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Originally Posted by wraggster

Reached the figure "weeks ago", but strangely decided not announce it.
On Sunday, The Independent said Google Play is on course to pass 15 billion app downloads, though Google told TechCrunch the milestone is old news.
In December, Google Play reached ten billion app downloads, which means the extra five billion downloads could have arrived within Q1, depending on Google's definition of "weeks".
Apple's App Store leads the market with 600,000 apps, while Google

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Soars into ten figures in a graceful arc, propelled by a giant catapault.
What a phenomenal performance by the freakish Rovio franchise, which passed 500m last November.
Its latest iteration - Angry Birds Space - has helped enormously, powering to 50m installs inside a month. But the total also embraces spin-offs such as Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds.
The big news comes after Rovio confirmed €75.4m of revenues and €48m of earnings before taxes in 2011.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Today, gritty science fiction MMO Eve Online is famous for many things: its player-driven, emergent gameplay, its complex virtual economy, and, perhaps most of all, its daytime telly quality drama. But nine years ago today, Eve Online was famous for nothing. It was a fledgling persistent world made by a little known Icelandic developer with big ideas but no guarantees. Since then, every year, it has grown. And now, Eve is on the cusp of becoming something even greater: a PC MMO that interacts with

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Indie Royale has broken out a brand new bundle for the month of May, with five big games for a tiny price. This time around, the great MOBA/RPG mashupDungeon Defenders is included in the bunch, along with Containment: The Zombie Puzzler (which is of course a zombie puzzler), abstract arcade racerData Jammers: FastForward, trippy falling game Brainpipe, and the indie space sim sequel Weird Worlds: Return to

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Kirby's Pinball Land, which as you'll recall was a Game Boy title from the early 90s, has been given a "General" rating by the Australian Classification Board, which is completely unsurprisingly given the game's adorable subject matter. What is surprising, however, is the fact that this game was classified at all, considering the fact that it hasn't really been announced or anything.

It's possible that Kirby's Pinball Land is coming to the eShop in the land down under, but

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