Google Grumbles Google agrees to pay $700 million and change app store rules after antitrust settlement
American Ascent The US accounted for 53.5% of casual game installs in Q3, but what are the hottest genres globally?
December 5, 2023 Download Disparity Q3's biggest genres saw 700% more downloads on Google Play than Apple App Store A total of 12.36 billion downloads across top three Android genres VS 1.54 billion on iOS
December 1, 2023 Best Of The Best Google Play reveals its Best of 2023 award winners Familiar names such as Honkai: Star Rail and Monopoly GO lead the charge in Play's round up of 2023's great and the good
October 5, 2023 Blockchain Mobile Games The latest and most interesting mobile games on the blockchain. Our regularly updated list of the most interesting games using blockchain technology
October 2, 2023 Android Ahead Bethesda just stealth dropped a new Elder Scrolls mobile game The Elder Scrolls: Castles has released in early access on Android
September 28, 2023 Ad Report Meta owns all four of the top ad networks for mobile games in Q2 2023 Google Play hosted the most ad creatives, with Facebook leading the way
August 3, 2023 Google Goes Blockchain Inside Google’s blockchain content policy The tech giant has recently revealed its policy on in-app blockchain and NFT and commentators are digging deep as to what it all means
July 14, 2023 Blockchain Gaming Google to allow NFT in apps and games sold through Google Play The move marks a significant shift in policy for the tech giant
June 30, 2023 Alternative App Stores Meta to get into the app store game as Facebook allows app downloads The EU's Digital Markets Act is opening up app store monopolys and big players are getting ready to reap the rewards
May 16, 2023 Report 98% of app store spend on one-time purchases According to new report by data.ai on app revenue
February 27, 2023 Children In Gaming Almost a quarter of children’s games in the UK violate the ICO’s age appropriate design code The Children’s Code sets out standards which companies must follow in order to stick to data protection law
February 13, 2023 Generated In Japan Japan Fair Trade Commission reveals Apple and Android revenue and distribution Their new report shows ¥1.59 trillion generated on Apple in 2021, ¥1.04 trillion on Android
February 2, 2023 Data Google Play and iOS App Store reached 142 billion downloads in 2022 According to the latest data, first-party app stores reached 142 billion downloads in 2022, with games still dominating
February 2, 2023 Changes Ahead Google opens the door to alternative app stores in India Following requirements by the CCI Google have made the first moves to allow in-app billing outside Google's own Play Store.
December 14, 2022 Adjustments In Ads Tenjin and InMobi’s monetisation report shows short-term effects of Google Play’s new ad policy Ad impressions increased by nine percent and revenues by five percent
December 1, 2022 Soft-launches Call of Duty Warzone Mobile soft launches in Australia The announcement of the soft launch came late yesterday and sees the hotly anticipated Warzone Mobile first arriving in Australia
December 1, 2022 Cross Worlds Celebration Celebrations and content galore as Netmarble’s Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds reaches 200 days 200 days on from Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds’ global launch
November 29, 2022 Don’t Be Evil 21 million consumers launch class action lawsuit against Google The users claim Google Play violated US anti-competition laws
November 21, 2022 Pre-registrations Call of Duty Warzone mobile surpasses 25m pre-registrations Warzone Mobile was also the fastest Activision-Blizzard and King mobile game to surpass 15m pre-registrations
November 18, 2022 Google Vs. Epic Lawsuit claims Google struck a $360 million deal to prevent Activision Blizzard creating its own app store The lawsuit claims Google has struck at least 24 deals to prevent competition
October 21, 2022 Special Report The mobile gaming market is on track for a record breaking year Data.ai delves into the performance of the market throughout the third quarter of 2022
October 5, 2022 Sensor Tower Report Player spending forecast to fall 2% year-on-year in 2022 Google Play game revenue is predicted to fall 8.3%
September 20, 2022 A New Look TapTap announces a rebrand, including new mascot The Google Play alternative debuts a bold new look
September 16, 2022 Market Dominance 1% of publishers are responsible for 91% of app revenue The publishers also generated 79% of downloads in H1 2022
August 22, 2022 Casual Gaming 7Seas Entertainment has announced a new platform for short games available on Google Play Gamer Shorts already has 25 short and easy mobile games in place
August 3, 2022 Intrusive Ads Exclusive: The games sector responds to Google's Ad policy updates Here’s what the gaming ads sector thinks about the controversial decision
July 20, 2022 Making Changes Google Play to allow alternative billing systems, but only for non-gaming apps Changes to be made as a result of the Digital Markets Act
July 18, 2022 Swedish Success Sensor Tower: Embracer Group takes the top spot for Q2 Google Play downloads in Europe Ranking fifth of all publishers worldwide for the quarter
July 15, 2022 Bytedance And Meta Reign Supreme Apps are earning more revenue than games for the first time ever Spending in non-game apps has grown more than twice the rate as games
July 11, 2022 Outside The Stores Popular mobile games are bypassing Apple, Google fees for in-app purchases via web stores GameRefinery explores how Clash of Clans, Marvel Strike Force, Star Trek: Fleet Comamnd and others are circumventing app store fees
July 6, 2022 Eu Vs Tech Giants EU approves Digital Market Act with implications for Apple and Google The new legislation comes into force in Autumn
July 1, 2022 $90 Million Fund Google and app developers reach lawsuit agreement, with $90 million developer fund "Vast majority" of US app developers eligible to receive money from fund
June 14, 2022 Predicting And Projecting Sensor Tower: player spending on mobile games reaching $117 billion by 2026 Apps to outpace games in terms of spending, but gaming predicted to remain the largest individual category.
June 13, 2022 Browser Bash Google and Apple’s mobile browser dominance investigated by UK regulator UK competition regulator announces plans to take action against the tech giants' hold over browsers and cloud gaming
May 23, 2022 Play Store Policy Google to permit third-party payment systems for Match Group Following lawsuit from Match regarding payment systems and revenue share
May 17, 2022 Meeting Milestones 57% of PUBG Mobile player spend comes from China Worldwide revenue reaches beyond $8 billion
April 12, 2022 Tencent On Top Again Mobile games spending continued to fall by 6.3% to $7 billion in March 2022 Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile were the highest grossing games worldwide
April 8, 2022 Update Or Disappear Older Android apps must update to remain discoverable and downloadable New rules come into effect in November
April 4, 2022 Most Read Hot Five: Q1 2022 mobile games spending drops 7.1%, 'wrong' Wordle sees downloads soar, and Miniclip surpasses 4 billion downloads The hottest news articles on PG.biz
March 31, 2022 Behind The Scenes How to soft launch a game on mobile in 2022 Google Play business development manager Nimrod Levy walked through the various steps involved from internal testing to pre-registration
March 30, 2022 Mobile First Xsolla: Indian game developers should continue a mobile-first approach Focus on porting games to console after mobile release
March 29, 2022 Fool's Gold Naughty Dog shuts down mobile-exclusive Uncharted game after generating only $88,000 Fortune Hunter, the Uncharted game you’ve never heard of, will be taken offline after five years
March 29, 2022 Wordlegate The 'wrong' Wordle sees downloads soar since 2022 Over five years since the game launched the newfound success is on the back of the recent web-based game of the same name
March 29, 2022 Free Fire First Sensor Tower: Global mobile game downloads reached 4.4 billion for February 2022 Free Fire places first for second month this year at 21.8 million downloads
March 22, 2022 The Lion's Share Mobile games consumer spending reached $22 billion for Q1 2022 65% of all consumer spending is on games
March 22, 2022 Reclaimed The Throne Honor of Kings was the top-grossing game for February 2022 Snatches back first place with $225 in consumer spending
March 17, 2022 Into Android Scuti expands marketplace to Android with solitaire game Mahjong Deluxe Cross-platform rewards
March 9, 2022 Rovio Removes Games Rovio pulls games from Russia and Belarus In-app purchases disabled for games that have already been downloaded