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Supercell’s Squad Busters ranks No. 1 for App Store game downloads in all soft launch countries SUPER START Apr 23rd, 2024

Supercell’s Squad Busters ranks No. 1 for App Store game downloads in all soft launch countries

Multiplayer action game tops rankings in Canada, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, Spain and Sweden

Call of Duty Warzone: Mobile generated 'just' $6.92 million in its first month WARZONE WOBBLE Apr 23rd, 2024

Call of Duty Warzone: Mobile generated 'just' $6.92 million in its first month

Meanwhile its predecessor Call of Duty: Mobile’s launch month brought in over six times as much at $44 million

​Honkai: Star Rail earned more than double Genshin Impact’s revenue in March HONKAI HOORAH Apr 23rd, 2024

​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

Date Type Companies involved Key Datapoint
Nov 8th, 2023 report Square Enix 5.3% net sales rise
Square Enix’s IPs may be flagging on mobile but net sales are 5.3% up
Nov 7th, 2023 report Xsolla Mobile ad spend is projected t
China generated over $42 billion in mobile user spend in 2023
Nov 6th, 2023 report Sega
Rovio
Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Sammy Group teases first "Rovio x Sega" mobile game
Nov 3rd, 2023 report Nexon
NCSOFT
Sensor Tower 		South Korean in-app purchases
South Korea’s in-app purchase revenue has reached almost $3.6 billion in the year to date
Nov 2nd, 2023 report Lumikai $7.5 billion by FY2028
Indian gaming market predictions fall by $1 billion, but steady growth continues
Oct 31st, 2023 milestone Netmarble $40 million
Seven Knights Idle Adventure pushes Netmarble to second biggest Korean mobile publisher
Oct 31st, 2023 report Modern Times Group (MTG) 6% revenue growth YoY
Modern Times Group Q3 results show "even more encouraging" growth
Oct 30th, 2023 report Mistplay RPGs have most loyal fans
RPGs have the most loyal fans, but how do different genres drive monetisation?
Oct 27th, 2023 chart Unity Unity loses 15% of advertisers
Unity's Runtime Fee debacle caused 15% of its US advertisers to jump ship
Oct 27th, 2023 chart Unity Unity loses 15% of advertisers
Unity's Runtime Fee debacle caused 15% of its US advertisers to jump ship
Oct 24th, 2023 report Drake Star Partners $18.1 billion in deals
Merger and acquisition deal value exceeds $11 billion for 2023
Oct 25th, 2023 report Konvoy Ventures
The games industry drew $454 million in VC funding in the third quarter of 2023
Oct 25th, 2023 report SNJV/Game In 3% hypercasual
French foresight: Only 3% of France’s games were hypercasual last year
Oct 24th, 2023 milestone Bilibili 5 million
Bilibili passes 300m monthly users as Dead Cells hits five million Chinese sales
Oct 23rd, 2023 report Sensor Tower $65 million
Monster Hunter Now set to "surpass" Pokémon Go as geolocation games get moving in Japan
Oct 18th, 2023 report Capcom
Square Enix
Netmarble
Niantic
Krafton
Japan’s mobile playerbase spends above and beyond on new mobile games
Oct 17th, 2023 report Niko Partners SEA-6 to hit $7bn in revenue
South-east Asian mobile gaming market to exceed $7 billion in revenue by 2027
Oct 17th, 2023 other Newzoo
94% of Gen Alpha are game enthusiasts, but gaming has universal appeal
Oct 16th, 2023 report Better 50% report stress relief
Gamers actually spend MORE time outdoors, but 58% still think they’re lazy
Oct 16th, 2023 report
78% of gamers play on mobile, with 44% considering it their primary device
Oct 16th, 2023 milestone Scopely $7bn in User Spend
Monopoly Go developer Scopely estimated to surpass $7bn in lifetime user spend
Oct 16th, 2023 report Entertainment Software Association
Almost half of all gamers find a good friend or spouse through gaming
Oct 11th, 2023 milestone Capcom
Niantic 		$31.44 million
Monster Hunter Now is Niantic’s second biggest game with $31.44 million in one month
Oct 11th, 2023 report 4%
UK kids are most likely to make in-game purchases, but only 4% spend on loot boxes
Oct 10th, 2023 anniversary Steel Media Ltd 10 Years of PG Connects
PG Connects celebrates its 10th Anniversary in 2024
Oct 9th, 2023 GameRefinery, a Liftoff company
Chess is playing the long game: The rise of the auto chess genre
Oct 10th, 2023 Nintendo
Ubisoft
Apple
Tencent
Tencent, Apple, Ubisoft, and Nintendo lead the industry in carbon emission reduction
Oct 10th, 2023 report Shift Up
RPGs account for 60% of Korea’s mobile game sales
Oct 10th, 2023 report Hoyoverse
Sensor Tower
NetEase Games
Krafton 		$1.96 billion
China’s top publishers generated $1.96 billion this September
Oct 9th, 2023 report Nvidia
Generative AI deals fell to 101 deals in 2023’s third quarter
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