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Game of the week: Plague Inc.

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 08:20 AM PDT

Out of all the games I looked at this week, I definitely poured the most time into Plague Inc. This single-player strategy title puts you as the guiding force behind a globe-spanning disease, including its means of transmission, its symptoms, and its spread from region to region.

It was really challenging to graduate from one disease type to another. Island nations like Iceland, Greenland, and Australia turned out to be really hard to get to even with boats and airplanes whizzing around the planet in the early stages of the game. The ample amount of customization, random events, and wide array of order and timing options for disease mutations really made every game very unique.  There's still some graphical tidying up the developers could stand to do, but the core gameplay is sound and if they just keep updating it with new symptoms and disease types, I suspect Plague Inc. will stick around in the top charts for awhile.

$0.99 (on sale) - Download Now

Be sure to check out some of our other iOS game reviews from the week. There are a few other titles that I didn't get around to reviewing this week, but are definitely worth trying out.
  • Whale Trail - A one-touch endless runner that sends the world's largest mammal into the stratosphere. (Free for a limited time - Download Now)
  • Monsters Ate my Condo - A frenzied and insane bastardization of Jenga. (Free for a limited time - Download Now)
  • Gauge - A trippy 8-bit panic-fest with a sense of humor. ($0.99, plus lite version - Download Now)



WWDC 2012 by the numbers

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 05:04 AM PDT

WWDC 2012 by the numbers

Apple's 2012 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is now over in session but not in spirit. Given the announcement of Retina Macs, OS X Mountain Lion's release date and price, and the iOS 6 beta and feature set. We'll be going over all of them in more detail in the days and weeks ahead, but we'll start by going over the numbers here and now.

WWDC

  • 23: Number of WWDCs to date
  • 1:43: Time it took to sell out
  • 60: Number of countries with attendees present
  • 112: Number of sessions
  • 125: Number of labs
  • 1000+: Number of Apple engineers in attendance

App Store

  • 400,000,000: Number of credit card accounts on the App Store
  • 650,000: Number of apps on the App Store
  • 225,000: Number of iPad apps on the App Store (34% of total)
  • ~300: Number of competing tablet apps
  • 30,000,000,000: Numbers of apps downloaded from the App Store
  • $5,000,000,000: Amount of money paid by Apple to developers (Apple has kept $2.142,85713)
  • 120: Number of countries with App Stores
  • 32: Number of additional App Store being added in June (152 total)

Macs

  • 8: Number of GB new MacBook Air RAM can be configured for
  • 512: Number of GB new MacBook Air SSD can be configured for
  • 10: Number of times faster new USB 3 port is compared to USB 2.
  • 0.71: Thinness of new Retina MacBook Pro
  • 4.46: Weight of new Retina MacBook Pro
  • 2880: Number of pixels in the new Retina MacBook Pro's width
  • 1800: Number of pixels in the new Retina MacBook Pro's height
  • 220: Pixel density per inch of the new Retina MacBook Pro's display
  • 5,184,000: Total pixels in the new Retina MacBook Pro's display
  • 75%: Reduction of glare compared to previous glossy MacBook Air

OS X

  • 8: Number of major releases (cats)
  • 66,000,000: Number of Mac users
  • 40%: Percentage of OS X users running OS X 10.7 Lion
  • 9: Number of months it took Lion to reach 40%
  • 27: Number of months it took Windows 7 to reach 50%
  • 200: Number of new features in Mountain Lion
  • 8: Number of new features in Mountain Lion highlighted by Apple (iCloud, Notification Center, Dictation, Share sheets, Safari, Power sleep, AirVideo, Game Center)
  • 125,000,000: Number of registered iCloud users
  • 11: Number of Mac apps automatically configured to work with iCloud (Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, FaceTime, iTunes, Game Center, Mac App Store, Notes, Safari, Messages)
  • 6: Number of new features for China (Baidu, Sina Weibo, Tudou, Youku, Improved text input, Dictionary)
  • 1700: Number of new APIs for developers
  • $19.99: Upgrade price for Mountain Lion (for Snow Leopard users and up)

iOS

  • 365 million: Number of iOS devices sold by March, 2012
  • 80%: Percentage of iOS customers running iOS 5
  • 7%: Percentage of Android customers running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
  • 84%: Percentage of top 100 social apps using Push Notifications
  • 7,000,000,000: Number of push notifications sent daily
  • 1,500,000,000,000: Number of push notifications sent to date
  • 140,000,000: Number of iMessage users
  • 1,000,000,000: Number of iMessages sent daily
  • 150,000,000,000: Number of iMessages sent to date
  • 3: Percentage growth in Twitter from iOS users
  • 10,000,000,000: Number of Tweets sent from iOS 5 to date
  • 47%: Percentage of photos on Twitter sent from iOS 5
  • 130,000,000: Number of Game Center accounts
  • 5,000,000,000: Number of Game Center scores posted per week
  • 67%: Percentage of top 100 games using Game Center
  • 75%: Percentage of iOS customers who are very satisfied
  • 50%-: Percentage of Android customers who are very satisfied
  • 6: Number of iOS versions to date
  • 10: Number of new iOS 6 features highlighted by Apple (Siri, Facebook, Shared Photo Streams, Passbook, FaceTime, Phone, Mail, Safari, Accessibility, Maps.)
  • 200: Total number of new iOS 6 features
  • 6: Number of new features for China (Baidu, Sina Weibo, Tudou, Youku, Improved text input, Dictionary)


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Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:09 PM PDT

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