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Five New Games New release roundup: The best new mobile games from Netflix exclusives to fantasy worlds
Five New Games New release roundup: The best new mobile games from psychological sequencing to Invincible iteration
February 2, 2024 Fire Emblem Burns Bright 7 years of Fire Emblem Heroes: Evolving beyond an SRPG into Nintendo’s only billion-dollar mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes is seven years old today, and I’m still playing…
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 20, 2023 Billion Brilliance Royal Match and League of Legends: Wild Rift among 19 games to cross $1 billion in revenue in 2023 A total of 26 mobile apps surpassed the milestone this year
December 11, 2023 Coming To Conquer First mobile-exclusive Civilization game gets a rebrand under soft launch Conquests and Alliances is officially rebranded as Civilization: Eras & Allies
November 7, 2023 Early Results Warcraft Rumble approaches $4M in four days with almost half of all revenue from the US The numbers are in. Blizzard’s latest makes waves on mobile despite being locked out of China
November 3, 2023 Interview Everything you need to know about Blizzard’s new mobile game Warcraft Rumble We spoke with the games senior animator, Carin Huurnink and senior game designer Brendan Farrell
October 30, 2023 Finding Funds Riot veteran MJ Wong prepares Web3 AstrArk for gamers who "should be better treated" $5.4 million has been raised in funding towards the launch of two Web3 games
October 26, 2023 Aplha Agents Richard Garfield’s auto battler Chaos Agents enters pre-alpha testing The game was shown off on-stream ahead of the pre-alpha’s launch
October 17, 2023 Making Of Socialpoint's Akshay Bharadwaj on the making of Top Troops Hybrid genres FTW! The team at Socialpoint shares how they built a fantasy RPG game with a blend of strategy, kingdom building and merge mechanics
October 13, 2023 Five New Games New release roundup: Our weekly pick of the best new mobile games from pixel pandas to Roman adventures We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
October 13, 2023 Q&a Mike Levine on Mystic Moose’s auto chess battler Mojo Melee The game is currently available on android and playable in a browser with an iOS release in beta testing
October 11, 2023 Q&a Behind the scenes: The making of Netmarble’s Grand Cross: Age of Titans CEO Woo Won Seo and project director Min Suk Kang tell the story of the game and their plans for its future
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 3, 2023 Socialpoint Strategy Zynga’s Socialpoint launches merge RPG Top Troops today The latest mobile game from Zynga and Socialpoint dials up the strategy with wide-ranging customisation options
September 7, 2023 And The Winner Is… RPGs, puzzles, idle games… Who's on top as 2023’s biggest mobile genre? Mobile has a clear winner but top revenue earners vary greatly across mobile, PC and console platforms
August 30, 2023 Hypercasual Lessons Choosing the right genres for small hypercasual game developers Azur Games Sergey Martinkevich shares details on the trending hypercasual genres for small game developers
July 7, 2023 Feature Unity's Anna Popereko on monetising strategy games Discover the mistakes to avoid and opportunities to consider with rewarded videos
April 5, 2023 Full Steam Ahead Sid Meier’s Railroads! comes to mobile from Feral Interactive The specialist in retro game ports has now brought in the well-known railroad building title
February 2, 2023 Socialpeta Report Google pulls ahead of iOS in strategy downloads, but iOS reigns for revenue SocialPeta's report on mobile advertising in 2022 delves into the performance of the genre
December 16, 2022 Trends In 2022 Azur Games summarises trends in gaming through 2022 Idle, puzzle, strategy and more outlined in genre-based trends
July 21, 2022 Quarterly Report Mobile revenue continues to increase for Stillfront Group Mobile represents almost 80 per cent of revenue, with strategy titles growing the most over Q2 2022
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 1, 2021 Commanding City battle strategy games are up 60% - $2.5 billion in Q1 2021 Crunching the data with App Annie
December 18, 2020 Firm Foundations Rise of Kingdoms leads Chinese build-and-battler subgenre Crunching the data with App Annie
November 18, 2020 Be Tactical Strategy titles hit $2.8 billion in player spending in the US in the first 10 months of 2020 Clash of Clans was the top-grossing title
October 21, 2020 Talking Strategy Blizzard veterans raise $4.7m to fund new studio Frost Giant Venture to focus on real-time strategy titles
September 22, 2020 Smart Strategy Chinese strategy games account for 56 per cent of genre revenues in the US "The strategy genre has always been one of the cornerstones of modern and midcore mobile gaming"
August 11, 2020 What's Your Genre? Report: 49 per cent of mobile players pick a new game based on genre "With this genre report, we sought to understand people's motivations for downloading a specific game"
March 5, 2020 Still Conquering Five years on, Big Huge Games’ DomiNations generates $200 million Mobile RTS rolling on
February 11, 2020 Stellaris Soft-launched Paradox soft-launches mobile take on 4X strategy game Stellaris: Galaxy Command Hoping to be much-improved on its initial release
July 25, 2019 To Boldly Go Scopely’s Star Trek Fleet Command beams up $100m in eight months Publisher's fastest-growing game to date
July 9, 2019 Million Dollars French start-up Million Victories raises $1.4m to shake up strategy genre Studio claims debut title Million Lords has 35 per cent day one retention and average revenue per daily active user of $0.50
June 27, 2019 Ice And Fire Game of Thrones gets another mobile game spin-off with Behaviour Interactive's Beyond the Wall Behaviour Interactive creative director Justin Jones discusses game design and working with a globally recognised IP
June 3, 2019 Big Deal Stillfront snaps up Kixeye in deal worth up to $120m Acquisition worth $90 million plus up to a potential further $30 million in earnouts
May 2, 2019 Rising Up Machine Zone's latest 4X strategy game World War Rising is a top 100 grosser Developer's secret new title is off to a solid start
December 17, 2018 War And Peace InnoGames on taking over Warlords from Wooga and making it all its own “We had to keep track of our existing community, whatever changes we did had to be considered with them in mind as they like the game as it is”
December 3, 2018 Strategy PlayRaven leaves Eve: War of Ascension to CCP after joining Rovio’s flock CCP London will take over the development of the galactic MMO tie-in
November 14, 2018 Close The Gates Mobile RTS Age of Empires: Castle Siege will go offline in May 2019 Developer Smoking Gun will use the Castle Siege technology to develop a new, unannounced RTS
November 2, 2018 To Boldly Go Scopely taps Star Trek IP for 4X strategy game Fleet Command Set for global release on November 29th
July 16, 2018 First Strike Tropico dev Kalypso acquires classic Commandos IP Plans to develop new games in the franchise, remaster old titles for new hardware
July 4, 2018 Grand Strategy Paradox expects 10 per cent of sales to come from mobile by 2020 Tencent-backed PC strategy giant has eyes set on mobile development and more acquisitions
June 7, 2018 Having A Blast Following its $500m takeover Plarium expands into the casual games space with Lost Island: Blast Adventure Director of game design Dima Karger discusses the studio's adventure into a new genre
April 23, 2018 Strategic Development Exploring the links between 4X games and mobile monetisation Tappx's Kinga Kruzmanowska analyses what makes these titles so successful
March 14, 2018 Sweet Deal Jam City acquires Colombian World War Doh developer Brainz Publisher expanding into real-time strategy development
January 16, 2018 Featured Features The hottest strategy features in the US, China and Japan How GameRefinery's new tool gives you an insight into your strategy game's design and its chances for global success
December 7, 2017 Stillfront Acquires Goodgame Stillfront acquires Hamburg-based strategy game developer Goodgame Studios for $318 million Goodgame's owners now become majority shareholders in Stillfront