Fruit Ninja

The mobile game publisher responsible for localizing international hits like Temple Run and Fruit Ninja for the Chinese market, iDreamSky, started trading on the NASDAQ yesterday.

iDreamsky translates and localizes artwork and other content for the Chinese market, then distributes it to Chine’s myriad of third-party Android app stores.

Yesterday, Tencent quietly launched a new game on its own prorietary Chinese Android marketplace that absolutely nobody was asking for: Fruit Ninja Tencent Edition. Yes, Fruit Ninja has been in

Getting China’s smartphone owners to play mobile games is as easy as getting a horse to water, but getting them to drink up in-app purchases is tough. It’s also a

Being a fruit ninja means more than just slicing and dicing. It involves making friends as well. That’s what the makers of Fruit Ninja are doing right now as they

Fruit Ninja has been downloaded 500 million times across the world with 200 million of them from China.

Very few game studios have amassed 300 million downloads on one game and then followed that up with another mobile hit, Jetpack Joyride.

HalfBrick Studios’ Fruit Ninja has been really hot since slicing its way into the Chinese market last year. It has since made it to over 100 web and third party stores, such as AppChina and Wan Dou Jia, and is pre-installed in over 90 Android brands across five Chinese operators.

Shaniel Deo, the CEO of Halfbrick Studios (developers of Fruit Ninja), sliced his way into China for the first time a couple weeks ago and hasn’t stopped moving since. Last

Baidu has opened an online store for Android apps, accessible only from Android smartphones on the Baidu Mobile homepage. [UPDATED about a year later: It now has a proper URL