Epic Win
Fortnite surpasses $500 million for iOS in less than a year
Game took 326 days to hit the milestone
Big Investment
Mobile marketing tech firm Ogury picks up $21m investment
Company generated $100m in 2018
Financials
Dragon Ball Legends drives a strong Q3 2019 performance for publisher Bandai Namco
Mobile brawler success sees expectations raised for the publisher’s end-of-year results
Comeback Kings
“Zynga’s turnaround is now complete” as publisher posts record mobile earnings
Mobile revenue hits $816m in 2018
Forging Ahead
InnoGames revenue at all-time high as mobile sales grow 37% in 2018
Mobile takes 50 per cent revenue share in key US market
On The Up
Design Home generates $158 million in 2018 as Glu Mobile closes in on profitability
Big year ahead for the publisher's steady comeback
Ea Financials
EA Mobile downbeat on year-end earnings in face of “increasingly challenging” market
But China success for Command & Conquer offers hope
Financial Report
Animoca Brands ends a record year with Q4 revenue of $4.6 million
Continued blockchain partnerships and investments secure a strong year for the Chinese publisher
Doctor Doctor
Disney Tsum-Tsum’s $1.5 billion success story bodes well for Dr. Mario World
Plush puzzler has grossed at least $10 million monthly since March 2014
Toasty
Dragon Ball Legends surpasses $140m in revenue
Over $100m made in the US and Japan alone
Sports Stars
Sports games score big sales for Konami as revenue tops $1.76 billion for last nine months
Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links set to launch in China on mobile
Financials
Keywords anticipates revenue to grow to $287m in 2018
Unaudited financials claim strong growth following aggressive M&A strategy
Switched On
Nintendo posts strong quarter despite lowering Switch sales estimates to 17m for the year
Mobile spurs on approximately $300m in sales
Touchdown
EA Sports mobile games score $1 billion in revenue
Madden franchise has generated sales of $490 million
Financials
iPhone revenue drops 15% year-on-year as Apple looks to services
But iPad revenue is up
Squawk
Angry Birds 2 revenue grew 47 per cent in a record-breaking 2018
Bird-flinging sequel brought in revenue over $116 million last year
Serious Money
Best Fiends developer Seriously grew revenue by 65% to $69m in 2018
Credit for growth given to focus on live ops and marketing strategy
Star
Supercell’s Brawl Stars racks up $63m in its first month
Players spending up to $2m a day
Sharp
Knives Out a big battle royale winner for NetEase in 2018 with $465m revenue
Knives Out benefited from Japanese fame and being monetisable in China
Super
Clash Royale leads the way as Supercell takes $1.4 billion in revenue from 2018
Brawl Stars brought in $46m despite only launching in December
Critical Hit
Pokemon Go bagged nearly $800 million from in-app purchases in 2018
Sales up 35 per cent on 2017
Cash Cows
Pokemon Go world's top grossing mobile game in November
SuperData top 10 grossers includes Puzzle & D
Gold Star
Brawl Stars nets Supercell over $5 million in opening week
Comparatively, it made $6m from its one and a half years in soft-launch
Calm Down
Honor of Kings skips past $4 billion in lifetime revenue
278 million downloads to date
Time To Recalculate
Why the 70:30 App Store revenue split is doomed
The old order is passing
Royale
Knives Out out-earns both PUBG Mobile and Fortnite in November revenue results
NetEase’s battle royale is propelled to No.9 this November with over $52 million in player spending
Epic
Sensor Tower: Epic Games’ Fortnite makes $1.2m a day for November on iOS alone
The battle royale has now made $385 million from iOS
On The Go
App Annie claims mobile games will snap up 60 per cent of worldwide gaming revenue next year
Increased power and cross-platform successes could see handhelds take almost two-thirds of the gaming pie
Solid
Roblox builds up revenues of $25m for October
The revenue haul represents a 67 per cent increase year-on-year
Lost And Found
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost hatches over $50m in just over two months
The RPG is still only available in the US, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau
Catch ‘em
Pokemon Go catches $80 million worldwide revenue in November
Worthy catch marks a 50 per cent year-over-year increase
Magic
Gameloft’s Disney Magic Kingdom soars to $114 million in lifetime revenue
Enchanted park builder has also reached over 70 million downloads since 2016
Global
Tencent and NetEase saw a 382 per cent increase in international mobile games revenue during 2018
China’s game freeze hasn’t stopped the country’s biggest players going global
Chicken Dinner
PUBG Mobile revenue grows 166 per cent to surpass Fortnite for the first time
Brendan Greene’s handheld battle royale earned $12 million in the week ending Black Friday
Holiday
US mobile games revenue hit $55.8 million all-time peak over Black Friday
This year’s bargain holiday market the most successful day for mobile gaming in the US ever
Super
Marvel: Contest of Champions Cyber Monday revenue exploded 583 per cent in one week
Kabam’s mobile fighter reached a superpowered $3.3 million this holiday weekend
Sweet
Candy Crush games have made King a sweet $1.3 billion in 2018 so far
$128m of that came in October
Kingly
Game of Thrones: Conquest grosses $125 million in just over a year
Fantasy strategy saw a 500 per cent year-over-year increase in growth this October
Not Quite Noble
Tencent’s Arena of Valor takes $5m from the US as year anniversary approaches
The Chinese version, Honor of Kings, has made $3.7 billion in comparison since late-2015
Joining The Flock
New dev strategy for Angry Birds developer Rovio as it gets to work on 12 new games
Targeting at least two releases next year
Lukewarm
Tencent’s mobile revenues remain steady in Q3 despite China’s freeze on games licenses
Mobile revenues grew seven per cent year-on-year to $2.8 billion
Super
Supercell’s Brawl Stars pulls in $6.5m from soft launch ahead of global launch
The arena shooter is set to go global next month
Double Trouble
THQ Nordic acquires Goat Simulator dev Coffee Stain and Wreckfest maker Bugbear
A steady string of purchases leave the publisher in a strong end-of-quarter position
Financials
Tough quarter for Next Games as losses hit $12m and Our World is beset by "technical challenges"
Walking Dead titles said to be profitable, but lack of cash could hold back future development
Crushed
Revenues at Candy Crush dev King fall by $22m year-on-year
Monthly active users grew to 262 million, however
Spooked
Epic Games’ Fortnite builds up $350m in revenue on iOS
$55 million was grossed in October
Oops
Mobile underperforms as Square Enix posts $33m loss in half-year result
Restructuring at the recently-formed Luminous Studios blamed for the sharp decline
Saga
Candy Crush Friends Saga smashes past $10 million revenue worldwide
Almost three-quarters of the game's audience is playing on Android devices
Snap
Pokemon Go revenue in October is up 67 per cent year-over-year to $73 million
AR hit has slipped since September but is still performing well over the same period last year
Draw
Hearthstone hits 100 million users as mobile revenue reportedly passes $660m
Blizzard’s Warcraft card game spinoff hits the milestone over four years after launch