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
Revenue
Game of War’s spoils surpass $2.8 billion revenue worldwide
MZ’s flagship hits the milestone just after its fifth anniversary
Revenue
Fortnite swoops past $200 million revenue on iOS five months after launch
Rapid success puts the battle royale on equal footing with Clash Royale’s performance
Starring Role
Revenue up 616 per cent for Supercell's soft-launched Brawl Stars in July
The month saw the Finnish developer add new countries to the soft-launch along with new content
Crushing It
King’s Candy Crush Saga enjoys highest grossing 12 month period with $930m made
The match-three title made $693 million in the 12 months prior
War
Pixonic’s War Robots racks up $190m in revenue
The third-person shooter originally launched back in April 2014
Nice
PUBG Mobile has made $50 million in revenue
The battle royale received a shot in the arm following the introduction of the Royale Pass
Fine Catch
Pokemon Quest captures $8 million in revenue from mobile after one month
The RPG has proved most popular in Japan followed closely by the US
Oh No
Netmarble shares plummet to all-time low as Lineage 2 popularity fades
Shares dropped 11.27 per cent on August 9th to close at 126,000 won
Is It Worth It?
Is it time for the App Store and Google Play to ditch the 70/30 revenue split?
The mobile mavens offer their opinions
Financials
Square Enix profits drop after three months with no new games and new mobile titles fail to perform
Three-month financial results show a slow quarter for the Japanese publisher
Diverse
Mobile diversification strategy helps drive NetEase to $2.5 billion revenue for 2Q18
Horror game Identity V and battle royale title Knives Out were namechecked specifically
Casting Sales
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery hits $55 million revenue in just over three months
Nearly half of player spending occurs in US
Jammin’
WildWorks’ kid-focused MMO Animal Jam strikes up revenues to the tune of $150m
$20 million of which comes from the mobile version Animal Jam: Play Wild
Decline Continues
GungHo revenue and profits fall again as publisher struggles to replace Puzzle & Dragons
New release Yo-Kai Watch World surpasses one million downloads
Crushing It
Candy Crush developer King has made more than $1 billion so far this year
Monthly active users for King's portfolio hit 270 million
A New Focus
MZ’s Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire rakes in $380m in one year
US players alone bring in $138 million
War Never Changes
Fallout Shelter mobile surpasses $93 million in revenue
Could hit $100m by the end of the year
Billions
Lineage 2 Revolution follows Lineage M in breaking $1 billion barrier
Still making $30 million a day 20 months on
Break The Market
Glu Mobile’s Kim Kardashian: Hollywood nets $8m in revenue in Q2
The sum represents a year-on-year growth of 20 per cent
Report
Keywords half-year pre-tax profits up 66% to $18.43m
All 7 acquisitions made in 2018 so far are performing "in line with expectations"
Well Made
Games Workshop's yearly profits nearly double to $97m
“Our business and our hobby are in great shape, the best shape either has been for some time”
End Of The Beginning
CEO Frank Gibeau on moving on from fixing Zynga to growing it
The long haul
Fired Up
Fire Emblem Heroes fires up $400m in worldwide revenue
The RPG launched just under 18 months ago and has proven to be Nintendo’s most popular outing on mobile
Cash Of Clans
Clash of Clans players still spending $1.5m a day in 2018
Title likely to have made around $316.5 million this year already
Surf’s Up
Subway Surfers' iOS revenue sprints past $80 million from in-app purchases
Six years after launch Kiloo’s runner is still a runaway success
Home Run
Glu Mobile hits record $99.4m bookings as Design Home continues strong showing
Tap Sports Baseball 18 and Covet Fashion also perform well
Report
Nintendo Switch nears 20 million sales
Earnings report for the Japanese publisher shows a strong start to the year, with $1.5b in overall revenue so far