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Connected Gaming Week - May 11, 2012
by Wonacott Communications
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Statistically speaking, Angry Birds, the reigning king of all mobile games, has been downloaded by one out of every seven people on the planet as the highly entertaining slingshot game eclipsed its billionth download this week. Not that Angry Birdsdeveloper Rovio would need to do anything else after it's Facebook- and Zynga-scale success, but the company just revealed its next mobile title: Amazing Alex. The new physics game is the first departure from the furious franchise for Rovio. Only time will tell if Angry Birds was just "lightning in a bottle" or if Rovio found the secret for mobile success. |
Research firm Frank N. Magid Associates has some troubling news for social game publishers, as detailed in the Magid Media Futures 2012 study. According to the news, social gaming is in a slump, with plateauing user numbers (just 2 percent increase), declines in time spent gaming (7 percent decrease) and depressed user spending (34 percent decrease).
One could speculate that "RecessionVille" (gave myself a pat on the back for that one) is due to the problems that plagued Facebook gaming from day one - lack of proper discovery channels. With the amount of saturation of games on Facebook, it will take new innovations to really set social gaming apart from mobile ports. If you'll recall last week's CGW, Spil Games found tweens were spending more time on mobile devices, so the secret to turning around the negative trend could be making Facebook stand as a unique gaming platform again.
Check out the links below for more news from the world of online gaming in this edition of Connected Gaming Week, and have a great weekend.
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