A Strong Quarter For Mid-core Titles
The highest-grossing mobile games of the quarter revealed
A new study examines the mid-core, casino, and casual markets
Hot Five
Hot Five: Wild Rift breaches $500 million revenue, InnoGames publishes salary bands, and Unity's John Riccitiello apologies for PGbiz "fucking idiots" comment
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Quarterly Report
Ubisoft Q1 2022 report shows 9.8% sales decline
Mobile performance is strong, but other platforms have seen cancellations
Quarterly Report
Mobile revenue continues to increase for Stillfront Group
Mobile represents almost 80 per cent of revenue, with strategy titles growing the most over Q2 2022
Stranger Things Have Happened
Netflix remains tight-lipped on mobile games plans in Q2 financial report
Loss of 970,000 subscribers significantly less painful than 2 million predictions
¥1.1 Million Fee
Shanghai tech firm fined $163,000 for unlicensed game publication
One of the country’s harshest penalties for such cases
South Korea's Gamer Surplus
Newzoo finds three-quarters of South Koreans are gamers, and mobile is the most popular platform
59% of gamers in South Korea play on mobile
Bytedance And Meta Reign Supreme
Apps are earning more revenue than games for the first time ever
Spending in non-game apps has grown more than twice the rate as games
Latency And Lag
Edgegap: lag and latency are major problems for mobile gamers
Mobile gamers experience lag and latency at greater rates than PC/console, with 34% quitting games entirely as a result
Success And Challenges
Israeli industry reached $8.6 billion in revenue in 2021, with mobile the dominant gaming platform
Israeli gaming industry must overcome lack of local talent, youth investment, and government funding to build
Alternative Revenue
ONEMT: quality users who drive revenue show up through the alternative app stores
Flexion CEO Jens Lauritzson explains how the company helped ONEMT give their game a revenue boost
Blazing A Trail To Success
Diablo Immortal earned $49 million in first month
The game earns over $1 million a day
Turbulent Times
Research and Markets report finds China’s playerbase fell to 706 million in 2021
China Mobile Games 2022 report predicts mobile and PC games revenue will reach $55.23 billion in 2026
Racing To Success
Uma Musume Pretty Derby's South Korean release nets $2.3 million within 24 hours
June 20 release tops the charts on App Store and Google Play
Fired Up
Fire Emblem Heroes exceeds $1 billion in lifetime revenue
Fire Emblem Heroes is the first Nintendo game to join the billion-dollar Unicorn Club
Mag Interim Report
MAG Interactive AB experiences highest revenue quarter since founding, despite a decline in users
Highest revenue since company founding in 2010
Hot Five
Hot Five: Miniclip to acquire SYBO, Supercell reveals PC-exclusive studio, and TikTok owners reach $1 billion
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Show Me The Billions
data.ai: Mobile players to spend $21.4 billion in Q2 2022
Of $33 billion spend on mobile apps, gaming will take the lion’s share
Tiking Along
TikTok owner ByteDance generates $1 billion in annual games revenue
Mobile titles by Ohayoo, Nuverse, Moontoon, and C4 Connect
Success To Reinvest
Nordcurrent celebrates 20% growth in 2021
Largest games company in Lithuania has created temporary office in Poland to support its 20 Ukrainian employees
Welcome To Hell
Diablo Immortal has made over $24 million in first two weeks
Five million downloads for the first F2P title in the Activision Blizzard franchise
Deep Dive In Dislyte
How Dislyte took over half of the battler market in its first weeks of release
AppQuantum's Julia Kara looks at Lilith Games' latest RPG team battler, and whether its streamlined onboarding and polish will provide the same sustainability as its mid-core competitors
Prediction Positivity
McKinsey & Company report predicts $5 trillion in metaverse earnings by 2030
Between $2 trillion and $2.6 trillion could come from e-commerce
Predicting And Projecting
Sensor Tower: player spending on mobile games reaching $117 billion by 2026
Apps to outpace games in terms of spending, but gaming predicted to remain the largest individual category.
Financial Findings
Netmarble’s Q1 2022 results show 43% fall in EBITDA year-over-year
Casual games found to be Netmarble’s most lucrative genre
Polish Expansion
Amber to open Polish studio following 56% revenue growth
Studio to be headed by game designer Greg Ciach
Return Of The King
Revenue boost on alternative stores for strategy game
Flexion CEO Jens Lauritzson explains how the company helped Top Games give their game a revenue boost
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
Alternative App Stores
Android games make $50 million through alternative app stores, states Flexion
“Essentially a bonus for games that already do great in Google Play,” claims CEO Jens Lauritzson
The Lion's Share
Mobile gaming to exceed 60% of entire games market in 2022
More than $1.6 billion spent weekly on mobile games in Q1 2022 alone
Double Digit Development
Huuuge announces Q1 2022 results with $84 million in revenue
Adjusted EBITDA percentage increase reaches double digits
Cites Regulatory Crackdown
Tencent revenue growth slows to a crawl following China’s crackdown on tech companies
Net profit fell to 23.4 billion yuan in Q1 2022 – down 51 per cent year-on-year from 47.8 billion yuan
Meeting Milestones
57% of PUBG Mobile player spend comes from China
Worldwide revenue reaches beyond $8 billion
China's Climb
Chinese mobile games revenue surpassed $9 billion during Q1 2022
Revenue up 2.72% year-over-year
Hot Five
Hot Five: historic first as mobile game revenue decreases, Riot sues Moonton (again), and Facebook and Instagram intergration confirmed
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Rolling In Revenue
Apple made more games revenue than Google in 2020 and 2021, Newzoo finds
Top 10 companies saw conbined revenue totalling $126 billion last year
Rocky Roblox Report
Roblox sees 54.1 million DAUs, despite sharp declines in engagement
Per daily average user, average bookings were at $11.67 in Q1
Revenue Report
Mobile game revenue decreased for first time ever in Q1 2022
Sensor Tower's State of Mobile Gaming 2022 report shows revenue and install variation by country
Revenue Results
Higher revenue and lower costs for Zynga in Q1 2022
$691 million revenue marks a 2% increase over Q1 2021
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
Making Millions
How did Multi Maze 3D go from high CPI to a worldwide profitable hit?
Find out how CrazyLabs helped a game with high CPI become a global success with over 20 million downloads and counting
Reinvigorating Revenue
Comeback gods find new glory
Flexion CEO Jens Lauritzson explains how the company helped DECA give a great game a revenue boost
Genshin Growing
Genshin Impact surpasses $3 billion mobile revenue milestone
The top-grossing mobile gacha averages $1 billion every six months
Stats From Sweden
More than three-quarters of Stillfront’s Q1 revenue came from mobile games
Q1 2022 interim report reveals net revenue of $172 million
Catapulting
Rovio sees 26% revenue growth against mobile F2P decline
Revenue increased to €85 million in Q1 2022, a year-on-year increase from €67.1 million
Do Not Activate
Activision Blizzard Q1 financial results reveal substantial decline
“Robust growth at King” unable to offset the considerable $500 million difference in revenue between Q1 2021 and 2022
Puzzle Players
Sensor Tower: US puzzle game spending increased 4.2% to $5 billion
Decline in downloads witnessed across the board
Making Money Matters
Diversifying revenue: how Fingersoft strikes the right balance
Meta Audience Network and Fingersoft explore the reasons for adopting a diverse revenue model within mobile games and the impact it had on the Hill Climb Racing franchise
Growing Esports Engagement
Mobile esports finding its audience in emerging markets, says Newzoo
Esports expected to generate $1.38 billion by the end of 2022
Tencent On Top Again
Mobile games spending continued to fall by 6.3% to $7 billion in March 2022
Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile were the highest grossing games worldwide