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Hot Five: Uma Musume’s $22.8m overseas launch, Krafton’s record-breaking H1, and casual games’ strong market growth
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Revenue Race
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby makes 50.3% revenue outside Japan in first global month
Japan, the US and Canada are currently the anime gacha’s top markets
Spending Surge
Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond daily revenue spikes 786% with first new card set Infinity Evolved
Cygames’ latest card game has generated $66.7m in its first six weeks on mobile
Hot Five
Hot Five: Rollic’s 1,000 ideations per month, Coin Master - Board Adventure soft launch, and Uma Musume: Pretty Derby’s post-expansion performance
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Revenue Race
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby trots to $6.6m outside Japan after 18 days
Cygames’ flagship was Japan’s top-grossing mobile game in 2021 and 2022, and expanded into the West on June 26th, 2025
Hot Five
Hot Five: Kingshot and SD Gundam G Generation Eternal shoot past $100m, and Grow a Garden hits 21m concurrent users
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Podcast | Episode 58
The UK games industry's £30m boost and Grow a Garden transforms Roblox | Week in Mobile Games podcast
The PocketGamer.biz podcast team give you the state of play every week. Here's where to get it and what's inside this week's episode 58...
Week In Views
Why government support is key to games industry growth, and Uma Musume: Pretty Derby's global launch | Week in Views
The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
New Games
New release roundup: Marvel Mystic Mayhem, Uma Musume: Pretty Derby, Lego Fortnite Expeditions and more
We highlight the latest new games that have broken cover over the past week
Horse Girls Are Here
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby launches globally today after racing to $2.6bn on mobile in Japan
Cygames’ horse girl game has launched in English more than one year on from reveal, and four years after release in Japan
Sequel Strategy
Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond surpasses $20m in first week
Cygames’ strategy card game sequel quadrupled the original Shadowverse’s week one earnings
New Games
New release roundup: Fortnite Blitz Royale, Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, What Duck. and more
We highlight the latest new games that have broken cover over the past week
Ready To Race
$2.5bn maker Uma Musume: Pretty Derby opens pre-registrations, cantering towards English release June 26th
Cygames’ Japanese horse girl hit is changing lanes with an English localisation launching this summer
Racing Revenue
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby gallops past $2.5bn in Japan alone
Cygames’ hit horse girl racing game is still awaiting its English release
To The Races
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby gets an English version - is a Western release imminent?
Cygames’ racer has seen huge success in Japan with over 21 million downloads and $2 billion in revenue
Racing Ahead
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby trots to 21 million downloads from limited Asia release
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby first launched in Japan in 2021 and has remained in Asia ever since
Bowing Out
Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light reaching "service completion" after a decade
AKA Square Enix has another mobile game on the chopping block… But at least this one has stood the distance
Clampdown
Uma Musume Pretty Derby yanked from Chinese app stores two weeks after launch
The game's sudden withdrawal may be due to the gambling connection of its horse racing themes
Q&a
Cygames' Euro and US branches make new connections with the West
“Our new branches will enable us to further strengthen our Western marketing approach”
Expanding Markets
Dragalia Lost developer Cygames to launch American and European branches
The new branches will promote the studio’s games abroad
Dragalia's Final Day
Nintendo’s first mobile IP Dragalia Lost closed down this morning
A retrospective of Dragalia Lost’s four-year journey
Financials
CyberAgent’s 2022 financials reveal 33.8 percent operating loss despite surge in advertising revenue
CyberAgent game sales are down, but that advertising growth holds steady as digital media investment is on the horizon.
Dragalia Descending
Dragalia Lost celebrates fourth anniversary two months before servers shut down
Celebrations include in-game bonuses, artwork on Twitter and more
Nintendo
Nintendo RPG Dragalia Lost to shut down in November
Nintendo’s mobile RPG Dragalia Lost will no longer be accessible after the 30th of November.
Racing To Success
Uma Musume Pretty Derby's South Korean release nets $2.3 million within 24 hours
June 20 release tops the charts on App Store and Google Play
Most Wanted List
Top 5 Japan-only mobile games we wanna play
From rhythm to RPG to WTF?
Lost In Translation?
Dragalia Lost nears $150 million worldwide revenue, Japan accounts for 50%
Action RPG now sits at fourth spot for top-grossing Nintendo mobile titles
Live And Kicking
Dragalia Lost game director Yuji Okada on the two-year success of Nintendo's hidden gem
"We have over 100 people working on the project."
Levelling Up
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost generates $106 million in first year
Third highest-grossing mobile title for the company
Britain Bound
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost launches in UK across iOS and Android
Ireland, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand see release too
Dragalia Won
Dragalia Lost outpaces Super Mario Run and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp with $75m lifetime sales
Still a way off of Fire Emblem Heroes
We Like Ike
Fire Emblem Heroes has grossed over $500 million in two years
More than all other release for mobile combined
Found
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost finds $16m in revenue after two weeks
$13.5m of which, comes from the US and Japan
Revenue Found
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost generates $3.5 million in five days
Picks up over 800,000 downloads
Found
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost hits top download spots in four countries and is a top 30 grosser in the US
Those countries being Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau
Lost And Found
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost launches after racking up over one million pre-registrations
Players will get 2,500 for hitting the milestone should they log into Dragaila Lost
Gladiators, Ready
Nintendo and Cygames' Dragalia Lost picks up 200,000 pre-registrations
Game set for summer launch in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau
Lost And Found
Nintendo taps up Cygames for new RPG game Dragalia Lost
New RPG will be released this summer
Shadowverse World Grand Prix
Cygames gears up for end-of-year Shadowverse World Grand Prix with $120,000 prize pool
Each of the 24 players earns $1,000 just for turning up
Cyberagent Financials
CyberAgent sales grow to $1.62 billion but profits fall sharply in H1 FY17
Profits are way, way down
Compete In Shadows
Cygames partners with Next Generation Esports for first North American Shadowverse tournament
$10,000 prize for the overall winner
Art Fantasy
Ex-Final Fantasy artists Akihiko Yoshida and Hideo Minaba on the creative process and designing for mobile
A deep discussion on how the renowned artists go about their business
Cygames-verse
Cygames on why the West requires an entirely different UA and marketing strategy than its native Japan
Executive Director Yuito Kimura discusses promotional activities, new games and its vision for 2017
Pocket Platinum
Bayonetta developer Platinum Games enters mobile space with Cygames collaboration
Cites advancements in smartphone technology as reason for shifting development
Big In Japan
Colopl on the up, Capcom on the slide, Cygames getting drunk?
Weekly digest from Tokyo
DeNA spends $92 million, buying a 20% stake in Rage of Bahamut dev Cygames
Protecting key franchises