New Feature
GameRefinery adds new ad monetisation tracking feature
Users can see in-app monetisation trends
Money Money Money
Keywords revenue was up 30% in 2019
Firm saw a higher adjusted EBITDA, but dividend payment dips
Kick Your Bot
Adjust's new survey finds that 41 per cent of mobile gamers have used bots
Bot spending is $65 on average
Slapping Downloads
Slap Kings racked up the most mobile downloads in March 2020
Voodoo had three entries
Data Driven
Five Chinese and Japanese mobile gaming myths investigated
GameRefinery gets out its magnifying glass
Cultist Simulator Sales
One year on: A deep dive into Cultist Simulator's sales since launch
Playdigious communication manager Mathilda Gabrilot takes a close look
10 Years On
Average price of announced iPad games is $3.52
Price premium to exisiting iPhone versions is $1.42
To The Top
Only one-third of CEOs in games started their working lives in the industry
Tim Sweeney mowed lawns before becoming a developer
Play Games!
More than 50% of gamers would rather play games than watch TV
Mobile is the favoured platform
Data Deal
Digital Development Management acquires Digi-Capital's data platform
No value placed on the deal just yet
Words With Lawyers
Zynga struck with lawsuit regarding Words with Friends data breach
Estimated 173 million usernames and passwords hacked
Esports Predictions
Esports revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020
China will generate the most revenue
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Kolibri's Chris Ling on how data can impact a game's development
"Analysis means providing insight and recommendations - not just a chart"
Aided Advertising
Adjust launches new feature to simplify mobile advertisement
The control centre is part of the Adjust Automate suite
Most Downloaded
Johnny Trigger racked up the most downloads in January 2020
SayGames had two titles in the top five
Top Media Sources
BlueStacks and TikTok offer substantial ROI for mobile game UA
So says new Singular report
Mobile Games Spending
Mobile gaming ‘whales’ spending more than ever, according to GameAnalytics
GameAnalytics CEO Ioana Hreninciuc digs into the data to find that high spending players are spending 20% more today than they were in 2016
Golden Data
Time for a new free app analytics tool
New ways to track what’s going on
Gameanalytics Benchmarks+
GameAnalytics announces powerful new Benchmarks+ features
Benchmarks+ releases several new features, including regional filtering, sub-genres, top 2-4% performance quantiles, and more
Still Got It
Mobile is the most popular games platform for Americans over 50
More women than men play games in that age group
Superdata 2019 Summary
Pokemon GO, Candy Crush Saga and Honor of Kings push mobile to $64.4 billion revenue in 2019
Free-to-play model continues to grow across all platforms
Christmas Cheer
Mobile games spending reached $210 million this Christmas, increasing by 8% year-on-year
76 per cent of all revenue across the mobile platform
Monthly Cut
The battle pass is a hot trend in mobile games that looks like it’s here to stay
GameRefinery looks at a new trend
Great Insights Now
Get a 30% discount on GameAnalytics’ new real-time data Benchmarks+ platform
Data from 87,000 mobile games with 1.2 billion active players
Mobile Leads The Way
Soaring to over $4 billion, southeast Asia is the fastest-growing games market
Up 14% in 2019
Fast Fingers
SayGames' Sand Balls was the most downloaded hypercasual game in October
Developer had two games in top five
Dropping Numbers
Microtransactions down for console, steady for PC, only rising for mobile games
Superdata's data
Ups And Downs
Mobile and DLC maintained US game spending despite a 23% decline in hardware sales
2019 to-date up 1% to $28 billion
Hey Little Spender
The hard data behind Supercell’s decision to can Rush Wars
Sensor Tower spills the beans
Data
Preteens start with tablets and move to console
87 per cent of parents think games are educational
Young Guns
Gen Z plays fewer mobile games but loves Supercell
Conclusions from App Annie report
Go Low, Go Big
Why tens of millions more Android gamers are playing PUBG Mobile than Fortnite
New number from Newzoo
Pole Position
Mario Kart Tour races to 20 million downloads in 24 hours
Nintendo's best-ever launch on mobile to date
Deep Data
Five key takeaways from GameAnalytics H1 2019 mobile benchmark report
Crunching 1.2B MAUs and 100k games
Ghosting
Is Apple stopping data companies tracking Apple Arcade downloads?
App Annie and Sensor Tower shooting blanks
Blockbuster Numbers
Minecraft surpasses 112 million players each month
Over 176 million physical copies have been sold around the world
Squeezed Funnel
GameAnalytics: Top 25% mobile games have average Day 28 retention of 4%
New report takes data from 1.2 billion monthly active players
Industry Report
Sweden’s game industry grew 42% in 2018
New report shows revenue increased to EUR 1.9 billion
Npd Numbers
Nintendo Switch remains the best-selling console of 2019 in the US
Fire Emblem: Three Houses was the highest selling game on the Nintendo Switch in July
Data Leak
E3 organiser ESA leaks contact details of journalists, influencers and analysts
US trade body has apologised for the, er, "inconvenience" that this has caused attendees
Hyper-casual Rise
11.2 billion mobile games were downloaded in Q2 2019 reports App Annie
PUBG Mobile claims highest average MAU
Data
Cultist Simulator generates $226,000 on mobile in less than two months
61,671 downloads across the App Store and Google Play
Lot Of Bottle Caps
Fallout Shelter accumulates $100 million in player spending on mobile
63 million downloads across the App Store and Google Play
74 Per Cent Of Spending
One-third of all mobile downloads in 2018 were games according to App Annie
State of Mobile: 2019 and beyond report published this week
Region Focus
Region Focus: How China’s big game freeze has made local developers more internationally minded
“It has been a battle to survive the approvals drought and studios have had to get creative”
1,500 People Surveyed Globally
Redbox Mobile: Over 35s more likely to download apps via adverts
55 per cent opted to install via paid advertisements
Spectating Trends
Mobile the most popular games platform among millennials
Millennials are also spending the most money on games per month
Casual Expansion
WeQ: Investment in ad tech, development and publishing sets us apart from hyper-casual competition
Ad tech company has acquired Booster Studios to develop and publish in-house and third-party hyper-casual games
Moba
Mobile Legends bucks the US MOBA decline by growing revenue to $5.8 million in Q1
But the bigger picture proves that the competitive genre just isn't landing in the region
New Research
Tapjoy: Mobile games have gone mainstream in the US
63 per cent of mobile gamers were found to be women