Seige
Castle Clash charges past worldwide revenue of over $550 million
Three quarters of the strategy game's audience is playing and paying through Google Play
The China Effect
Newzoo's drops 2018 global games industry revenue forecast by $3 billion
Mobile dip by $8bn, PC and console forecasts lower overall decline
Gains
Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot: Asia mobile segment "growing significantly"
Digital and back catalogue drive French firm's H1 18/19 financials
Up
Animoca Brands Q3 revenue rises 283 per cent year-over-year following Crazy success
The Chinese firm has also consolidated its position in blockchain through a string of investments and acquisitions
Found
Dragalia Lost is making four times the revenue per download of Fire Emblem Heroes in Japan
Nintendo’s action RPG has brought in $28 million over its first month
Strike
Marvel Strike Force has earned over $55 million worldwide
To date, FoxNext’s superhero RPG has been downloaded over 13.7 million times
Trip
Alto’s Odyssey earns $1 million in its first eight months
Odyssey earned its first million faster than predecessor Alto’s Adventure
Data
GameAnalytics: Fewer than 15% of games retain a third of their players after day one
Analysis firm's latest benchmarking report shows a "winner-takes-all" space
Huge
Monster Strike and Puzzle & Dragons have grossed more than $7 billion each
More than five years later, Mixi’s game is still experiencing revenue growth
Growth Masters
Hyper-casual games publisher Playgendary's IAP revenue shot up 57 per cent during Q3 2018
Bowmasters and Tank Stars bring Playgendary its best quarter yet for revenue and downloads
Crushed It
Candy Crush Friends Saga swipes 10 million downloads in its first week
But King’s sweet puzzling franchise is continuing to trend downwards
Going Up
Marketing analytics firm AppsFlyer soars past $100 million in annual recurring revenue
Mobile attribution and analytics company is reporting 100 per cent growth every 12 months
Oh
Tencent’s Westernised Arena of Valor takes $15m a year after launch
The US proved to be its most popular region
Mobile's Millions
Popular kids MMO Roblox generates nearly $500m on mobile
UGC-based MMO picked up $92 million in Q3 2018 alone
Cutting Out A Niche
NetEase’s PUBG-like Knives Out pulls in over $370 million
97 per cent of that figure comes from China and Japan
Fiendish
Best Fiends games fetch $150m in lifetime revenue
Titles have been downloaded over 85 million times
Cash Royale
Clash Royale took $46 million in September
Lifetime revenue stands at $2.3 billion worldwide
Found
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost finds $16m in revenue after two weeks
$13.5m of which, comes from the US and Japan
Catching Season
Niantic’s Pokemon Go catches $84.8m in revenue for September
The location-based AR game also added 8.86m new trainers to its ranks
Sweet Business
King’s Candy Crush Saga hits $3.91 billion in lifetime revenues
All-time downloads sit at 823 million
Cash Royale
Fortnite iOS revenue catapults to $300 million faster than Clash Royale
But slower than Niantic’s Pokemon Go, which only took 113 days
Homely
Playrix’s Homescapes builds up $420m in revenue for first year
The game took in $28.5 million in September
Growing Sales
Playrix’s hit mobile match-three Gardenscapes rakes in $880 million
Game picks up $35 million in September alone thanks to Annie Smith update
Sales Out
NetEase’s PUBG-like Rules of Survival bags $75 million
Another battle royale success for the publisher alongside Knives Out
Revenue Found
Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost generates $3.5 million in five days
Picks up over 800,000 downloads
Revenue Estimates
The Sims Mobile takes home $20 million
Title said to have made $3.17 million in August alone
Revenue
Lords Mobile plunders over $825 million in revenue worldwide
IGG's massively-multiplayer strategy game raked in $7 million in one week alone earlier this month
Revenue
Toy Blast collects over $440 million in worldwide revenue
With Toon Blast making rapid gains, Peak Games’ previous outing continues to find success
Sales Of Glory
FunPlus' Guns of Glory shoots past $215 million in first year
Adds to strong showing from publisher's other title King of Avalon
Fine Catch
Pokemon Go captures over $2bn through player spending
The location-based AR game hit the milestone after 811 days following hitting 1 billion in 302 days
Infectious
The Walking Dead: Our World consumes $8 million in revenue over 55 days
Augmented reality survival shooter has been installed almost 1.7 million times
Pow
Dragon Ball Legends strikes up $65 million in revenue worldwide
Mobile brawler saw 1.9 million new players join the fight last month
Sunk
Asia fanfare helps Yostar’s Azur Lane sink over $170m in revenue
The chibi-styled strategy game launched in May of last year
Engage
Tilting Point extends Disruptor Beam deal with fresh $29m investment in Star Trek Timelines marketing
The publisher will help fund a new project as part of the deal and will handle marketing on Star Trek Timelines
Fore
Playdemic's Golf Clash drives past $225m in revenue
The sports game landed $25m in revenue last month
Stuck The Landing
Tencent’s PUBG Mobile glides past the $75m mark in revenue despite China roadblocks
$25m of that has come in the last 31 days
Skin In The Game
How real-money competition platform Skillz is riding the wave of mobile esports for all
Hits $400 million annualised run-rate
Home Comforts
Tencent’s Honor of Kings rakes in over $3.5 billion in global revenue
China makes up 96 per cent of the total
Pocketed
Miniclip pockets over $400 million from 8 Ball Pool on mobile
Lifetime installs more than 80 million
Here Comes The Boom
Boom Beach blows past $820m in revenue for Supercell
The MMO real-time strategy released back in 2013
Not Too Shabby
Mobile Strike racks up over $1 billion in revenue for Machine Zone
Lion’s share of income hails from the US with 55 per cent
Blast
Toon Blast revenue rockets to $200 million in its first year
Toy Blast follow-up reaches milestone thanks to a successful celebrity marketing campaign
Camp
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp reaches $50 million in worldwide revenue
But the mobile life-sim is still the slowest-growing of Nintendo’s three mobile titles
Super
$1.5m daily August revenue pushes Supercell’s Clash Royale to $2.2 billion in lifetime earnings
The daily intake was up from the $1.2 million per day average in July
Straight Fire
Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Heroes brings in over $417m in revenue
The tactical RPG has made up 78 per cent of Nintendo’s mobile revenue since launch in February 2017
Summoned
Summoners War draws in revenues of over $1.3 billion
The turn-based strategy MMO title initially launched back in June 2014
Revenue
King of Avalon ventures abroad to bring in $380 million outside of China in two years
Online strategy is the third-highest grossing Chinese game in the USA
Revenue
Candy Crush games bringing in almost $4 million a day
The original Candy Crush Saga is still doing the bulk of the legwork at 62 per cent of total revenue
Monumental
Monument Valley worldwide revenue climbs to over $25 million
Non-euclidean puzzler has made almost 18x its reported budget back in revenue
Catch Em All
Pokemon Go sees daily revenue increase grow 39 per cent following trading update
Pokemon trainers are now spending an average of $2.5 million per day