Zenless Zenith Zenless Zone Zero surpasses 40 million pre-registrations, beating Supercell's Squad Busters
April 16, 2024 Robot Wars War Robots blasts past $900 million as shooter celebrates 10 years since launch Mobile title has attracted more than 270 million registered players to date
April 15, 2024 Hot Five Hot Five: XCOM Legends’ rumoured shutdown, Squad Busters verges on soft launch, and Royal Match reaches $3 billion Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
April 8, 2024 Industry Journey “I’m proud of what we do at King but I’m even prouder of how we do things” King’s VP of product for Candy Crush Soda Paula Ingvar shares on turning a hobby into a profession
March 27, 2024 Major Milestone Hypercasual developer FreePlay surpasses 1.5 billion downloads The company's portfolio has generated 500 million installs during the last year alone
March 18, 2024 Hot Five Hot Five: Monopoly GO’s next-level UA, Supercell’s psychological analysis, and AI use for NPC dialogue Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
March 13, 2024 Billion Brilliance Monopoly GO makes $2 billion in 10 months with "less than a quarter" of that spent on UA Over 70% of the game's 10 million+ players play the game every day
March 7, 2024 Monster Milestone Monster Hunter Now climbs to $150 million in time for six month anniversary Japan remains the biggest spender by far, followed by Hong Kong and Taiwan
March 7, 2024 Download Deluge Hypercasual powerhouse Supersonic verges on five billion downloads in its first four years Supersonic by Unity has published some of the industry’s most downloaded games, Bridge Race included
March 4, 2024 Eggcelent NetEase’s Eggy Party reaches 500 million players in under two years The party game surpassed 40 million daily active players during the Lunar New Year
February 26, 2024 Installs For India Ludo King surpasses 1 billion Play Store downloads in meteoric moment for Indian games industry Ludo King is the first Indian mobile game to surpass the one billion install figure
February 21, 2024 Player Power TreesPlease Games plants one million trees via LongLeaf Valley The game from ex-Square Enix staff has already led to one million trees being planted in Africa, Asia and Latin America
February 15, 2024 20th Century And Beyond Reverse: 1999 surpasses $50 million with increasingly monetised Japanese audience Bluepoch’s launch title has surpassed $50 million in just over four months since global release
February 12, 2024 Hot Five Hot Five: Apple and Roblox embrace AI, a Match Factory milestone, and Warframe mobile gets further funding Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
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
January 17, 2024 Gotta Earn 'em All Pokémon Masters surpasses $300 million in lifetime player spending After Pokémon Go, Masters marks The Pokémon Company’s second-biggest mobile game by revenue
January 16, 2024 Whiteout Wonder Whiteout Survival surpasses $400 million in 11 months Century Games’ frosty survival title has slid its way onto nearly 30 million mobile devices
December 14, 2023 Milestone Making history and smashing milestones with June's Journey Wooga’s vice president of games Martin Müller celebrates June's Journey $1billion milestone
December 11, 2023 Monster In The Making Monster Hunter Now is a roaring success, making $100 million in under three months Another milestone for Monster Hunter Now solidifies Niantic’s latest success
December 6, 2023 Heroes Heights Nintendo pulls out the stops for Fire Emblem Heroes' billion-dollar future Nintendo’s biggest mobile game gears up for its next major update and Book 8’s opening chapters
December 4, 2023 A High Breed Hybridcasual conquers the $2 billion mark in 2023 The hybridcasual genre is projected to reach $2.1 billion in annual revenue this year
November 20, 2023 Hot Five Hot Five: Unity 6, Monopoly Go’s major milestone and Supercell’s creator support Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
November 16, 2023 Major Monopoly Milestone Monopoly Go changes the game with a record-breaking $1 billion in seven months It's the fastest ever casual game to hit the important $1 billion milestone
November 16, 2023 Major Milestone June’s Journey’s $1billion revenue makes German gaming history Wooga’s flagship has reached the $1 billion mark just after sixth anniversary - the first game from Germany to do so
November 14, 2023 Interview Christian Lövstedt on The Battle Of Polytopia’s journey to 20 million downloads Originally releasing in 2016, Midjiwan’s smash hit is now on multiple platforms with 20 million installs on mobile. Here's how they did it
November 1, 2023 A Happy Birthday Goddess of Victory: Nikke celebrates an incredibly lucrative first anniversary After a year on the market Shift Up’s star performer comes out victorious despite complaints and controversy
October 31, 2023 Adventurous Achievement Seven Knights Idle Adventure pushes Netmarble to second biggest Korean mobile publisher Idle Adventure has generated $40 million just under two months of global launch
October 24, 2023 Sales Success Bilibili passes 300m monthly users as Dead Cells hits five million Chinese sales Five million paid installs in two years, with a big boost this August
October 19, 2023 Monster Milestone Monster Hunter Now wins big with 10 million downloads in 35 days Niantic’s latest success: Here's the story so far…
October 11, 2023 Battle Of Behemoths Monster Hunter Now is Niantic’s second biggest game with $31.44 million in one month Niantic and Capcom’s latest project is a roaring success by every metric
October 6, 2023 Q&a Million Victories CEO Benoît Ducrest celebrates Million Lords milestones Million Victories have implemented a 3D visual upgrade to its Million Lords game and is currently prototyping a new game
October 3, 2023 Q&a MoreFun's Hanjin Zhang on the success and future of Arena Breakout MoreFun Studios’ fast-paced team FPS recently surpassed 80 million registered users
October 3, 2023 User Milestones AI dev tools provider Zibra AI celebrates 100,000 user milestone The company's platform creates 3D assets for any virtual world or experience
October 3, 2023 Major Milestone Playrix celebrates 10 years of Township and major $2 billion revenue Since Township launched, Playrix has grown from a team of 20 to 130
October 2, 2023 Q&a TapNation on the journey beyond one billion downloads The company recently celebrated a milestone of one billion downloads, but CEO Hervé Montoute has even bigger plans ahead
September 28, 2023 League Of Its Own League of Legends: Wild Rift reaches lofty $1 billion across 111 million downloads data.ai suggests such a milestone was reached through optimisation of touch controls and quick matches
September 28, 2023 Crushing The Competition Candy Crush celebrates massive $20 billion revenue milestone Games in the franchise have been downloaded more than five billion times
September 27, 2023 Mobile Milestones The Battle of Polytopia celebrates a milestone 20 million mobile downloads The game has proven a hit on multiple platforms, with mobile leading the way
September 25, 2023 Rumbling Rise Monster Hunter Now reaches five million installs in first week Niantic and Capcom’s latest location-based game sees strong start after three million pre-installs
September 12, 2023 Millions And Millions Brave Nine successor Brown Dust 2 earns $10 million in two months GempsN and Neowiz’s new game has generated 80% of its revenue in Asia
September 12, 2023 Install Incentives Monster Hunter Now reaches three million pre-installs days before launch There are now three million hunters of monsters waiting for launch
September 6, 2023 Supersized Sum Pokémon Go catches them all The mobile giant now has seven more species on board than any other Pokémon game
September 1, 2023 Speeding To Success Chrome Valley Customs is Space Ape’s biggest launch in 11 years The vintage car game makes history for the London-based mobile developer
August 29, 2023 Anniversary Arrival Pokémon Masters highlights fan favourite characters for fourth anniversary Popular main series characters come with new outfits and partner Pokémon for a limited time
August 24, 2023 Arena Breakout Arena Breakout surpasses 80 million registered users The game brings hardcore gaming to mobile platforms
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 8, 2023 Interview Global Champions founder and CEO Gokhan Celiker on achieving a milestone four million downloads We spoke to Celiker about the company’s success and their work with Supersonic on Plane Evolution
August 8, 2023 Major Milestone Nekki celebrates 20 years of mobile gaming innovation after surpassing one billion installs 95 percent of installs are organic