German social and mobile game developer Wooga today revealed that its latest hidden object game Pearl’s Peril is its fastest growing game to date.
Pearl’s Peril reached one million daily active users (DAU) in 24 days. Diamond Dash, a simple arcade-style game reminiscent of the older casual game Collapse and Wooga’s biggest hit, reached one million DAU 47 days after it was released on Match 16, 2011.
Wooga says that Pearl’s Peril continues to grow steadily. This is also evident in our weekly roundup of the fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU, which this week showed that the game added 305,741 MAU and a 6 percent gain for an estimated total of 5.4 million MAU.
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Pretty Simple’s Criminal Case is this week’s fastest-growing Facebook game by monthly active user, bringing in 3.8 million monthly active users (MAU) for a 21 percent gain.
Last week’s fastest-growing Facebook game, King’s new match-3 game Farm Heroes Saga, dropped to the No. 2 spot with 3.2 million MAU, up 21 percent. King also took the No. 3 spot with its Pyramid Solitaire Saga, which brought in 1.2 milion MAU for an 18 percent gain, amounting to an estimated total of 8.5 million MAU. Playtika’s Slotomania Adventures came in at the No. 4 spot with 923,851 MAU, up 475 percent. Finally, RoyalCactus‘ Jelly Glutton closes out our top five fastest growing Facebook games by MAU with 757,677 new players for a 49 percent gain.
The only other notable gainer this week outside the top five was Plarium’s Stormfall: Age of War, with 412,398 MAU for a 23 percent gain.
|
Name |
MAU_ESTIMATExxxxxx |
Gain |
Gain,% |
| 1. |
 Criminal Case |
23,735,674 |
+3,845,001xxxxxx |
+ 19% |
| 2. |
 Farm Heroes Saga |
18,581,823 |
+3,262,100 |
+ 21% |
| 3. |
 Pyramid Solitaire Saga |
8,515,610 |
+1,294,278 |
+ 18% |
| 4. |
 Slotomania Adventures |
1,118,468 |
+923,851 |
+ 475% |
| 5. |
 Jelly Glutton |
2,294,130 |
+757,677 |
+ 49% |
| 6. |
 Pool Live Tour |
12,252,310 |
+671,291 |
+ 6% |
| 7. |
 Angry Birds Friends |
11,127,487 |
+634,789 |
+ 6% |
| 8. |
 8 Ball Pool |
12,036,242 |
+544,849 |
+ 5% |
| 9. |
 Marvel: Avengers Alliancexxxxxx |
5,255,529 |
+524,533 |
+ 11% |
| 10. |
 Texas HoldEm Poker |
26,886,556 |
+427,544 |
+ 2% |
| 11. |
 Stormfall: Age of War |
2,236,936 |
+412,398 |
+ 23% |
| 12. |
 Monster World |
5,827,473 |
+360,259 |
+ 7% |
| 13. |
 Bubble Island |
8,426,641 |
+328,250 |
+ 4% |
| 14. |
 FarmVille |
10,256,861 |
+308,324 |
+ 3% |
| 15. |
 Pearl’s Peril |
5,408,047 |
+305,741 |
+ 6% |
| 16. |
 CoasterVille |
12,976,773 |
+301,031 |
+ 2% |
| 17. |
 Bejeweled Blitz |
9,875,565 |
+298,338 |
+ 3% |
| 18. |
 Social Empires |
9,100,263 |
+297,664 |
+ 3% |
| 19. |
 Bubble Land |
2,630,942 |
+275,047 |
+ 12% |
| 20. |
 Jewel Epic |
2,643,652 |
+268,551 |
+ 11% |
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Come back for our look at the fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users on Wednesday and top emerging apps on Friday. You can learn more about Facebook’s new ranking system here.
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The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best social media job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: KIXEYE, Playdom, DeNa and more.
Acquinity Interactive
App Minis LLC
BrightRoll
DeNa
Disney Interactive | Playdom
Fandango
GameDuell
King
KIXEYE
Play Games24x7
POPSUGAR
Tradeshift
Wooga GmbH
Japanese mobile-social gaming juggernaut DeNA today reported 52.3 billion yen (approximately $528 million) in revenue for its fourth quarter of 2013, a 22 percent increase year-over-year, while operating profit rose 3 percent from the same quarter of the previous year to 18.2 billion yen ($184 million). For the 2012 fiscal year, the company set a new earnings records with revenues of 202.5 billion yen ($2.04 billion) and 76.8 billion yen ($775 million) in operating profit, up 38 and 28 percent respectively.
“DeNA’s full-year revenues and operating profits increased for the ninth consecutive year, representing growth every year since the company went public,” said Isao Moriyasu, President and CEO of DeNA, in a statement. “We will continue to pursue aggressive growth worldwide for our mobile internet business, especially in the mobile-social games sector.”
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Capcom today reported net sales of 94.1 billion yen ($952.8 million) and 3 billion yen ($30.4 million) in net income for the 2013 fiscal year, which ended March 31, 2013. Compared to the Japanese gaming company’s yearly results in 2012, net income was down in 2013 by 55.8 percent and net sales were up 14.6 percent.
Notable mobile games included Minna to Monhan Card Master, which is distributed on DeNA’s mobile-social gaming network Mobage, continued to show growth, citing the increase in smartphone market penetration as the growth driver. Resident Evil: Outbreak Survive on Japanese mobile-social gaming giant GREE’s platform continuously acquired new users. Both titles “enjoyed membership” eclipsing two million each. Mobile game developer and publisher Beeline’s Smurf’s Village “has securely built stable sales over a long range.”
Capcom’s digital content business, which includes console, mobile and social games businesses, posted revenues of 63.6 billion yen ($644.3 million), a 6.4 percent uptick year-over-year, while operating income fell significantly year-over-year by 45.2 percent to 7.1 billion yen ($71.5 million).
Capcom estimates 97 billion yen ($982.1 million) in net sales and 12 billion yen ($121.5 million) in operating income for the next fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. The company plans to achieve its forecast by directing its development resources to the development of online games (mobile, PC online and downloads for consumer games), which is a growing area, and by launching major titles such as Monster Hunter 4 and Lost Planet 3 focused on the domestic and overseas markets respectively. (more…)
Social games developer and publisher Zynga today announced the release of its seventh game under the “With Friends” brand, an endless runner titled Running With Friends. The game should be available to download for free from the Apple App Store starting tonight and tomorrow morning.
Set in a cartoon-style re-imagining of Pamplona, Spain, the game puts players into the town’s famous Running of the Bulls Festival. Gameplay is very similar to Temple Run, Vector, Subway Surfers, and other games in the endless runner genre. It’s particular similar to the latter in that the device is oriented vertically, with the camera behind the character, allowing the player to swipe and tap in order to dodge obstacles across three lanes.
While it may be similar to other endless runners, Running With Friends is also adding several new features to the formula to keep it fresh. The social element of games has always been Zynga’s primary concern and Running With Friends is no different, allowing users to do as the title suggests and play with their friends asynchronously. The level for each round of the game is randomly generated, but players who compete with friends will compete over the same randomly generated level. The player who gets the highest score by running farther and collecting more stars, wins.
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Rovio’s Angry Birds Friends takes the top spot among this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users, bringing in 467,893 DAU for a 36 percent gain. The game, which was originally conceived as the more social, Facebook version of the original title for iOS, now returns to mobile devices with the added features.
Pretty Simple’s Criminal Case came in at the No. 2 spot with 386,021 DAU for an 8 percent gain. The No. 3 spot went to Social Point’s Dragon City, which added 267,525 DAU for a 5 percent increase. Playdom’s Marvel: Avenger’s Alliance seems to be enjoying the increased publicity around the Iron Man 3 feature film, returning to the No. 4 spot after a long hiatus from the top 5. Finally, King’s match-3 game Farm Heroes Saga is slowing down from it’s massive debut, coming in at the No. 5 spot with 101,415 DAU for 2 percent increase, bringing it to an estimated total of 4.2 million DAU.
One other notable gainer this week is U4iA’s multiplayer first person shooter Offensive Combat, with 30,364 DAU for a gain of 56 percent. You can read our recent review of the game here.
|
Name |
DAU_ESTIMATExxxxx |
Gain |
Gain,% |
| 1. |
Angry Birds Friends |
1,779,682 |
+467,893xxxxxxxx |
+ 36% |
| 2. |
Criminal Case |
5,378,789 |
+386,021 |
+ 8% |
| 3. |
 Dragon City |
5,699,375 |
+267,525 |
+ 5% |
| 4. |
Marvel: Avengers Alliancexxxxx |
1,278,870 |
+125,071 |
+ 11% |
| 5. |
Farm Heroes Saga |
4,257,860 |
+101,415 |
+ 2% |
| 6. |
 Ninja Saga |
394,177 |
+97,376 |
+ 33% |
| 7. |
 Cafeland |
713,947 |
+79,518 |
+ 13% |
| 8. |
 Car Town |
628,231 |
+57,139 |
+ 10% |
| 9. |
 ไพ่เท็กซัส |
432,971 |
+46,724 |
+ 12% |
| 10. |
 Stick Run |
552,843 |
+42,818 |
+ 8% |
| 11. |
Social Empires |
1,480,940 |
+40,791 |
+ 3% |
| 12. |
 Marketland |
505,043 |
+37,480 |
+ 8% |
| 13. |
 Offensive Combat |
81,770 |
+30,364 |
+ 59% |
| 14. |
FarmVille |
1,714,116 |
+28,956 |
+ 2% |
| 15. |
 Social Wars |
1,018,233 |
+24,380 |
+ 2% |
| 16. |
 Lucky Slots |
729,919 |
+23,986 |
+ 3% |
| 17. |
 Jewel Journey |
179,350 |
+23,255 |
+ 15% |
| 18. |
 TrainStation |
170,284 |
+19,238 |
+ 12% |
| 19. |
 Words of Wonder |
292,357 |
+18,135 |
+ 7% |
| 20. |
 德州撲克(中文版) |
234,016 |
+15,310 |
+ 7% |
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.
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The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best social media job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: KIXEYE, Playdom, DeNa and more.
Acquinity Interactive
App Minis LLC
BrightRoll
DeNa
Disney Interactive | Playdom
Fandango
GameDuell
King
KIXEYE
Play Games24x7
POPSUGAR
Tradeshift
Wooga GmbH
Gaming giant Electronic Arts today reported $1.04 billion in non-generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) net revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2013, up 6.4 percent year-over-year from 977 million in non-GAAP net revenue from Q4 2012.
Sales of $1.04 billion were within the company’s guidance of $1.025 billion to $1.125 billion. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) were $0.55, which was slightly below its guidance of $0.57 to $0.72, while non-GAAP loss per share was $($0.17).
EA didn’t report a non-GAAP net loss in this quarter, but expects a non-GAAP net loss of $188 million and a non-GAAP loss per share of $0.62 for Q1 2014. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $169 million, up from $56 million from the same quarter a year ago. Non-GAAP digital revenue for the 2013 fiscal year totaled $1.7 billion.
Overall, the company’s non-GAAP digital revenue for Q4 2013 amounted to $618 million, up from $425 million in Q4 2012. Revenue from mobile, including handhelds, contributed approximately $104 million to this total.
“We remained focused on this segment due to the significant growth in the smartphone and tablet market,” says Blake Jorgensen, chief financial officer of EA, in today’s earnings call. (more…)
