Bullseye
Why Call of Duty: Mobile and Mario Kart Tour top the download charts but only one is top grossing
Crunching the data with App Annie
Tour De Force
Mario Kart Tour drives 124 million downloads in first month
Generates $37 million
Loose Change
Coin Master cashes in over $500 million in global revenue at $6.20 per download
Moon Active’s title has surpassed 81 million downloads
Top Game
Gismart's Cool Goal! rakes in 35 million downloads
The game was one of the top three hyper-casual titles in September
Vroom Vroom
Asphalt 9: Legends does 1 million downloads on Nintendo Switch in launch week
Full game available for $20
Charts
Mario Kart Tour was the most downloaded mobile title in September
Cool Goal saw month-on-month growth of 85 per cent
Making Magic
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery conjures $154 million in lifetime revenue
The US accounts for the most spending
Week One Wonder
Call of Duty: Mobile is the fastest ever mobile game to reach 100 million downloads
Shooting for the stars
Appetite For Destruction
Call of Duty: Mobile hits 35 million downloads, despite not being live in China (or Belgium)
Fastest action game launch ever
Fast Start
Mario Kart Tour does 90 million downloads but monetisation lags
Biggest Nintendo mobile game ever
Out With A Bang
Call of Duty: Mobile hits 3 million downloads on launch day
Title topped the free iOS app charts in 32 separate markets
Levelling Up
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost generates $106 million in first year
Third highest-grossing mobile title for the company
Good Start
Pokemon Masters generates $33 million from first month
Free-to-play title catches 12 million installs
Pole Position
Mario Kart Tour races to 20 million downloads in 24 hours
Nintendo's best-ever launch on mobile to date
Moving Fast
Following the success of Cool Goal, Gismart is looking to partner with more hypercasual game devs
New strategy is paying off
Mad Numbers
Madfinger Games has accumulated over 250 million downloads
Czech Republic studio formed in 2010 and is best known for its Shadowgun series
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Pokemon Masters tops US free App Store rank
Rankings from August 26th to October 1st
Gotta Sync ‘em All
Pokemon Masters champions 10 million downloads in four days
Number one for downloads across 27 countries including the US and Japan
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Voodoo's top 10 download dominance wanes
Rankings from August 19th to 25th
Gears Royale
Gears Pop snags one million players
The title has been an early top 100 grossing game in the UK and US
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Playrix's Gardenscapes, Homescapes and Township bag top 10 grossing spots
Rankings from August 12th to 18th
Sensor Tower
Good Job Games’ Fun Race 3D tops downloads for hyper-casual games in July
Voodoo’s Aquapark.io slides to second spot
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Fortnite’s mechs send the battle royale hit to number one in the US
Rankings from July 29th to August 4th
Hard Pill To Swallow
Dr. Mario World’s first month revenue is Nintendo’s lowest on mobile to date
$1.4 million in revenue places the puzzler last out of all five major releases
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Dragon Raja helps Tencent claim top four highest grossing spots in China
Rankings from July 22nd to 28th
Gotta Catch 'em All
Pokemon Go catches one billion downloads
Half of those were picked up in the game's first two months back in September 2016
Sensor Tower
India tops worldwide mobile downloads for Q2 2019 with 5.4 billion
13 per cent increase from Q1 2019
Be Connected Be Discovered
Facebook tops mobile app publishers worldwide for Q2 2019
Google dominates the App Store however
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent’s Game for Peace reclaims top spot from Honor of Kings in China
Rankings from July 15th to 21st
Magic Number
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite generates $12 million in revenue in its first month
Pokemon Go was downloaded 182m times in its launch month
Flying High
Thatgamecompany’s Sky soars past one million downloads
Title estimated to have generated $175,000
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle strikes up US top grossing spot
Rankings from July 8th to 14th
Medically Sound
Dr. Mario World encapsulates five million downloads in first week
Half a million dollars generated from player spending
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Honor of Kings is only the third top grosser in China as it faces a new challenger
Rankings from July 1st to July 7th
Medical Bills
Dr. Mario World prescribes two million downloads in 72 hours
Game generates a disappointing $100,000 in revenue from player spending
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Harry Potter remains stationary as Pokemon Go makes a comeback
Rankings from June 24th to June 30th
Hyper-casual Rise
11.2 billion mobile games were downloaded in Q2 2019 reports App Annie
PUBG Mobile claims highest average MAU
Season Pass
Clash of Clans had its best revenue month for two years in June
Player spending up 26 per cent as a result of season pass subscription
The Doctor Is In
Dr. Mario World tops iOS charts quicker than Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
BTS World beats both however
Job Losses
Intermedia Labs lays off several HQ Trivia staff as download numbers drop
Jeopardy winner Alex Jacobs claims he has not been paid winnings from the show
Whole Lotta Cash
Mobile game spending for the first half of 2019 reaches nearly $30 billion
20.1 billion downloads showing a 3.2 per cent increase year-on-year
Rapid Growth
Growing German studio Kolibri hits 100m downloads
The developer behind Idle Miner Tycoon and Idle Factory Tycoon now employs 100 staff
Weekly Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Wizards Unite hits top 10 US download charts but is not a top grosser
Rankings from June 17th to June 23rd
Spellbinding Stuff
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite enchants players with $3 million in first week
6.5 million downloads in seven days
Beta Success
DOTA Underlords public beta reaches 1.5 million mobile downloads in seven days
Russia garnered the largest number with approximately 210,000 installs
“we’ll Take The Lot”
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite on track to earn $10 million in first month
AR game brought in $1.1 million from opening weekend
Weekly Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Candy Crush Saga shoots down PUBG Mobile’s chances of topping gross ranking in the US
Rankings from June 10th to June 16th
Galleons
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite makes $300,000 in first 24 hours from US and UK
Tops US App Store however can’t match the numbers of Pokemon Go
Data
Cultist Simulator generates $226,000 on mobile in less than two months
61,671 downloads across the App Store and Google Play
Forever Franchise
Empires & Puzzles racks up 34 million downloads
New update led by 20-year old Sofia Vanhanen adds base updates and Hunter's Lodge