Digital commerce analyst Slice has been publishing the newest figures on average mobile spend for the most successful games with in-app purchase – and Game of War´s average USD 550,- is more than impressive…..
(source: Slice intelligence)
Mobile games revenues are up 10% globally, to a total USD 25,8 billion – whilst subscription-based gaming continued to decline by another 4 percent. Highest grossing publishers in 2015: Activision (USD 2,9 billion), Supercell (USD 1,64 billion) and Tencent (USD 1,62 billion – most of it with cash-cow “League of Legends”). Also interesting: Though mobile games attract most of the general interest, the PC gaming market still is larger (with USD 32 billion revenues in total). Digital console games stay to be a smaller category with a total of USD 4 billion revenues annually.
Full story: PC trumps mobile, console in booming $61bn digital games market | GamesIndustry.biz
CCP is one of the leading developers for VR games and Gunjack will launch on Samsung´s Gear VR platform later this month. EVE: Valkyrie is expected to launch with the Oculus Rift and Playstation VR in early 2016. The cash injection should help them to keep the leading position.
Full story: CCP raises $30 million to support VR efforts
There are enough smartphone customers now – and their rate is increasing in incredible speed. Market potential is huge, but who is going to be the shaker-up of the status quo? VentureBeat is asking for votes:
10 disruptive individuals who are reshaping the mobile industry | VentureBeat.
There is another one increasing the capacity of fears of humans – and the highest incidence of nomophobia is within the age-group of 18- to 24-year-olds…
Article @ cnet: ‘Nomophobia’ up as more folks fear being mobileless | Health Tech – CNET News.
The number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world´s population this year – and by 2016 there will be 1,4 mobile devices per capita! According to Cisco´s actual networking index:
