December 3rd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | 1 Comment »
The guys at Cellufun (the other ad-subsidized free mobile games service) have released some numbers exclusively to us last weekend. On the background, we can say that Cellufun at this moment only sells it’s own titles which is impressive to me.
The games
The most played mobile game is Sudoku where since October 2005, 8 million puzzles where made available to 300.000 players. Their chess game is played online 2.000 times a day, and estimated is many more people play offline as it’s download number is 70.000 higher then Sudoku. The most interesting type of download? It’s the pet series. Well over half a million downloads happened to date, mainly driven by new pets being released every now and then.
The devices
The top 5 of handsets is;
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For everybody who wants to try out something new in sudoku, try shendoku, using the sudoku rules but playing two people, one against the other, like battleshipps. They have a free version to download at http://www.shendoku.com/sample.pdf . They are bringing out also mobile version over cristmas. Anything else they are bringing out or they are working on you can find at http://www.shendoku.com or at they