Mar 17, 2025
Milestone
- Cygames
$2.5 billion
- Date
- Type
- Companies Involved
- Key Datapoint
Mar 17, 2025
Anniversary
- NetEase Games
60 million installs
NetEase’s Blood Strike surpasses 60m mobile installs and $22.9m in time for first anniversary
Mar 13, 2025
Report
- Xsolla
Monetisation
Xsolla releases Q1 2025 report on the future of global gaming and game development: Analysis of metrics and emerging trends
Mar 13, 2025
Report
- Almedia
Half of mobile gamers in the US and UK are earning money playing games, survey claims
Mar 12, 2025
Report
- Scopely
- Niantic
- Savvy Games Group
20 million weekly players
Pokémon Go has 20m weekly active players nearly nine years after its global launch
Mar 12, 2025
Milestone
- Top App Games
5m players
Ludus: Merge Arena surpasses 5m players and races past $3m monthly revenue
Mar 10, 2025
Milestone
- Kuro Games
$250 million
Wuthering Waves rides the wave to $250m after Version 2.0’s major comeback
Mar 5, 2025
Other
- Scopely
- Niantic
$8.9 billion
How Pokémon Go developer Niantic's games stack up ahead of a potential Scopely acquisition
Mar 6, 2025
Milestone
- Supersonic Studios
- Unity
6.2 billion downloads
Supersonic surpasses 6.2 billion global downloads in five years
Mar 6, 2025
Milestone
- Jagex
$1 billion
RuneScape surpasses $2 billion in lifetime revenue
Mar 3, 2025
Milestone
- Activision Blizzard
- Electronic Arts
- Steel Media Ltd
- Jam City
- Valve
- Scopely
- Tilting Point
- Roblox
- Activision
- Take-Two Interactive
- Unity
- Crunchyroll
- Netflix
- SciPlay
$28 billion
PGC San Francisco 2025 nears after US mobile gamers spend record-breaking $28bn
Mar 5, 2025
Report
- InGameJob
- Values Value
Who has pet projects in the games industry and what drives them?
Mar 4, 2025
Other
- Niantic
- The Pokemon Company
$19.8 million
Pokémon Go Tour Unova – Global weekend made $19.8m in two days
Mar 4, 2025
Milestone
- Shift Up
$1 billion
Goddess of Victory: Nikke hits $1bn on mobile during Romantic Valentine event
Feb 28, 2025
Milestone
- DeNA Co.,Ltd.
- The Pokemon Company
100m downloads
Pokémon TCG Pocket surpasses 100 million downloads
Feb 27, 2025
Report
- Playtika
DTC hits $694m in 2024
Playtika allocates up to $450m for “bolt-on” M&A activity over next three years
Feb 27, 2025
Other
- DeNA Co.,Ltd.
- Niantic
- The Pokemon Company
Pokémon revenue
Pokémon Day 2025: Just how big a deal are Pokémon’s mobile games?
Feb 25, 2025
Milestone
- The Pokemon Company
$150 million
Pokémon Sleep hits $150m mark despite slowdown since first anniversary
Feb 21, 2025
Report
- Hasbro
- Scopely
Games revenue rises 22%
Hasbro gaming segment grows 22% as Monopoly Go adds $112 million to revenue in 2024
Feb 20, 2025
Report
- Unity
Revenue falls 25% Y/Y
Unity revenue falls 25% in Q4 as engine and ads segments see declines
Feb 20, 2025
Milestone
- King
$379,000
Candy Crush Solitaire snaps up $379,000 in first two weeks
Feb 19, 2025
Report
- Nitro Games
$12.3m revenue
Nitro Games reports record $12.3m revenue in 2024
Feb 18, 2025
Report
- Ubisoft
$315.6 million
Ubisoft’s mobile net bookings share up to 10% following Assassin's Creed Shadows delay
Feb 17, 2025
Milestone
- FirstFun
$2 billion
Last War: Survival surpasses $2bn after record player spending in early 2025
Feb 17, 2025
Report
- Netmarble
$4.6 million profit
Netmarble escapes the red with $4.6m net profit after two years of losses
Feb 17, 2025
Other
- Epic Games
- Epic Games Store
94m new Epic Games accounts
Epic Games Store on mobile a "focal point" as cross-platform accounts rise by 94m in 2024
Feb 17, 2025
Milestone
- Pixonic
- My.Games
War Robots hits $1bn
War Robots hits $1 billion in revenue with mobile driving the majority of earnings
Feb 13, 2025
Report
- Embracer Group
$681.5 million
Embracer’s net sales down as mobile profits dive and headcount plummets
Feb 13, 2025
Report
- AppLovin
$4.7 billion
AppLovin to sell apps business for $900m as it focuses on ads
Feb 11, 2025
Milestone
- Habby
$100 million
Habby’s Capybara Go surpasses $100m in gross player spending
Feb 12, 2025
Report
- DeNA Co.,Ltd.
$301.2 million
DeNA’s games business profits up 8,126.8% after Pokémon TCG Pocket’s success
Feb 12, 2025
Milestone
- Dream Games
$50 million
Royal Kingdom surpasses $50m in player spending
Feb 11, 2025
Report
- Shift Up
$151.2 million
Shift Up revenue up 30% to $151m in 2024 despite decrease in Goddess of Victory: Nikke sales
Feb 10, 2025
Report
- Sega
$2.1 billion net sales
Sega’s net sales slide down 8% year-over-year as Football Manager 25 skips release
Feb 11, 2025
Report
- Krafton
$1.9 billion
Krafton makes record-breaking $1.9bn with mobile revenue up 35.7% in 2024
Feb 11, 2025
Report
- Dream Games
- InvestGame
- Spyke Games
- Laton Ventures
$935 million
Turkish games industry success "deeply rooted" in mobile with total $935m in capital since 2020
Feb 10, 2025
Report
- Square Enix
$1.6 billion net sales
Mobile sales slump hits Square Enix profits
Feb 6, 2025
Report
- Newzoo
- Carry1st
Mobile leads the charge in Africa’s $1.8 billion games market
Feb 5, 2025
Anniversary
- Nintendo
- Intelligent Systems
$1.276 billion
Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Heroes: eight years, $1.3bn revenue and the value of player voting
Feb 4, 2025
Milestone
- DeNA Co.,Ltd.
- The Pokemon Company
$500 million
Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket rockets past $500m in just 22 days more than Pokémon Go
Jan 30, 2025
Report
- Scopely
- Metacore
- Moon Active
- Dream Games
- AppMagic
- Microfun
$15.2 billion
Royal Match earned 51% of all match-3 IAP revenue in 2024 as casual genre made $15.2 billion
Jan 30, 2025
Report
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Drake Star Partners
- Play Ventures
- Bitkraft Ventures
- Krafton
$10.5 billion
Report: Games industry M&As valued at $10.5 billion in 2024 with 21% volume increase
Jan 29, 2025
Anniversary
- Infold Games
$446.6 million
Love and Deepspace celebrates first anniversary and over $400m after record-breaking month
Jan 29, 2025
Report
- ByteBrew
40% more North Americans are playing mobile games at 1AM than global average
Jan 29, 2025
Report
- SplitMetrics
VR games surge on Android as Meta Quest 3 drives 60% growth
Jan 27, 2025
Report
- SocialPeta
Advertising
SocialPeta released mobile game white paper: global mobile game advertisers surpass 250,000
Jan 27, 2025
Anniversary
- The Pokemon Company
$140 million
Pokémon Sleep snoozes past $140m in time for 1.5 year anniversary
Jan 22, 2025
Report
- Sensor Tower
Mobile app downloads hit 136 billion in 2024 as revenue surges to $150bn
Jan 16, 2025
Report
- Almedia
72% of mobile devs plan to increase UA spending in 2025 as reward-based campaigns rise
Jan 14, 2025
Milestone
- Rockstar Games
- Steel Media Ltd
- Playrix
- Supercell
- King
- Space Ape Games
- Tripledot Studios
$1 billion