Go Jake Go
Subway Surfers dives past 2.5 billion downloads worldwide
Game has just celebrated its seventh anniversary
Weekly Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Game for Peace the second top grosser in China behind Honor of Kings
Rankings from May 6th to May 12th 2019
Monster Declines
Mixi eyes casual players for Monster Strike revival as game surpasses 50m installs
FY2020 profits forecast to drop by 88.6 per cent
Game Of Thrones
Can the Game of Thrones games survive without the hit TV show?
Game of Thrones' watch has ended, but how did the final season impact the performance of games based off the licence?
Weekly Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser again, but it can't beat Coin Master in the UK
Rankings from April 29th to May 5th 2019
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Roblox the top grosser on US App Store
Charts from April 22nd to 28th
Impressive Numbers
Voodoo outpaces hyper-casual rivals with 771 million downloads in six months
Lion Studios and Playgendary follow in second and third
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Weekly global mobile games charts: Clean Road cleans up in the UK in a strong week for SayGames
Charts from April 15th to 21st
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Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent’s Let’s Hunt Monsters storms China’s free downloads rankings
Charts from April 8th to 14th
Mobile Star
Supercell’s Brawl Stars is making $50 million a month
Sales pass $200 million to date
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser thanks to new Gold Pass
Charts from April 1st to 7th
New Milestone
Sniper Strike: Special Ops shoots past 20 million worldwide downloads
“We have an ambitious roadmap of unique, exciting features and game modes”
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent continues its dominance as China’s top grosser but Perfect World drops to second
Charts from March 25th to March 31st
Keeping Lean
How Kolibri went from minimum viable product to 70 million installs for its Idle Tycoon games
A look at the development process from concept design stage to post-release
You Have My Sword
The Elder Scrolls: Blades reaches one million downloads in first week of early access
$500,000 already generated in revenue
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: PUBG Mobile hits top spot in the US Google Play grossing charts
Charts from March 18th to March 24th
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Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent’s Perfect World dethrones Honor of Kings as China’s top grosser
Charts from March 11th to March 17th
Downloads
Nexon’s empire-builder DomiNations hits 50 million downloads
Mobile strategy hits the major milestone just in time for its fourth anniversary
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Tencent's Perfect World debuts top in China while Dragon Ball Z falls
Charts from March 4th to March 10th
Global Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: MZ's Final Fantasy XV and IGG's Lords Mobile edge into the US top 10 grossing positions
Charts from February 25th to March 3rd
Global Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Playrix's Homescapes resurgent in the US top grossing rankings
Charts from February 18th to 24th
Heart Of The Cards
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links summons more than 90 million downloads worldwide
Commemorative in-game campaign held to celebrate milestone
Global Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Matchington Mansion a new US top 10 grosser as Fortnite and Dokkan Battle dominate
Charts from February 11th to 17th
Mark Zuckerberg Likes This
Facebook top apps publisher for mobile downloads in Q4 2018
800 million downloads in three months
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Coin Master overtakes Candy Crush Saga in Great Britain and Ireland for top grossing
Charts from February 4th to February 10th
Sales Star
Brawl Stars scores $110 million in two months
Supercell might be in another annual drop, but Brawl Stars might be the game to turn things around
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Coin Master continues to dominate Great Britain and Ireland
Charts from January 28th to February 3rd
Rune-ing To The Bank
Summoners War exceeds 100 million global downloads
Five-years after launching
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Weekly global mobile games charts: Western developers find premium success in China
Charts from January 21st to 27th
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Weekly Global Mobile Games Charts: PUBG Mobile breaks into US top 10 grossing slots
Charts from January 14th to 20th
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Weekly global mobile games charts: King's Candy Crush Saga the top grosser in UK and US
Charts from January 7th to 13th
Magic
Voodoo's portfolio of games builds up over 1.5 billion downloads
That number grew 50 per cent over the past four months
Star
Supercell’s Brawl Stars racks up $63m in its first month
Players spending up to $2m a day
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Roblox a top grosser in the UK
Charts from December 31st to January 6th
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Weekly global mobile games charts: Roblox moves up Western download and grossing charts over Christmas
iOS and Android charts from the US, UK and China from for the week of December 24th to 30th
That's All Folks
Scopely’s Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem topped 1m downloads on launch day
Release supported by Crushathon livestream
Data
App Annie reports game and app downloads pushed 113 billion this year
The figure represents a 10 per cent year-over-year increase in mobile app downloads
Gold Star
Brawl Stars nets Supercell over $5 million in opening week
Comparatively, it made $6m from its one and a half years in soft-launch
Key Data
How to predict mobile game launch week installs
A deep dive into calculating key factors that affect downloads on release
Report
Report: There's been an 80 per cent rise in Western game installs in East Asia
Research from Appsflyer shows a market dominated by midcore and strategy games
Magic
Gameloft’s Disney Magic Kingdom soars to $114 million in lifetime revenue
Enchanted park builder has also reached over 70 million downloads since 2016
Paradise Palms
Fortnite now has 200 million players
Rise of 60 per cent in the last five months
Vroom
NaturalMotion’s CSR Racing 2 speeds past 73 million installs
The drag racing title has also hit the top spot for grossing in over 120 countries
Spooked
Epic Games’ Fortnite builds up $350m in revenue on iOS
$55 million was grossed in October
Draw
Hearthstone hits 100 million users as mobile revenue reportedly passes $660m
Blizzard’s Warcraft card game spinoff hits the milestone over four years after launch
Hit
Subway Surfers is the most downloaded game of all time on Google Play
App Annie has released a report on the most popular games of Google Play’s first 10 years
Growth Masters
Hyper-casual games publisher Playgendary's IAP revenue shot up 57 per cent during Q3 2018
Bowmasters and Tank Stars bring Playgendary its best quarter yet for revenue and downloads
Crushed It
Candy Crush Friends Saga swipes 10 million downloads in its first week
But King’s sweet puzzling franchise is continuing to trend downwards
Oh
Tencent’s Westernised Arena of Valor takes $15m a year after launch
The US proved to be its most popular region
Mobile's Millions
Popular kids MMO Roblox generates nearly $500m on mobile
UGC-based MMO picked up $92 million in Q3 2018 alone