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December 5, 2025 Ramping Up Revenue Kingshot catapults past $500m with nine months of consecutive growth Century Games’ latest 4X strategy hit made $96.7m this November
December 5, 2025 Milestone Unico Studio surpasses 1.6bn mobile downloads and 750m web plays The Brain Test developer added 1.1bn downloads in three years
December 3, 2025 Streaming Surge Twitch hits 21m streamers with billions of hours watched in 2025 Over a million creators streamed on Twitch from the UK alone
December 2, 2025 Pikmin Power Pikmin Bloom hits $100m after four years as 2025 becomes its best year yet After making just $8.4m in its first full year, Pikmin Bloom has raked in $34.8m during 2025 with another month to go
December 1, 2025 Milestone Resident Evil Survival Unit surpasses two million downloads in under two weeks The game has maintained strong momentum after crossing one million downloads last month
November 25, 2025 Royal Revenue Royal Kingdom surpasses $300m in first year, beating Royal Match Dream Games’ follow-up puzzler made 2% more than its forebear in its first full year
November 20, 2025 Milestone Resident Evil Survival Unit surpasses 1 million downloads in under three days The game reached number one on the App Store’s top free charts in more than 15 regions
November 5, 2025 Switch 2 Sales Nintendo Switch 2 surpasses 10m unit sales in under four months The original Switch sold 4.7m units in its first four months
October 30, 2025 Pocket Power Pokémon TCG Pocket dethrones Pokémon Go as it celebrates first anniversary and $1.3bn The digital card game had the most lucrative first year of any mobile Pokémon game
October 29, 2025 Milestone Honor of Kings surpasses 260m global MAUs The Chinese server now sees over 139 million DAUs, up from 100m in 2024
October 28, 2025 Milestone Pokémon TCG Pocket surpasses 150m downloads in under a year New anniversary updates aim to make card collecting more accessible
October 28, 2025 Milestone The Battle of Polytopia surpasses 25m downloads on mobile The milestone follows steady updates including weekly challenges and new skins
October 27, 2025 Milestone Resident Evil Survival Unit surpasses 2m pre-registrations worldwide The total includes combined sign-ups from the App Store and Google Play across multiple regions
October 17, 2025 Milestone Where Winds Meet surpasses 5m global pre-registrations ahead of launch The game has already surpassed 30m players in China since its 2024 launch
October 8, 2025 Pretty Penny Umamusume: Pretty Derby hits $2.5bn after most lucrative day in four years The horse girl gacha has picked up $55.3m overseas since its worldwide launch on July 26th
October 7, 2025 Roblox Record Roblox’s Steal a Brainrot becomes first game to surpass 25m concurrent players The experience bested Grow a Garden for the top spot in September, then hit a new industry milestone this October
October 3, 2025 Major Milestone TinyBytes surpasses 100 million downloads across its portfolio Flagship title Massive Warfare makes up for a large portion of the downloads
October 1, 2025 Industry Recognition Maliyo Games featured by Apple to mark Nigeria’s 65th Independence Day Safari City, Crazy Ludo, Whot King, and Secret Letter were spotlighted
September 30, 2025 Penguin Power NFT penguin game Pudgy Party hits one million installs in first month The title was developed on Mythical Games’ platform, but Web3 elements are optional
September 29, 2025 Revenue Rising Destiny: Rising hits $10m in first month on mobile Estimates suggest launch day was the most lucrative followed by September 12th, one day after Season of Daybreak started
September 24, 2025 Milestone Fateless completes Alpha Wave cycle with 36k players for upcoming RPG Godforge Alpha Wave 3 drew 36,000 players, logging over 355,000 hours of gameplay
September 23, 2025 Mobile Milestone Delta Force hits $300m on mobile after record daily revenue Daily player spending hit $9.3m on September 19th, up 333% over one week
September 18, 2025 Milestone Metacore celebrates fifth anniversary alongside Merge Mansion’s five-year milestone The mobile title has surpassed 60m downloads and $700m in lifetime revenue
September 17, 2025 Milestone Fable Town celebrates first anniversary after generating $9m in lifetime revenue since launch A special three-week Anniversary of Magic event runs until October 2nd to mark the milestone
September 9, 2025 Milestone SuperGaming’s MaskGun surpasses 100m players across Android and iOS To celebrate, the publisher is running a two-week in-game event with rewards and recognition for players
September 2, 2025 Genre Strategies FreePlay talks 2bn downloads and hybridcasual's rapid growth "We consider creatives production to be one of our core strengths," says head of publishing Ivan Spijarskiy
September 2, 2025 Romantic Revenue Anime-style dating sim Love and Deepspace surpasses $750m Infold Games’ departure from the Nikki series has proven fruitful, three-quarters of the way to $1 billion
August 13, 2025 Milestone Fable Town surpasses $1m in monthly revenue The merge-3 title has 2.3m installs and $7.5m in lifetime earnings
August 8, 2025 Milestone Castle Duels celebrates first anniversary with 3.5m installs and $13m lifetime revenue My.Games launches Creator Programme to reward and monetise community talent
July 30, 2025 Milestone CSR Racing franchise has surpassed $1 billion in player spending Milestone comes after 13 years on the track
July 30, 2025 Milestone InnoGames has surpassed €2 billion in lifetime revenue Tribal Wars, Grepolis, and Elvenar each contributed over €200m to the milestone
July 29, 2025 Milestone FIFA Rivals surpasses 1 million downloads Over 15m matches played and 16m goals scored since release
July 28, 2025 Milestone My Talking Tom Friends 2 surpasses 10 million downloads Outfit7 achieves its highest-ever preregistration conversion rate with this launch
July 18, 2025 Milestone TapNation hits 150m downloads with Guess Their Answer and Doll Dress Up The publisher’s mobile game portfolio has now surpassed 1.5 billion downloads
July 17, 2025 Milestone TowerLands joins Mamboo Entertainment's portfolio as the publisher crosses 1bn installs The publisher said 20% of its mobile game installs come from platforms outside the App Store and Google Play
July 14, 2025 Strategy Spending Whiteout Survival hits $3bn in player spending in under 2.5 years Century Games’ strategy title has been among the five highest-earning mobile games every month this year
July 8, 2025 Sporty Celebration MLB Rivals hits 5m downloads and 1bn pitches as it marks second anniversary Developer Com2uS is offering players a series of special events and rewards both in-game and on social media
July 7, 2025 Victorious Valorant Valorant Mobile hits 40m pre-registrations in China Riot Games opened pre-registrations on April 21st, exclusively for the Chinese version
July 2, 2025 Milestone Sky: Children of the Light surpasses 270m downloads ahead of sixth anniversary celebration The anniversary ceremony will honour outstanding user-generated content across ten categories
June 25, 2025 Portfolio Prowess FreePlay surpasses 2bn lifetime installs after expanding into hybridcasual The developer and publisher’s games are available in more than 175 countries, with standouts including Count Masters, Twerk Race 3D and Zombie Apocalypse
June 25, 2025 Roblox Record Roblox’s Grow a Garden hits industry record 21.3m concurrent users, surpassing PUBG, Fortnite and more The Roblox experience more than doubled its 8.9m record set in May
June 24, 2025 Major Milestone Kingshot surpasses $100m in just 117 days Century Games has blended strategy and survival genres once again, leading to another hit game growing month-over-month
June 23, 2025 Eternally Earning SD Gundam G Generation Eternal surpasses $100m in two months Bandai Namco’s recent release peaked at $3.5m in daily player spending
June 18, 2025 Milestone Fable Town overhaul sparks growth to $5m revenue Marketing spend in the title has doubled this year as it scales to over two million downloads
June 9, 2025 Milestone Moonton Games' Magic Chess: Go Go has surpassed 30m downloads MCGG garnered more than 20m pre-registrations before launching globally on May 28th