One of the things that we love about the App Store is how it gives us easy access to a global marketplace. Nowhere is this more readily apparent than when we see how different countries are responding to our games. Case in point, Gravity Sling is currently doing extremely well in both Italy and Japan. Since last Friday it has been steadily rising in the app store rankings and currently sits at #11 of all free apps in Italy and #14 of all free apps in Japan. Since launch Italy and Japan now combine for nearly 1/2 of total Gravity Sling downloads!

For US developers that have never even been to either country this is incredibly awesome, and we’re absolutely thrilled to see it. We only wish we had any idea why players in those countries have taken to Gravity Sling so much. If you have any ideas please let us know!

On a related note, we’re all getting together later this week to try to pound out the last tweaks on the first update to Gravity Sling. Our target is to get everything finished up by Friday, leaving the weekend to test and then submit the update next Monday or Tuesday. Hopefully that will mean that it will be released in early-mid December!