The Charticle
How did Transformers: Forged to Fight affect the grossing position of Transformers: Earth Wars?
And what impact did Force Arena have on Galaxy of Heroes?
Packing A Perfect Plan
Still a booming beach: Three years on, how Supercell nurtured its runt
Considering Boom Beach
Homegrown Talent
Whatever happened to Fire Emblem Heroes?
How has Nintendo’s first F2P mobile game launched?
Your Game
The cautionary tale of Marvel: Contest of Champions’ v12 update
Whose games is it anyway?
Forevergreens & Bold Beats
Why Zynga and Glu Mobile are focusing on the past for future success
Frank Gibeau and Nick Earl are singing from the same hymn sheet
Managed Decline
Glu Mobile's problems in one chart
The landscape for Nick Earl's new strategy
Just Do It
Were the 21 months Dawn of Titans spent in soft launch a waste of time?
As the game cooked, the market moved on
Design Home Launches
Is Glu Mobile’s $45 million Crowdstar acquisition already paying off?
Design Home is following in the success of Covet Fashion
The Charticle
How did the launch of Dawn of Titans compare to CSR Racing 2?
According to App Annie and Apptopia
Trumped-up
Is Donald Trump a winner for games developers?
Did Donald Trump make mobile games great again?
The Charticle
How has the market responded to the changing genres of Plants vs. Zombies and Best Fiends?
Has the change been resisted, or welcomed with open arms?
No Local Hero
Analyzing Pokemon GO's relative failure in Japan
Lacks sustain
Stark Contrast
Which Marvel games are beating up the US top grossing charts?
Super heroes and villains
Team Up
What's been the impact of adding guilds to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes' grossing performance?
How to enthuse already engaged players
Sibling Rivalry
Two months after launch, Kendall & Kylie is being out grossed by two-year-old Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Elders and betters
Rolling On
One year on: How Yahtzee With Buddies scored high on the top grossing charts
Niche licence, strong sales
Another Puzzle
After four years and 54 million downloads, has $1 billion game Puzzle & Dragons finally peaked?
Does GungHo's cash cow have more to give?
Touchdown
How Madden NFL Mobile became EA Mobile's MVP
Anchored to the Super Bowl
Force Multipler
Which Star Wars mobile F2P game took best advantage of The Force Awakens buzz?
EA vs Disney vs Kabam
No Easy Answers
Katy Perry versus Kim Kardashian: a study in surprising extremes
Charting success and failure
Trumping The Rest
How EA Mobile's Galaxy of Heroes is winning the Star Wars app store battle
Card-collection game is top 50 in the west
Mobile Cadence
Why games-as-a-service not Fallout 4 has been key to Fallout Shelter's ongoing grossing success
Content not consoles
Best Launch Ever?
How Machine Zone's Mobile Strike launched bigger, better and more globally than Game of War
Factory for success
Not A Top Banana
Wrong genre, bad timing: The top grossing performance of Minions Paradise
Yes, we have no bananas
Licence Powered
Is The Walking Dead: No Man's Land shooting up the grossing charts?
Tracking Next Games' hot TV licence
A Soft Launch
Where's the Up gone from Star Wars: Uprising's grossing performance?
Tracking top grossing game performance
Relative Decline
Is Game of War about to steal Clash of Clans' crown as top grossing US game?
All change
Audience-building Pivot
Is a free-first monetisation-second strategy as practised by Agar.io and Vainglory the next UA trick?
Reactions to cost of UA
Wide Appeal
Zynga's Empires & Allies is off to a solid start, especially in US, Japan and China
Global beachhead established
Franchise Power
It's peaked but what's surprising is Fallout Shelter's top grossing decline is so slow
Two weeks on, still strong in UK and US
West Is Best
One year and $120 million later, is Kim Kardashian: Hollywood still top grossing?
How is Glu's celebrity hit aging?
Dash For Cash
It's accumulated 100 million downloads for Sega, but how many gold rings has Sonic Dash collected?
Most popular Sonic game ever
Need Another Superhero?
Doing ok in the west, Marvel Future Fight is really cooking up a storm in Asia
Netmarble's Marvel RPG is on the rise
Coming Up Trumps
When it comes to Hearthstone's Asian success, Japan is the outlier
Phone version has provided another boost
Qualified Success
Dungeon Hunter 5 launch underlines Gameloft's relative F2P success
How good is best?
Strategy Evolved
Tracking DomiNations' rise up western top grossing charts
Big Huge Games rethinks strategy
China Awaits
30 million downloads strong, but how well does Marvel: Contest of Champions monetise?
Valued superheroes
Making A Match
It's got 10 million downloads, but is Best Fiends' generating millions?
Is Seriously's debut a hit?
Big Catch
How Ace Fishing cast its net wide and found global succcess
30 million downloads later
All That Glitters
Is ZeptoLab's King of Thieves stealing any app store gold?
The Charticle considers latest dungeon treasure game
Placement
House of Cards appearance boosts Monument Valley back up the paid charts
Dedicated Netflix users crucial to recent success
Grinding Up
How Heroes Charge charged up the top grossing charts in Germany, Russia, Korea and the US
Power of TV advertising
Charticle
A tale of two IPs: Candy Crush Soda Saga vs. Vainglory
Best of both worlds
Charticle
How successfully has Hothead's Kill Shot taken aim at top grossing charts?
Taking the shot
Data
With a conversion rate of 10%, ustwo's Monument Valley IAP has paid off
Update has driven strong top grossing performance
Charticle
100 million strong, but how has Angry Birds Go! found its audience on Google Play?
Checking out Angry Birds Go!, Epic, Stella and Transformers
Charticle
Mistwalker's Terra Battle scores big on the Google Play top grossing charts in Japan, France and Spain
But iPhone players don't care
Charticle
Walk the LINE: How Disney Tsum Tsum found success in Thailand and Hong Kong
But sunk in the US
Charticle
Have the soccer-mad countries of the world embraced FIFA 15 Ultimate Team?
They think it's all over...
Charticle
Can New Words With Friends continue the franchise's success?
New game, same words