No Brakes
Asphalt 8: Airborne races past 300 million downloads
Still life in Gameloft's racer as it approaches fourth birthday
You Fight Well
Nexon and Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors Unleashed smashes 5 million downloads
Took just over a month to get there
Ffbe 20 Million Downloads
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius passes 20 million global downloads in time for first anniversary
Still no idea what Exvius means
Dealing Them In
Hearthstone snaps up 70 million downloads
April's Journey to Un’Goro update proves popular with players
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Nonstop Knight rushes past 12 million downloads in 10 months
Players have spent 56 million hours in-game collectively
50 Million Fighters
Netmarble's Marvel Future Fight hits 50 million downloads as it celebrates two-year anniversary
20 million downloads alone in Asia
Still Running
Super Mario Run approaches 150 million downloads
Number of paid players said to be gradually increasing too
Big C.a.t.s.
ZeptoLab's latest game C.A.T.S. hits eight million downloads in first weekend
Tops iOS free download charts in 20 countries
A Better Dynamic
Ilyon Dynamics surpasses 100 million downloads for its 60+ catalogue of games
Has seen at least 30% growth month-on-month since January 2016
Games Growth
Worldwide mobile game revenues grew 53% to $11.9 billion in Q1 2017
Mobile Strike said to be the top grossing game across app stores
Not Bad
Not Doppler’s Crash of Cars cruises to four million downloads in two weeks
.io games alive and well
Ball Battling
Chinese casual eSports game Battle of Balls hits 300 million users worldwide
Big plans for this year's tournaments
Dokkan Downloads
Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle pushes past 150 million downloads in just over two years
Celebrating with a summon event to reward older players over new ones
Still Switched On
Color Switch surpasses 150 million downloads in 15 months
Still going strong with 20 million downloads in last three months
Revved Up
Creative Mobile’s Nitro Nation racks up 30 million players
Players have travelled further than the distance between the sun and Jupiter
Seriously Profitable
Best Fiends franchise generates more than $65 million in revenue
Seriously making $100,000 a day
Vasco Who?
Little-known developer Vasco Games surpasses one billion downloads on mobile since 2013
62 million downloads in its first year from 130 games
Netease In 2017
Fantasy Westward Journey players exchange over $7.3 million worth of in-game currency daily
Pearl Research has all the details from NetEase's media event in February 2017
Back Of The Net
Eight Pixels Square tops UK and France App Store charts with Retro Soccer
Midcore studio finds success with simpler title
Critical Downloads
Soft-launched shooter Critical Ops surpasses 15 million downloads
DAUs still sat at 500,000
Demon Wobble
Level-5 gears up for Yo-Kai Watch Wibble Wobble's European launch after hitting 10 million downloads
Shake shake, wibble wobble
Local Only
75% of the top games in China in 2016 were developed locally
Sensor Tower looks into the country's local focus
Big Numbers
Unity mobile games downloaded 16 billion times in 2016
Figure represents 31% growth from 2015
Cardboard Foundations
10 million Google Cardboard VR viewers have been shipped since 2014
And Google Cardboard apps have racked up 160 million downloads
Chart Topper
Chhota Bheem Speed Racing racks up 1 million downloads and 500,000 DAUs in India
Nazara Games and Tiny Lab Productions team up
Mine All Mine
Minecraft surpasses 122 million sales across all platforms
But how many on mobile?
Critical Hit
Pokemon GO racks up 650 million downloads
Players walk a combined 8.7 billion km
Appsflyer Performance Index
Facebook remains the top driver of game installs on Android and iOS
AppsFlyer digs into the best advertisers of H2 2016
Ruzzle Up Some Downloads
MAG Interactive's Ruzzle franchise surpasses 70 million downloads
Another download milestone for the Stockholm studio
Rising Spending
US iPhone gamers spent an average of $27 on games in 2016
Sensor Tower breaks out some estimates
Amazon Spotlight
Get your game in the spotlight... the Amazon Appstore UK Developer Spotlight!
How getting yourself in the spotlight can lead to more downloads
State Of App Engagement
Only 5% of mobile app users remain active after 30 days
AppsFlyer looks at the state of app engagement
Japanese Hit
Nintendo's Fire Emblem Heroes made more than $5 million in first few days
Over one million downloads half a day after release
Critical Figures
Soft-launched mobile shooter Critical Ops surpasses 13 million downloads and 500,000 DAUs
Eyeing up a Spring 2017 release worldwide
Super Mario Korea
Super Mario Run shoots to the top of App Store download charts in South Korea
Not doing as well in grossing ranks
Fired Up
Nintendo’s Japan-first approach for Fire Emblem Heroes pays off as it nets $2.9 million on its first day
Already a top grosser in the US and Japan
Super Mario Revenue
Super Mario Run generates $39 million from 78 million downloads
Tatsumi Kimishima finally offers some numbers
Reel It In
Gear VR fishing sim Bait! reels in one million downloads as it launches on Google Daydream
Around 20% of all Gear VR devices have game installed
Surf's Up
Subway Surfers still achieving 30 million downloads a month nearly five years after release
One billion wasn't enough
Running Up That Hill
Fingersoft's Hill Climb Racing 2 speeds past 40 million downloads in first two months
A long way to go to catch up to its predecessor
A Kind Of Magic
Bubble Witch 3 Saga flies past 10 million downloads in first two weeks
So says Sensor Tower
30 Million Brains
MAG Interactive's WordBrain surpasses 30 million downloads
Sees one million players on its first Facebook Instant Game
Rapid Revolution
Netmarble's Lineage 2: Revolution surpasses $176 million in revenues in its first month
Only launched in South Korea
Organic Growth
How to maximise organic downloads for your mobile game
Mike Hines tells all
Stealth Success
Breakout Ninja generated $24,100 from 650,000 downloads in its first week
Helped promote other titles too
Going Bananas
Gameloft's Despicable Me: Minion Rush runs past 800 million downloads
More bananas collected than there are people on Earth
Breakout Success
Ex-Boomlagoon founder's latest indie game Breakout Ninja draws in 500,000 downloads in first week
Only took two weeks to make
A Strong Base
Outplay's Castle Creeps TD racks up 1.5 million downloads in first four days
Tower defence title performs well for UK studio
King Of Kings
Tencent's Honor of Kings surpasses 50 million DAUs in 14 months
Almost entirely China-based players
Touch It
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius celebrates nine million downloads with Ariana Grande remix
Collaboration starts to make more sense