Netease Financials Q3 Fy16
NetEase hits $1.38 billion in sales as Fantasy Westward Journey continues to deliver
Over 100 other games also helping out
Nexon Financials Q3 Fy16
Nexon profits drop 60% despite strong performance of Heroes of Incredible Tales in Southeast Asia and the West
Planning on releasing even more games soon
Mixi Financials Q2 Fy17
Mixi profits tumble by 31% as it begins to test Monster Strike in Western markets
Marvel Tsum Tsum gets a brief mention
Bandai Namco Financials Q2 Fy17
Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle helps push Bandai Namco sales to $2.82 billion
Profits up 32.5% year-on-year
Square Enix Financials Q2 Fy17
Square Enix sales hit $1 billion off the back of mobile successes Mobius Final Fantasy and Brave Exvius
Games released this fiscal year have "underperformed"
Dena Financials
DeNA to double down on Nintendo partnership into next year and beyond
Publisher also plans to release five games of its own in Japan and China
Sweet For Success
King records three top 20 grossing mobile games for nearly three years straight
MAUs fall slightly to a still impressive 394 million
Asia Dash
Sega eyes other Asia markets as Japanese mobile market saturates and game dev costs rise
Predominance of leading publishers raising the stakes in mobile games industry
Ch-ch-changes
Glu Mobile appoints new CEO and acquires control of Covet: Fashion dev Crowdstar for $45 million
Revenues fall to $51.4 million as publisher sets out new changes
Zynga Financials
Zynga’s MAUs fall to 66 million year-on-year as casino games drive revenues
CSR Racing 2 performs better than expected
Ea Financials Q2 Fy17
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes still performing for EA as it helps push mobile sales to $138 million
Still seeing average daily playtimes of 2.5 hours
Gungho Financials Q3 Fy16
Puzzle & Dragons publisher GungHo switches to global development approach as profits fall by 43.4%
10 games currently in development
Konami Financials Q2 Fy17
26 million Power Pro downloads helps Konami's profits soar to $115.8 million
Game revenues increase while everything else drops
Capcom Financials Q2 Fy16
Capcom talks up VR potential as profits slump to $3.86 million
Digital Contents business sees some growth
Samsung Financials Q3 Fy16
Samsung blames exploding Galaxy Note 7 fiasco for burning a hole in its mobile profits
Profits and sales drop across the board
Ninten-go
Nintendo profits up to $364 million as Pokemon GO and Seattle Mariners sale prop up falling revenues
Financial report doesn't mention Miitomo
Tough Apples
Apple posts first annual revenue loss in 15 years as sales fall by $18.1 billion
Sales down across the board except in Services
Mobile Trumps Pc
Mobile growth picks up the slack from PC decline in Changyou’s games business
Number of paying mobile players up by 700,000
Leading The Pack
Supercell made up 80% of all Finnish game revenues in 2015, report claims
Powering Finland to Nordic dominance
Tencent Financials Fy16 Q2
Even before Supercell deal closes, Tencent sees huge surge in mobile game revenues
Total revenues up to $5.4 billion in FY16 Q2
Trying Times
GREE looks to Japanese "release blitz" to rescue longterm decline
Planning a "release blitz" for FY17
Dena Financials Fy16 Q1
DeNA sees small revenue increase as it focuses in on Japan and China
Stepping away from the economic uncertainty of the rest of the world
Nexon Fy16 Q2 Financials
Nexon grows in South Korea with DomiNations and Heroes of Incredible Tales, but suffers losses overall
Takes biggest hit in North America
Activision Blizzard Financials
King brings in $454 million and 409 million MAUs for Activision Blizzard following acquisition
Another non-Candy Crush game due out later this year
Long Wait
Zynga's Social Slots see 31% growth but overall the company remains loss-making
Waiting for a hero
Levelling Up
Stellar performance from Star War: Galaxy of Heroes boosts EA Mobile's sales to a record $165 million
Global top 20 grosser
Slipping Down
Apple's revenues tank in China
Halved in 6 months
Going Home
Sky-mobi is the latest Chinese NASDAQ-listed game company to delist
CEO Michael Tao Song offers MBO
Value Of Something
SoftBank and Tencent negotiations rumoured to value Supercell at $9 billion
So says the rumourmill
Fait Accompli
Bitterness of takeover sweetened as Vivendi pays Guillemot family $170 million for its shares
Bitterness of takeover sweetened as Vivendi pays Guillemot family $170 million for its shares
Cash Out
To reduce debt, SoftBank is selling back $685 million shares to GungHo Online
Sprint deal forces hand
On The Road
LINE expected to announce its long-awaited IPO plans next week
Off-on move now backed on
Older Female Payers
G5 Entertainment announces it's generated $100 million from mobile hidden object games
Can you spot the difference?
Home Growth
Sega Sammy sees 6% growth in Japanese mobile game revenues in FY16 to $375 million
But overall company sales down 5%
Rpg Cash Machine
Summoners War hits $500 million in lifetime revenues, boosting Com2uS to another sales record
From only 60 million downloads
Rising High
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes helps boost EA Mobile FY16 sales up 9% to $548 million
Big brand, big hit
Home Runs
Baseball titles boost Konami's FY16 game sales up 27% to $1.2 billion
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyu bats well
Creative Accounting
Estimates suggest King may have stabilised its revenue decline
Very simple math
Turnaround
Rovio's game sales up again to $161 million, but company makes loss in 2015
#MakeRovioGreatAgain
Jam Tomorrow
Gameloft attempts to fight off Vivendi, announcing 2018 sales target of $390 million
The plan for 2016-2018
Still On The Up
Supercell sees 2015 sales up 35% to $2.3 billion
Growing even pre-Clash Royale
King Acquired
Activision Blizzard completes acquisition of King for $5.9 billion
Creates the "largest game network in the world"
Getting Harder
Sega Networks downgrades FY16 sales prediction by $125 million
Blames delays, Japanese competition and 5 game failures
Final Quarter
Fewer players, fewer payers: King sees 2015 sales slide 12% to $2 billion
Candy crushing
On The Up
Strong Madden NFL Mobile growth sees EA Mobile's sales up 3% to $128 million
But non-GAAP sales up 43%
Levelling Up
Com2uS' Summoners War-fueled growth continues with 2015 sales up 85% to $369 million
Another big year
Riding P&d's Long Tail
Blaming market saturation, GungHo sees 2015 profits down 23%
What's next?
Mind The Gap
With profits down 36%, Nintendo's second 'high profile character' mobile game becomes even more vital
Miitomo due out March
China Rising
China's leading game company Netease tops IBD 50 Index in US stock market
Going global
On The Slide
King's relative decline continues with FY15 Q3 sales down 2% to $480 million
Candy Crush matures more