Winter Is Coming Zynga’s Game of Thrones: Legends is open for pre-registrations with a July 25th release date
Monster Matching Monster Hunter Puzzles: Felyne Isles is the series’ latest mobile venture, launching later this month
April 4, 2024 Merge And Match Merge-2 revenue surges 10% while Match-3 flops by 11% AppMagic data shows the highs and lows of February 2024, from revenue to downloads to winning events
February 5, 2024 Peak Performance Match Factory! surpasses $20M… With 99% coming from iOS Peak Games’ Match Factory! has taken the 3D puzzle world by storm since its August 2023 release
December 15, 2023 Five New Games New release roundup: The best new mobile games from Goat Simulator chaos to a cat café RPG We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
December 11, 2023 Peak Star Peak Games explores match-3 genre with new title Star Match Zynga-owned developer experiments further with match-3 mechanics
November 24, 2023 Five New Games New release roundup: The best new mobile games from sports manga adaptations to risqué word games… We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
November 10, 2023 Five New Games New release roundup: The best new mobile games from 3D Zynga puzzles to Warhammer card battles We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
October 6, 2023 Five Great Games New release roundup: Our weekly pick of the best new mobile games We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
May 8, 2023 Growing Success How Tactile Games made marketing and diversity core to Lily’s Garden’s $500 million success Asbjoern Malte Soendergaard discusses their approach to researching new concepts, building a diverse team, and creating an empire from games made for women
March 21, 2023 Licences & International Releases Tencent brings smash hit Merge Mansion to China in raft of new licences The game is part of a slew of newly granted licences for a number of foreign titles
March 20, 2023 Releases Jetpack Collective to publish Rare Pets - Merge Game Mystery The iOS and Android title is one of two new games being published by the company
March 9, 2023 Creatives Playtika takes potshots at Candy Crush with new Best Fiends ad campaign “Download free, play sugar free”
January 9, 2023 Get The Royal Tratment Royal Match aims at 186 million fresh impressions via its first TV commercial Developer Dream Games is hoping for two billion exposures
December 9, 2022 Announcements Devolver Digital announces “Devolver Tumble Time” Devolver’s latest game looks to be an innovative new spin on the hypercasual genre featuring recognisable characters from their various franchises
December 5, 2022 Match Madness Genre mashing and meta morphing: How Match 3 and casual games are evolving UXReviewer founder Om Tandon breaks down what makes Match 3 games so popular and how they may have even greater scaling potential
April 21, 2022 Puzzle Players Sensor Tower: US puzzle game spending increased 4.2% to $5 billion Decline in downloads witnessed across the board
February 22, 2022 Making Of Making Call of Antia stand out from the crowd The Match 3 RPG genre is popular and well populated. FunPlus' Leon Zhou talks to PocketGamer.biz about differentiating yourself from the crowd
January 14, 2022 Yet To Impress Netflix brings three more casual games to iOS and Android Plans to add more genres in the future
December 16, 2021 Expanding Reach Flexion partners with 37Games to release Puzzles & Survival on Amazon, Samsung and Xiaomi The free-to-play game originally launched on Google Play last year
December 7, 2021 Gen X Gamers Tapjoy finds 77% of Gen X play mobile games daily Match-3 is the generation's preferred genre
December 1, 2021 What Matches Match 3 Dream Games' Royal Match leads match-3 D30 retention at 16.5% App Annie takes a deep dive into retention
October 7, 2021 Xxxx Supercell is the only dev with a top 10 strategy game that isn't 4X Clash of Clans is the outlier
June 30, 2021 A Very Royal Match Dream Games valued at $1 billion after closing $155 million funding round Ex-Peak team accelerate business
April 9, 2021 Welcome To New Gateway Rovio soft-launches new narrative puzzle game Supernatural City Available across US, Canada, Finland, Sweden and more
April 8, 2021 Making Of Why Small Giant followed up its $1 billion hit Empires & Puzzles with Puzzle Combat CEO Jose Saarniniem explains
March 4, 2021 It’s No Puzzle How M&A drove consolidation in the match-3 genre Crunching the data with App Annie
February 24, 2021 Money Bags BebopBee raises $2 million for live ops and user acquisition The developer is focused on match-three titles
February 8, 2021 Match Set Candivore raises $12m for match-three title Match Masters To go towards user acquisition
February 4, 2021 Phoenix Rising Phoenix Games acquires match-three mobile studio SmileyGamer "It’s been great to have had the opportunity to grow SmileyGamer from the ground up"
January 26, 2021 Trendy 4 mobile game trends to look out for in 2021 GameRefinery's Erno Kiiski weighs in on the year ahead
November 30, 2020 Had Its Heyday Supercell cancels new casual match-three puzzler Hay Day Pop Servers remain online until February 1st, 2021
October 23, 2020 Welcome To The Family Scopely snaps up match-three developer Genjoy Will join Scopely's operations in Spain
October 21, 2020 Case Study Case Study: Marvel Puzzle Quest grows even mightier with Lab Cave ASO A deep dive into how Lab Cave worked to successfully grow the popular Marvel match-3
August 14, 2020 Making Magic Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP Zynga director of product Peter Rosetti on what it takes to bring Harry Potter to match-3
July 30, 2020 Jiminy Cricket Why Ludia CEO Alex Thabet believes Disney Wonderful Worlds is different from other match-three puzzlers "Ludia worked closely with Disney in order to bring players a one-of-a-kind gaming experience"
July 22, 2020 It's Magical Ludia teams up with Disney for new game Disney Wonderful Worlds It will be released in 2021
July 15, 2020 Rofl Disney Emoji Blitz lines up $100 million in revenue as it celebrates fourth anniversary Match-three puzzler has accumulated over 25 million installs
June 1, 2020 Breakout Playrix soft-launches new match-three RPG Puzzle Breakers New title available on Android in the Philippines
May 28, 2020 Three Is A Magic Number Match-three games dominate US iOS market at 21% of revenue Candy Crush, Toy Blast, Gardenscapes, and more
May 15, 2020 Allo-homora Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells debut trailer glimpses iconic locations Zynga, Warner Bros. and Portkey Games for a new mobile game based on the Harry Potter license
March 16, 2020 Hay Day Pop Supercell quietly soft-launches casual match-3 puzzler Hay Day Pop Available in Australia, Finland, and New Zealand
November 15, 2019 Let It Go Jam City launches new mobile game Frozen Adventures The movie is out on November 22nd
September 12, 2019 Live And Kicking How Gummy Drop amassed 1.8 billion hours of gameplay in five years "To date, the game offers players over 10,000 levels, 90 plus cities to travel to and over 1,000 monuments to rebuild"
July 2, 2019 Ua Party Tilting Point to invest at least $20m in CookApps UA Match-three game Toy Party gets marketing boost
December 11, 2018 Walking The Line The delicate balancing act behind midcore match-three Sega Heroes Finding core-casual sweetspot
November 15, 2018 Roar Jurassic World Alive developer Ludia teams up with Universal on How to Train Your Dragon puzzler Long-standing relationship continues with match-three RPG
October 24, 2018 European Expansion Hugo Games opens new match-three studio in Berlin Headed up by ex-King technical lead Moritz Voss
October 10, 2018 Breaking In Can Snowprint’s Legend of Solgard break King’s midcore curse? Studio CEO Alexander Ekvall discusses working with the Candy Crush maker as part of the latter’s new publishing initiative