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New milestone for App Store

8 July 2009 1:29 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 1 comment

New milestone for App Store The Apple App Store has reached a new milestone this week, 13,000 games now available to iPhone and iPod Touch users, accounting for a hefty 20 percent of all applications available.

According to data from Mobclix, free games account for 27 percent of all titles (3559) while paid take up the rest of the pie, at 73 percent (9554).

Puzzle games remain the largest and most popular genre accounting for 16.4 percent (4263). In second is action at 11.2 percent (2913) followed by arcade at 11.2 percent as well (2906).

The total amount of games has jumped 110 percent since early March.

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    KillerBug (Senior Member) 11 July 2009 6:25 Send private message to this user   
    Games available: 13,000
    Good games available: a few arcade classics that are free on every other platform, but must be purchased on the iPhone.
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