June 12, 2024 Zenless Zenith Zenless Zone Zero surpasses 40 million pre-registrations, beating Supercell's Squad Busters HoYoverse’s next title has nearly doubled Honkai: Star Rail’s pre-registration numbers, and bettered Supercell's big launch
June 10, 2024 Record Revenue Royal Match takes a sweet lead over Candy Crush as Honkai: Star Rail zooms by Genshin Impact Q1 welcomes a new round of heroes as Monopoly Go, Royal Match and Honor of Kings come out on top
May 28, 2024 Release Date Revealed Zenless Zone Zero July 4th release date confirmed as pre-registrations surpass Honkai: Star Rail’s When HoYoverse has a new game, everyone takes notice, and a July 4th release date for its latest RPG is sooner than we thought
May 15, 2024 Rising Stars Genshin Impact still pulls in the big bucks while Squad Busters' soft launch teases blockbuster success Sensor Tower's monthly gaming pulse for April reveals which games are the ones to watch
April 30, 2024 Honkai Hoorah Honkai: Star Rail zooms beyond $1 billion on its first anniversary Honkai: Star Rail generated $1.3 billion in its first 12 months, with 25% from 6% of players…
April 29, 2024 Hot Five Hot Five: Supercell’s Squad Busters levels up, retro Nintendo on iOS, and Genshin Impact’s worst month yet Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
April 23, 2024 Honkai Hoorah Honkai: Star Rail earned more than double Genshin Impact’s revenue in March Honkai: Star Rail generated $118.3 million in-game on mobile compared to Genshin Impact’s $58.5 million
April 15, 2024 Mobile Games Adaptation MiHoYo green lights Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail movies with government backing The projects aim to elevate Shanghai into a premier “city of film'' within three years, positioning it as a key destination for film production
March 6, 2024 Revenue Rivals Honkai: Star Rail’s monthly revenue doubles while Genshin Impact slips back miHoYo’s two biggest games generated a combined $180.3 million on mobile in February
February 13, 2024 Gacha Giants Genshin Impact is top for gacha earnings while Honkai: Star Rail slides Three of the top five gacha games have had a great start to 2024, but who's moving up and who's moving down in the earnings charts?
February 1, 2024 Record Breaking Genshin Impact is the fastest ever game to reach $5 billion consumer spend While joining the 5x unicorn club, the internationally popular action RPG has proved to be the fastest ever game to do so
January 3, 2024 Gacha Glimpse Genshin Impact, Fate/Grand Order, Goddess of Victory: Nikke… How would the big gachas fare with a China ban? As Chinese regulations scrutinise gacha mechanics, are the genre’s biggest players making enough elsewhere?
December 18, 2023 Zenless Zenith Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse opens closed beta for latest game Zenless Zone Zero Title likely to see a full release in 2024
November 13, 2023 Publishing Power Top Chinese publishers accounted for 38.7% of October’s mobile revenue Tencent, NetEase and miHoYo continue to triumph and Goat Games rises up the ranks
October 13, 2023 Week That Was Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news, including acquisitions, giving Apple the swerve, shutterings, layoffs and more...
October 10, 2023 September Success China’s top publishers generated $1.96 billion this September 39 out of 100 top publishers were based in China last month
October 10, 2023 Two Tactics Too big for your rules? miHoYo tried to dodge Apple App Store fees twice in one month Apple has scuppered miHoYo’s fee aversion tactics twice - removing apps and disabling features
October 6, 2023 Week That Was Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news, including big name games coming to mobile, unique marketing tactics, acquisitions and more
October 2, 2023 Flagship Festivities mihoyo's Genshin Impact quietly celebrates third anniversary miHoYo’s flagship celebrates three years, but it's clear that Honkai: Star Rail is the new apple of the company's eye
October 2, 2023 Making A Meal Honkai: Star Rail goes IRL: Collaborating with famous restaurant chains around the world Across the cosmos to the real world, Honkai: Star Rail is set to make an impact in chains near you
September 25, 2023 Chairman Comes miHoYo co-founder Cai Haoyu steps down as chairman… Liu Wei steps up Cai Haoyu will focus on research and development to push the company forward
September 25, 2023 Hot Five Hot Five: Unity, Unity, Unity… Backlash dominates in PR nightmare, devs look to Unreal, and miHoYo busies itself with AI Our quick-fix round up of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
September 21, 2023 Ai Development miHoYo co-authors science paper outlining bold AI intentions The paper examines the rise and potential of AI in game development
September 20, 2023 Market Analysis Honor of Kings makes $238 to become the world's highest grossing app in August Plus the full breakdown of August 2023's biggest top ten global app performers
September 18, 2023 Gaming In China miHoYo and NetEase block Alipay payments on iOS iOS users were also banned from recharging via Alipay
September 13, 2023 Iphone 15 Reveal “iPhone is the best mobile gaming platform in the world” So says Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing Greg Joswiak as he turns to gaming to show off the real power of iPhone 15 Pro
September 12, 2023 Industry Insight China dominates among the top 100 global mobile publishers 40 of the top 100 publishers in August 2023 were from China - three more than in July
August 28, 2023 Supergames NetEase go for maximum 'Impact' with new RPG Project Mugen NetEase is in pursuit of MiHoYo’s 'supergame' throne with two studios working on their new open-world urban RPG
August 23, 2023 Best Of 2023 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2023 The movers and the shakers of the last 12 months
August 14, 2023 Insights How Genshin Impact's devs were driven to tears MiHoYo's president reveals how comparisons to Nintendo's Zelda Breath of the Wild were a major concern pre-release
August 10, 2023 Sensor Tower Report 37 of July's top 100 mobile game publishers came from China Chinese publishers accounted for nearly $2 billion for the month
August 8, 2023 On The Right Track Honkai: Star Rail races to $500 million in worldwide sales The game has pushed miHoYo to second place in global game publisher sales rankings
August 1, 2023 Mihoyo Milestone MiHoYo makes $8 billion in user spending with 73% from Genshin Impact Honkai: Star Rail makes up 6% of the total in just a few months
July 25, 2023 Ranking Honor of Kings tops Weibo’s trending list with Honkai: Star Rail in hot pursuit The microblogging site is one of China’s most popular social media sites and offers an interesting insight into the market
July 19, 2023 Releases NetEase’s newly-released Justice Online tops the iOS App Store charts The game was previously tipped to use AI for character dialogue at certain points
July 12, 2023 Goliath Games June’s three most lucrative mobile games all came from China Sensor Tower reports on the 10 biggest revenue generators worldwide
July 12, 2023 Making Money From Peak Speed to Honkai: Star Rail – who to watch in the Chinese games market Sensor Tower’s June report reveals 39 of top 100 global publishers come from China
June 19, 2023 Summer Celebration Genshin Impact to host real-world summer events in Paris, New York and Berlin The game’s first-ever summer festival is coming this July
June 16, 2023 Week That Was Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news including MiHoYo's star performance, gaming in India and never-ending legislation woes…
June 16, 2023 Sensor Tower Report Honkai: Star Rail races past Genshin Impact in overseas revenue MiHoYo’s latest game continues to be a massive success according to the latest data
June 9, 2023 Financials MiHoYo made more money than either EA, Activision Blizzard and Embracer The Genshin impact developer is cagey with financials
June 9, 2023 Genshin Impact Genshin Impact records lowest monthly revenue as Honkai: Star Rail soars The success of Honkai: Star Rail saw the original smash hit game’s revenue drop to $53.8 million
June 5, 2023 Success In China Tencent and NetEase generated over 80% of revenue among the country’s top game makers The two companies were China's top developers by revenue in Q1
May 30, 2023 Honkai: Star Rail MiHoYo is aiming for pole position in China’s market A month on from the release of Honkai: Star Rail, and the game continues its meteoric rise
May 16, 2023 Stellar Star Honkai: Star Rail pushes MiHoYo ahead of NetEase for revenue with only Tencent ahead Honkai: Star Rail starts stronger than Genshin Impact
May 2, 2023 New Release Honkai: Star Rail races to 20 million downloads on launch day Hoyoverse’s latest game is on the right track to break records
April 24, 2023 Sci-fi Star Honkai: Star Rail pre-installs available now on App Store and Google Play A reflective round-up of developments on the next, eagerly awaited miHoYo game
April 17, 2023 China Changes Why you should be optimistic about mobile gaming in China Game licence approvals offer new opportunities to Tencent, miHoYo and others
April 3, 2023 Various Visits Tim Cook represents Apple in visits to miHoYo and other Chinese partners Meeting creators behind games like Genshin Impact
March 27, 2023 Stellar Star HoYoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail to release in April 2023 Mobile and PC releases are coming ahead of PlayStation launch