Still the leading category on both iOS and Google Play – even ahead of Pokémon Go’s launch
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$6.99 Pocket Edition comes in at number 31 behind Clash of Clans, Pokémon Go, Hearthstone and more
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CEO Tim Cook adds that July 2016 saw a record-breaking amount of money earned by devs
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Trade body’s Genre Report also shows that a quarter of UK-made games last year were action/adventure
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Developers assures users that location-based game will not breach privacy
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Joost van Dreunen reflects on the impact of Apple’s plans to allow developers to introduce a paid subscription model to their games on the App Store
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Llamasoft founder Jeff Minter has revealed that the studio was forced to abandon development for iOS after the platform proved to be unsustainable. The Space Giraffe, Tempest 2000 and Gridrunner creator said on the dev’sblog: We spent two years doing games on iOS and in the end we stopped doing …
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‘Despite excellent reviews and the sheer number of devices out there which you might think make it viable, we couldn’t in any way justify carrying on with it’
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