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New Games
New release roundup: Fortnite Blitz Royale, Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, What Duck. and more
New Games
New release roundup: Fortnite, Dunk City Dynasty, Game of Thrones: Dragonfire, Mutants: Genesis and more
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Downloading Dragons
Puzzle & Dragons 0 opens pre-registrations ahead of late May release
The latest entry will join a series with over 90 million downloads to date
Seed Round Secured
Good Job Games secures $23m investment round
The round was led by Menlo Ventures and Arcadia Gaming Partners’ new fund
Royal Revenue
Royal Kingdom surpasses $50m in player spending
Revenue for the title is on the rise after racking up $13.5m in January
Royal Revenue
Royal Match earned 51% of all match-3 IAP revenue in 2024 as casual genre made $15.2 billion
Meanwhile, Monopoly Go earned 55% of casual casino’s earnings
Royal Arrival
Dream Games launches Royal Kingdom worldwide as Royal Match nears $4 billion
One of the year's most anticipated releases is here after generating $21.2 million in soft launch
Candy Crushed
King stops supporting Candy Crush Blast and Candy Crush 3D
The titles appear to have been used more broadly as gameplay tests
Match-3 Monarch
Royal Kingdom surpasses $20m in soft launch revenue with November 21st global release date set
Dream Games is building on the Royal Match brand with a new match-3 title
Five New Games
New release roundup: Neko Atsume 2, Blossom Tales 2, Political Party Frenzy, and more
We highlight five new games that have broken cover over the past week
Funding News
Turkey's Cypher Games raises $10m to take on match-3 market filled with "too many average-quality titles"
Seed investment round led by The Raine Group
Setting The Standard
Metacore celebrates double milestones for Merge Mansion
The game has passed $500 million in lifetime revenue and amassed 55 million app downloads
Rallying Revenue
Game of Thrones: Legends fires past $1 million with daily earnings rising fast
Zynga’s latest match-3 launch raked in $109,627 on August 4th
Five New Games
New release roundup: The best new mobile games from mathematical puzzlers to the return of Jon Snow
We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
Five New Games
New release roundup: The best new mobile games from Asphalt Legends Unite to Laid-Back Camp: Puzzle Camp
We highlight five new games that have broken cover this week
Five New Games
New release roundup: The best new mobile games from outmatching monsters to 90s nostalgia
We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
Toon Turnaround
Toon Blast surpasses $2.5 billion with newfound revenue resurgence
Peak Games’ 2017 title is on the rise again with its best H1 since 2021
Jumping In Japan
Wuthering Waves, Gakuen Idolmaster, Squad Busters: Which new mobile games won Japan over this May?
Plenty of new mobile hits launched last month, from Supercell, Kuro Games, Bandai Namco and others
Winter Is Coming
Zynga’s Game of Thrones: Legends is open for pre-registrations with a July 25th release date
So soon after Star Wars: Hunters, Zynga is releasing another licenced game this summer
Monster Matching
Monster Hunter Puzzles: Felyne Isles is the series’ latest mobile venture, launching later this month
Its global launch comes less than a year after Capcom’s last mobile hit and during Monster Hunter’s 20th anniversary
Partner Up
Partner events are the latest trend in Monopoly GO!, Royal Match and Project Makeover
GameRefinery GM Brendan Fraher delves into the rise of partner events, while also providing insights on competitive events in match-3
Merge And Match
Merge-2 revenue surges 10% while Match-3 flops by 11%
AppMagic data shows the highs and lows of February 2024, from revenue to downloads to winning events
Peak Performance
Match Factory! surpasses $20M… With 99% coming from iOS
Peak Games’ Match Factory! has taken the 3D puzzle world by storm since its August 2023 release
Five New Games
New release roundup: The best new mobile games from Goat Simulator chaos to a cat café RPG
We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
Peak Star
Peak Games explores match-3 genre with new title Star Match
Zynga-owned developer experiments further with match-3 mechanics
Five New Games
New release roundup: The best new mobile games from sports manga adaptations to risqué word games…
We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
Five New Games
New release roundup: The best new mobile games from 3D Zynga puzzles to Warhammer card battles
We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
Five Great Games
New release roundup: Our weekly pick of the best new mobile games
We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
Growing Success
How Tactile Games made marketing and diversity core to Lily’s Garden’s $500 million success
Asbjoern Malte Soendergaard discusses their approach to researching new concepts, building a diverse team, and creating an empire from games made for women
Licences & International Releases
Tencent brings smash hit Merge Mansion to China in raft of new licences
The game is part of a slew of newly granted licences for a number of foreign titles
Releases
Jetpack Collective to publish Rare Pets - Merge Game Mystery
The iOS and Android title is one of two new games being published by the company
Creatives
Playtika takes potshots at Candy Crush with new Best Fiends ad campaign
“Download free, play sugar free”
Get The Royal Tratment
Royal Match aims at 186 million fresh impressions via its first TV commercial
Developer Dream Games is hoping for two billion exposures
Announcements
Devolver Digital announces “Devolver Tumble Time”
Devolver’s latest game looks to be an innovative new spin on the hypercasual genre featuring recognisable characters from their various franchises
Match Madness
Genre mashing and meta morphing: How Match 3 and casual games are evolving
UXReviewer founder Om Tandon breaks down what makes Match 3 games so popular and how they may have even greater scaling potential
Puzzle Players
Sensor Tower: US puzzle game spending increased 4.2% to $5 billion
Decline in downloads witnessed across the board
Making Of
Making Call of Antia stand out from the crowd
The Match 3 RPG genre is popular and well populated. FunPlus' Leon Zhou talks to PocketGamer.biz about differentiating yourself from the crowd
Yet To Impress
Netflix brings three more casual games to iOS and Android
Plans to add more genres in the future
Expanding Reach
Flexion partners with 37Games to release Puzzles & Survival on Amazon, Samsung and Xiaomi
The free-to-play game originally launched on Google Play last year
Gen X Gamers
Tapjoy finds 77% of Gen X play mobile games daily
Match-3 is the generation's preferred genre
What Matches Match 3
Dream Games' Royal Match leads match-3 D30 retention at 16.5%
App Annie takes a deep dive into retention
Xxxx
Supercell is the only dev with a top 10 strategy game that isn't 4X
Clash of Clans is the outlier
A Very Royal Match
Dream Games valued at $1 billion after closing $155 million funding round
Ex-Peak team accelerate business
Welcome To New Gateway
Rovio soft-launches new narrative puzzle game Supernatural City
Available across US, Canada, Finland, Sweden and more
Making Of
Why Small Giant followed up its $1 billion hit Empires & Puzzles with Puzzle Combat
CEO Jose Saarniniem explains
It’s No Puzzle
How M&A drove consolidation in the match-3 genre
Crunching the data with App Annie
Money Bags
BebopBee raises $2 million for live ops and user acquisition
The developer is focused on match-three titles
Match Set
Candivore raises $12m for match-three title Match Masters
To go towards user acquisition
Phoenix Rising
Phoenix Games acquires match-three mobile studio SmileyGamer
"It’s been great to have had the opportunity to grow SmileyGamer from the ground up"