Mobile Games Awards 2025
Tag: Monopoly GO!
Coin Master Go
Moon Active takes on Scopely with Monopoly Go-like Coin Master - Board Adventure
Scopely took inspiration from the hit casual casino game - now Moon Active is returning the favour
Pass Go, Collect $5bn
Scopely’s Monopoly Go hits $5bn in two years
Genshin Impact previously took 40 months to hit the milestone across the App Store and Google Play
Earth Day
Subway Surfers, Monument Valley 3, Pikmin Bloom: The mobile games raising awareness on Earth Day 2025
Various mobile developers have launched new content to celebrate and raise awareness for Earth Day
Major Market
PGC San Francisco 2025 nears after US mobile gamers spend record-breaking $28bn
Monopoly Go was the highest-grossing game on mobile, while Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 took the console crown
Financials
Hasbro gaming segment grows 22% as Monopoly Go adds $112 million to revenue in 2024
Total company sales declined 17% Y/Y to $4.1 billion
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
New Partnerships
Scopely's Monopoly Go! partners with Six Nations Rugby for 2025 championships
The collaboration will also feature Monopoly Go activations at Stade de France during matches
Gaming Empire
Scopely's secret sauce
How the Monopoly Go developer built its $10 billion empire and where it goes from here
Studio Journey
How Scopely's cultural tenet of 'iterate to greatness' led to $10bn in revenue
Pocketgamer.biz catches up with Scopely Co-CEOs Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira as 2025 kicks off
Best Of 2024
Paige Cook's top stories of 2024: Layoffs, Ubisoft woes, WeChat Minigames' boom, Monopoly Go's $4bn push, and Unity's next move
PocketGamer.biz deputy editor Paige Cook highlights some of the top stories of 2024
Mobile's New Kings
Royal Kingdom is here - Are new hits reshaping the top grossing mobile games charts?
Analysing the new kings of mobile gaming
A New Focus
Hasbro aims to invest up to $150m a year in games
The company has already invested $1 billion to its gaming division
Monopoly Money
Monopoly Go revenue falls 58% in October but remains a top 10 grossing game
Scopely’s hit casino game still isn’t board of making bank, and neither are celebrities
Here Comes Halloween
Halloween hijinks get underway in Monopoly Go, Pokémon Sleep, Marvel Snap and more
Many developers are going spooky this month with tricks, treats and more planned for the days ahead…
Number One
Monopoly Go developer Scopely takes the number one spot in the Top 50 Mobile Game Makers 2024
Developer has a string of top titles in its portfolio, including Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command and Marvel Strike Force
Crossovers
Monopoly Go assembles the Avengers in Marvel crossover event
Players can immerse themselves in the event from Thursday, September 26th
Devs Fight Back
Mobile gaming’s secret and not so-secret new blockbusters
It's a tough market, but a number of mobile games, new and old, are making waves
Hot Five
Hot Five: Squad Busters undergoes radical changes, Apple’s NFC update, and the winners of the Mobile Games Awards 2024 are…
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Podcast | Episode 26
The big stories and trends from Gamescom 2024 | Week in Mobile Games podcast
The PocketGamer.biz podcast team give you the state of play every week. Here's where to get it and and what's inside this week's episode 26...
Ad Insights
Monopoly GO! A game that was(n’t) created for ads
GameBiz Consulting’s Božo Janković shows how ads could be implemented in Scopley’s hit game and how they’re missing out on millions
Rpg Reposition
RPGs overthrown by strategy genre as new consumer spending king
RPGs have topped consumer spending charts since "at least" 2017, but were dethroned in Q2 2024
Milestone
Monopoly Go! hits $3 billion in revenue
The game leads leads Hasbro's licensing-portfolio with Q2 revenue growing 20% year over year led by Monopoly Go!