Artificial Life Reveals Statistics for iPhone Downloads

Nov 4, 2009 7:00:00 AM
2009 GlobeNewswire, Inc.

LOS ANGELES, BERLIN and HONG KONG, Nov. 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Artificial Life, Inc. (OTCBB:ALIF) (http://www.artificial-life.com) today revealed its current iPhone sales and download numbers and key ranking statistics.

The Company announced that as of October 31st, 2009, it has produced and released 21 games for the iPhone and iPod touch during the last 12 months. So far, the best selling game was downloaded close to 1.8 million times, the second best over 1.4 million times and the third best over 0.55 million times. The average number of downloads per game was about 0.22 million.

Despite the large amount of games available on the Apple App Store, 20 (or 95%) of our games have climbed up to the Top 100 most downloaded rank or higher; 17 games have been ranked in the Top 50; 15 in the Top 10 downloads; and 11 games have achieved Top 5 or higher. The best games have reached Top 10 download rankings in 56 countries, i.e. 73% of all countries in which the iPhone is officially sold. 8 of our games have even hit rank 1 in 23 countries.

13 of the produced games are based on licensed and branded intellectual property from a variety of licensors, 8 games are based on Artificial Life's proprietary IP. The games have been sold into 72 countries worldwide. The top 5 countries in terms of numbers of downloads for our products are: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and France (with 45.93%, 12.08%, 5.38%, 3.88% and 3.64% of sales respectively).

12 games have stayed in the Top 100 for over 30 days, 8 games for over 90 days and 6 for over 180 days. The longest continuous Top 100 ranked game has been in the ranks for over 300 days already.

The best performing game categories were motor sports and racing games as well as cartoon based games in which 10 of our games have achieved rankings in the Top 10.

The number of iPhone game downloads is approximately equivalent to 37.8% of the overall number of games sold by the Company so far in 2009. The development time for a high quality iPhone game was on average 3-4 months.

The Company also announced that it has scheduled the release of a series of new iPhone games which will be published in the near future. This includes a motor racing game for Robbie Williams and the first massively multi-player music game for Linkin Park.

"The iPhone/iPod touch market is very competitive with thousands of games offered to download. However, our numbers and especially our ranking statistics clearly show that Artificial Life has proven its success as one of the world's leading iPhone content developers and publishers. Encouraged by the performance of our games we will continue to develop and launch more exciting games for our fans and customers in the coming weeks and months," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.

(iPod is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.)