Super Tax
Supercell generated €881 million in tax revenue in 2016
CEO Ilkka Paananen earned €46.6 million in taxable income
Next Games Financials Q3 Fy17
Next Games plans further expansion with new office in Los Angeles and bigger HQ in Helsinki
Shooting for 200 staff in 2018
Apple Financials Q4 Fy17
Apple's iPhone 8 and 8 Plus launch push revenues to $52.6 billion
Yearly revenues come in at $229.2 billion
Activision Financials Q3 Fy17
King generated almost a third of Activision Blizzard's $1.6 billion revenues in Q3
Candy Crush franchise has its strongest quarter yet
Sega Financials Q2 Fy18
Puyopuyo!! Quest and Hortensia SAGA continue to keep Sega's mobile revenues afloat
Revenues grow to $1.7 billion
Glu Financials Q3 Fy17
Glu Mobile's revenues grow to $81.8 million as Design Home scores another 8.7 million downloads in Q3
Now gearing up to launch The Swift Life
Gungho Financials Q3 Fy17
GungHo revenues drop to $613.9 million as Puzzle & Dragons continues to face decline
Gearing up to launch new titles to stem the decline
Konami Financials Q2 Fy18
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links hits 55 million downloads as Konami clears $1 billion in revenues
Plenty of other games contributing to overall success
Sony Financials Q2 Fy18
Fate/Grand Order boosts Sony Music's revenues to $1.81 billion
Sony ForwardWorks goes unmentioned
Ea Financials Q2 Fy18
EA mobile revenues dip to $158 million as FIFA Mobile scores 113 million downloads
Madden NFL Mobile and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes lead growth
Gree Financials Q1 Fy18
Another Eden and SINoALICE promotions push GREE revenues up to $190.6 million
Profits fall drastically to just $16.8 million
Cyberagent Financials Q4 Fy17
CyberAgent revenues reach $3.28 billion thanks to continued strong performances of Shadowverse and BanG Dream!
Investing in the future of eSports and Bitcoin
Smashing Records
App Store and Google Play downloads hit record 26 billion in Q3
Consumer spend also at all-time high
Games Market August 2017
Worldwide mobile games market grew by 13% in August 2017
Top grossing games remain largely the same
One Special Day
"It's gone up a whole new level": SpecialEffect on its most significant One Special Day yet
Fundraiser Nick Streeter talks bringing in developers and raising awareness
No Great Loss
Removing 32-bit apps from the App Store will affect less than 1% of the store's overall revenue
Sensor Tower digs into the data
Marketplace Millions
Minecraft Marketplace creators have generated over $1 million in revenue since June 2017
Microsoft still looking to expand its creator roster
A Growing Business
Swedish games industry generated revenues of $1.7 billion in 2016
Swedish Game Developer Index spills the beans
Money Truck
Indian developer Nukebox Studios generates $500k revenue in 45 days from new game Food Truck Chef
Title secures three million downloads in just 10 days
Good Job
Goodgame Empire surpasses $800 million lifetime revenues
Developer aims to expand the IP with Empire: Millennium Wars
F2p Requirements
The requirements for making a free-to-play game in 2017
Freelance F2P consultant Teur Weidemann shares his rules
See The Future
IronSource adds Ad LTV Prediction tool to mobile ad mediation platform
Better understand how much money you're likely to make from your ads
Tencent Financials Q2 Fy17
Tencent revenues grow to $8.56 billion as mobile games sales beat PC for the first time
Honor of Kings by far the biggest driver of revenue
Mobile Game Heroes
DeNA games business profits up on back of Nintendo partnership as overall revenues fall
Fire Emblem Heroes sales "satisfactory" for Japanese publisher
Netease Financials Q2 Fy17
NetEase clears $2 billion in revenues as Onmyoji gets off to a strong start in South Korea
Already a top ten grossing game in the region
Summoners War Billionaire
Summoners War clears $1 billion in lifetime revenues three years after launch
Com2uS hosting a worldwide tournament for the game too
Ncsoft Financials Q2 Fy17
NCSoft's mobile sales jump 300% to $83 million thanks to Lineage M
Mobile take on PC MMO is cannibalising other games with its name
Top Grossing Games H1 2017
Honor of Kings is the highest-grossing mobile game worldwide for 2017 so far
Some interesting entries in the rest of the rankings
Glu Financials Q2 Fy17
Glu Mobile posts revenues of $68.7 million as Design Home has its strongest quarter yet
Still operating at a loss, which grows to $23.6 million
Sony Hits & Misses
From Fate/Grand Order to Mingol and PlayLink: Two years of Sony's mobile big bangs and misfires
A look at the three pillars of Sony's current mobile efforts
Join The Family
Capcom to dissolve and absorb Capcom Mobile subsidiary
Also posts sales of $105.6 million for the quarter
Ea Financials Q1 Fy18
EA mobile revenues hit $150 million as FIFA Mobile scores 95 million unique users
NBA Live and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes also continuing to draw in players
Cyberagent Financials Q3 Fy17
CyberAgent sales hit $2.4 billion but profits are still in a slump
Nothing particularly new or surprising this quarter
Keywords Financials H1 Fy17
Keywords posts revenues of $74.7 million so far in 2017 thanks to aggressive acquisition strategy
Profits up to $11.3 million
A Fine Lineage
NCSoft's Lineage M reported to have generated over $233 million in revenues in first month of release
Beats Lineage 2: Revolution's record by a fair chunk
Nintendo Financials Q1 Fy18
Nintendo sales hit $1.38 billion as its Switch console surpasses 4.7 million units shipped
Mobile games generate $80.5 million for Q1
Superdata Top Grossing June 2017
Honor of Kings was the top grossing mobile game worldwide in June 2017
SuperData reckons it generated $150 million in revenues for the month
Ubisoft Financials Q1 Fy18
Ubisoft scores $233 million in sales with 80% of its total revenues generated from digital products
11% of total sales came from mobile and ancillaries
Eat Some Hay
Playdemic’s Golf Clash strikes up $1.1 million revenues in a single day
Studio targets $100 million in revenue this year
Mobile Is King
Mobile games revenues surpassed PC and console revenues in 2016 for the first time
DFC Intelligence tells us more
Pokemon Galore
Pokemon GO players in Japan spent an average of $26 on IAPs in the game's first year
Sensor Tower ranks the top spenders in Niantic's megahit
Spoils Of War
Summoners War hits lifetime revenues of $890 million as it surpasses 80 million downloads
Currently a top five grossing game in the US and Canada
Outdone Itself
UK developer Outplay more than doubled revenues in 2016 to $20 million
Most of its earnings came through IAPs and work-for-hire
Running On
Super Mario Run surpasses 150 million downloads seven months after launch
Fire Emblem Heroes has less than a tenth of the downloads but generates more revenue
Raining Money
Line's mobile puzzler Disney Tsum Tsum racks up $1 billion in lifetime revenue
Surpasses 70 million downloads
A Major Slice
China makes up 25% of the world's spending on games
Chinese games market expected to hit $29 billion in 2017
Mobile Games Revenues 2020
Global mobile game revenues expected to hit $64.9 billion in 2020
Newzoo and AppLift partner to share the details
Pokemon Gone
Pokemon GO dropped out of the worldwide top 10 grossing ranks for the first time in May 2017
SuperData Research breaks out its worldwide report yet again
Market Value
Russia’s mobile games market brought in nearly $700 million in revenue in 2016
Revenues grew 16% year-on-year in 2016
The Big Bucks
Mobile developers generate over $70 billion in App Store revenues
Number of downloads increased by 70% in last 12 months