《闪电狗》、《纸人》以及即将问世的《Frozen》。

Reilly在过去十年就职于索尼电影，代表作包括《天降美食》、《怪物旅社》、《蜘蛛侠2》和《钢铁巨人》等。

3）手机应用监测服务Crittercism最新报告指出，iPhone 5S上的应用崩溃频率是iPhone 5和iPhone 5C的两倍。

iPhone 5S(from china.org.cn)

报告监测成百上千万应用启动情况发现，iPhone 5S的应用崩溃比例是2%，而iPhone 5和iPhone 5C则是1%左右。

AllThingsD报告曾指出，由于开发者事先没有检查应用在64 bit芯片（游戏邦注：iPhone 5S采用的就是64 bit的A7处理器）上的运行效果，只是针对32 bit芯片设计和测试应用，这种情况导致应用在iPhone 5S上更易于崩溃。

4）据pocketgamer报道，亚马逊高管Daniel Winner在最近伦敦的F2P峰会上指出，根据亚马逊Appstore数据调查发现，44%的玩家重复购买与第一次购买间隔时间仅为1小时，因此游戏增加收益的关键并非增加游戏粘性，而是增加用户访问游戏的次数。

Daniel Winner(from pocketgamer)

亚马逊Appstore高收益榜单前50名应用的数据表明，越是成功的应用，就越能产生更多次的平均访问量。

这些重复访问的用户不但会购买更多道具，在每件道具上的投入也要高于其他用户。（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）Chart of the Week: 7.3% of Danes have downloaded DragonVale

by Jon Jordan

A year ago, we put Backflip’s DragonVale under our Charticle microscope.

Now, one year on, Backflip has created its own version of the Charticle; looking back at two years of the massively successful free-to-play title.

Of course, it’s not been fully transparent.

There’s no mention of how much money the game has generated, other than it’s been in the US top 50 top grossing chart for 750 days.

The fact Hasbro bought 70 percent of Backflip for $112 million in cash during the summer provides its own measure of just how financially successful the game has been, however.

World of opportunity

Yet, in this context, it is significant Backflip lists total downloads at +25 million; not a huge number in the circumstances.

Clearly it has a very loyal and highly monetised audience; one that Backflip says is 48 percent male and 52 percent – another surprise given the assumption its cutesy graphics would skew female.

A final neat touch is the downloads per capita graphic.

As the maths demands, it’s smaller countries such as Denmark (population 5.5 million) and Singapore (5 million) that have the highest percentage of downloads per capita.

Nevertheless, the download levels in Australia (population 22.5 million) and especially the US (310 million) impress more in terms of the absolute numbers.（source：pocketgamer）

2）Disney and Sony Animation veterans to direct Angry Birds movie

by Zen Terrelonge

Will use their experience from Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Hotel Transylvania and more.

The Angry Birds movie doesn’t hit cinemas until July 1st 2016, but Rovio is gradually catapulting details out as the months roll by.

We already know The Simpsons writer Jon Vitti, Ice Age producer Catherine Winder, and Despicable Me producer John Cohen are on-board, with Sony Pictures securing distribution rights.

Now, the games studio has announced Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly will direct the 3D CG-animated film.

Kaytis joins with 19 years of experience as Walt Disney Animation Studios where he worked on Tangled, Tangled Ever After, Wreck-It Ralph, Bolt, Paperman and upcoming film Frozen.

Meanwhile, Reilly has worked with Sony Pictures for the past ten years, contributing to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, Spider-Man 2 and The Iron Giant.

Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio, said: “I’m very excited that Fergal and Clay have joined us, bringing with them their vast expertise. They are two of the brightest rising talents in animation, and I’m confident we are building the right team to tell the story of Angry Birds and deliver an amazing movie experience to our fans.”

Rovio is already dabbling with animation through its Toons TV platform, which has secured more than one billion views.（source：mobile-ent）

3）iPhone 5S apps are twice as likely to crash (and it’s not a big deal)

Rebecca Grant

Scandal! Apps on Apple’s “best iPhone ever” are twice as likely to crash. Everybody freak out.

Or don’t.

A study by mobile app monitoring service Crittercism found that app crashes on the iPhone 5S happen twice as often than on iPhone 5 or iPhone 5C.

Crittercism has monitored hundreds of millions of app launches and found that the typical crash rate for the 5S is around 2 percent, while the 5 and 5C have a crash rate of around one percent.

So yes, “twice as much.” But no, not really a big deal.

Apple’s highly lauded iPhone 5S comes tricked out with a “monster” 64-bit A7 processor. This impressive power enables slo-mo videos and superior audio quality, and of course the device sports iOS 7 – Apple’s latest and somewhat controversial operating system.

The new device and OS unsurprisingly come with some pesky little issues. This tends to happen with any new hardware or software release, but it never fails to get us techies all hot and bothered.

Users have reported problems with the latest iPhone, including problems with messaging, sensor capabilities, battery drain, security, dizziness from the built-in 3D and animation effects, and getting logged out of apps.

AllThingsD first ran the report and spoke with a Crittercism representative who said that the crashes are more likely to occur on the iPhone 5S because developers couldn’t check their apps on the 64-bit chip ahead of time. Apps were designed and tested for 32-bit chips, and the big difference between the two leads to some inevitable glitches.

The crash rates will likely go down as Apple and developers have more time to address bugs.

The iPhone 5S and 5C are selling well, despite limited availability. They generated record-breaking sales on their opening weekend, and Apple expects the fourth quarter (with the holidays) to be a strong one.

Close to 300 million iOS users are now using iOS 7, and a report by software testing service uTest found that not optimizing for iOS 7 could cost app developers big.

So, yes, the iPhone and iOS7 have some hiccups, and yes, apps may crash 2% of the time, but this is hardly enough to cause hundreds of millions of users to defect to another device/operating system.

See? Everything is OK. Take a deep breath, and give your iPhone a hug. It will feel better soon.（source：venturebeat）

4）Amazon: F2P success down to play count not play length

by Keith Andrew

What makes the top grossing free-to-play apps stand out against the rest of the freemium market?

Based on cohort data amassed and analysed by Amazon, delivering a successful free-to-play game isn’t about making gamers play for long sessions. Rather, it’s about giving players reasons to come back time and again for short little nuggets.

That was the message delivered by Amazon’s head of content acquisition for mobile in Europe Daniel Winner at the F2P Summit in London, with the need to keep players coming back time and again the focus of his summary.

“44 percent of repeat purchases happen within one hour of a previous purchase,” noted Winner, based on Amazon’s research of player data from its Appstore for Android.

“But it’s not about increasing the stickiness of the game – it’s the number of sessions that the customer visits the game that determines how much they spend.”

Top of the pops

Indeed, comparing the top 50 grossing apps on Amazon’s store to the rest of the freemium market highlighted that, as time passes, the more successful apps generate more play sessions per user.

As a result, those users not only purchase more items than in other games, they’re also happy to spend more on each of those items.（source：pocketgamer）