Rumbling Rise
Monster Hunter Now reaches five million installs in first week
Niantic and Capcom’s latest location-based game sees strong start after three million pre-installs
Millions And Millions
Brave Nine successor Brown Dust 2 earns $10 million in two months
GempsN and Neowiz’s new game has generated 80% of its revenue in Asia
Install Incentives
Monster Hunter Now reaches three million pre-installs days before launch
There are now three million hunters of monsters waiting for launch
Supersized Sum
Pokémon Go catches them all
The mobile giant now has seven more species on board than any other Pokémon game
Speeding To Success
Chrome Valley Customs is Space Ape’s biggest launch in 11 years
The vintage car game makes history for the London-based mobile developer
Anniversary Arrival
Pokémon Masters highlights fan favourite characters for fourth anniversary
Popular main series characters come with new outfits and partner Pokémon for a limited time
Arena Breakout
Arena Breakout surpasses 80 million registered users
The game brings hardcore gaming to mobile platforms
On The Right Track
Honkai: Star Rail races to $500 million in worldwide sales
The game has pushed miHoYo to second place in global game publisher sales rankings
Interview
Global Champions founder and CEO Gokhan Celiker on achieving a milestone four million downloads
We spoke to Celiker about the company’s success and their work with Supersonic on Plane Evolution
Major Milestone
Nekki celebrates 20 years of mobile gaming innovation after surpassing one billion installs
95 percent of installs are organic
Major Milestone
InnoGames' Forge of Empires surpasses $1 billion in lifetime revenue
Forge of Empires is responsible for half of all revenues
Mihoyo Milestone
MiHoYo makes $8 billion in user spending with 73% from Genshin Impact
Honkai: Star Rail makes up 6% of the total in just a few months
Milestone Sales
MLB 9 Innings achieves quarter of a billion dollars in lifetime sales
The franchise is officially North America’s number one mobile baseball game
Milestones
My.Games’ Left to Survive celebrates its five-year anniversary and 1.2m monthly active users
The title is a cornerstone of the company’s catalogue of free-to-play games
Milestones
Call of Duty: Mobile passes $3bn in lifetime revenue, half of all engagement for the franchise is on mobile
The milestone was revealed in Activision Blizzard’s financials which said half of all engagement was on mobile
Multiple Milestones
My.Games' Tacticool reaches 30 million downloads milestone with $75 million in revenue
More than 1 billion users are registered in My.Games’ titles across its library
Anniversary Arrival
King of Avalon surpasses 100 million installs in time for seventh anniversary
FunPlus’ strategy MMO reaches seventh anniversary with celebrations underway
Sunny Days
Netspeak celebrates fourth anniversary with more than 1.5 million Sunshine Days downloads
In-game milestones include 32 million harvested plants and over 1,000 items sold
Milestones
TikTok becomes first app to surpass $1 billion consumer spend in single quarter
The milestone puts it above competitors such as Tencent's Honor of Kings.
Web3 Wonder
Hybrid Web3 game NFL Rivals approaches 1 million installs in 6 weeks
15% of revenue generated through Web3 item resale between players
Mobile Minions
Minion Rush reaches tenth anniversary with over 1 billion installs
The endless runner celebrates its runaway success with new promos and challenges
Legends Landing
Pokémon Masters reaches 50M downloads with Legends: Arceus crossover on the horizon
This marks the first time characters will come from Hisui to modern-day Pasio
Passionate Players
CS:GO reaches new player record as gamers aim to test Counter Strike 2
1.5 million gamers played concurrently on 25 March
Racing Ahead
Ace Racer zooms to 1 million downloads as devs showcase new technology
The tech behind NetEase’s graphically enhanced new game was shown off at last week’s GDC
Major Milestone
Bitcoin Miner surpasses 1 million players and becomes the biggest play-and-earn game
A week of celebratory events set to take place
Hypercasual Hits
FreePlay doubles downloads in past year to reach one billion installs milestone
Coming from a portfolio of 18 titles
Download Deluge
Sand Balls publisher SayGames surpasses four billion lifetime downloads
Amassed across 100+ mobile games with one billion of these downloads in 2022 alone
A Year At Homa
Victor Vielliard reflects on Homa’s "landmark" 2022, from 1 billion downloads to 20 new games
Social media milestones, game installs, funding and more highlighted in LinkedIn post
Snapping Up Players
Marvel Snap surpasses 30 million downloads
The game hit the milestone less than three months after its launch
Cross Worlds Celebration
Celebrations and content galore as Netmarble’s Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds reaches 200 days
200 days on from Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds’ global launch
Interview
Tjodolf Sommestad, President of King talks about the importance of teamwork to Candy Crush's huge success
"It is critical to create that culture which is creative, where we continue to be curious"
Appgallery Achievements
Huawei AppGallery surpasses 220,000 HMS apps and 580 million user milestones
Achieved since the initial launch in 2018
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
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
Milestone
Pokémon Go reaches $4.5 billion in lifetime revenue
The popular Pokémon Go title reaches milestones in revenue and downloads
Milestone
Wooga celebrates $500 million milestone
Wooga has seen its title June's Journey reach $500 million in lifetime revenue
150 Million Downloads Milestone
Idle Miner Tycoon hits 150 million downloads
Kolibri Games celebrate their hit title Idle Miner Tycoon reaching 150 million downloads
Million Lords Achieves A Million Downloads
Million Lords celebrates a million downloads
MMO title Million Lords is set to celebrate its third anniversary with a milestone of over a million downloads
50 Million Lifetime Registrations
Black Desert surpasses 50 million registered players
Video game developer Pearl Abyss announces that hit title Black Desert has exceeded 50 million lifetime registrations
Music Games Go Ape
Space Ape Celebrate One Year of Beatstar
The game hits 38m installs in its first year.
Release Reignition
Diablo Immortal launches in China after 20 million worldwide download milestone
Release follows delays of more than a month
Prospering Pikachu
Pokémon GO celebrates lifetime player spending of $6 billion
Sensor Tower data reveals the game has averaged $1 billion per year since launch
Download Deluge
Voodoo becomes the third-largest global company in app installs
The sole European member of the top six
Industry Insight
Newzoo: a "breakthrough" in mobile game reach as revenue to surpass $100 billion in 2022
Latin America and Southeast Asia could be biggest contributors to mobile growth
Revving And Racing
Hill Climb Racing zooms to two billion installs
Milestone reached as studio and IP approach 10th anniversary
Flight To Five Billion
Rovio surpasses five billion lifetime mobile game downloads
Angry Birds creator continues to soar
Productising Publishing Process
ironSource surpasses two billion downloads across 50 published games
Two years since the launch of publishing solution Supersonic
Hypercasual Hits
Hypercasual publisher TapNation surpasses 500 million downloads
Ice Cream Inc. in the top spot with 171 million installs
No Stopping Yet
AppQuantum surpasses 100 million downloads
Idle merge game Gold and Goblins is the most downloaded title
Drawing An Audience
Kwalee’s Draw It surpasses 100 million downloads
The company’s most downloaded and lucrative game to date