Hit For Six
How Nazara Games topped India's Google Play with Royal Challengers Bangalore partnership
CEO Manish Agarwal on how mobile games and the IPL can work together
Instant Success
Monument Valley 2 storms the App Store download charts to take top spot
Strong start for sequel to popular puzzle game
Roll Out
Transformers: Earth Wars clears 10 million downloads just in time for first anniversary
Space Ape to host events and launch new content during anniversary month
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: New games flood the download charts but Figdet Spinner remains top dog
Rankings from May 22nd to May 28th
Boom There It Is
Game Insight's Guns of Boom shoots past five million downloads in two weeks
Over 100,000 five-star reviews on Google Play
The Big Bucks
Mobile developers generate over $70 billion in App Store revenues
Number of downloads increased by 70% in last 12 months
King Of The World
80% of Gamevil's War of Crown's one million downloads came from outside South Korea
Surprising turnout for a particularly Korean game
Lu Bu Approved
Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed surpasses six million downloads
Players spending an average of 72 minutes a day in-game
Fidget Spinners
Fidget spinner winners: How the latest playground craze has got the App Store all in a spin
How are the games performing, and how long can it last?
Soaring Ahead
Zombie Gunship Survival shoots past two million downloads five days after launch
Raking in the downloads across the globe
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Fidget spinner games continue to dominate with Ketchapp's latest
Rankings from May 15th to May 21st
Keep On Rolling
Atari renews Rollercoaster Tycoon license until 2022 as mobile game clears 6.5 million downloads
Extends previous agreement by three years
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Fidget Spin most downloaded game on iPhone
Rankings from May 8th to May 14th
Spinning Up The Charts
Ketchapp gets in on the fidget spinner craze with no.1 App Store game Finger Spinner
Must-have toy is now the must-have app
Creeping Up
Outplay’s mobile tower defence game Alien Creeps TD surpasses 20 million downloads
First launched in October 2014
Keep It Greasy
East Side Games' licensed IP Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money hits two million downloads in a month
Time to crack open a cold one with the boys
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