November 29, 2022

Milestones

Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL passes 50m downloads milestone, announces new tournament

The app version of the popular card game has racked up 50m downloads in just nine months, followed by an announcement of a new influencer-run tournament

November 24, 2022

Milestones

Sleeper hit Hungry Sharks passes 1bn lifetime downloads

Ubisoft's Hungry Sharks franchise had surpassed 1bn lifetime downloads, in a sleeper success story for mobile

November 10, 2022

Mobile Market

Marvel Snap had a blockbuster release and Clash of Clans saw a 500% increase in daily iOS revenue in October

GameRefinery delves into the performance of the mobile market in October to identify the key trends

November 9, 2022

Nintendo Numbers

Nintendo mobile downloads "equivalent to the cumulative unit sales total of all Nintendo hardware"

The milestone of 800 million downloads since 2016 was achieved in October

October 31, 2022

Japanese Market

Hypercasual games dominate Japan’s charts by installs, but struggle to engage players

Mobile gaming is on the rise in the home of video gaming

October 25, 2022

Adjust Analysis

Exclusive: Educational, Casino and Arcade games on the rise according to Adjust's Q3 2022 report

Adjust analyses the EMEA and UK markets for the third quarter of 2022

October 21, 2022

Special Report

The mobile gaming market is on track for a record breaking year

Data.ai delves into the performance of the market throughout the third quarter of 2022

October 20, 2022

Stumble Guys Success

Battle royale game Stumble Guys is making almost half a million dollars every day

Scopely-owned game has a total of 265 million downloads

October 5, 2022

Sensor Tower Report

Player spending forecast to fall 2% year-on-year in 2022

Google Play game revenue is predicted to fall 8.3%

October 3, 2022

Market Analysis

Latest Adjust report highlights January as strongest month for installs and sessions

A new report by Adjust analyses the EMEA and UK Markets

September 26, 2022

Socialpeta Report

Subway Surfers and Candy Crush Saga still at the top of the game

SocialPeta’s August report delves into the industry’s success

September 23, 2022

Genshin's Growing Giant

Genshin Impact surpasses $3.6 billion revenue ahead of second anniversary

The game made $12 million revenue on day of Version 3.0 release

September 16, 2022

Market Dominance

1% of publishers are responsible for 91% of app revenue

The publishers also generated 79% of downloads in H1 2022

September 9, 2022

July Charts

Uma Musume Pretty Derby raced into July’s charts

Stumble Guys unseated Subway Surfers as the month’s most downloaded iOS title

September 6, 2022

Happy Anniversary

State of Survival celebrates third anniversary, passes download milestone

The game has passed a milestone 150 million downloads

August 30, 2022

Download Milestone

Rollic celebrates a milestone as it achieves 2 billion downloads across its portfolio

The Zynga subsidiary is trying to redefine the hypercasual genre

August 9, 2022

Stranger Things Have Happened

Netflix games only engage a slim minority of its streaming audience

Fewer than 1% of subscribers are playing the company's mobile games

August 8, 2022

Congratulations!

King of Avalon celebrates sixth anniversary

Frost & Flame expansion helps drive $10 million revenue for FunPlus in the last 30 days

August 4, 2022

A Bad Period For Growth

Most mobile genres see revenue decline in the first half of 2022

The market saw a year-on-year market fall of 9.6 per cent

July 20, 2022

Anniversary Achievements

Outfit7’s My Talking Angela 2 celebrates first anniversary and 300 million downloads

Anniversary celebrations include game update and song release

July 15, 2022

Bytedance And Meta Reign Supreme

Apps are earning more revenue than games for the first time ever

Spending in non-game apps has grown more than twice the rate as games

July 11, 2022

Success And Challenges

Israeli industry reached $8.6 billion in revenue in 2021, with mobile the dominant gaming platform

Israeli gaming industry must overcome lack of local talent, youth investment, and government funding to build

July 5, 2022

Blazing A Trail To Success

Diablo Immortal earned $49 million in first month

The game earns over $1 million a day

June 27, 2022

Hot Five

Hot Five: Miniclip to acquire SYBO, Supercell reveals PC-exclusive studio, and TikTok owners reach $1 billion

The hottest news articles on PG.biz

June 16, 2022

Netflix Numbers

Netflix mobile games exceed 13 million downloads

Subscription service titles have seen five million downloads since January 2022

June 14, 2022

Predicting And Projecting

Sensor Tower: player spending on mobile games reaching $117 billion by 2026

Apps to outpace games in terms of spending, but gaming predicted to remain the largest individual category.

May 12, 2022

Revenue Report

Mobile game revenue decreased for first time ever in Q1 2022

Sensor Tower's State of Mobile Gaming 2022 report shows revenue and install variation by country

May 9, 2022

Download Deluge

Voodoo becomes the third-largest global company in app installs

The sole European member of the top six

April 26, 2022

Revving And Racing

Hill Climb Racing zooms to two billion installs

Milestone reached as studio and IP approach 10th anniversary

April 21, 2022

Puzzle Players

Sensor Tower: US puzzle game spending increased 4.2% to $5 billion

Decline in downloads witnessed across the board

April 19, 2022

Flight To Five Billion

Rovio surpasses five billion lifetime mobile game downloads

Angry Birds creator continues to soar

April 14, 2022

Hypercasual On Top

Adjust: hypercasual made up 27% of global mobile downloads in 2021

2021 saw CPI increase, but retention rates followed

April 13, 2022

Hypercasual On Top

Sensor Tower: Merge Master was the most downloaded game for March 2022

Free Fire in second place with 25.5 million downloads

April 7, 2022

Hypercasual Downloads

Merge Master - Dinosaur Fusion was the most downloaded hypercasual game in Q1 2022

Homa Games latest title scores big in India according to AppMagic

April 1, 2022

Stifled Spending

Sensor Tower: Q1 2022 mobile games spending dropped 7.1% to $21 billion

Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile, and Genshin Impact were the highest grossing games

March 31, 2022

Productising Publishing Process

ironSource surpasses two billion downloads across 50 published games

Two years since the launch of publishing solution Supersonic

March 29, 2022

Wordlegate

The 'wrong' Wordle sees downloads soar since 2022

Over five years since the game launched the newfound success is on the back of the recent web-based game of the same name

March 29, 2022

Free Fire First

Sensor Tower: Global mobile game downloads reached 4.4 billion for February 2022

Free Fire places first for second month this year at 21.8 million downloads

March 28, 2022

Four Billion

Miniclip exceeds 4 billion downloads

8 Ball Pool is the studios most popular title with over one billion downloads

March 28, 2022

Hypercasual Hits

Hypercasual publisher TapNation surpasses 500 million downloads

Ice Cream Inc. in the top spot with 171 million installs

March 22, 2022

The Lion's Share

Mobile games consumer spending reached $22 billion for Q1 2022

65% of all consumer spending is on games

March 17, 2022

Going Strong

SuperGaming's Silly Royale surpasses 17 million downloads following Squid Games-inspired event

Squid Games-inspired in-game event a key driver

March 17, 2022

No Stopping Yet

AppQuantum surpasses 100 million downloads

Idle merge game Gold and Goblins is the most downloaded title

March 10, 2022

Skill-based Spending

Tether Studios surpasses $250 million lifetime revenue

Over 30 million downloads across 27 titles

March 8, 2022

Drawing An Audience

Kwalee’s Draw It surpasses 100 million downloads

The company’s most downloaded and lucrative game to date

February 25, 2022

Love Island Launch

Love Island The Game 2 is now Fusebox Games’ most successful launch

Seeing high retention rates

February 25, 2022

Top Charts

Uptodown: The platform's most popular mobile games from the past 10 years

From Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies to PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile

February 24, 2022

Privacy Problems

AppsFlyer: Apple’s privacy update caused 35% in-app purchase revenue decline

iOS user acquisition spend fell 13%, Android jumped 35%

February 22, 2022

Garena Going Strong

Free Fire was the most downloaded game for January 2022

Subway Surfers comes in close second

February 18, 2022

Investor Encouragement

Supercell highlights excitement for external developers and importance of young talent

The Level Up program begins