Hungry For Downloads
Future Games of London's Hungry Shark series chomps up 500 million downloads
The arcade game can now be snapped up on the Nintendo Switch
Crunch
Facebook Instant Games match-3 title Cookie Crush surpasses one billion level starts
Developer Softgames thanks a ‘mainly female’ and ‘surprisingly younger’ audience for game’s success
Moneyscape
RuneScape generates more than $800 million in lifetime revenue
Racked up over 250 million player accounts, experiencing consistent user growth
App Store 10 Years
10 ways the App Store changed the games industry
We look at the impact of the App Store as it celebrates its 10th anniversary
Making A Splash
MAG Interactive’s Paint Hit breaks five million downloads
Real-time word game Word Domination brought in one million downloads
Casual Games
After 370 million downloads casual dev Ilyon looks to drive more revenue from its broad portfolio
CMO Ilya Molodetsky discusses how the studio has grown over the last two years
What A Steel
Casual action game Hills of Steel rolls past 10 million downloads
The publishing label Round Zero was formed by Fingersoft last year
The Milestone Is Passed
Edmund McMillen's The End is Nigh sells more than 100,000 copies
Indie games maker reckons it could have performed better had he done more press, however
Critical Hit
World of Tanks Blitz hits 100 million downloads in celebration of it’s fourth birthday
Wargaming attributes success to loyal community, major tournaments and a successful Chinese launch
Monumental
Premium isn’t dead yet: Monument Valley 2 makes over $10 million in first year
A year on from the puzzling sequel’s launch, Ustwo releases an impressive infographic
Catch Em All
Pokémon Quest snags 2.5 million downloads on Nintendo Switch
The RPG is also set to launch on mobile on June 27th
Downloads Milestone
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! English version racks up one million downloads
Milestone celebrated by series of in-game events
Hitting The Mark
MAG Interactive’s Paint Hit makes a splash with one million downloads in one day
The paint shooter is sitting in the number one spot on the Google Play casual games chart in the US
New Milestone
Fallout Shelter racks up 120 million downloads as it heads to Nintendo Switch
Title celebrates third anniversary
Killing It
Nintendo Switch takes lion’s share of Bloodstained: Cure of the Moon’s 100,000 downloads
Console/tablet hybrid takes 56 per cent of sales
Dominating The Charts
Word Domination hits top 10 in word game category across 116 countries on iOS
MAG Interactive’s word-based game launched May 31st on iOS and Android
Big Numbers
App Store receives 500 million visitors per week
500 million visitors per week
Say What?!
Talking Tom dev Outfit7 surpasses eight billion mobile game downloads
That’s more than the entire world’s population
That Was Onix-pected
Pokemon Quest catches one million downloads on Nintendo Switch within two days of launch
The title is currently out on Switch but will find its way to mobile in June
Nation Of Domination
DomiNations hits $150 million mark in time for third anniversary
The strategy game has also racked up more than 37 million downloads
Tagged Up
Subway Surfers sails past the two billion download mark
Installs are 100 per cent organic, according to Kiloo’s CEO
No Troll
Spil Games' Troll Face Quest series breaks 100 million downloads
90 per cent of downloads are organic
Crafty
Minecraft builds up 100 million players in China since launching last year
The popular builder originally came to China in August
Knighted
Netmarble’s Knights Chronicle pulls in 500,000 pre-registrations in one week
Players who sign-up will gain a slew of rewards come games launch
Dau Royale
PUBG Mobile amasses 10 million daily active users
Most downloaded game in over 100 countries and areas
Struck A Chord
Discord triples userbase to 130 million in just a year
Chat app has added 85m users in the last twelve months
Supply And Demand
Fluffy Fairy’s Idle Factory Tycoon surpasses four million downloads in two weeks
Follow-up to Idle Miner Tycoon finds early success
Formulated
Gumi’s The Alchemist Code racks up five million downloads worldwide
The Japanese mobile games developer is celebrating with special in-game events
Marvellous
Marvel Future Fight breaks the 70 million players mark
Netmarble celebrates the milestone by extending its in-game event campaign
Most Impressive
Fingersoft's Hill Climb Racing franchise rolls past one billion downloads
CEO Teemu Närhi and marketing director Sami Saari on how it got here and how it plans to get the next billion
Not Bad
Osmo surpasses one million educational AR game sales on iPad
Developer wants to scale up its operations
Impact
New mobile RPG Honkai Impact 3rd racks up 35 million downloads
Players who download the game will earn launch rewards and bonuses throughout April
Royal Flush
Social casino developer KamaGames racks up 100 million players
App Store proves more lucrative than Google Play
Hitting The Mark
Hitman Sniper racks up 10 million players
Players can play the game for free from March 28th to April 4th on Android and iOS
Blowing Bubbles
Bubble Shooter bursts through 50 million download mark
Mobile games developer Ilyon originally acquired the IP from Abolitionist back in 2015
High Tide
Subway Surfers becomes first game to hit 1 billion downloads on Google Play
The endless runner launched in 2012 and was downloaded 400 million times last year
Another Milestone
Summoners War surpasses 90 million downloads
Com2us expects to hit 100 million downloads in the near future
Dash Downloads
Sony ForwardWorks' No Heroes Allowed! Dash! clears 500,000 downloads in three days
Players rewarded with free premium currency in-game
Critical Growth
Critical Ops clears one million DAUs and 34 million downloads
Critical Force is excited for the year to come
Fired Up
Eight Pixel Square’s Sniper Strike: Special Ops shoots past 1.5 million downloads in two months
100 million PvP battles completed
Duel With Destiny
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links smashes 60 million downloads in time for its first birthday
9.5 billion duels played, 1.1 billion card packs opened
A Clean Operation
Spil Games' surgery simulator Operate Now: Hospital racks up 10 million downloads in six months
95% organic downloads and 50% day one retention rates
Downloads Out
NetEase's PUBG clone Knives Out surpasses 100 million downloads in just over a month
Cleared this milestone while still in beta
Best Fiends Forever
Seriously clears $100 million in lifetime revenues three years after launching Best Fiends
The studio outlines its plans for 2018
Nintendo Switch Sales
Nintendo's Switch clears 10 million units sold nine months after launching
2.37 million units sold in the last three months
Sowing Discord
Gamer messaging app Discord clears 87 million registered users
Now has 14 million DAUs sending 9.5 billion messages a month
Pole Position
Hutch's CCG Top Drives races past three million downloads in two months
Adds over 80 new Porsches to its ever-growing list of car cards
Good Game, Goodgame
Goodgame Studios surpasses $1 billion in lifetime revenues in eight years
Now has over 340 million registered players
Camp Stats
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp clears an estimated 15 million downloads six days after launch
Sensor Tower says it's double Fire Emblem Heroes but half of Super Mario Run
Wordalicious
MAG Interactive's WordBrain scores over 40 million downloads
10 million downloads in the last 11 months