Billion Downloads

With players spending some combined 216,000 years of playtime, the four games in the Temple Run series have joined the billion-download club, Re/Code is reporting. Imangi Studios’ Keith Shepherd, who co-created the game with his wife Natalia Luckyanova, says he had had no idea Temple Run would be so successful. "Now, it’s time to start thinking about...

Candy Crush Saga, a free to play Bejeweled knockoff game, that is estimated to generate over $633,000 in revenue per day, has been downloaded over half a billion times across Facebook, iOS and Android, according to social games developer King. "Players have racked up 150 billion individual games to date and, according to King, one in every 23...