Building Bank
Fortnite battles its way to $1 billion on mobile in two years
Free-to-play title generated $44.3 million in April alone
China Hit Worst
Nexon's revenue and profit falls year-on-year in Q1 due to Covid-19 pandemic
"Nexon has been spared the turbulence due to minimal physical contact with consumers"
Tencent Financials
Tencent sees a 26 per cent revenue increase year-on-year in Q1 2020
Mobile games generated ¥34.8 billion ($4.9 billion)
Mobile Dominance
The mobile games market faces the least disruption from coronavirus according to Newzoo
It will generate $77.2 billion in 2020
Enough To Afford A Butler
Gardenscapes helps grow Playrix's downloads to 1.1 billion
$1.9 billion revenue accumulated from player spending
Newzoo Report
China games revenue set to exceed $46 billion in 2024
Mobile games revenue generated an estimated $18.5 billion in 2019
Nintendo Financials Q4 Fy19
Nintendo's mobile business grows by 11.5% year-over-year, Switch tops 55 million
Revenue up nine per cent year-on-year
Candy Crush Growth
Activision Blizzard revenue drops but profit increases over Q1 2020
Two new games utilising existing IP revealed too
Saved By The Bells
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp clears $150 million in lifetime revenue
$7.9 million generated and seven million installs in April 2020
"prove The Value"
EA's faith in live services rewards a nearly 200% increase in profit
Revenue rise of 11.9 per cent year-over-year
Money Money Money
iPad in-app consumer spending hit $2.1 billion in Q1 2020
With 1.11 billion new installs
Beta Booming
Microsoft's Project xCloud accumulates "hundreds of thousands" of active users
"Commercial cloud revenue generating $13.3 billion"
Covid-19 Impact
AppsFlyer: Mobile game revenue has risen 35% since February
Casual and social games have seen an identical jump
Creative Support
Rumble Hockey is offering content creators a 100% revenue share for players they bring to the game
It launches May 19th
Money Money Money
European mobile app market revenues will reach $20.8 billion in 2022
Drop of $3 billion from previous expectations
Money Money Money
My.Games revenues rose 13.4 per cent in Q1 2020
Mobile made up 66 per cent of games revenue
Super Effective
SuperData: Pokemon GO revenue evolved by 18% to $111 million in March 2020
Honor of Kings tops mobile digital sales
Doubled Revenue
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp downloads have risen by nearly 800% since New Horizons' launch
An estimated 42.3 million downloads to date
Consent Management
How consent and preference management can increase ad revenue and improve user retention
Ogury chief publishers and strategic data partnerships officer Christophe Bize talks us through it
Fist Bump
Sonic Forces boosts through 50 million downloads globally
Surpasses $4.2 million in lifetime revenue
So Much Money
Mobile apps will generate $171 billion through consumer spending in 2024
The App Store will be responsible for 67 per cent
Revenue Spike
Pokemon Go sees huge increase in revenue during coronavirus outbreak
An increase of 66.7 per cent week-on-week
Money Money Money
PixelFederation brought in €31 million in revenue last year
A drop of five per cent year-on-year
App Annie Top Publishers
Tencent reigns supreme as the top-grossing mobile publisher for 2020
NetEase and Activision Blizzard finish the top three
Rise Of Ultracasual
The rise of ultracasual: a temporary trend or the future of hypercasual?
Homa Games takes a look at the even more casual take on the hypercasual genre
Tom Nook Reportedly Ecstatic
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp sees revenues surge amid New Horizons launch
1.3 million downloads for March so far
Money Money Money
Coin Master saw its best month for revenue ever in February 2020
Mobile revenue for February 2020 was up 16 per cent year-on-year
Tencent Financials Q4 Fy19
Tencent revenue grows 21% year-over-year to $54.1 billion
Total profit jumped by 22 per cent too
Bring It Home
Pokemon Home generated $2.6 million in user spending worldwide in its first month
The US accounted for 38.5 per cent of spending
Still Conquering
Five years on, Big Huge Games’ DomiNations generates $200 million
Mobile RTS rolling on
Partnership Paramount
NetEase profit grows by 15% to $4.53 billion for 2019
Revenue also increased by 14 per cent year-over-year
Esports Predictions
Esports revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020
China will generate the most revenue
European Take Over
European mobile games revenue expected to reach $12.9 billion in 2022
Games will be responsible for 55 per cent of the revenue
Still Going Fast
Sonic the Hedgehog movie speeds past $200 million worldwide
Over $100 million made in the US alone.
Making Money
Honour of Kings was the top-grossing mobile game in January 2020
Gardenscapes had its best month with $111.9 million
Nest Egg
Pokemon Home made an estimated $1.8 million in revenue in its first week
Sensor Tower believes 40.8 per cent of user spend came from the US
Nexon Financials Q4 Fy19
Nexon profits grow to $1.03 billion as MapleStory M sees impressive revenue growth
Q4 was also successful for the company
Fast Money
Sonic the Hedgehog movie sprints to nearly $60 million in its first three days
The film was released on February 14th
South Korea Exclusive
NCSoft's Lineage 2 M generates $152 million in three months
$97.60 average revenue per download
Had Its Hay Day?
Supercell revenues fall for third consecutive year to $1.56 billion in 2019
Profits fell to $577 million too
Making Money
PUBG Mobile generated $176.3 million in revenue in January 2020
The top grossing game of the month
Huge Growth
New Zealand's games industry doubles in revenue over two years
63 per cent of titles created are mobile apps
Ubi-down
Ubisoft's Q3 revenue drops, mobile accounts for 7% of net bookings
26 per cent decrease year-over-year
Stuck The Landing
Glu Mobile returns to profitability with $8.9 million net income for 2019
Revenue increased by 12 per cent to $411.4 million for 2019
Sony Financials Q3 Fy19
Fate/Grand Order sales stalling despite clearing $4 billion in lifetime revenues
No real impact on Sony's overall figures, of course
Capcom Financials Q3 Fy19
Capcom sales fall to $485 million despite growth in mobile revenues
Shift from physical to digital taking a toll, but profits still growing
Financials
EA's mobile digital net revenue decreased by $51 million last quarter
Company still "conscious" of Nintendo Switch
Sensor Tower
Sony's Fate/Grand Order accumulates over $4 billion in lifetime revenue
Top grossing title in Japan for 2019
Interview
A decade on, MAG Interactive CEO Daniel Hasselberg discusses the firm's growth
"We decided to focus the company around social multiplayer games at the end of 2018"
Here's The Facts
Coin Master was the top-earning mobile title in Europe in 2019
Overall mobile games brought in $7.4 billion